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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.
NSW Public Works Advisory needed to undertake remediation works at Wollongong Harbour Precinct, a State Heritage Register listed site. Boat maintenance including repairs, painting, cleaning and refuelling had contaminated the vicinity, which NSW Public works wanted to return to being a nice space for a cuppa. Remediation measures included removal of contaminated soil from the former slipway area, including excavation and replacement with clean soil. The contract for this work went to was RMA Contracting Pty Ltd.
Given its heritage listing and long history as a working harbour facility, the site required archaeological assessment and management throughout remediation works. Artefact was appointed to develop an unidentified finds procedure prior to excavation commencing. This was both a mandatory and a necessary measure as archaeological items were located during the works. Our expertise rapidly identified and reported on the finds, allowing decontamination to continue.
The decontamination was a crucial part of the early works for the Wollongong Harbour Master Plan which in the short terms aims to enhance the community’s use of the space for recreation, tourism and events. In the long term the Master Plan envisages the redevelopment of the area to open the harbour edge to pedestrians.
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