Global Building Conservation Conference 2025

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 can we 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, bamboo, stone and straw.
  
• 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.