IHBC and COTAC sign a mutually beneficial Memorandum of Understanding: to ‘help build capacity across the sector’
Chairs of both the IHBC and COTAC – The Institute of Historic Building Conservation and the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at The Building Crafts College in London on 21 February 2018, with the aim of ‘helping build capacity across the sector’.
James Caird, IHBC, and Ingval Maxwell, COTAC, present the signed MoU to their respective members
With both organisations affirming their operational and ethical ties to the 1993 ICOMOS Conservation ‘Guidelines on Education and Training’, strategic commitments in the MoU include:
Annual meeting of representatives
Cross-publication of key articles
Business planning strategy (IHBC)
Online conservation training (COTAC)
Arrangements for mutually discounted rates for members
A viable ‘standard’ in ‘BIM for Conservation’ practice
