SPAB – Understanding Your Old Building
Join us for an introduction to the care and maintenance of period properties, ideal for homeowners and tenants of old buildings. This modular, self-paced online course features six pre-recorded presentations and a live Q&A session. It introduces the SPAB conservation approach and offers guidance on how best to tackle common problems and maintain the character … Continue reading SPAB – Understanding Your Old Building
ICOMOS-UK Wood Forum: Oak Timber Framing course: Jowl Posts
Weald and Downland Living Museum Town Lane, ChichesterOak Timber Framing: Jowl Posts The Course This course teaches students how to frame timbers together to ensure the correct lengths, bevels and allowances and carry out double-cut scribing, string-line and plumb rule layouts. During the workshop the primary timbers – posts, plates, beams and cills – will be lined-out, scribed, cut and fitted. … Continue reading ICOMOS-UK Wood Forum: Oak Timber Framing course: Jowl Posts
SHBT – New Towns: An ambiguous Scottish and global heritage
Riddles Court 322 Lawnmarket, EdinburghCome along and hear ongoing findings from the ‘Building a Modern Scotland’ research team, in this presentation by Dr Diane Watters, Dr Valerie Wright and Prof Miles Glendinning. The session sets the Scottish postwar New Towns programme in its wider international context, first by focusing on the original concept and later vicissitudes of Cumbernauld, the … Continue reading SHBT – New Towns: An ambiguous Scottish and global heritage