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 former mental health establishment founded by a Quaker in 1792 will be turned into 120 energy-efficient homes in York.

Matthias Gropp explains the role that advanced monitoring techniques, AI and IoT can play in retrofitting projects of historic assets.

A £369m decade-long scheme to update Buckingham Palace’s essential systems “has been well managed” to date, according to a new NAO report.

Historic England has published new advice on adapting historic buildings for energy efficiency and climate change.

A small London museum dedicated to the first tunnel in the world to be built under a major river will close in September to undergo a £1.85m revamp.

Buckinghamshire Council said it “bitterly regret[s]” the damage that HS2 construction will cause on Grim’s Ditch, an ancient earthwork in Great Missenden, after giving consent to high-speed rail route proposals that will affect the national asset.

A CGI video shows how Spencer Group will create a new dock gate as part of a £1.9m project to help preserve a historic vessel in Hull.

The Tower of London and St Paul’s Cathedral could be “severely harm[ed]” by the expansion of the Square Mile’s office space and tall buildings, Historic England has warned.

Can a heritage building be smart too? That’s the plan for the new Museum of London in London’s historic Smithfield market. Kristina Smith meets the client and Sir RobertvMcAlpine’s construction team.

CIOB’s annual conservation conference will take place on 9 May at Congress Centre, London.