Recently I attended the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) repair of old buildings course. I am slowly working my way towards RIBA Conservation Architect accreditation, and this week offered me an opportunity to learn about materials and techniques I’m not working with in my day-to-day projects.

It was a week filled with that (for me) unparalleled luxury of learning something interesting from a passionate expert, without having to be actively responsible for immediately doing something with that information.

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