RICS & SPAB Building Conservation Summer School

RICS and SPAB Building Conservation Summer School 2012

Planning is now underway for the next annual summer school, which will take place between 9 and 13 September 2012 at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.

If you want to specialise in inspecting and repairing old and traditional buildings, then this course will give you the key skills to unlock your career in the historic building surveying profession. It will also allow you to network with like-minded individuals.

• Register your interest for this event - bookings open soon
• Download a draft 2012 programme
• View the sponsors for the 2012 event
• Find out about networking opportunities with like-minded professionals and trainees

What did delegates have to say about the 2011 event?

What is the RICS and SPAB Building Conservation Summer School?
Conserving our nation's heritage is widely promoted, but ensuring that those protecting it have the skills, knowledge and understanding is also fundamental. This underpins the principles of the RICS Building Conservation Forum and SPAB (The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings).

One important method to achieve this is via the reinforcement of undergraduate and graduate training in traditional buildings, construction techniques and materials. We created the RICS and SPAB Building Conservation Summer School in 2004. The aim of this annual event is to support new surveyors and other specialists in this field, and to provide essential continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities to qualified members.

Planning committee

• Marianne Suhr MRICS - Building surveyor and technical promotions officer for SPAB. Best known for her appearance on BBC2's Restoration series
• Stephen Boniface FRICS - Building surveyor, former chair of the RICS Conservation Forum and the RICS Building Surveying Faculty (Professional Group). Partner at The Whitworth Co-Partnership LLP
• Henry Russell FRICS - Tutor in Building Conservation at the College of Estate Management, Reading, where is he course director of the postgraduate programme in Conservation of the Historic Environment
• Adrian Stenning FRICS - Quantity surveyor and past chairman of RICS Building Conservation Forum. Former partner and now consultant to Bare, Leaning & Bare, and director of Stenning & Co Chartered Quantity Surveyors
• Amanda Watmore MRICS - Senior conservation surveyor at Jonathan Rhind Architects and member of the RICS Building Conservation Forum board
• Martin Russell Croucher MRICS - Director of RICS Sustainability and Special Projects
• Alan Cripps FRICS - Associate director of the Built Environment
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• Charlotte Barrett - RICS Conference Logistics Coordinator

For more information
Charlotte Barrett
t +44 (0)1458 835 808
e cbarrett@rics.org