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A digital surveying camera mounted on a tripod overlooking a historic burial site next to the sea.
  • Thursday 22 May 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Lecture
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Technical Conservation, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Documenting Scotland’s Historic Environment

An introduction to a range of traditional and innovative methods for recording Scotland’s historic built environment.

A tall grey castle surrounded by temporary fencing, with the entrance way boarded up with scaffolding.
  • Selected dates until Friday 6 June 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Technical Conservation, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Introduction to Building Conservation Week

Through a series of lectures and site visits, this 5-day course will explore conservation of the Scottish Built Environment and Traditional Building Skills.

A black and white image of two men walking up the Forth Bridge
  • On until Sunday 7 September 2025
  • Stirling Castle
  • Exhibition
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Smoke and Steel: the History of Scotland’s Railways

2024 marked the 200th anniversary of modern railways in Scotland, this exhibition explores how they connected the nation and changed Scotland

Two LEGO™ figures wearing hard hats, one with a wheelbarrow the other a hand truck. There is a stone brick with the word 'BRORA' carved in
  • On until Thursday 14 August 2025
  • Brora Community Centre
  • Living History
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

The BIG Brora LEGO™ Build

Your chance to help build a model of Brora Brickworks using LEGO™ bricks!

The Engine Shed building - a traditional blonde sandstone building with two modern black wings flanking the original building
  • Tuesday 16 September 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Learning session
  • Technical Level: Most technical
  • Materials, Technical Conservation, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Reducing Carbon Emissions in Traditional Buildings - Heat Pump Guidance

Join us to understand how new guidance for the installation and use of Air Source Heat Pumps should be applied in traditional buildings.

Exterior view of a tower surrounded by lush green grass, blue skies and trees
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Clackmannan Tower
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at Clackmannan Tower

A chance to enjoy a tour of the interior of the 14th Century Clackmannan Tower

Two children examining a brick on a table
  • Saturday 27 September 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Free Weekend/Open Days
  • Technical Level: Least technical
  • Architecture
  • Family friendly
  • HES, Engine Shed
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at the Engine Shed

Join us to explore Scotland’s dedicated building conservation centre in Stirling.

Two people looking at artefacts in a red painted room
  • Sunday 28 September 2025
  • Trinity House
  • Walks and Guided Tours
  • Technical Level:
  • Architecture
  • HES
  • Feature weight: 0

Doors Open Day at Trinity House

As part of Edinburgh Doors Open Day Weekend and Maths Week Scotland, Trinity House will be throwing open its doors and welcoming you to this wonderful gem of Leith.

An old looking industrial building in a neglected state, taken from just outside the open doorway. The brickwork is stained with some windows boarded up, and others broken. Weeds and small trees are growing on the grounds.
  • Tuesday 7 October 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Lecture
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

An Introduction to Building Conservation

We will introduce you to the essential principles of building conservation in Scotland.

A person's hand picks up a small circular metal disc from a selection on the viewing platform of a microscope-like machine.
  • Tuesday 11 November 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Lecture
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Materials, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Heritage Science at the Engine Shed

An introduction to the applied use of material science in heritage conservation in Scotland.

Close up of a gloved left hand of a restoration worker reaching out to touch an old fashioned slate roof. Some of the dark grey slates are not straight, with gaps in between.
  • Thursday 20 November 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Talks and Seminars
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Building Management, Sustainability, Technical Conservation, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Traditional Building Maintenance with optional Stirling maintenance walk

We will explore how to reduce decay and damage in buildings with regular maintenance.

A collage of maps and planning documents sitting on a table, with a pen. Some of the maps are historic, others modern Ordnance Survey versions.
  • Wednesday 26 November 2025
  • Engine Shed
  • Lecture
  • Technical Level: Quite technical
  • Structures & Components, Building Management, Architecture
  • Enthusiast, Professional
  • HES, Engine Shed, Learn
  • Feature weight: 0

Heritage Planning

We will provide an overview of the legislative framework governing how Scotland’s historic environment is managed and protected.

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