CPD Lunchtime Lecture Series: New Ideas for Old Buildings

Event details

1pm - 2pm, Wednesday lunchtimes throughout March 2025

The SPAB launched a series of online CPD sessions in 2020. These short sessions are specially designed to give you a way to easily meet your CPD requirements and improve your understanding of building conservation during your lunch break or in your own time. 

Following on from the success of the 2024 SPAB-STBA conference on ‘New Ideas for Old Buildings’, we will be continuing on this theme with a series of four lunchtime lectures throughout March.  

Our traditional and historic buildings are facing unique challenges in the face of climate change, technological advancements, skills shortages, and economic pressures.  These talks will help us explore where tradition meets innovation, and how the past informs the future.  

The talks will be held via Zoom and followed by live Q&A sessions with the speakers. The recordings will also be available to watch for one month after the events.

Price and package booking discounts

These CPD sessions are £20 each (£15 concessions*) and can be booked individually or as a package of four at the discounted price of £65 (£48 concessions*).

* These concessionary prices are available for students and people who are unwaged or on low income. There are no eligibility criteria, these discounts are available for anyone who needs them. This is a trust-based system and we do not require proof or even an explanation of the rate you choose.

Lectures

Wednesday 5 March 2025, 1pm – 2pm BOOK HERE
Matt Bateman and Greg Meeson, Refinery Studio - Technology and Tradition: using digital tools to support the traditional woodcarving process

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 1pm – 2pm BOOK HERE
Nikolay Shahpazov, Bennetts Associates - Using site excavated subsoil to make earth blocks for building construction

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 1pm – 2pm BOOK HERE
Laura Morgante, Peregrine Bryant Architects - A lime seamless floor at the Royal Hospital Chelsea: an experimental approach from the tradition of Venetian beaten lime floors of the 18th century

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 1pm – 2pm BOOK HERE
Jonathan Garlick, The SPAB and Mal Fryer, Malcolm Fryer Architects - Touching the Old Lightly: New Ideas at the Old House Project

CLICK HERE to book multiple lectures or all four talks as a package for £65 (saving £15) or £48 for concessions (saving £12)

Assessment / Accreditation 

A CPD certificate can be issued upon request. 

Accessibility

•    We will enable live transcriptions in Zoom.  To find out more about this feature, please visit the Zoom website: Using call live transcription

Anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you? Please email education@spab.org.uk

Partners

This event is brought to you in association with the Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA)

The STBA (Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance) is an alliance of the UK's leading organisations associated with the conservation and improvement of traditional buildings. The STBA aims to develop policy, guidance and training to minimise risks and maximise benefits to traditional buildings and their owners.

About us

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is here for old buildings and the people who care for them. Based on years of experience and research we understand how old buildings work.

We may take photos or videos at this event to be used in future promotion, including in print and online.

All bookings are subject to our Terms and Conditions. 

Photo credits: Greg Meeson, Refinery Studios; Alastair Bogle, Bennetts Associates; Feltracco Fratelli; Jonathan Garlick, The SPAB