Archaeological Services
Historic Preservation
Museum Services
ABOUT BAI
Bland and Associates, Incorporated, (BAI), is a multi-disciplinary, cultural resource management firm with over 23 years of experience conducting several hundred, archaeological, historic preservation, and museum-related projects within the Southeastern United States.
Whether your project is conducted in conjunction with commercial or residential development, mining, highway and bridge construction, utility corridors, studies of public land, geographical areas of particular concern, urban redevelopment, impoundments, or any other contingency, BAI’s Registered Professional Archaeologists (RPA), business professionals, field staff, museum professionals, graphics personnel, and historians provide clear, correct, and prompt answers to your questions, on time and on budget.
BAI operates on the cutting edge of land management and planning techniques, at both a regional and a site-specific scale. In addition, we conduct archaeological, historic preservation, and museum related consulting only, which allows us to focus upon our core competencies on your behalf. Please contact us today. We would be pleased to assist you.
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23
Years
380
Clients
650
Projects
12
Awards
OUR SERVICES
Archaeological and historic preservation regulations are now encountered at the federal, state, county, and city level. As consultants, we strive to help clients understand these increasingly complex cultural resource issues, and we provide the creative solutions required to deal with them. BAI offers the total range of archaeological and historic preservation consulting services. Our rapid deployment field capabilities are well established within the industry, and our services satisfy all current local, state, and federal guidelines.
At BAI, we also combine professional objectivity, local understanding, and highly developed collaborative skills to produce sustainable solutions for any cultural institution or museum. By utilizing our staff, and in partnership with a broad team of experts in other disciplines, we can address all of your economic, marketing, exhibit, educational, and operational challenges. Our final product is a technically competent, cost-efficient, and well documented project that is individually executed in collaboration with each cultural institution.
If you have a task not listed here, please contact us for additional information. We are fully prepared to assist you through each step of your project.
EXPERIENCE
BAI is a consulting firm with specialized expertise in archaeology, historic preservation, and museum studies. This list contains short summaries of selected projects that we have completed for our clients over the past 23 years. Although the descriptions are brief, these summaries will give you a general sense of the types of projects we do. Our portfolio of projects reflects numerous accolades and acknowledgments from agencies, clients, and other stakeholders, and new project summaries are added on a regular basis. Please click on the images of our projects listed below in order to see more details.
CONTACT US
Our Offices
Jacksonville, FL
Charleston, SCToll Free by Phone: 1-800-605-4478
E-Mail for primary point of contact: mbland@bland.cc
Contact BAI By Mail:
Bland & Associates, Inc. (BAI)1941 Savage Road, Suite 400A
Charleston, SC 29407-4791
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Our Communications
At Bland and Associates, Inc. (BAI) we place the strongest possible emphasis upon responding to our clients' needs and maintaining steadfast lines of communication. We work with individual clients, corporations, land planners, engineers, on-site managers, and attorneys to coordinate all project activities. We identify potential problems long before they become an issue, and we notify you immediately.
We also have open lines of communication with regulatory agency personnel, with whom we share excellent relationships. Emergencies are responded to swiftly, and our project managers are on call 24 hours a day. Our professional reputation is based upon our ability to respond to our clients' needs, and we employ the latest telecommunications technology to ensure that their needs are met. We urge all of our clients to use our website and secure corporate e-mail network as the primary form of communication with all of our project managers.
Request For Proposal
We look forward to fulfilling all of your archaeology, historic preservation, and museum service needs. There is no charge for price quotations and proposals.
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Bland & Associates, Inc. (BAI)
Charleston Office
1941 Savage Road, Suite 400A
Charleston, SC 29407-4791
We shall swiftly provide you with a proposal or quote by e-mail. Thank you for the opportunity.
Careers
BAI believes that acquiring and managing its talent is a major component of our strategy, and we are very selective in the resources that we employ. We seek motivated, skilled individuals with positive attitudes to fulfill our employment needs. We are committed to recruiting the brightest college graduates, as well as seasoned professionals, who are dynamic, team-oriented individuals, willing to step up to a challenge. Applicants must be in good physical condition and should:
Applicants must be in good physical condition and should:
- Be able to walk long distances in adverse terrain, dense vegetation, and inclement weather conditions, while carrying all necessary supplies and equipment;
- Be able to withstand challenging field conditions and the physical demands of digging, reaching, and bending;
- Be able to work well with others and to travel to remote locations as needed;
- Be eligible for employment in the United States;
- Be able to follow safety and security programs, standard operating procedures, and instructions;
- Possess reliable transportation and a valid driver's license.
The following specialized skills are also sought:
- Computer skills, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access; GIS; CAD; and Surfer;
- Research, writing, editing, report production capabilities, and graphic design;
- Experience with surveying, cartography, GPS, or radio equipment;
- Lab skills such as lithic, ceramic, botanical, and faunal analysis;
- Knowledge of federal and state regulatory laws and compliance permitting;
- Technical sub-specialities, such as geoarchaeology and bioarchaeology;
- Personnel management, supervisory, verbal communication, and museum skills;
- Ability to bring projects to successful completion on time and within budget;
- Applicants for senior level archaeology positions must have a Master's degree in anthropology from an accredited institution (specialty: archaeology), satisfy the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards requirements (36 CFR Part 61), and have their Register of Professional Archaeologists (ROPA) certification.
BAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, marital status, disability or any other factor not related to job performance or job requirements. Bland and Associates, Inc. is also a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) and drug testing is a condition of employment. Please limit all employment communication to e-mails only, and understand that we can not respond to every e-mail. Electronic materials submitted will be kept on file for a minimum of three months. All resume and job interview information is considered strictly confidential and will only be used to communicate with applicants and candidates for future employment opportunities, should any arise. Thank you for your interest in Bland & Associates, Inc. (BAI).
