SCI offers comprehensive in-house services for all types of cultural resource projects, ranging from desktop due diligence to full scale fieldwork.

With extensive experience collaborating with numerous firms and agencies across the United States, the team is led by Bryan Carlo, M.A., SOI Qualified. The team has a strong track record of delivering high-quality projects and reports for commercial, residential, transportation, industrial, federal, municipalities and cell tower projects. Additionally, SCI also has expertise in architectural history and built environment surveys in multiple states. The team includes Secretary of the Interior Qualified Archaeologists and a pool of archaeological field technicians ready to meet any project requirements.

SCI Engineering employees conducting archaeological fieldwork using excavation grids and mapping tools.

Cultural Resource Services:

  • Pre-project consultation
  • Phase I cultural resource surveys (to locate and delineate sites)
  • Phase II cultural resource testing (to determine eligibility of archaeological sites for the National Register of Historic Places)
  • Phase III mitigation (complete mitigation of an archaeological site)
  • Section 106 notifications
  • Construction monitoring

Architectural Historian Services:

  • Building recordation
  • Accessibility and ADA surveys
  • Built environment surveys
  • Conditions assessment
  • National Register of Historic Places Nominations
  • Historic Impact of Mitigation Assessments
CR Historical Architecture
SCI Engineering field crew performing geophysical utility locating using electromagnetic detection and ground penetrating radar (GPR) on a roadway site, highlighting subsurface mapping and infrastructure assessment services.

Integrating Geophysics in your Cultural Resources Project

  • Support phase I non-invasive archaeological investigations
  • 2D/3D subsurface mapping and modeling
  • Guide targeted excavations
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  • Preserve sensitive areas with minimal impact
  • Map historic site boundaries non-invasively
  • Near real time data assessments
  • Support Phase I non-invasive archaeological investigations
  • 2D/3D subsurface mapping and modeling
  • Guide targeted excavations
  • Preserve sensitive areas with minimal impact
  • Map historic site boundaries non-invasively
  • Near real time data assessments
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Featured Projects

Exterior view of Centennial Medical Plaza, a modern outpatient healthcare facility offering urgent care and specialized medical services in a clean, accessible environment.

Centennial Medical Plaza

Aerial view of CITYPARK, the Major League Soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis, featuring bold red and black seating, “CITY” spelled across the stands, and the Gateway Arch visible in the skyline backdrop.

Energizer Park

Cobblestone street view of Laclede’s Landing in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, featuring historic brick buildings, outdoor dining, and the Gateway Arch in the background.

Laclede’s Landing

Historic entrance to Scott Air Force Base featuring the iconic Scott Field guardhouse structure at sunrise, framed by autumn trees and classic brick architecture in southwestern Illinois.

Scott Air Force Base

Historic log cabin and red schoolhouse at Captain Joseph Naper’s Homestead in Naperville, Illinois, with split-rail fencing, interpretive signage, and visitors exploring the pioneer-era site.

Captain Joseph Naper’s Homestead

Aerial view of the historic Chain of Rocks Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, featuring its iconic angled design and steel truss structure against a backdrop of water and forested shoreline.

Chain of Rocks Bridge

Expansive solar panel array on open land with a school building in the distance, under a dramatic sky with scattered clouds. The renewable energy installation showcases clean energy infrastructure integrated into a suburban setting.

Ameren

Entrance sign for Hoosier National Forest in Indiana, maintained by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture, surrounded by lush greenery.

Hoosier National Forest

Large underground pipeline installation for energy infrastructure project, showcasing trenching and utility construction in a rural area.

Spire Pipeline