The AR Awards are an online awards programme dedicated to commending and celebrating design excellence and innovation across a range of building types.
Conceived as a rolling programme that extends over the year and is evaluated by a high-profile international jury, awards will be made for specific typologies. Categories for 2015 will be House, Schools, and ReUse.
Exciting SEAHA studentship with Historic Royal Palaces: ‘Developing preventive conservation strategies for ‘problem stones’: Reigate Stone at the Tower of London’.
If you work in the building trade or are training you could be eligible for the City and Country Bursary which will fully fund a place on one of the courses.
further details: katie.seabright@essex.gov.uk
We have an opportunity for several students or recent graduates to work within our team over the summer months. This is a unique chance to gain an understanding of how we conserve and adapt our ecclesiastical buildings. The role would suit those studying, or about to start, or recently graduated from a course in a relevant subject, e.g. historic building conservation or architectural history.
Closes 1st June 2015
further details: catherine.townsend@churchofengland.org
The AJ Retrofit awards are the first and only awards dedicated to recognising achievements in design, engineering and construction. The awards set a benchmark for creative excellence across the commercial, public and private sectors in the UK, rewarding the best work and the brightest thinking. Winners of these prestigious awards will be determined by a rigorous judging process by a panel of the industry’s elite represent the gold standard in retrofit excellence.
Engineering, timber and forestry sector companies from across the UK are offering scholarships of up to £5,000 to qualified graduates enrolling on Edinburgh Napier’s unique MSc Timber Engineering and MSc Timber Industry Management postgraduate degree courses for the academic year 2015/16.
Each company scholarship offers potentially valuable opportunities for the student to engage with the scholarship provider to gain valuable industry insight and experience during their studies, which could lead to employment opportunities in the future.
Each year the KJ Award is open to ALL second year students of architecture in Scotland – along with a guest school of architecture from around the world. This year SEDA is delighted to have been joined by Melbourne School of Architecture. Each school has promoted one project from their curriculum – which should be mainstream – for consideration. Representatives from the Scottish Ecological Design Association will join the Review Panel for the chosen project from each school to make a judgement on which of their student’s work should be selected to be put forward for the prize.
The largest UK charity dedicated specifically to built environment research, the BRE Trust, has announced funding for five PhDs in the School of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. This marks the first stage in a programme of collaborative research between BRE and the university which aims to advance built environment knowledge at a time of significant development in the UK and around the world.
The programme presents six major national awards. Submit an application before the 15th May 2015 as an individual or on behalf of an organisation or community project to be in with a chance to win a coveted prize fund, trophy and attend the VIP awards ceremony at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Rewarding outstanding projects, innovative products and dynamic people that are promoting excellence in structural timber throughout the UK. Across key sectors of construction, the Awards will showcase innovation, celebrate best practice and recognise expertise in timber technology and the ways it contributes to an attractive, energy efficient and sustainable built environment. more….
Penton Lodge has an original kitchen in dire need of restoration and we are suitable candidates for Heritage Lottery Funding. However, in order to begin our application we need assistance on all elements of this project, from researching other kitchens, contacting educational establishments to gain support, through to putting together the full application form.
The National Preservation Awards honor the very best in preservation. Each year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation presents a select number of major awards. The Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award recognizes an individual’s outstanding lifetime achievement in the preservation field. The Driehaus Preservations Awards recognize and celebrate the country’s best preservation projects—projects that highlight cutting-edge preservation approaches or technologies. These exclusive awards, given at the National Preservation Conference, serve to educate and inspire and raise the visibility of the preservation movement.
The trustees of The Stanley People’s Initiative are working to regenerate and safeguard the impressive early twentieth-century, grade II listed Stanley Halls, located in the heart of South Norwood, Croydon.
We will open them as public halls, reinstating the grand concert hall, art gallery and community rooms, and create an enterprise hub. A regenerated Stanley Halls could offer employment, training, community development, entertainment and an urgently needed focal point in the area.
We are looking for individuals with experience in business management, property development, events and volunteer management and fundraising.
further details…thestanleypeoplesinitiative@gmail.com
The Centre for Doctoral Training Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology at UCL, University of Oxford and University of Brighton is delighted to be offering a number of exceptionally exciting doctoral studentship.
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is currently seeking to recruit three Trainee Heritage Officers based at our Head Office, John Sinclair House, Edinburgh.
This traineeship has been created a as part of the Heritage Lottery Fund supported Skills for the Future programme to enable people from a wide variety of backgrounds to develop their skills for future employment within the heritage sector. The project based at RCAHMS – ‘Building Curatorial and Learning Skills for the Heritage Sector’ – will provide 40 traineeships over six years, focussing on a series of inter-related skills involving the documentation and dissemination of archive collections as well as site-based heritage education.
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