WM Branch – AGM & CPD Event: Worcester Cathedral – Floods, Storms & the Historic Environment
The Hive Sawmill Walk, the Butts, Worcester, United KingdomIts time for the AGM again…already! This year we’ll meet in person at The Hive in Worcester, for the AGM and then following lunch, we’ll return to Worcester Cathedral for a reflection on the impacts of extreme weather events and receive an update on the latest works and how the masonry (and indeed the masons) … Continue reading WM Branch – AGM & CPD Event: Worcester Cathedral – Floods, Storms & the Historic Environment
Listed Building Owners Forum: Ulster Architectural Heritage
The Department for Communities (DfC), Historic Environment Division is hosting a series of lunchtime talks focussing on how owners and custodians interact with and sustain their heritage buildings. The talks are aimed at those who live in, use and take care of listed buildings either directly or indirectly; but everyone with an interest is welcome. … Continue reading Listed Building Owners Forum: Ulster Architectural Heritage
Yorkshire Branch – Traditional buildings workshop 3: Care and construction of thatched roofs
NYMNPA , Old Vicarage Bondgate, Helmsley, Yorkshire, United KingdomNorth York Moors National Park, IHBC Yorkshire Branch and the Northern Craft Building Project are delighted to present this year’s series of traditional skills workshops. The day will involve a presentation on the types of thatch and the processed of construction, common problems and concerns and means of repair and practical demonstrations. Lunch provided The … Continue reading Yorkshire Branch – Traditional buildings workshop 3: Care and construction of thatched roofs
Victorian Society – Philip Webb at Red House and Standen, by Tessa Wild
Two famous houses at opposite ends of Philip Webb’s career are now owned by the National Trust: Red House at Bexleyheath, designed for William and Jane Morris in 1858–59, and Standen, near East Grinstead in West Sussex, designed for a London solicitor, James S. Beale and his wife, Margaret, in 1891. Their history encompasses not … Continue reading Victorian Society – Philip Webb at Red House and Standen, by Tessa Wild
Keymer – Control of Condensation
Control of Condensation - Hosted by Christine Leadbeater (UK Keymer & Heritage Manager) & Nigel Dyer (UK Heritage Services Manager) This seminar examines how to control and avoid excessive condensation from building up, within a roof structure, by providing passive airflow from the outside of a building and by limiting airflow from within the living … Continue reading Keymer – Control of Condensation
ASCHB Conference 2022
Vauxhall St Peter's 310 Kennington Lane, London, United KingdomThe climate emergency is with us now. It threatens our very existence; and to meet the challenge we shall have to change how we build and operate our buildings. The historic environment is often labelled the villain in the race towards a more sustainable future, but as conservation professionals know, it is arguably our most … Continue reading ASCHB Conference 2022
WM Branch – The Conservation Hour – Research, Recording, and Analysis
Using the very best knowledge, expertise, and experience from our very own West Midlands IHBC Branch Members* we have curated a timetable of online events which will concentrate on each individual competency and enable our members to showcase and share their projects and provide networking opportunities. The monthly hour long sessions will run from 12.30pm-1.30pm, … Continue reading WM Branch – The Conservation Hour – Research, Recording, and Analysis
Place Services – Industrial Heritage
East Anglian Railway Museum Station Rd, Wakes Colne, Colchester, Essex, United KingdomThis course is aimed at anyone interested in industrial heritage and architecture, or those who are currently involved in the conservation or sustainable reuse of this typology. The mini-conference will provide insight into a range of industrial typologies across Essex. We are delighted to be holding this course at the East Anglian Railway Museum, part … Continue reading Place Services – Industrial Heritage
Pratt Sustainability Center – Heritage as Climate Action
The climate crisis has been reshaping the way in which heritage conservation practitioners, academics and community advocates operate in their fields, and has inspired the forging of new partnerships and approaches. What are those in heritage-focused fields doing currently to address the climate crisis through their work and actions? How can the power of heritage … Continue reading Pratt Sustainability Center – Heritage as Climate Action
Victorian Society – Looking at Butterfield, by Nicholas Olsberg
Focusing on the approach taken by the lecturer with the photographer James Morris in making photographs for the first monograph on William Butterfield since Paul Thompson’s pioneering book of 1971, the talk will concentrate on lesser-known but outstanding examples of his work, including the astonishing Yorkshire churches on the Humberhead Levels and at Dalton; the … Continue reading Victorian Society – Looking at Butterfield, by Nicholas Olsberg