At our two day international conference taking part during DigiFest, speakers from Ubisoft, Atlantic Productions, Tippett Studio and many others will share the very latest innovation in digital documentation and visualisation.
Showcasing ground-breaking work worldwide, networking and experiencing Scottish hospitality are as important as the fascinating talks at this event.
For the first time ever, you can also join us for a special DigiDoc Research and Innovation Day on Wednesday 10 October. Gain an exclusive preview of the latest research that will be influencing our futures.
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland presents “Conserving the Assets of our Past” seminar program, taking place Tuesday 2nd October, 2018, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh eh1 1sr.
Please join the AABC on11th Octoberat Durham Cathedral for their Annual Conference, ‘Exploring Durham Cathedral’s Past and Present’, from 10am until 4.45pm. The day will include talks, tours and networking!
Lunch will be provided and non-members are welcome. Please do pass the details of the event onto friends, family or colleagues you feel may be interested.
This is sure to be an amazing day visiting this iconic medieval cathedral.
We are very sad to announce that David Linford, a great friend to COTAC, a former Trustee, and generous benefactor, supporting conferences and other events, passed away on 9 March 2018.
David was chairman of the well-respected group of companies specialising in building conservation based in Lichfield that bear his name.
Always active and keen to improve the industry sector, he worked with other conservation contractors and encouragement from the then English Heritage, to form the Heritage Building Contractors Group (HBCG) with the aim of raising quality of those working on historic buildings. It set standards and requirements of members, including that they should have a predominant directly employed workforce of skilled crafts persons and offer apprenticeships and training to those recruited and employed. On the eventual winding up of HBCG, David instigated the transfer of residual funds to COTAC to be used for conservation educational purposes.
David was instrumental in the establishment of SPAB’s William Morris Craft Fellowship, a training programme designed to broaden the skills and experience of trained craftspeople involved in historic building repairs. The scheme was launched in 1986 by a group representing major conservation bodies, with David’s backing as a specialist conservation building contractor. The only programme of its kind for outstanding craftspeople, the programme was devised to meet a growing demand from those responsible for historic buildings for trained craftspeople who also have a highly developed sympathy for, and wide understanding of, traditional buildings and the range of skills needed to repair them. The programme is still running and is as relevant today as it was 30 years ago.
A keen hockey player and supporter David was a member of Cannock Hockey Club for over 60 years. Firstly as a player, described as a stylish full back and subsequently Life Member, President and Patron. The Club said recently that it much appreciated his immense contribution in terms of time, effort and financial support, which had allowed Cannock HC to develop the present facilities and world class pitches. They described him as a quiet but very determined man who always had the Club’s best interests at heart.
David had excellent contacts in the heritage sector around the UK and in Europe. Indeed his links with the Council of Europe and European Union led to COTAC’s involvement in a number of successful international training projects during the 1990s.
The shortage of skills in the Built Heritage sector, led David to work with COTAC and the CITB, to encourage English Heritage and Historic Scotland to support the founding of the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG). In 2002, with David becoming its first chairman. This resulted in a number of Traditional Building Crafts Skills Needs Analysis Reports the findings of which are still very relevant today. More recently, NHTG ran two very successful HLF funded bursary schemes to train crafts persons in traditional building skills through onsite placements.
Suffering poor health during the last few years, David stepped down as a trustee but continued to take an interest in COTAC through regular contact with the Hon Secretary John Taylor.
His funeral was held in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral on 12th April 2018.
COTAC sends its deepest sympathy to his wife Barbara and the rest of David’s family.
The University of Minho will be opening very soon a PhD grant on Computational strategies for masonry structures subjected to high temperatures within the Marie Curie Project ATHOR (http://www.etn-athor.eu/). An official call will be available very soon. If you are interested in this position, please contact asap Dr. Miguel Azenha (miguel.azenha@civil.uminho.pt) for further interaction and information about the release of the official call.
The PhD will address couple structural nonlinear mechanics with the thermo- and chemo-fields including viscosity effects for micro- and macro-models based on FE methods.
The final objectives are: a) validate macro-models for different masonry bonds; b) define performance charters for the different masonry bonds, based on advanced micro-models. The models will be implemented in a commercial software, allowing its use by the industrial partners.
At the time of selection by University of Minho, the researcher must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Portugal for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to his/her recruitment. The salary (before taxes) will be in the order of 1.800 euros per month (14 months/year).
