Historic Buildings & Areas Department
Pre-Construct Archaeology’s Historic Buildings and Areas Department offers a range of services to enable clients to develop and refurbish in the historic built environment efficiently and economically.
The team has considerable experience appraising, assessing, recording and interpreting the historic environment.
We offer a fully integrated historic buildings service that covers all stages of the planning and development process.
At the initial planning and design stage we can:
- Advise on the planning application.
- Undertake an initial assessment of the building, area or landscape to define its historic character and significance and its history. This will help to eliminate risk, target works more effectively and justify proposals to the planning authorities.
- Undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment of the effects of the scheme.
- Undertake historic building recording for the design of conservation works.
After planning consent has been granted we can:
- Undertake a historic building survey to fulfil the conditions of the planning consent (see Buildings archaeology).
This can include a survey, a watching brief on demolition or opening up works, a report (including text, photographs and plans, charting the history and development of the building and its surviving fabric) and, if required, a publication.
- Identify, date, evaluate and analyse historic building materials.
Other services:
Architectural history.
Buildings history.
Archaeological evaluation, excavation, assessment and publication, where works to buildings affect below ground archaeology.
Architectural/historical recording and analysis of building remains found below ground and as ruins.
Historic buildings and building materials analysis for conservation plans.
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