Cultural Resource Services Include:
SJCA staff is listed on the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA) Qualified Professionals (QP) roster for Architecture and Historic Architecture. The firm’s staff includes five professionals listed on Indiana’s Qualified Professional Roster and are pre-qualified with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to prepare Section 106 documentation, both archaeology and above ground resource evaluation. The staff’s combined decades of expertise help to prepare Section 106 documents. These experienced individuals know the NEPA process and fully understand that the Section 106 process is often the critical path to keeping the engineering plan development process on schedule.
SJCA offers archeological services. The SJCA Registered Professional Archaeologist has over 25 years of experience in the archaeological and historical fields with expertise in Archaeological Field Methods, Archival and Historical Research, and the production of Cultural Resource Management Reports. The archaeologist has directed Phase I, II, and III archaeological investigations and is a listed Qualified Professional (QP) with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology in Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology as well as History and SHPO certified in Archaeology, History, and Historic Property Surveys in West Virginia and Prehistory and Historic Archaeology in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
The Cultural Resource Staff has a passion for history and its preservation that is evident through our historic preservation advocacy and our commitment to preserving and enhancing historic communities. Our team provides historic preservation plans, condition assessments, and feasibility studies among other evaluation design services and documentation. The firm’s QP Staff Historians offer research and writing services, including assessing historic properties. The QP Historic Architect provides design services for historic preservation projects that meet the Secretary of the Interior Standards, and our Design Team prepares exhibition, marketing, and interpretative materials.