The recently published Historic Scotland Climate Change Action Plan sets out our approach over the next five years to address the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change to the historic environment. In it we outline Historic Scotland’s role in supporting the historic environment through a period of necessary adaptation in the transition towards a low-carbon economy.

There are 460,000 traditional buildings in Scotland, ranging from castles to tenements, churches to factories. Historic Scotland Summer School is a unique, fully funded opportunity to learn from some of the leading conservation specialists in the country and to extend your skills base and employability during a week long residential course. Places are limited and the application process is competitive.

Changeworks is inviting local authorities, insulation installers, architects, housing associations, energy consultants, community groups and individual householders to join them in exploring barriers, solutions and new approaches to insulating Scottish solid masonry walls.

The first of 30 new apprentices to be appointed under Historic Scotland’s commitment to put traditional skills at the heart of the nation’s construction industry have been announced today.