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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.
Endeavour Energy were aware that many rural electricity distribution feeders and powerlines were ageing or rusting. They developed a broad renewal program to replace the existing powerlines with new aluminium wires, add in more poles, and improve access tracks. The new infrastructure would comply with current electricity network design standards, and, importantly, reduce bushfire risk and improve reliability. The works required a suite of environmental reports to assess the impact.
Clinton Jurd – the then Senior Environmental Specialist at Endeavour Energy – developed numerous reviews of environmental factors (REF) and summary environmental reports (SER) to assess the various projects. Each assessment included the potential impacts to flora & fauna, heritage and archaeology, noise, visual amenity, traffic, and bushfire.
Effective stakeholder consultation was critical to ensure the success of the renewal program. The powerlines and access tracks crossed many remote rural properties, meaning there were lots of stakeholders to identify and engage with.
Clinton worked successfully with network designers, assessment specialists, and property owners and managers to avoid impacts in sensitive areas identified by the assessments. This included avoided impacting Aboriginal heritage sites, avoiding protected plants and animals, and minimising disturbance and inconvenience to stock on rural properties.
The renewal project consistently proceeded to construction and operation in a timely manner due to the collaborative and responsive assessment approach, that minimised environmental impacts, and identified sustainable outcomes.
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