Keeping an eye on church buildings? Have a look at a church maintenance seminar presentation from 3 April 2024.
Andrew Barsby from Origin Heritage ran a seminar focusing on maintaining church buildings with an emphasis on regular inspections to prevent small issues becoming expensive problems. One of the biggest enemies is water...
Watch the video here...
About Andrew Barsby
Andrew is a trained stonemason with over twenty years’ experience, having worked in NZ, Australia, the British Isles and Spain. From Dunedin, Andrew gained a BA in Philosophy from the University of Otago, before moving on to work with traditional buildings and modern construction. Along with being an experienced project manager his expertise expanded while being a Conservation Advisor for HNZPT. Andrew is member of ICOMOS and is also a transitional member of NZIBS.
Andrew Barsby andrew@originteam.co.nz
Have a look at some do's and don'ts of building maintenance in the photo gallery below.
Did you know that Origin Heritage can help you in your thinking about maintenance, repairs and alterations/ adaptive re-use?
- Condition Assessments – a full survey of all building elements resulting in a report that usually includes recommendations for remedial works in order of priority – from urgent to long term works.
- Defect investigation and analysis.
- Schedule of works
- Specifications for repair work.
- Maintenance Plans
- Conservation Plans
- Heritage Impact Assessments (Resource Consent applications)
- Architectural Concept design through to detailed design/ drawings for Building Consent ; Resource Consent.
- Archaeological services
- Planning.
If you have any further questions about these services, don’t hesitate to get in touch with them - they may be able to do an initial site visit to look at any issues you have with buildings.