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Harwell Restoration

Specialist emergency response and disaster recovery services for incidents of fire and flood

Harwell Restoration provides specialist restoration services for documents, books, photographs, artwork, and antiques. For 40 years, they have worked closely with the heritage sector, insurance, and damage management industries to restore critically important information, irreplaceable treasures, and cherished personal possessions damaged by fire and flood. Their dedicated team works nationally and internationally.

Products and services

  • Onsite emergency planning training / workshop to test existing plans
  • Disaster kit material supply (prepacked disaster kits)
  • Conservation of objects
  • Pest treatments
  • Preventive conservation surveys
  • Bespoke plan composition / consultancy for plan development
  • Desktop audits of emergency plans
  • Digitisation of objects
  • Mould remediation

Training and consultancy in emergency response planning is available to support institutions and private collectors improve arrangements to minimise risk and ensure effective response in real incidents. This may involve hands-on training for in-house teams, plan audits, workshops and desktop testing.

Harwell’s emergency response experience for the heritage sector offers insight into effective pre-incident planning and preparation. They offer customers training on how to write effective emergency plans and how to embed these plans with staff and stakeholders. Key content usually includes learning points from real incidents, effectively responding to leaks, salvage decision-making and methods, handling and first aid for damaged objects, prioritisation and triage, and adapting approaches in major incidents.

Contact Harwell

Tel: 01235 432245
Email: info@harwellrestoration.co.uk

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