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When you partner with Artefact, you’ll receive timely and accurate advice on how to integrate archaeology and heritage considerations into your project plans.
Artefact includes specialists across key fields of archaeology and heritage. More importantly, with 30 staff we can assemble a skilled in-house team targeted to your specific requirements
HISTORICAL HERITAGE
As highly experienced project leaders, Artefact has been lead consultant on many major projects. Our planning and management systems ensure that projects are completed in a timely, professional manner, working in partnership with our clients.
Our proudest achievement is our team. We value their skills and talents, and we trust that you will too.
At Artefact we recruit staff who are passionate about the past, skilled in their disciplines and professional in their approach. We all understand the need to balance our rich local heritage with plans that shape the State’s future. These attributes contribute to a great team culture internally – and to exceptional advice and service for you. We support each other to make sure that our clients come first, which is why we have an industry-wide reputation for being responsive, innovative and authoritative.
SANDRA WALLACE, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Artefact was established in 2010 by Dr Sandra Wallace, who remains the company’s Managing Director.
What ever your heritage project we are here to assist. Country or city, desktop or fieldwork, we’ve covered most of New South Wales and ACT. Our advice and services are customised to offer the best guidance on how you can proceed, whatever your project type. We consult right across the scale from neighbourhood architectural practices to multinational developers. But don't take our word for it! Check out our testimonials from our clients.
The $18.6 million Lansdowne Bridge Replacement project presented a challenge to Roads and Maritime Services (now Transport for NSW). A new crossing would improve traffic safety, reduce disruption due to maintenance and eliminate lead paint contamination of the Mulwaree River. Although the original 1902 bridge was rickety, it was also loved by locals. Community consultation would be key to the success of the project, from the planning stages through to conclusion of works.
Roads and Maritime Services (now Transport for NSW) chose Artefact to manage their community consultation and mitigation measures. We developed a Heritage Interpretation Plan, and consulted with both the local Aboriginal community and the Goulburn Heritage Group. Considerate and open communication ensured that concerns were aired and addressed, while recycled timber from the old bridge was built into a series of 5 interpretive panels developed by Artefact.
The new bridge opened to the public in August 2019. According to Abergeldie, the head contractors, ‘the construction of the new Lansdowne Bridge in 2019 has provided an invaluable piece of infrastructure to the Goulburn community’.
Locals certainly agree. The bridge also received a second name commemorating Harold E Freeman, a respected local Aboriginal Elder. Amongst the first people to cross it was a smiling 88-year-old local whose grandfather had helped build the original bridge over a century ago.
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