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Kate  is  a partner and leads the national heritage team at Urbis. She is a heritage architect and consultant with more than 20 years of experience working across some of Australia’s most significant buildings, places and precincts.

Combining architectural expertise with strategic heritage advice, Kate works with government, institutional and private sector clients to manage change in complex heritage environments. Her experience spans heritage strategy and assessment, adaptive reuse, conservation management planning, heritage approvals, master planning, detailed conservation works and the management of significant historic fabric
 

Kate has particular expertise in highly significant and complex places, from individual buildings through to major precincts and infrastructure. Her work encompasses World, National, Commonwealth, State and locally significant heritage places.

Her project experience includes the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Millers Point and The Rocks, the University of Sydney, Fort Denison, Town Hall House, Central Station, Victoria Barracks, North Sydney Olympic Pool and major projects across the Sydney rail network.
 

As both a registered architect and heritage consultant, Kate brings together strategic advice and practical understanding of how significant buildings are designed, conserved, adapted and delivered. She works closely with architects, clients, approval authorities, contractors and specialist consultants to find solutions that protect heritage significance while enabling places to continue to evolve.

Expertise
 

• Heritage architecture and conservation

• Strategic heritage advice

• Adaptive reuse

• Heritage impact assessment

• Conservation management plans

• Built heritage assessments

• Heritage approvals and negotiation

• Master planning and precinct heritage advice

• Historic fabric conservation

• Schedules and specifications for conservation works

• Construction phase heritage advice

• Material conservation and remediation
 

Selected experience

Sydney Opera House

Heritage architect and consultant providing heritage advice across multiple projects, including building services, public realm and venue upgrades, construction advice and assessment against State, National and World Heritage requirements.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Heritage consultancy and architectural advice for sensitive upgrades to this State significant Sydney landmark.

Millers Point and The Rocks

Extensive heritage architecture, conservation and advisory work across one of Sydney’s most significant historic precincts, encompassing conservation, adaptive reuse, approvals, building upgrades and conservation management planning.

University of Sydney

Heritage architecture, conservation and strategic advice across the Camperdown and Darlington campuses, including heritage fabric audits, conservation planning and building remediation.

Fort Denison

Heritage architecture and conservation services supporting the adaptation and conservation of this nationally significant Sydney Harbour landmark.

Town Hall House

Heritage architect for conservation and remediation of the significant concrete façade of this important Brutalist building.

North Sydney Olympic Pool

Heritage architecture and conservation advice associated with the renewal of this landmark harbourside complex.

Sydney rail network

Heritage advice across major rail infrastructure projects, station accessibility upgrades, asset management and conservation projects in Sydney and regional New South Wales.
 

Qualifications:

• Registered Architect, New South Wales, Registration No. 8582

• Registered Architect, Queensland, Registration No. 6148

• Registered Architect, Tasmania, Registration No. 1617

• Bachelor of Architecture, Deakin University

• Bachelor of Arts, Architecture, Deakin University

• Diploma of Built Environment, Gordon Institute of TAFE

Professional memberships

• International Member, ICOMOS

• Member, National Trust NSW

• Member, Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand