Course
Understanding Building Conservation
$722.00
Overview
Gain essential knowledge and practical skills in building conservation with our 2 day course, designed for professionals in the UK. With over 6 million traditional buildings and 500,000 listed monuments, understanding conservation is crucial. The course covers both residential and commercial properties as well as historic monuments, in line with the ICOMOS (International Council On Monuments and Sites) Training and Education Guideline and the latest British Standard BS 7913: 2013.
Learn the philosophy behind conservation, technical analysis, diagnosis, solutions, stakeholder management, and best practices in the field. Upon completion, take a multiple choice test to receive a certificate of attainment and be eligible for the CIOB Building Conservation Certification Scheme (subject to terms and conditions). Enhance your career and make a positive impact on the preservation of UK heritage.
Members gain 5 CIOB CPD points when you reflect on the ethical aspects of your learning from this activity.
For any enquiries, please reach out to our team at: [email protected]
Event Details
Next Available Dates
22nd and 23rd April 2026
13th and 14th May 2026
2nd and 3rd September 2026
9th and 10th December 2026
Structure
- Following purchase of a CIOB Academy course the team will email delegates registration links and additional information, 1 week prior to the course start date.
- Accessing the live webinar sessions during the course require delegates to register using teams
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Objectives & Assessment
- Read a building or site and its different types of significance values and understand how these values are assessed and used.
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical development, and types of construction technology in order to conduct research, interpret results and produce plans for conservation
- Interpret the setting of buildings and sites and define what this means in the development of projects and every day care.
- Identify and absorb all available sources of information relevant to the building or site being studied
- Analyse the behaviour of buildings and sites as complex systems
- Diagnose intrinsic and extrinsic causes of decay as a basis for appropriate action
- Demonstrate Inspection best practice and make intelligible reports
- Apply UNESCO conventions and recommendations, ICOMOS and other recognized Charters, regulations and guidelines such as BS 7913: 2013.
- Make balanced judgments based on shared ethical principles, and accept responsibility for the long term welfare of cultural heritage
- Recognize when advice must be sought and define the areas of need of study by different specialists, e.g. wall paintings, sculptures, and objects of artistic and cultural value, and/or studies of materials and systems
- Advise on optimum maintenance strategies and management policies for the care of historic sites
- Work in multi-disciplinary groups including inhabitants, administrators and planners to resolve conflicts and to develop conservation strategies appropriate to local needs, abilities and resources
Suitability
The course is open to anyone who works with traditional buildings.   The course is also an integral part of the CIOB Conservation Certification scheme which requires all those applying for Certification to successfully complete this course unless they have an approved qualification in the subject. The course however is stand alone and those participating need not be CIOB members or have an interest in the CIOB Conservation Certification scheme. It is an ideal grounding to all those new to conservation and seeking to improve results for clients on conservation projects.
Once you have complete this course or you think you have already got a good grounding in conservation, you may be interested in attending our related course on project management and supervision of historic buildings.