Architectural conservator

Architectural conservators preserve and restore historic buildings and structures, combining craft and science. The work involves assessing the condition of historic fabric, treating and restoring materials like stone, wood, and plaster, using traditional and scientific techniques, and ensuring historic structures survive sympathetically.

They work for conservation firms, heritage bodies, and institutions. The role suits highly skilled, knowledgeable, patient people who understand historic materials and techniques, can assess and treat historic fabric with great care, master traditional craft and conservation science, and combine hands-on skill with the historical knowledge that conserving the materials of historic buildings sympathetically requires.