IHBC Annual School 2023: Swansea
Climate Change and the Historic Environment
Resilience and Performance
21-24 June 2023: In-Person and Online
IHBC MarketPlace | Full School | Day School
- IHBC MarketPlace:LIVE – Wednesday 21 June: Online and open to all!
- In person Full School Thursday 22nd – Saturday 24th June
- In person and online Day School Friday 23rd June
IHBC Annual School 2023: Swansea
Climate Change and the Historic Environment
Resilience and Performance
21-24 June 2023: In-Person and Online
IHBC MarketPlace | Full School | Day School
- IHBC MarketPlace:LIVE – Wednesday 21 June: Online and open to all!
- In person Full School Thursday 22nd – Saturday 24th June
- In person and online Day School Friday 23rd June
Principal Sponsor
#IHBCSwansea2023 swansea2023.ihbc.org.uk
Make Swansea your destination this summer!
- in person or online!
- Climate change challenges and solution insights
- Networking: Leading practitioners, policymakers, businesses & advisers
- On-site case studies, themes and solutions
- Up to 20 hours Continuing Professional Development
- IHBC MarketPlace:LIVE – ask the experts direct!
Images Trefor Thorpe
Make Swansea your destination this summer!
- in person or online!
- Climate change challenges and solution insights
- Networking: Leading practitioners, policymakers, businesses & advisers
- On-site case studies, themes and solutions
- Up to 20 hours Continuing Professional Development
- IHBC MarketPlace:LIVE – ask the experts direct!
Images Trefor Thorpe
Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash
#IHBCSwansea2023 #IHBCMarketPlace
IHBC SCHOOLS: Heritage insights for everyone
Different IHBC School formats mean that anyone with an interest in heritage, culture and conservation will find much of interest:
- IHBC MarketPlace:LIVE, 21st June: Launching the 2023 Annual School on Wednesday between 4.30pm and 7.00pm with advice, services, support and learning for building, planning, heritage and conservation. Free, online and for everyone
- Day School, 23rd June: A single day of presentations, and networking, on the Friday, and
- Annual School, 22-24th June: A 3-day programme around the Day School that includes extensive expert-led tours and on-site discussions, local and regional, as well as important networking and celebratory opportunities that include
- Annual Dinner, on the Friday evening at the Dylan Thomas Centre, with IHBC Student and Marsh Award presentations, and our
- School Reception, on the Thursday evening, in TBC
TOPICS, TOURS AND MORE
- Coping with climate change challenges
- Complying with standards
- Retrofit
- Fuel poverty and traditional buildings
- Protected buildings and the climate emergency
- Tours – Swansea and beyond
- CPD support: Pre- and post-event support and guidance
WHO SHOULD GO?
IHBC Schools offer innovative insights and opportunities for everyone, and not just for specialists!
Practitioners from across and beyond the UK, working with fabric, materials, sites, areas and places that make up our built and historic environment, usually dominate the delegates.
Delegates may be specialists in conservation, but many with a more general understanding of conservation practice look to the IHBC’s School for their regular update and networking opportunity.
Typical delegate backgrounds include:
- Planning (from community to strategic)
- Voluntary and third sector
- Architecture
- Urban Design
- Heritage management
- Landscape
- Community
- History
- Archaeology
- Construction
- Engineering
- Development
- Traditional skills
- Project management
- Policy makers
- Specifiers
- Industry & commercial
- Innovators
The School welcomes people working in national and local government and related bodies, private practice, education, academia, charities and other voluntary bodies.
Whether starting out on your career or active in the wider heritage sector, there is no better way than to develop your conservation and heritage-related skills, knowledge and understanding than at our next School, in Swansea.
LOCATION AND LEARNING IN 2023
Swansea, in South Wales, is the programme’s focus, a city and region etc……
The Annual School offers three exciting days of:
- LECTURES, networking and practical learning to share skills, knowledge and understanding
- TOURS On-site case studies, themes and solutions:
- NETWORKING EVENTS; EVENING RECEPTION : & IHBC ANNUAL DINNER with opportunities to pause, take stock and stimulate debate in fascinating venues
- AWARDS AND CELEBRATION: Including the presentation of IHBC’s own Gus Astley Annual Student Awards , which will be presented by Clara Arokiasamy and our own IHBC Marsh Awards for ‘Successful Learning’ in heritage and ‘Community Contributions’ by retired members of the IHBC.
The 2023 Day School will:
- Explain and interrogate new approaches to coping with climate change challenges:
- complying with standards
- energy management
- retrofit
- fuel poverty and traditional buildings
- energy targets
- protected buildings and the climate emergency
BENEFITS
Employers enhance services, practitioners improve skills, and users build understanding.
- Employers, including the self-employed, need informed, dedicated and productive staff: supporting staff maintain skills, gain experience, and revive enthusiasms at the IHBC’s School improves delivery, efficiency and service!
- Practitioners: Secure your career path and employability with new approaches to the conservation and care of places.
- Heritage users, from stakeholders to clients of all backgrounds will see how the different roles and priorities can come together to build capacity and help secure better and more cost effective heritage outcomes and conservation results.
Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash
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