Heritage Design and Assessment
A town’s heritage is vital to its sense of identity. It can be a source of both community pride and economic development. We are here to support you in understanding heritage design and assessment from large-scale improvements to the built environment to attracting visitors to cultural events.
The type of support we can offer includes:
support on heritage-related projects particularly around design, conservation, and assessment
support on developing compelling narratives on the towns’ history and story
access to online seminars, surgeries and direct 1-1 support
Topic Lead: Thomas Pearson
Based in Arup's York office, Thomas is an architectural conservationist, designer and heritage consultant. He leads a team of heritage specialists (including architects and engineers) split between London and York, delivering assessments, design and conservation solutions for historic buildings of all types and ages.
Thomas is passionate about history and the complex stories contained within towns and cities, embodied in their buildings. He has led various award-winning conservation projects, including the refurbishment of the Grade II* listed Engineering Building in Leicester, one of Britain’s most daring and provocative buildings.
Accredited with the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, Thomas sits on the national casework committees of the Georgian Group and the Twentieth Century Society, two of the UK’s statutory consultees for work on historic buildings. He is a published author on conservation, has taught at several universities and lectured at heritage groups including ASCHB and Docomomo.