Renewables Civil Engineering Construction Utilities Extraction Land Management Heritage

CAPABILITY STATEMENT

HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY

Renewables Civil engineering Construction Utilities Extraction Land management Heritage

Providing Heritage Services to the Construction industry

COMPANY PROFILE Headland is a Registered Organisation with witness, risk assessments, management plans, the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists public archaeology programmes, historic Headland Archaeology is one of the largest (CIfA) and abides by its standards and codes of environment audits and screening reports. Our archaeological contractors in the UK with many conduct. Headland has been independently experienced maritime team enable us to deal years of experience in the design, management assessed under the Achilles UVDB Verify audit with issues both on land and at sea. and completion of complex and challenging and assessment service, which focuses on archaeological projects. We have established risk critical issues and provides demonstrable Contracting a market-leading reputation for successfully compliance to Safety, Health, Environment and delivering fast-track infrastructure projects. This Quality (SHEQ) requirements. Over the years 2 Managing risk reputation is the result of our customer focus, we have won awards in both the construction our project management skills, our capacity and and heritage sectors demonstrating our As contractors we have the scale and expertise to resources, our innovative approach to fieldwork commitment to our clients and in recognition of undertake field projects anywhere in the UK and and post-excavation and our proven ability to our ability as archaeological contractors. Ireland. Our regional offices ensure that we have complete projects on time and budget. the local knowledge whilst maintaining a consistent approach reflecting Headland’s overall professional Headland Archaeology has over 100 full-time staff SERVICES values. Our involvement with major infrastructure and has successfully completed contracts to the development is a cornerstone of Headland’s value of over £30M in the past eight years alone. Our business is structured around three core workload. Our teams understand the risks and From our regional offices across the UK we have competencies: responsibilities of civil engineering contracts. carefully developed the capacity, resources and financial strength of the business to undertake Our site investigations services include geophysical such works. This allows us the flexibility to respond survey, evaluations, excavation, watching briefs and to our clients’ needs faster, enabling us to cover any Consultancy historic building recording surveys. eventuality and resource demanding projects. 1 Identifying risk – forward planning and assessment of heritage issues early in the Specialist Services The culture of the company is focused on customer development process service and delivery. We adopt a flexible approach 3 Providing an integrated service to all projects, communicating effectively with our clients and their advisors. Using a dynamic project We advise our clients on planning legislation, We employ specialists to ensure that we provide management approach and excellent problem provide guidance and agree specifications integrated services to our clients in a consistent solving skills we focus on designing archaeological for archaeological work. We work closely way. The range of our in-house capabilities projects that meet our clients’ requirements with our clients to design a programme of and of our skilled professionals reflects our whilst reducing and managing financial risk and site investigations and quantify time, costs success in building one of the best-resourced delays on development programmes. We invest and resources required to address potential archaeological companies. in our people through training and technology archaeological issues. to stay at the forefront of our industry. We have Our specialist services included palaeo- considerable experience with civil engineering Our services include environmental impact environmental analysis, osteoarchaeology, contracts such as ICE and NEC3. assessments, desk based assessments, expert geoarchaeology and finds analysis. EXPERIENCE

A1 & A4/5 NORTHERN IRELAND | Department for Regional Development Roads Service IPSWICH CHORD | ARUP + Spencer Group ABERDEEN WESTERN PERIPHERAL ROUTE | Transport Scotland & Aberdeen City Council ISLAY ARRAY OFFSHORE WIND FARM, NORTH CHANNEL | SSE Renewables ALL SAINTS OFFICE DEVELOPMENT, WEST BROMWICH | Sandwell MBC IRELAND / UK EIRGRID EAST – WEST INTERCONNECTOR, IRISH SEA | Eirgrid PLC BRENKLEY LANE SURFACE MINE, NEWCASTLE | Banks Mining JAMESTOWN WHARF IMPROVEMENTS, ST HELENA, SOUTH ATLANTIC | St Helena Government CARLOW BY-PASS & N9 & 10 MOTORWAY | National Roads Authority LONDON BRIDGE TRAIN STATION | VINCI + Network Rail CLYDE WIND FARM | Clyde Windfarm (Scotland) Ltd M74 COMPLETION PROJECT, GLASGOW | Glasgow City Council COMMONHEAD, SWINDON | Redrow Homes & Persimmon Homes M80, GLASGOW | Transport Scotland EDINBURGH TRAM ROUTE | Tie Ltd + Carillion PERSHORE ABBEY, WORCESTERSHIRE | Diocese of Worcester FAIRFORD HOUSING, GLOUCESTERSHIRE | Bloor Homes ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND WORLD HEADQUARTERS, EDINBURGH | Royal Bank of Scotland FORTH REPLACEMENT CROSSING | Transport Scotland SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, EDINBURGH | Scottish Executive FULK DE BREAUTE’S CASTLE, LUTON | University of Bedfordshire + Davis Langdon (AECOM) STAFFORDSHIRE AREA IMPROVEMENTS | Staffordshire Alliance FURNESS ABBEY, BARROW-IN-FURNESS | English Heritage TRITON KNOLL OFFSHORE TRANSMISSION WORKS, NORTH SEA | RWE Renewables HAVERHILL RESEARCH PARK | Carisbrooke Investments Ltd + Davis Langdon (AECOM) WOBURN GOLF CLUB, HORSEMOOR RESERVOIR | The Bedford Estate HEREFORD CATHEDRAL LANDSCAPING | C. J. Bayliss

RESOURCING / MOBILISATION CAPABILITIES

The most important factor in resourcing an field staff have supervisory experience on major To ensure consistent delivery and ease of contact archaeological project is getting the right blend energy and infrastructure projects, as well as we ensure that there is a named manager of supervisory and management staff with considerable experience in producing client responsible for each project. This means our sound commercial thinking. It is in the nature reports. Their knowledge of the company’s clients know who they are talking to and can of archaeology that it is not always possible to procedures and systems is a great asset in the rely on the advice being provided. A strong predict what will be found and this can have prompt delivery of a quality product. working relationship can be developed which time and cost implications for a construction allows for quick decisions, with the flexibility to programme. Minimising such delays depends on Our fully resourced regional offices mean we deal with problems as they arise. Our integrated the experience of our managers and site staff and can react to the needs of our clients rapidly, service also allows us to undertake the full scope on the ability of their company to provide them providing appropriate numbers of staff including of archaeological requirements in house, from with the resources they need. our in-house specialists at short notice, either to the planning stages of a project, right through provide advice on site or undertake monitoring, to completion including specialist assessment A specific part of Headland’s response to the where necessary. Similarly, in the event of further and publication. This enables to complete recession has been to retain its experienced mitigation, we have the capacity to deploy our reporting requirements within the given permanent staff and continued investment in multiple field teams, if required, at a short notice. timetable. training. The majority of Headland’s permanent

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