GBA Heritage have worked with Sydney Olympic Park Authority on numerous projects over the past 20 years.  Work has included writing Conservation Management Plans and Heritage Impact Assessments at landscape and building scales, providing technical advice to guide maintenance works and adaptive reuse proposals, and delivering heritage awareness training for staff and contractors.  They have worked collaboratively to develop highly practical approaches to complex and competing issues faced in a multi-use public parklands setting of State heritage significance.  We have found GBA Heritage to be knowledgeable, professional and timely in providing all of these services and they are a pleasure to work with.

Kerry Darcovich
Senior Manager Environment & Ecology
Sydney Olympic Park Authority | Department of Planning and Environment

Over the last 40 or so years I have worked with Graham of GBA Heritage in the area of heritage conservation. In that time GBA Heritage and I have been involved in a wide range of heritage projects that have required a sensitive understanding of the issues involved and the need for positive outcomes for the community.  Graham is a thoroughly professional practitioner that brings great enthusiasm, exceptional knowledge, energy, wit and warmth to the role. His dedication and a huge knowledge base are first and foremost among his contributions to providing appropriate and imaginative outcomes to complex and demanding projects. GBA Heritage have been a pleasure to work with, and their earnestness and disciplined approach to projects is one to be proud of.

Matthew Taylor
Director
Taylor Brammer – Specialist Heritage Landscape Architects

I have known Graham Brooks for approximately 20 years. Due to the fact that I have been involved in numerous applications which require a Heritage assessment, Graham Brooks has been appointed to provide Heritage advice due to his well-deserved reputation.
Graham Brooks demonstrates high intellectual discipline, strong work ethic and strong professional ethics in his work. There have been occasions when Graham has decided not to professionally support a proposed development which I consider is a very positive feature of Graham’s work. Simply put, Graham has always given clear and objective advice, which invariably results in a much-improved Heritage outcome.
On a personal note, Graham is a very courteous person, who works in a positive collaborative manner, when joining a team of consultants. It has also been my experience that the above positive qualities of Graham are also demonstrated by the other members of GBA Heritage.

Tony Moody
Tony Moody Planning and Development Pty Ltd

I have known Graham for over 18 years and I have worked with him and his team at GBA Heritage on all of our Heritage related projects (which is the majority of our work) in that time. The reason I like and very much enjoy working with Graham is that he is a very experienced Architect himself and he takes an Architect’s point of view with respect to Heritage. He responds thoughtfully and objectively to our designs and gently guides the refinement of those designs to meet Council Heritage Planners’ expectations. The respect the Council Planners have for Graham’s experience and qualifications is also a very important part of my professional relationship with him and GBA Heritage. His objectivity is always reassuring in our liasing with Councils and his advice is always sound when a Development Application may require a legal appeal. My professional life is enriched in working with Graham and GBA Heritage on our projects and our clients definitely reap the benefit of that association.

David White
David White Architects Pty Ltd

We have collaborated with GBA for more than 20 years on a variety of development projects which involve heritage complexities. We value frank advice, responsiveness and attention to detail, each of these attributes delivered consistently by GBA. Graham and the team have long been “go to” experts for Land & Environment Court matters and are highly regarded by the profession and the Court.

Jeff Mead
Managing Director
Planning Ingenuity

We have worked with GBA Heritage on sensitive, heritage significant properties undergoing densification with development applications determined by local government, the Land and Environment Court and through State Significant Development pathways. GBA Heritage has consistently contributed rigorous, evidence based research to ensure an understanding of ‘place’ includes pre-colonial, colonial and more recent multi-cultural perspectives. The culture of GBA Heritage is open minded about design enabling our work to progress  effectively with supporting inputs directed towards achieving design excellence. Working relationships fostered by GBA Heritage are collaborative, engaging and creative, enabling the often substantial multi-disciplinary design team to work effectively, in good humour and with shared objectives.

Alec Tzannes AM
Tzannes Architecture

For 25 years we have enjoyed a very successful partnership with GBA improving the liveability and value of local heritage items and whenever heritage is discussed GBA is the first company we think of.

Michael Bell
Michale Bell Architects Pty Ltd