Our heritage specialists and conservators are highly skilled in conserving and maintaining culturally significant heritage sites and elements, including archaeological remains, historic landscapes and buildings, interiors, and collections.
Services include
- Building diagnostics
- Condition assessments and remedial advice
- Heritage fabric maintenance and planning
- Materials conservation
- Adaptive reuse
- Climate change adaption
- Disaster remediation
- Asset and construction management
- Historic interiors and decorative finishes
- Significance assessments
- Conservation management plans and strategies
- Heritage interpretation strategies and plans
ICS is a leader in the cultural heritage sector, at the forefront of high-quality, sustainable conservation. Our multidisciplinary team of heritage experts, conservators, architects and design professionals are complemented by our built-heritage project managers who together solve complex problems for sites and items of national, state and local heritage value.
Understanding place
We have extensive experience in researching, documenting, and assessing culturally significant places and elements. ICS specialises in providing practical advice for the maintenance and conservation of items of cultural significance, including:
- Significance assessments
- Conservation Management Plans & Strategies
- Heritage Interpretation Plans & Strategies
Building diagnostics
We combine our sound knowledge of conservation practice with high-level technical expertise to address site-specific constraints. We aim to balance preservation of the original fabric with necessary interventions to ensure long-term stability and functionality. Our services include:
- Surveying and identifying patterns of deterioration and building defects
- Condition assessments
- Remedial advice
- Arresting water ingress
- Rectification of rising damp and mould
Conservation and adaptive reuse
We are particularly skilled in documenting, scheduling and carrying out practical conservation of heritage fabric, including repair of structural elements such as masonry, timber and metal. In addition, we restore interior decorative finishes for plaster, wallpaper and paintwork, plus specialist finishes such as gilding.
We regularly act as the lead consultant and contractor on complex projects and coordinate external specialist consultants and subcontractors to complement our in-house skills where required. Our strong project management expertise enables the successful delivery of site-specific responses through:
- Materials conservation and fabric repair
- Historic interiors and decorative finishes
- Paint analysis
- Management of complex heritage projects
Safeguarding
Our staff are experts at overcoming all kinds of built heritage challenges, from mitigating damage when disaster strikes to adapting a built heritage site when it faces climate change issues. For example:
- Disaster remediation
- Climate change adaption
- Collections relocation
- Salvaging, transport and storage of heritage fabric and materials
- Ongoing maintenance and monitoring
ICS understands that conserving built heritage not only revitalises buildings, it also revives the stories, traditions, and memories embedded within them. Preserving this legacy connects us to the past and fosters a sense of identity and community pride.
Contact us today to discuss your built heritage conservation needs. We’re keen to help preserve the significance and value of your buildings for future generations.
Frequently asked questions
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We have a wealth of experience in the conservation and management of archaeological sites and working with built heritage, often supporting the conservation component of developments and building sites. We are well versed in industrial heritage and have extensive experience in relocating and preserving large-scale machinery and preparing management plans for industrial collections.
We specialise in conserving finishes including paintwork, plaster, gilding, wallpaper, leather, metal, and working with monuments and outdoor sculptures of all sizes and materials.
We would suggest an initial consultation with a conservator, for your site to be assessed. Our conservators undertake site visits for larger scale projects. We can also arrange video-conferencing for real- time viewing of your object or site. We are generally able to provide an estimate within two weeks. During this time, our conservators assess the details and intricacies of your project and develop a project plan.
Due to the nature of how historic outdoor heritage deteriorates and the multiple and unrelated reasons why there might be failures to remedial treatments, we do not warranty our work. However we can commit to ensuring that any deterioration that is in our view happening prematurely will be remediated as per the Scope of Works for each of our Objects, Outdoor, and Built Heritage (OOBH) projects.
Yes, all work undertaken at ICS or at your site is covered by ICS insurances, including professional indemnity and public liability.
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