Large-scale projects

These pages contain resources designed to help plan out and successfully manage large, extensive projects. This guidance includes considerations such as environmental sustainability, engaging with stakeholders, advocating for capital development, and more.

You may like to consider joining the Major Archive Projects Learning Exchange (MAPLE). Set up in 2007, the exchange provides to support organisations planning or managing large archive projects, primarily capital developments. Over 120 organisations are members of the group, including local authority, university, national and specialist archives. 

Large-scale projects
Planning a new repository

Planning a new repository

This guidance considers repository projects from an archive service management perspective. It complements our 'Design guidance for archive building projects'.

Design guidance for archive building projects

Design guidance for archive building projects

This design guidance sets out best practice approaches to the planning, design, construction and final delivery of new archive repositories. It complements our 'Planning a new repository' guidance.

Managing split-site archive services

Managing split-site archive services

Increasingly archive services are having to manage or consider managing substantial proportions of archival storage away from the main archive service site - in some cases up to 80-90% of their collection away from their main office and access point.

Large cultural infrastructure projects

Large cultural infrastructure projects

Large cultural infrastructure projects such as City of Culture and Borough of Culture provide exciting opportunities to celebrate communities and the transformative power of culture, creating a positive legacy in local areas.

Further guidance

Further guidance

Planning and delivering a new archive building or store or refurbishing an existing building can be a significant challenge.