Vicci Cox (WM) Sarah Dyer (NO) Judith Hodges (SW) Katie Hooper Paul Kesslar-Lyne (SO) Ian McCaffery (NO) Valerie Scott (SE) Graham Staples (SW) Mr Philip Whitehead (SW) Associate Member Graham Tite (SE) The following former ACO or IHBC members were either voted in as full members of the Institute or had their membership categories upgraded to full membership at the Council meeting on 8 March 2001 (branch letters in parentheses): Mr Jon S Beesley (WM) Ms Judith Cligman (LO) Scott A Cooper (SC) Michael Dunn (EA) Tom Green (SW) Michael Heaton (SW) Julian RA Livingstone (SW) Please note: only full members of the Institute may use the letters IHBC (and, please, not MIHBC, I0 HBC or MI0 HBC) after their name. The warning is now very serious for all 95 former ACO Members who have not yet applied for membership of the Institute. Your charmed life is probably coming to an end. Please rest assured that you are not proper Book reviews Scottish potpourri Conference Proceedings: COST Action C5 "Urban Heritage - Building Maintenance", Working Group 5 "Lime Technology Workshop on Rendered Facades", Stockholm 1315 September 1998 ed. Ingval Maxwell, Historic Scotland, A4 paperback, 36pp, £10. Technical Advice Note 20: Corrosion in Masonry-clad Early 20th Century Steel Framed Buildings Peter Gibbs, Historic Scotland Technical Conservation, Research and Education Division, A4 paperback, 84pp, £15. It is not always remembered by those of us south of the border that Historic Scotland publish an excellent range of technical conservation and allied literature, much of which, as with these two documents, is also relevant far farther afield. CONTEXT 71 SEPTEMBER 2001 members of the IHBC, having never officially applied for IHBC membership. Your branch Council members should have already chased you to persuade you to join the IHBC properly. The matter has now been discussed again at Council, where significant disquiet has been expressed. I will be submitting a report to the next Council meeting in an attempt finally to resolve this unsatisfactory state of affairs. You have been warned. 2001/2002 subscriptions fell due on 1 April and should have been paid by 31 April 2001. Although a great number of members have paid up on time this year there are still those who have not yet paid. Under the Institute's Articles of Association, any member whose subscription is not paid by 1 October 2001 automatically ceases to be a member. This is not a matter in which I have any discretion. If you have not paid this year's subscription, please do so as soon as possible. The subscription rates are the same as last year: £50 for Members, Affiliates and Associates, £20 for Retired members, £10 for Concessionary Affiliate members (students or those suffering hardship), £75 for those few remaining Corporate members. For those paying by banker's order, please check that your bank statements confirm that your banks have indeed paid your subscriptions (and only paid them once). Unfortunately it is not immediately clear from the cover of the conference proceedings that the lime technology workshop held in Stockholm in September 1998 was expressly concerned with the maintenance of lime rendered facades, nor is it made clear to the uninitiated that COST, far from being concerned with monetary matters, is a Europe-wide forum for Cooperation in Science and Technology. Once these two critical facts are understood, however, the precise purpose and value of this conference and its published proceedings becomes clear. Part Two, the core of the conference, comprised a review of the various national situations, and it is striking how similar is the overall story of firstly the discovery of synthetic renders, usually resin based, and then their abandonment in favour of traditional lime-based materials: only the timescales seem I repeat my plea from the last issue of Context. Please try to enrol at least one new IHBC member this year (but do not let me put you off trying to enrol more). I still live in hope that each member manages this. If you want extra membership application packs, please either photocopy the ones already sent or contact your branch Council member or myself. The more members we have, the less chance there is of subscriptions having to rise in the foreseeable future. For all members who have asked me from time to time whether subscriptions can be collected by direct debit (rather than by bartker's order), it now looks possible that the Institute will be able to offer this service from the beginning of next subscription year. A major review of the method of subscription collection is currently being investigated and it is hoped that direct debit payments will then be possible. Finally, the usual reminder of how you can contact me. My address is as stated on page 3, my phone number is 01761 453047, my fax number is 01761 451153 and my email address is membership@ihbc.org.uk. If you send attachments to emails, I am working under Windows 95 and Windows 98 format, and prefer files in either WordPerfect or Microsoft Word format (although I can usually sort out most other formats). Gus Astley, membership secretary to vary significantly. Of particular value here is the host country's experience, expanded from a valuable introductory paper in Part One on the old town ("Gamla Stan") in Stockholm, where the majority of buildings have traditionally been lime rendered, and often tinted with copperas. The Swedes have been remarkably successful since 1975 in persuading (as opposed to coercing) the varied mix of private building owners within Gamla Stan to return to lime render, to the great benefit of the entire historic quarter, and the methods by which this is being achieved are likely to be of interest to anyone concerned with the maintenance of character within historic townscapes generally, not just where such character is derived from render. TAN 20, as suggested by its series title, is a rather more definitive publication, giving very valuable 41
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