DBR’s Adrian Attwood discusses the importance of moulding a new generation of skilled craftspeople to protect heritage assets

Listed building consent has been approved to replace the top of Blackpool Tower with new LED lights and remove damaged strips.

Conservation charity English Heritage has announced the launch of a heritage apprenticeship programme and skills training centre aimed at safeguarding endangered specialist skills.

English Heritage has started extensive conservation works on London’s historic landmark Marble Arch.

The recent ruling on the future of M&S Oxford Street store highlights the increasing scrutiny being placed on the embodied carbon associated with re-development, write Nicholle Kingsley and Siobhan Cross.

A landowner who carried out unauthorised works to a listed building in Tower Hamlets has been fined £20,000 after failing to comply with an enforcement notice. 

CIOB’s annual conservation conference, in partnership with English Heritage, takes place on 25 April at One Moorgate Place, London.

Three heritage conservation specialists from Cliveden Conservation set out the disciplines and challenges of their working lives

A new report has found that a retrofitting strategy for historic buildings can boost the economy and help the UK achieve its net zero goals.

On 2 March Heritage Lincolnshire is offering members a site visit to England’s oldest surviving friary building – Greyfriars, Lincoln.

City of Lincoln Council and Heritage Lincolnshire have secured the necessary funding to bring the iconic Greyfriars building in Lincoln back to life.

Opportunities now available to support annual CIOB heritage sector event.

Feedback from delegates shows that CIOB’s recent International Heritage Conference in Malta was seen as a great success.

Heritage contractor Simpson (York) has revealed the original Victorian architecture of Hull Maritime Museum, as part of structural works involved in its £12m refurbishment.

Bridge works specialist Spencer Group has secured a series of major refurbishment contracts on the Menai Suspension Bridge ahead of its bicentenary in 2026.

Construction firm Hobson & Porter has lifted 12 unique stone putties into position on the historic Guildhall in Hull.

An eight-year process to restore the oldest iron-framed building in the world, known as the ‘grandparent of skyscrapers’, has finally reached its end.

The Amelia Scott Centre has been a complex heritage and refurbishment project for Willmott Dixon Interiors, which involved joining together two existing buildings.