Resources
To a great extent our business is about maintaining a link with the past, but it’s important that we actively contribute to and share the current and growing body of knowledge within our industry and the public domain.
Our work has been presented and published both in Australia and abroad, and consistently recognised by our industry peers.
Below are some of our key contributions:
Victorian Stucco seminar
The Association for Preservation Technology International – South Melbourne Town Hall
May 2007
Conservation Management Workshop
AusHeritage – Yan Gong, Myanmar
August 2004
Conservation Management Workshop
AusHeritage – New Delhi
March 2004
Sandridge (Bendigo) Gaol, Victoria
Historic Environment
vol 14, no 2, p17, 199‘Kamarajar Memorial House, Virudhunagar, Southern India’
ICOM-DEMHIST Conference Getty Institute,
Los Angeles, 2012
‘A Singapore Cottage in Melbourne’
The Pacific Connection: Trade, Travel & Technology Transfer conference, The University of Melbourne
February 2009
‘The Singapore Cottage in Australia: Exported, Adapted, Layered, Conserved and Interpreted’
International Conference on Heritage in Asia: Converging Forces and Conflicting Values – National University of Singapore,
January 2009
‘Adapting vernacular Architecure: The case of the Singapore Cottage in Melbourne’VERSUS2014 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage, Sustainability and Earthen Architecture, Valencia, Spain,September 2014
‘Conservation Management Planning: The Japanese Room at the University of Melbourne, Principles of Conservation’,
University of Melbourne,
March 2014
‘Many Parallels, Some Issues: Cultural Heritage Conservation as a Subset of Whole-of-Environment Conservation’
Heritage Conservation as Environmental Conservation, University of Melbourne,March 2014
‘Australian Heritage Management in Practice’ Preservation Lecture Series
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York CityOctober 2018.
‘Marvellous Melbourne Under Pressure: Traducing the Palimpsest?’
Conference of the Association of Preservation Technology International – Buffalo Niagara,
September 2018.
‘Bakery Hill: Gold and the Birthplace of Australian Democracy’
Australian Historical Association 2016 Conference: From Boom to Bust
‘Cultural Mapping: an Australian Perspective’
Australia Business Week in India, India,January 2015
Not sure where to start?
Organised by material type, the app enables users to diagnose likely causes of damage/deterioration through a deductive approach, and in turn the likely remediation and repair strategies.
It is a valuable resource for students, educators, homeowners, and professionals. Providing a first port of call for custodians in the management of our built heritage.
Resources to help you find appropriately qualified and skilled heritage trades people and specialists to assist in the management of your heritage place.
Victorian Heritage Services Directory
A directory provided by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to assist the owners and managers of heritage places and objects to search for qualified heritage consultants and contractors across a range of disciplines.
Professional and Governing
Organisations:
ICOMOS - International Council on Monuments and Sites
http://www.icomos.org/australia
The Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage
https://acahuch.msd.unimelb.edu.au/
Australia Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material
Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Research resources:
Digital Collections
http://www.digitalcollections.org.au/
Victorian Collections
https://victoriancollections.net.au/
Trove
State Library of Victoria
Miles Lewis Australian Architectural Databases
Find out if your place is protected by a heritage listing:
Victoria
www.heritage.vic.gov.au/heritage-listings/is-my-place-heritage-listed
New South Wales
www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/heritage/search-heritage-databases
South Australia
www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/heritage/sa-heritage-register
Tasmania
heritage.tas.gov.au/heritage-listed-places
Queensland
https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/heritage/register
National Heritage Register