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MEMBERSHIP
The Institute aims to offer membership
to all those who care for or about the historic environment. Membership
of the Institute is aimed at being inclusive rather than exclusive as
far as the maintenance of proper professional standards will allow.
There are therefore three categories of membership available.
Membership of the Institute is drawn
from many disciplines and may include architects, town planners,
building surveyors, estate managers, structural engineers, landscape
architects, architectural historians, local authority conservation
officers, officers from national conservation organisations, academics
or private practitioners.
Why become a Full Member
IHBC members are distinguished by their dedicated professional interest
in securing historic places as a resource for the future, historic
environment conservation. Places are complex and serve many users and
interests. Conserving and managing historic places demands appropriate
knowledge and experience of how we maintain, shape and secure them. The
IHBC’s Full Members must balance their specialist skills and training
with a substantial understanding of their role in shaping places, and
how they can be conserved. This ensures that their own professional
advice is properly informed by the wider opportunities for and
pressures on historic environment conservation.
The IHBC’s entry requirements ensure
that our members are able to balance specialist knowledge with a more
holistic awareness of our role and duties. These requirements, the Areas of Competence and their underlying Competences,
cover a wide range of issues relating to how places work, from history
and research to management and design. Anyone wishing to confirm their
professional capacity through membership of the IHBC must demonstrate
their achievement of a suitable balance of the Competences.
Download information on the Competences here
It is important to appreciate that when
you become a Full Member of the IHBC, you will not be expected to have
the same level of skills or experience across all the areas relevant to
historic environment conservation. Strengths in one area can compensate
for more theoretical experience in another. Click here for full guidance.
Full Membership of the Institute is open to all whose principal skill,
expertise, training and employment is in providing specialist advice for the
conservation of the historic environment. Full Members are normally expected to demonstrate skills and experience across the Institute's four Areas of Competence –one Professional and three practical, Evaluation, Management and Intervention – which are defined in terms of the IHBC's eight competences (click
here to view or print guidance).
Significant skills in one or more areas can balance more theoretical understanding in others. Anybody who satisfies these requirements and has at
least five years relevant experience would normally be considered eligible for
Membership. For those who have gained a qualification from a conservation course
which has received initial recognition from the Institute the necessary period
of relevant experience is reduced from five years to two years.
Affiliate
Membership is
available for those who have not yet satisfied the criteria for full
Membership, but wish eventually to gain full membership.
Associate
Membership is
available for those who, are committed to and support the aims and
objectives of the Institute and have obtained the support of a full
Member of the Institute for their application. Associate members are
not usually expected to seek full membership, though they may at any
time transfer to 'Affiliate Member' status.
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The
normal annual subscription rate for all classes of membership is
currently £95 although there are special subscription rates for
students, those suffering hardship, retired existing members and
corporate (or library) members. |
Deadlines for Full and Upgrade Applications 2010
Friday 19 June to be processed for September 2010
Friday 10 Sept to be processed for December 2010
Friday 26 November to be processed for March 2011
Deadlines for Affiliate and Associate Applications 2010
Friday 16 April to be processed for May 2010
Friday 10 September to be processed for October 2010
Friday 26 November to be processed for December 2010 |
Further
Details
Click
here for an application form suitable for electronic
submission and to view or print any of the documents which comprise the
membership application pack. Otherwise, contact the address below and a
membership application pack will be posted to you.
Lydia Porter, Admin Information
Officer, Institute of Historic Building Conservation, Jubilee House,
High Street TISBURY Wiltshire SP3 6HA Tel: 01747 873133 Fax: 01747
871718 E-mail:- admin@ihbc.org.uk