This year's Donovan Purcell lecture, organised by The Stone Federation will be given by Ptolemy Dean, the architect who is historic buildings adviser to the BBC’s 'Restoration' series and Hank Dittmar from the Prince’s Foundation.

The topic will be 'Stone: Sustainability and Tradition in the 21st Century'.

BRE’s Dave Richardson who is president of the Stone Federation will chair the event.

The Stone Federation now administer the Standing Joint Committee on Natural Stones (SJCNS) and organise the Donovan Purcell Lecture. Now in its 33rd year, the Donovan Purcell Lecture was started in 1969 to commemorate Donovan Purcell who was the founding member of the SJCNS. It was set up in 1974 to provide a forum to increase the awareness of natural stone at all levels and to work for a wider knowledge of the use of stone. Its members range from the RIBA and ICE to SPAB and English Heritage but all have an interest in natural stone in one way or another.

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For this years lecture 'Promoting a Greater Understanding of the Use of Natural Stone' the Stone Federation Chairman Dave Richardson of BRE is joined by Hank Dittmar, the Chief Executive of The Prince’s Foundation, and Ptolemy Dean who will speak on 'Exploiting the Use of Indigenous Stone in the 21st Century'.

(JM)