About Us
GML Heritage is at the forefront of Australian heritage consulting, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.
Our award-winning team works across history, built environment, landscape, archaeology, interpretation and design, community heritage and heritage resilience—delivering enduring value and shaping dynamic futures.
We collaborate with clients across government, corporate, private and not-for-profit sectors to bring fresh thinking to all heritage matters. Our experience spans major infrastructure, urban development, education, health, cultural places, parks and gardens, defence sites and iconic destinations.
Our clients choose to work with us time and again for our professionalism, expertise and trusted reputation. Backed by consistently positive feedback, we’ve been named Best Heritage Consulting Firm at the Client Choice Awards for five consecutive years.
Our team includes historians, heritage experts, archaeologists, planners, architects, designers and interpretation specialists across offices in three states and territories.
We’re values-driven and choose our projects carefully. Our work helps ensure that heritage continues to enrich the identity and experience of our cities, towns and landscapes. We believe that insight, analysis, creativity—and the courage to speak with integrity—lead to the best outcomes.
We are proud to be pre-approved to sit on several procurement panels that make it easy for us to work with many government agencies. We are also proud members of Consult Australia, the Committee for Sydney, National Trust (NSW, Vic and ACT), the Climate Heritage Network and AusHeritage. Many of our consultants are certified members in their fields. Our nominated Architect in NSW is Catherine Forbes.
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Our Story
GML Heritage started more than 30 years ago, at a time when development was rapidly transforming cities and projects were agreed on a handshake.
GML’s founders, Don Godden, Richard Mackay, and David Logan, were committed to making a difference. They believed that history and heritage were part of the fabric of experience in towns, cities and suburbs—that historic places contributed to community, belonging and identity.
In Sydney and Canberra, GML Heritage heralded a new era of considered heritage planning, management and conservation. In Melbourne, Context was born out of a commitment to people being at the heart of what made places matter—focusing on historic places, social values and community attachments, deeply grounded in memory, story, history and heritage conservation.
Our two businesses merged in 2017, drawn together by shared values. Today, we continue to collaborate with clients to bring heritage to life in communities, setting the standard for the heritage sector.
