Your Career in Conservation

Posted February 4th 2021

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Online Conference

This event was originally scheduled to be held in March 2020, if you booked a ticket for the original conference please check the email you used to book for updates

22nd March – 24th March | 10:30am – 4:00pm | Sessions will be recorded for ticket holders to access

Interested in a career focused on the historic built environment? Or learning more about how to improve your knowledge and expertise about conserving our built heritage? Join Glasgow City Heritage Trust for a three-day online conference looking at careers in conservation and take part in workshops on how to become conservation accredited.

The conference is aimed at anyone working, or interested in working, within the building and heritage sectors, including architects, surveyors, conservators, engineers and consultants. We will be recording all sessions for ticket holders to access at anytime.

What you’ll learn:

Delegates will be able to hear from professionals working across the built heritage sector, how being conservation accredited can open new career paths and how the conservation accreditation process works for different accreditation bodies.

We will also be having optional networking sessions during the lunchtime breaks, for people across the sector to connect.

Programme:

Each day will be split into two parts, with the morning session focusing on talks from built heritage conservation experts about their experiences and current concerns facing the historic built environment sector, as well as introductions to conservation accreditation bodies. The afternoon session will be split into workshops for participants to get more information about the accreditation application process specific to their professional area and get guidance on applications.

Please click here for the full programme

Workshops will be lead by:

Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE)

Institute of Conservation (Icon)

Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

All days of the conference can count towards the CPD requirements of professional bodies*

The standard price for the three day conference is £60, however, we we have a limited number of tickets available at a concession rate for students and individuals experiencing financial difficulties due to unemployment. Please only choose the concession price if this applies to you.

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Please note: Payment is taken via PayPal but you do not need to have a PayPal account to pay online.

_{*Each professional body has different requirement for CPD, please check with the professional body for guidance}

This event will be held online. You will receive a separate email after registering with instructions on how to access and join each day’s events.

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Saving Govanhill Baths

Posted November 5th 2020

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Thursday 19th November 2020 | 6pm GMT | via Zoom

Govanhill Baths is a Category B-Listed Edwardian baths which was added to the Buildings at Risk Register in 2001. Since then, a combination of grassroots activism and community campaigning has worked to save the building and reopen the Baths as a wellbeing centre which contributes to the wider social, cultural and built regeneration of the local area.

In this online event David Cook, Project Director for Govanhill Baths Building Preservation Trust, and Fatima Uygun, Manager of the Govanhill Baths Community Trust, discussed the process of restoring the building, fundraising, working with stakeholders and engaging with the local community. There was also Q&A to ask David and Fatima about lessons they’ve learnt along the way, as well as grant funding opportunities from GCHT with Taylor Cross-Whiter, GCHT’s Development Officer.

This event was part of GCHT’s Historic Built Investment Forum, a series of events focused on issues currently facing Glasgow’s built heritage and how the historic environment can act as a driver for sustainable development.

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POSTPONED | Your Career in Conservation: The Purpose and Process of Accreditation

Posted December 18th 2019

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COVID-19 UPDATE: This event has been moved online for 22nd – 24th March 2021, more information here: https://www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/your-career-in-conservation/

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The full day can count towards the CPD requirements of professional bodies

Scotland currently has a deficit of conservation accredited professionals, which presents a major hurdle for the delivery of appropriate repairs and maintenance to the historic environment. In order to help address this gap, Glasgow City Heritage Trust is hosting a one-day conference on conservation accreditation within the heritage and built environment sectors.

What you’ll learn:

Attendees will be able to hear from leading accreditation bodies about the value of accreditation for conserving our historic environment, how the application process works and how being conservation accredited can open new career paths.

The conference will be split into two parts, with the first session focusing on individual and organisational experiences with the process of getting conservation accredited and the benefits of accreditation, as well as advice for potential applicants and a discussion amongst delegates about the current accreditation process. The second session will be split into parallel workshops for participants to get more information about the application process specific to their professional area and get guidance on applications.

Click here for the programme and speaker topics

Keynote Speaker: Liz Davidson, IHBC, Hon FRIAS OBE | Senior Project Manager at the Glasgow School of Art

Chair: Alistair MacDonald, Former Head of Planning for Glasgow and past Convenor of the Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland

Speakers:

Rob Adams, Adams Napier Partnership, and Chair of the Scotland RICS Building Conservation Forum

Rebecca Cadie, Director of ARPL Architects and RIAS Conservation Accredited Architect

Sara Crofts, Chief Executive of Icon

Dr Seán O’Reilly, Director of IHBC

Colin Tennant, Head of Technical Education and Training at Historic Environment Scotland

Steve Wood, David Narro Associates and Assessor for CARE

Workshops will be lead by:

Conservation Accreditation Register for Engineers (CARE)

Institute of Conservation (Icon)

Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Individual ticket: £95 | Two tickets: £160

Lunch included in ticket price

Thanks to the Glasgow School of Art for hosting this event

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Exhibition : Glasgow’s Coat of Arms: Getting on the Map

Posted December 6th 2019

Exhibition runs 13th December 2019-6th February 2020

54 Bell Street, 10am-5pm

Free entry

The miracles of St Mungo provide the symbols of the tree, the bird, the bell and the fish; the core elements of the city’s coat of arms. Since St Mungo’s time, the history and development of the Coat of Arms mirrors that of Glasgow itself.

Getting on the Map allows anyone the chance to have their own take on the tree, the bird, the fish and the bell. Originating in the Twitter account @GlasgowCoA, contributors share their images of the coat of arms from around the city and beyond. This collaborative exhibition showcases these images.

