Cultural Resources

Cultural resource management often requires more than simply completing field surveys, and no other firms match SWCA’s expertise when it comes to meeting our clients’ advanced cultural resource management needs. Our consultants provide regulatory understanding and the consultation support skills needed to meet the cultural resource management and planning needs of any project, no matter how simple or complex. Our nationwide presence means that we have experts with local resource knowledge and experience working with local stakeholders anywhere projects are located.

SWCA’s archaeologists focus their expertise on finding solutions for our clients that balance project goals with preservation. Our nationwide capacity means we can handle projects of any size and complexity anywhere in the U.S. We provide a comprehensive suite of archaeological services to meet any compliance need, including geoarchaeology, marine archaeology, historic archaeology, and a variety of laboratory analyses.

We produce results that advance projects and meet scientific and regulatory standards through comprehensive studies, archaeological surveys, full-scale excavations, and thorough analysis of artifacts, sites, and other evidence of the past. SWCA’s archaeological services provide efficient, accurate, and cost-effective data collection using state-of-the-art electronic field equipment, remote sensing devices, and data processing systems. Our full-service archaeological program offers robust modeling applications and geoarchaeological techniques that rapidly and reliably help scope projects and identify cultural resources.

We are trusted partners on our clients’ projects from proposal through completion, resulting in cost-effective, compliant, legally defensible, and innovative solutions. Our nationwide team manages historic compliance and planning projects across federal, state, and local regulatory frameworks, dedicated to delivering comprehensive historic research and insightful analysis.

Our historic preservation experts have a wide range of experience from compliance with Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, to analysis under Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act, understanding of unique permitting challenges, and the steps necessary to procure tax incentives for projects. We have experience working with a variety of historic property types including buildings, structures, districts, and landscapes.