York Minster: A sustainable future Alex McCallion
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The Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft Skills and Estate Management has established the York Minster Precinct as a world-class campus facility for research, education and training in traditional craft skills.
Discover the many benefits it brings to York and the wider heritage sector, including continuing the craft of stonemasonry and encouraging global learning and knowledge sharing, and utilising world class, cutting-edge technology.
Join Alex McCallion, Director of Works and Precinct at York Minster, to find out more.
Please use the South Door entrance, open from 7pm.
Find out more about the Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft Skills and Estate Management.
About the speaker
Alexander McCallion oversees the maintenance, restoration and conservation of York Minster and its 52 precinct properties and services, with immediate priorities including the conservation of the South Quire Aisle – a £20m project which will take more than a decade to complete. Alexander has led the development of a masterplan for the Precinct, brought forward as a Neighbourhood Plan and adopted by City of York Council in June 2022 as part of the Development Plan for the city – the first of its kind in the country. Delivery of the Neighbourhood Plan signals the biggest programme of planned works at York Minster and within its Precinct for over 170 years. Alexander joined York Minster from real estate provider Savills, where he worked as a Director in the Planning Team. A Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor by profession, Alexander is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has spent his career working within the heritage sector. Alexander is a Merchant Adventurer of the City of York, a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Masons and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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