Associate Director Kate Gray has over twenty years experience in the heritage field.
She is a professional historian with post-graduate qualifications in heritage planning and management. She has been with the practice since 1989.

She leads projects undertaken by multi-disciplinary
teams with expertise in architecture, history and planning. Projects include the preparation of various types of heritage reports, including conservation management plans, municipal (area) heritage studies, heritage appraisals and submissions to Heritage Victoria, the Heritage Council and planning panels.

Kate is skilled in the assessment of proposals to
adapt, reuse or develop heritage places, including major heritage sites. She has prepared submissions for Heritage Victoria and the Heritage Council, has authored and presented reports on heritage matters for planning panels, and has prepared expert witness statements for planning appeals tribunals.

The wide variety of work she has undertaken includes responsibility for a great
many heritage assessments; municipal heritage reviews and other large-scale
area or typological studies; planning and heritage applications; planning panel submissions; and appeals submissions. She also undertakes extensive historical research and writing.

Kate has been involved in the production of many conservation mangement plans. Recent work includes those for .....

• Melbourne Cricket Ground
• State Library of Victoria
• Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne
• The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne
• Camp Street precinct, Ballarat, Victoria
• Wesley Central Mission and Church complex, Melbourne
• Metropolitan Sewerage Farm (Western Treatment Plant), Werribee

Kate managed the preparation of a major Heritage Management Strategy for
the University of Melbourne in 2004-5, and oversaw a major municpal heritage review project for the City Of Boroondara (2006-8). She has also undertaken heritage appraisals for a number of industrial sites across Melbourne, such as the CSR (Sugar Australia) refinery, the Mobil Oil refinery, and Mobil and Shell oil terminals.

In the past five years, Kate has also worked on a series of Port of Melbourne Corporation projects and she was project leader for the preparation of the PoMC's Heritage Strategy and Heritage Procedures Manual. In 2008-9 she oversaw a national survey of air traffic control towers for Airservices Australia.

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