It’s an inclusive approach to archiving the much-loved symbol: contributors, even when bringing a familiar rendition of the coat of arms from a familiar building, always have their own take on it. In an age when most of us have a phone camera in our pocket, there can be as many takes on the coat of arms as there are Glaswegians!

Get on the map, see what’s there, and be on the map with your own discoveries and images.

Ghost Signs of Glasgow: Walk around the West End

Posted November 11th 2019

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Saturday 7th December | 2:30 pm | Free, but booking essential

Meeting Point: Botanic Gardens Front Gate, Great Western Road

Ghost signs are the fading remains of old painted signs on buildings, which offer an invaluable window into the past.With the help of our great volunteers we have created engaging and informative walks around the city to highlight and learn more about the buildings and old signs.

Join us for a walk around the West End as our experienced and knowledgeable guides point out ghost signs and old shopfronts, explaining the history of the business and building behind the sign, with a focus on its architecture and design. Our guides will also be showing archive images of the area and buildings we explore. This tour is a great chance to look at the city with different eyes and learn more about often overlooked architecture.

We will be walking along main roads, occasionally crossing very busy roads and areas, and potentially going up or down stairs. Please wear sturdy, comfortable shoes and bring a rain jacket just in case.

The walk will last between 1 hour and a half and 2 hours.

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Ghost Signs of Glasgow: Walk Around the East End

Posted November 11th 2019

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Saturday 7th December | 11am | Free, but booking essential

Meeting Point: In front of St Luke’s (17 Bain Street, G40 2JZ)

Join us for a walk around the East End as our experienced and knowledgeable guides point out ghost signs and old shopfronts, explaining the history of the business and building behind the sign, with a focus on its architecture and design. Our guides will also be showing archive images of the area and buildings we explore. This tour is a great chance to look at the city with different eyes and learn more about often overlooked architecture.

The walk will last between 1 hour and a half and 2 hours.

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CPD: Climate Change Impacts on the Historic Environment

Posted November 5th 2019

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Wednesday 4th December 2019 | 12.30-1.30pm | 54 Bell Street, Glasgow

Climate change is one of the major threats currently facing our historic environment. David Harkin from Historic Environment Scotland will be speaking about climate change impacts on the historic environment, the climate hazards that drive these impacts, what makes historic assets vulnerable or resilient to these impacts and possible adaption measures that could be applied in light of these changes. Attendees will be able to pick up a copy of the recently released Our Place in Time (OPIT) Guide to Climate Change Impacts on the Scotland’s Historic Environment.

David Harkin is Historic Environment Scotland’s Climate Change Scientist and one of the primary authors of the Guide to Climate Change Impacts on the Scotland’s Historic Environment.

All GCHT CPD sessions are recognised by the IHBC, and attendees can obtain a CPD certificate upon completion.

£15 per person /£10 for students, including light lunch.

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All sessions are recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) as being capable of contributing to the obligatory CPD requirements of Full Members (see www.ihbc.org.uk)

Tenement: An Architectural History

Posted October 21st 2019

October 25th-December 5th

54 Bell Street, G1 1LQ

Open 10am-5pm

Free Entrance

The Tenement defines Glasgow as both a representation of the city’s architectural and its social history. This exhibition will explore the changing history of the tenement as an architectural typology, examining its relationship with the changing lifestyles and social history of the city.

Through a set of architectural drawings from original research by Architect John Joseph Burns the exhibition will present an engaging visual history of the development of the tenement. The use of traditional architectural drawings such as plan, section & elevation as well exploded axonometrics will detail key tenement types from Glasgow’s past. Through this visitors will be able to see the history of tenement architecture in a new and original way.

The ‘Tenement: An Architectural History’ Exhibition was granted-aided by a Heritage Grant from Glasgow City Heritage Trust. Thanks also go to the Creative Scotland, Glasgow Institute of Architects & the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain for also contributing to the staging of the exhibition.

Ghost Signs of Glasgow Sold Out

Posted October 16th 2019

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Wednesday, 20th November | 6pm | 54 Bell Street

Ghost signs, the fading remains of old painted signs on buildings, together with old shopfronts, provide an invaluable insight into Glasgow’s architectural, social and cultural history.

Since March our Ghost Signs of Glasgow project has been revealing, researching and documenting ghost signs in Glasgow. This talk will present what’s been found so far, and explore some of the stories behind these hidden remnants of the city’s past.

£6/Free for GCHT Friends

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Glasgow’s Buildings at Risk

Posted October 16th 2019

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Thursday, 31st October | 12.30-1.30pm | 54 Bell Street, Glasgow

Glasgow currently has around 130 historic buildings listed on the Buildings at Risk Register, of which half have been on it for 11 years or longer.

Niall Murphy will delve into why Glasgow has so many buildings on the Register, and will explore what GCHT has been doing to address the problem including: case studies of meanwhile uses; how we have tried to get buildings off the Register and back into use; or tried to set them on the path to a sustainable future.

Niall Murphy is Deputy Director of GCHT and the Chair of the Govanhill Baths Building Preservation Trust, which is working toward the removal of Govanhill Baths from the Buildings at Risk Register and its sustainable re-use as a health and wellbeing centre.

£15 per person /£10 for students, including light lunch.

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All sessions are recognised by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) as being capable of contributing to the obligatory CPD requirements of Full Members (see www.ihbc.org.uk)

Become a Friend of Glasgow City Heritage Trust

The easiest way to support the Trust’s work is to join our loyalty scheme. Our tiered loyalty scheme means you can choose the level that’s right for you.

Click to find out all the benefits of membership