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A Sustainable Future for our Heritage
11 April 2019, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm
Join ISH for a guest lecture with Jane Kennedy, Senior Partner at Purcell Architecture. Jane will be discussing the ways in which we have had to adapt historic buildings to ensure their sustainable futures. She will reflect on changes in the last 40 years to funding for repair and conservation, public demand for activity in, and access to, the historic environment, as well as changes to encourage wider involvement in the heritage.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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UCL ISH
Location
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G01Central House, 14 Upper Woburn PlaceLondonWC1H 0NN
About the speaker
Jane Kennedy is a senior partner at Purcell Architecture. In her early career she worked as a conservation officer in Greater Manchester and Norwich City Councils, as an architect to the British Waterways Board and as an assistant to David Jeffcoate, sometime technical advisor to SPAB. Her work at Purcell has concentrated on churches, cathedrals and country houses. Her major projects include Ely, Newcastle and Christ Church (Oxford) cathedrals, Ballyfin Demesne in Eire, Stowe House and the representation of Kew Palace. She has been Chairman of the practice, a Commissioner for English Heritage and is currently a trustee of Historic Royal Palaces.