Historic Buildings & Areas Department
Industrial Buildings Services
Pre-Construct Archaeology offers a fully integrated range of services to record and analyse the industrial heritage, whether it survives as industrial buildings, as ruins or as below ground archaeology.
Industrial Buildings
Our Historic Buildings and Areas Team assesses, records and analyses industrial buildings prior to refurbishment or demolition. We record both the architecture of the buildings and the archaeology of the processes that operated within them.
An initial assessment can aid and inform the application for consent and helps to eliminate risk, by defining the building or complex’s importance, historic interest and sensitivity to development. The initial assessment is a mostly desk based exercise, where the history of the site is traced. The building is briefly examined, a photographic survey undertaken and a report prepared.
It is often a condition of Listed Building Consent, Conservation Area Consent and Planning Permission that the building(s), and evidence of their industrial operation are recorded before the works commence and during opening up and demolition works.
PCA are here to assist you in the process and undertake the recording and analysis on your behalf.
Often the history of an industrial building is hidden below ground. Where works impact beneath the ground within buildings and factories and there is a planning condition for archaeological fieldwork we can excavate record and analyse the industrial archaeology using the most appropriate methods.
We also identify and analyse the materials machinery and objects used in the buildings and the industrial processes. Vestiges of machinery, plant or fittings often provides a guide to an industrial building’s historic operation.
Industrial Sites
Where industrial remains survive as ruins or beneath the ground PCA’s archaeologists, surveyors and specialists excavate, survey and record the remains. We also analyse how the industrial processes operated historically and what has been removed historically above ground. Where appropriate, and in accordance with the planning conditions, the results of such works will be published in journals or monographs, fully referencing the client and their generosity in funding the project.
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