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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.
In 2015 Loftex purchased a site on Day Street, Sydney, at the head of Darling Harbour. A stunning residential and retail tower named Radiance was planned for this prime location. Preparatory works included demolition of a 1920s warehouse and basement car park excavation. As it was possible that construction might uncover State Significant archaeological remains associated with the early colony, as well as Aboriginal archaeology, a program of salvage excavation was required.
Loftex engaged Artefact to manage all archaeology across the site under the guidance of Excavation Director Dan Tuck and secondary Excavation Director, Jenny Winnett. Salvage excavations under a Section 140 excavation permit uncovered the remains of the engine house and chimney of the 1830s Thomas Barker Mill complex. Working closely with Loftex, the builder and the demolishers, Artefact completed all archaeological work within the project timeframe. Construction then proceeded on track.
The site’s industrial heritage was acknowledged in the architectural form and materials of the Radiance development, which won an Urban Design Award and an International Architecture Award.
As recommended by Artefact’s Heritage Interpretation Plan, recovered artefacts were integrated into interior and exterior displays to intrigue passers-by. These place-making installations both acknowledge the past and illuminate the future for the residents of Radiance.
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