Charlotte County Museum - 2017
Charlotte County Museum in St. Stephen is a wonderful little museum inside a historic home near the river. This is another example where attention to the cracking in plaster is an excellent indicator of what is happening, not only to the building but to the history of repairs. Beautiful building, we were lucky to help out.
Perkins House Museum, Liverpool - 2016
The museum, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, is the house of Simeon Perkins, whose diaries are one of Canada`s most valuable windows into our colonial past. HSI was retained for a preliminary assessment and to provide a methodology for the conservation of the structure.
St. Stephen Old Town Hall - 2016
Heritage Standing Inc. brings to the discussion table an advanced understanding of code application.
We were engaged to perform a desktop review, without site visit, of a report on the St. Stephen's Old Town Hall. The report, by Dillon Consulting, was well done and had for objective to estimate the cost of bringing the Old Town Hall up to modern standards, meeting all new code requirements. As these costs were deemed prohibitive, the building was slated for demolition. In an effort to save the building, the community organization, the River Arts Resource Council (ARC), asked Heritage Standing Inc. to estimate the cost of making the building safe for occupancy and continued use.
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St Marys Holy Trinity - 2015
Holy Trinity Anglcan Church, located in Lower St. Mary's, was constructed in 1846. It is one of the few examples in Canada of a cruciform based plan with each arm of the cross being of equal size. Heritage Standing Inc. undertook a structural review of the building and reported on immediate concerns.
Officers’ Quarters Building Evaluation - 2015
The Officers' Quarters building in Fredericton New Brunswick has been an important meeting place since its construction in the 1840s, and is now a museum. Heritage Standing Inc. was retained to evaluate the building's condition and provide rough order of magnitude cost estimates for its conservation and maintenance for the next 25 years.
ICOMOS Mission to the National History Park, Haiti OLD - 2015
Principal Engineer, Dr.Tom Morrison, was part of the ICOMOS Mission on behalf of UNESCO to the National History Park of Haiti in 2015. The National History Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of the Citadelle Laferrière and the Palais Sans Souci. The United Nations hope to invest in the restoration of the National History Park to provide Haitians with a sustainable stream of income. ICOMOS is the body providing expertise to UNESCO in matters of heritage conservation. Dr. Morrison has been an expert member of ICOMOS since 2010.