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December 2020
GCHT – VIRTUAL – Get a Grip on Grants: Traditional Skills and Building Repair Grants Surgery
Have you always wanted to know more about how GCHT’s grants scheme works? Do you have a project in mind but are not sure if it would be eligible? Then our Surgeries series is for you! join us for our four events running on Zoom from September 2020 to March 2021. Each surgery will highlight two different grant programmes. This month will focus on Traditional Skills Grants and Building Repair Grants. You will have the chance to learn the ins…
Find out more »SLCT – VIRTUAL – Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Principles and Practice Masterclass
An online technical masterclass, running over 2 half days, covering emerging research, best practice and case studies in the field of upgrading traditional and historic buildings. Day 1 – 4th December 2020 @ 9.30am-1.00pm Day 2 – 11th December 2020 @ 9.30am-1.00pm Trainer: Nicholas Heath
Find out more »CIOB Academy – VIRTUAL – Understanding Building Conservation
With over 6 million traditional buildings and over 500,000 listed monuments in the UK, there is a considerable need for building professionals to understand the nature and practicalities of conservation. For this reason, we have developed a course looking at conservation for both residential and commercial property as well as historic monuments. In accordance with the ICOMOS (International Council On Monuments and Sites) Training and Education Guideline and the latest British Standard on conservation of historic buildings (BS 7913: 2013)…
Find out more »January 2021
MSDS Marine – OASIS for Built Heritage Users – Support Workshop
Historic England have commissioned MSDS Marine and Ashtree Heritage to provide support workshops for the rollout of the new Online Access to the Index of Investigations (OASIS) system. This workshop will provide training and support to archaeologists working commercially to promote the new system and provide training in its use. Please note a series of workshops is being rolled out targeted at different users. If you don't currently work within built heritage you can sign up here for further updates on courses for other users…
Find out more »February 2021
Tywi Centre – Listed Building Consent: a step by step guide to making changes to your historic home
Listed Buildings tell a key part of Wales’s cultural story, but their care and repair can be challenging. The Tywi Centre is delivering a 1-day online course ‘Listed Building Consent: a step by step guide to making changes to your historic home’.
Find out more »Digital Past – Conference and Workshops
Wednesday 10 February 2021: Conference 8-12 February 2021: Workshops Online via Zoom Digital Past is a conference which showcases innovative digital technologies for data capture, interpretation and dissemination of heritage sites and artefacts. Running for the twelfth year, in light of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19 Digital Past 2021 will be held as an online conference via the Zoom platform. One day of presented talks on Wednesday 10 February will be supplemented by workshops across the week of 8 to…
Find out more »March 2021
Tywi Centre – Understanding Heritage Impact Assessments
The Tywi Centre is delivering the first online version of its acclaimed Heritage Impact Assessment Course on Thursday 3rd December. We will use practical examples and interactive activities to keep you stimulated throughout a full day of learning. HIAs are essential component of every application for Listed Building Consent in Wales – so get the inside story from Carmarthenshire’s Built Heritage Team.
Find out more »SPAB – From Granby Four Streets to Spitalfields: Community Led Regeneration
The “Granby Four Streets” project in Liverpool brought architecture and design collective Assemble and Toxteth residents wide recognition for an approach to regeneration that placed a community’s affection for its local heritage, and local people’s talents and resourcefulness, at its heart. Over the last decade they have worked together to realise a sustainable and incremental vision for the Granby area, including affordable housing, public space and new enterprise opportunities, winning the 2015 Turner Prize along the way. Fran Edgerley, a…
Find out more »SPAB – Transforming Places: Revitalising Historic High Streets
“Ordinary” town centre heritage – those familiar high street buildings that house shops, local services, small businesses and projects – often goes unremarked and underappreciated, and can fall into serious decline. Yet these places are a vital part of our built environment and, if well cared for and used, can be assets that contribute to a community’s quality of life and create a strong sense of place in an increasingly homogenised world. The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), a body bringing…
Find out more »SPAB – Brixton Windmill: from Building at Risk to Revival
Before Brixton was absorbed by the urban expansion of London in the mid nineteenth century it was a wheat growing area, which Ashby’s Mill was built to serve in 1816. By 1862 the windmill was so sheltered by other buildings that it received insufficient wind to turn its sails and although it was later altered to use other sources of power its story became one of alternating periods of use and neglect. When it was placed on the Buildings at…
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