Walter Lilly has completed the first significant refurbishment of Lambeth Palace in over 70 years.

Stewart Wright MCIOB reports on the recent CIOB Conservation Conference 2025.

New publication aims to help address critical skills and knowledge gaps across the retrofit workforce

Network Rail has received planning approval to restore York’s oldest surviving railway structure and turn it into the rehearsal space of a contesting brass band.

The CIOB annual Conservation Conference will this month celebrate the creativity, dedication and expertise within the heritage and conservation sector.

One of London’s oldest thatched buildings is going through a 12-month project to get it removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.

Network Rail has kicked off works to refurbish the 161-year-old Hungerford railway bridge on Saturday (18 January).

New solar panels on the roof of York Minster have been switched on for the first time during a blessing ceremony led by the Dean of York.

Work is underway to install an underdeck scaffold structure on the Tyne Bridge from the Newcastle tower to the Gateshead tower.

Contractor Stepnell has begun enabling works on the £9m refurbishment of the Grade II-listed Town Hall in Hugh Town, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly.

Morgan Sindall Construction has successfully completed the restoration of Grade II-listed West Bromwich Town Hall and Library five weeks ahead of schedule.

Westminster City Council has appointed Willmott Dixon to refurbish the 1930s Grade II-listed Seymour Centre in Marylebone, central London.

Stately home Wentworth Woodhouse is undergoing a £200m restoration and CIOB member company William Birch & Sons is one of the companies involved. Kristina Smith reports.

Specialist conservation contractor DBR will start in January a ‘monumental’ £10.4m roof restoration at the 18th-century Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire.

Road marking contractor WJ Group’s employees volunteered to clean and refurbish the Reginald Mitchell Way Spitfire and Walrus Seaplane displays in Stoke-on-Trent.

Chartered builder RECOM Solutions on how turning a listed city-centre building into residential property offered the opportunity to trial new methods.

The Grade II-listed Victorian-era Crystal Palace Subway in south London has reopened following a lengthy renovation.

A new heritage skills strategy has been launched to help address recruitment challenges