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 Sydney Metro City & Southwest project was declared Critical State Significant Infrastructure by the NSW Minister for Planning. With Central Station pivotal to the Metro network, Laing O’Rourke and Sydney Metro appointed Artefact to manage all Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal historical archaeology for the deep excavation between existing platforms. During the dig our team uncovered nearly 50 grave cuts associated with the former Devonshire Street Cemetery, sensitively handling the recovery of centuries-old human remains.
Working with Sydney Metro, the NSW Coroner, Health Department and Heritage NSW, Artefact revised the project’s Exhumation Management Plan. Artefact’s Excavation Director, Dr Iain Stuart, then managed the exhumation of all remains and archaeological recording of the graves.
Sydney Metro later adopted the amended Exhumation Management Plan across its entire network. Artefact has since worked closely with Sydney Metro to assist with reinterring the recovered remains in consultation with relatives where possible.
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