Global Building Conservation Conference 2025
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From £130 + VAT
Overview
We are delighted to announce the return of the RICS Global Building Conservation Conference, an invaluable event for all professionals operating within the built conservation landscape. In 2025, the conference asks:
How we can best preserve the technical skills needed by heritage professionals?
In light of global skills shortages, we must ensure that the technical skills needed to sustain our most treasured sites are kept alive. Join the conference for industry-leading insights around:
- Collaborating with construction – working together with clients and contractors developing areas of historic architectural interest.
- Attracting the next generation – hear findings from some of the programmes and teachers encouraging heritage practitioners of the future.
- Uptake for traditional materials - learn from the institutions that are encouraging awareness of specialist materials, including adobe and bamboo.
- Placemaking under pressure - preserving buildings after climate-related events. Understand how organisations are responding to the specific conservation challenges in areas of climate flux.
- Financing – what are the realities of long costing long-term heritage projects? Hear from those running some of the UK’s most significant estates, including Chatsworth Estate and Castle Howard.
- Harnessing new technologies – learn how AI and data capture methods can serve your practice and assist conservation surveyors.
Come and be inspired by the stories that have led these technical professionals to their impactful careers.
This year, our global experts bring more examples of cutting-edge practice to life, illustrating the challenges they have faced, the lessons they’ve learned and the remarkable achievements they have made in sustaining and growing their practices. Attendees will leave with enhanced knowledge of case studies, as well as best-practice examples for the cutting-edge educational and professional programmes that are ensuring the transfer of skills from one generation to another.
Learning outcomes
- World-leading case studies will enhance delegate’s knowledge of how specialists are collaborating to protect heritage structures in countries including Australia, The UK, The United States, Myanmar and Singapore.
- Hear from those dealing directly with the skills shortage issues affecting the heritage speciality. How are employers and educators inspiring and training the next generation in heritage practices? Kelvan Ang at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore will be amongst those talking to delegates about techniques for recruiting interest in heritage sites.
- The conference will give practitioners the chance to explore how AI and data capture technologies might change the way heritage practitioners can plan long-term for the preservation of beloved structures.
- Fresh perspectives on the finances: delegates will learn about the realities of funding and maintaining beloved estates in the UK, with panel representatives for Chatworth House, Castle Howard and Raby Castle.
- What are the challenges associated with the use of specific materials such as bamboo and adobe? Learn how the planning and execution of conservation is different for lesser-known materials, and hear from specialists including Kurt Gardella and Dr Kriban about the importance of these materials in specific global regions.
Published date: 10 July 2025
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
Group discounts
- Book 3 to 5 places and get 5% off
- Book 6 to 7 places and get 10% off
- Book 8 to 25 places and get 15% off
- Book 26 to 50 places and get 20% off
- Book 51 to 100 places and get 25% off
- Book 101 and more and get 30% off
Any subscriber to the Development Package or Qualification Support Package receives 15% discount on conferences that are not included in either package.
Only one discount available per booking. This cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer from RICS. Please note the group booking discount will not be applicable with the Early Bird rate (if any).
To benefit from the group discounts, please email training@rics.org or call +44 (0) 2476868584
