Institute of Historic Building Conservation

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Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)
PredecessorAssociation of Conservation Officers
Formation1997
TypeProfessional body, charitable body
HeadquartersIHBC, Jubilee House, High Street, TISBURY SP3 6HA
Region served
United Kingdom
Membership2730 (2020)
President
Mike Brown
Chair
David McDonald
Director
Seán O'Reilly
Main organ
Context
Staff7
Website www.ihbc.org.uk

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) is a professional body in the United Kingdom which was formed as a charitable trust company in 1997 by members of the former Association of Conservation Officers. The object was to widen the scope of the profession from those mainly concerned with the statutory regulation of the historic environment to all those who practice professionally in historic and built environment conservation.

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Membership

The Institute has about 2,700 members in three categories:

Membership is open to those in place-making and other heritage-related professions with specific expertise in the historic environment, principally town planners, architects, building conservation specialists and surveyors. The membership also includes engineers, educators, architectural historians, urban designers, archaeologists, garden historians and landscape architects.

Applicants for full membership must demonstrate their professional competence in four areas: [2]

Professional standards are maintained through a Code of Professional Conduct, [3] mandatory continuing professional development, [4] and by peer review.

What IHBC members do

IHBC members undertake a very wide range of professional and specialist rôles in the historic environment in accordance with their individual professional training, accreditation, [5] skills and interests.

IHBC's conservation values

The conservation values of the IHBC are founded on those of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) which derive from the Athens Charter of 1931 and, more specifically, the Venice Charter of 1964.

Governance

The centre of the Institute's governance is its board of trustees, styled the 'Council'. This is supported by a wider advisory Council and four Committees, each of which may have subsidiary panels and interest groups.

Branches

The IHBC has branches, [6] 10 for the English Regions and one each for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The branches organise their own programmes of events and host, periodically, the IHBC's Annual School, its main continuing professional development event of the year.

IHBC operations

The Institute has no formal premises. It operates mainly by electronic communication with its trustees, staff and volunteers working from wherever they are based. Meetings, when required, are held mainly in London but also in other centers.

Operations are planned and carried out in accordance with objectives set in the current Corporate Plan: [7]

Specific operations include:

Publications

The IHBC is active in the publication of conservation and heritage information and guidance:

Affiliations

Formal memberships of UK bodies include

International memberships include

Memoranda of Understanding: Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) [21] Council on Training in Architectural Conservation (COTAC) [17] (pending)

Partnerships and other collective operations include

References

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  2. "The Institute of Historic Building Conservation". Ihbc.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  3. http://ihbc.org.uk/resources/A4-Code-of-Conduct.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. http://ihbc.org.uk/cpd/docs/IHBC_CPD_guidance_notes_160709.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  5. Professional Accreditation in Building Conservation , Lucy Stewart, The Building Conservation Directory 2015, Cathedral Communications, Tisbury, Wiltshire, 2015
  6. "The Institute of Historic Building Conservation". ihbc.org.uk.
  7. http://ihbc.org.uk/news/docs/IHBC%20Corporate%20Plan%202015-20%20-%20'CP20'%20-%20Adopted%20AGM%2019%20June%202015.pdf Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine [ bare URL PDF ]
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