Earth Building UK & Ireland – Celebrating Turf Traditions: The Engine Shed, Stirling Wednesday 5th September 2018
Turf is the Cinderella of earth building in the UK, long forgotten and almost vanished, but it was a historically a key construction material until the 19th century. Recently there has been a surge in recording on archaeological sites, renewed interest in the skills and diversity of this tradition, and recognition of its wider bio-regional context.
EBUKI is holding a day of wide-ranging presentations sharing recent experience of turf building from practitioners in Scotland, Iceland and Ireland. There will be group discussions
on focused themes to inform future partnership activities. Join us for a day relevant to heritage professionals and enthusiasts engaged with vernacular culture.
• Turf Archaeology how can we make sense of what we find – recent projects in Glenshee and Glen Coe
• Turf Landscapes what are the bioregional & local patterns – Iceland, Ireland, Lewis and Longforgan
• Skills Training what do we need, can a national strategy & European partnerships have a growing role?
• Sharing Knowledge what outreach activities succeed – The Sheiling Project, Tay Landscape Partnership
• Sheiling Culture is the last traditional turf sheiling still out there?
• Sustaining Historic Turf what repair materials & techniques work – Huntly, St Kilda & Culloden
• The value of Reconstructions what can we learn by replication – Newtonmore & the Netherlands
• Contemporary Turf Building – is a living tradition possible – Scotland and Iceland
The European Commission – Directorate General for Research and Innovation – is organizing the event ‘Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage’ in the frame of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH).
Preliminary programme
A two-day event combining plenary and parallel sessions and hosting an exhibition to:
– connect key players in the field of cultural heritage.
– showcase more than 40 breakthrough innovations developed by EU funded R&I projects
The exciting programme includes inspirational talks, round tables, pitches from innovators, poster sessions, thematic sessions, Horizon 2020 project clustering as well as a B2B corner.
When:
15 and 16 November 2018
Where:
The Egg, Rue Bara 175, 1070 Brussels, Belgium
Detailed Programme, list of Speakers and registration webpage will be shortly available here
Participation will be confirmed after registration, within the limitations of available seats.
The registration is now open for the Intensive Course Training for Trainers Life Beyond Tourism to be held on October 22-26, 2018 in Florence.
The five-day intensive course is conducted by the International Institute Life Beyond Tourism created by the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco. It is dedicated to a deeper understanding of the ethos, Model and Movement Life Beyond Tourism, along with its best practices and operational instruments – all oriented towards the sustainable development of territories through a conscious management of the cultural and natural heritage, transforming the tourism based on services and consumption to the travelling based on values of knowledge and dialogue. Moreover, the participants will have a chance to discover the Florentine context, in which the Movement was born, as well as some of the traditional cultural expressions and representatives of Learning Communities.
At the conclusion of the course all the participants obtain the Certificate of Trainer Life Beyond Tourism for one academic year and can implement Life Beyond Tourism directly in their educational programs at their own university/institution. See the list of certified international Trainers Life Beyond Tourism here.
The previous editions of the Training for Trainers have been already attended by participants from 17 countries and several institutions, among which the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow named after M.I. Rudomino, Union of Cities and Local Governments – Africa Section, Kemerovo Institute of Culture, Belarus State Economic University, University of Marburg, Moscow Academy of Humanities and Technology, Azerbaijan Tourism and Management University, Academy of Business and Management of Moscow, Vilnius University, Vilnius University Library, Saint-Petersburg University of Culture, General Authority for Tourism and National Heritage in Saudi Arabia, University of Economics in Prague and Taibah University.
For more information and registration, visit the Intensive Courses Training for Trainers Life Beyond Tourism® web-page. Special conditions for the Experts of the Foundation and the staff of the universities and insitutions which signed the Memorandum of Understanding Life Beyond Tourism or the 2014 Declaration of Auspices Life Beyond Tourism for UNESCO, are extended up to the end of December 2018.
RIBA is delighted to let you know that thanks to the support of the Guerrilla Tactics steering group and Creative Directors, Pooja Agrawal and Finn Williams of Public Practice, we have launched Guerrilla Tactics 2018.
Taking place on 13 and 14 November the theme is ‘Expanding Practice: Navigating the architecture of planning, procurement and property’. See more details here.
We have been able to maintain a competitive early bird rate in order to make the conference accessible to more members, increasing the audience size.
