Professional Membership Specialties are as follows:
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This area of specialization involves understanding of, advising on, and responding to the conservation of the built environment in accordance with conservation standards, guidelines, statutory acts and policies, and in compliance with regulatory frameworks. Responsibilities include, assessing the condition of heritage structures and providing conservation recommendations that consider heritage significance as well as functionality, budgets planning, and designing alterations relating to built heritage, including conservation of heritage fabric as well as alterations, renovations, and new construction in or in proximity to heritage structures. Building specialists may review or direct construction and conservation work to ensure compliance with their designs and applicable standards and guidelines. Undertaking or participating in assessments & studies of built heritage such as conservation district studies, conservation plans, or heritage impact assessments. This work will result in a variety of outcomes including, conditions assessments, design & construction | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization relates primarily, but not limited to, building conservation or building component interpretation, including preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration. Specialists may provide technical support for sourcing or location of specialized materials, production, project documentation, methodology and specifications, contract implementation, and/or site-specific work orders. This specialization includes consulting with other crafts and trade persons when undertaking reviews of the design development, modelling proposals, construction or work in progress, testing, substantial completion, deficiency identification, and project close-out. | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization is for professionals within the educational field that teach and/or design heritage-related content and/or activities. Educators may be employed by schools, professional institutes, training programs or other educational services related to heritage pedagogy (trade schools, colleges, universities, professional institutes, private schools, training programs). Members of this area of specialization may also be involved indirectly with educational programs, including instructional design, publishing, educational programming, facilitation, or other areas of education related fields that are associated with heritage conservation. | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization is for professionals who provide a range of heritage services related to the inter-relationship between the natural, cultural, and human environment, when performing research, planning and assessment studies under environmental legislation. Heritage activities include archaeological, built heritage and cultural landscape assessments. Some specialists offer management and team planning as well as individual contributions, whether in field work, investigations, or research. Areas of expertise focus on archaeological modelling, inventories of cultural heritage resources or cultural landscape features, policy, and development of guidelines and plans. Assessments may include ecosystems, waste sites, rights of way, including roads, railways, pipelines, and other types of land use. | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization is landscape specialists who have a broad interest in landscape conservation and design, encompassing natural landscapes of heritage value, historic gardens and historic landscapes and cultural landscapes (relic and evolving). Many of the specialists in this category are professionals whose work encompasses specific landscape conservation, including historic landscape preservation, rehabilitation and/or restoration, or interpretation, research, planning and recording of places of historic significance with botanical, soil, or other natural values. Master plan reports for landscape conservation, including hydrology and topography analysis are conducted as well as environmental impact assessments as part of larger developments and infrastructure. | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization is mainly for heritage practitioners in the public and non-profit sectors that are professionally contributing to the heritage conservation yet not associated with a specific professional specialization. It may be at any level of government, within agencies and Crown corporations, or with government supported regulatory bodies (including, but not limited to tribunals, government-funded trusts, advisory bodies, or government-funded policy organizations), and non-profits. Members may be involved in administrative, research, educational, procedural, programming, interpretation, or advisory roles related to the conservation and protection of heritage resources in their respective jurisdictions. Members of this area of specialization may be in non-governmental roles that are directly engaged in contractual obligations with a government department or agency. These members may also be in a supporting, but full-time dedicated role providing heritage-related content or advice to the public and non-profit sectors. | Specific roles associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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This area of specialization includes members who undertake research, analysis and assessment of individual properties and buildings, neighbourhoods, townscapes and landscapes, artefacts, and documents. They may also assess, interpret, contribute to, and create policy, planning and statutes determining the conservation of the above. This work will result in a variety of outcomes including reports which document and summarize research to establish cultural heritage value, provide direction for government policy and legislation, provide background information for potential legal designation, provide principles and policies for conservation planning (management, interpretation, studies, guidelines, other planning tools, including municipal planning tools under provincial acts), and provide guidance on the interpretation of policy and jurisdictional legislation. This area of specialization also includes those who manage, interpret and curate historic documents and artefacts in archives and historic collections. | Specific specializations associated with this work include, but are not limited to:
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