The selected investigating specialists will carry out dozens of detailed building surveys, looking at historic stonework, digging bore holes to carry out underground examinations, carrying out archaeological digs, and mapping out asbestos in more detail.
This next phase will represent the largest and most in-depth surveys undertaken to date, to understand the condition of the 150-year-old Parliament building and extent of restoration required.
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DBR’s executive director, Adrian Attwood, said: “DBR is privileged to be awarded a place on Parliament’s R&R Framework as conservation contractor. Over the next few years, DBR’s skilled craftspeople will be carrying out careful and intrusive investigation work to inform the condition of the Parliamentary Estate’s Grade I-listed buildings, playing a crucial role in this massive, but essential, discovery project.
“Not only will working on this unique UNESCO world heritage site be a great opportunity to showcase our team’s extensive conservation knowledge and expertise, it will also serve as the perfect platform on which to champion heritage skills. Through campaigns such as our own ’Year of the Master Craftsperson’, to introduce more craft apprentices to the conservation of our built heritage, we hope this project will make a compelling case for encouraging more young people to consider a heritage skills-based career.”
Work on the Intrusive Survey phase begins in spring 2022, with an estimated project duration of five years.
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