PROJECT EXPERIENCE

ACHM places great emphasis on teamwork, innovation, and quality control. Our consultancy teams are chosen to provide the multi-disciplinary skills and experience required to meet each client’s needs. We enjoy a challenge! Our wide range of project experience includes:

Cultural heritage management services - including heritage surveys and reports, GIS spatial analysis and mapping, and;
Specialist expert advice for major resource development projects such as the Woodside Pluto Project and NWSJV gas processing plant extensions on the Pilbara Coast; Rio Tinto Iron Ore, BHP Billiton, and Fortescue Metal Group iron ore mining and infrastructure development projects in the East and West Pilbara; the Oxiana Prominent Hill Mine and Iluka mineral sands projects, and many mineral exploration programs in South Australia.
Expert heritage advice for Aboriginal corporations representing traditional landowners and native title / heritage groups such as Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjantjara (central Australia), Martidja Banyjima (southern Pilbara), Kokatha and Barngarla (central SA), Narungga, Ngadjuri, Kaurna, and Ngarrindjeri (southern SA), Gunditjmara and others (Victoria).
Native title research and expert report preparation (anthropology, archaeology, history, GIS mapping) for Kokatha (central SA), Martidja Banyjima (eastern Pilbara, WA), and Ngadju, Bullenbuck and Western Mirning (southern Goldfields and western Nullarbor, Western Australia). Review of native title anthropology reports and evidence for the Department of Justice, Victoria, and the Crown Solicitor’s Office, NSW.
Heritage expert reports to the Federal Court and Royal Commissions (Hindmarsh Island Bridge), for Government Agencies (review of Aboriginal Heritage site recording standards for WA Department of Indigenous Affairs (DIA), cost/benefit analysis for a regional Burrup Heritage Management Strategy [with Network Economics consulting Group, Canberra] for DIA and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DOIR), review of Burrup National Heritage List options (with Strategen Environmental Consultants, Perth] for DOIR, and expert assessments related to several Ministerial applications under the SA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988, review of Gunditjmara native title claim for Victorian Department of Justice), and to corporations such as compliance review for Rio Tinto Exploration with Rio Tinto heritage and Aboriginal community consultation guidelines.
Heritage management, survey, and reporting for major infrastructure projects including Burrup Service Corridors (DOIR, WA), Perth water supply extensions (Watercorp WA), Adelaide and SA regional water supplies (SA Water), roads (Transport SA), wind farm developments (Pacific Hydro, Hydro Tasmania, Trust Power (NZ), Starfish Hill Wind Farm SA, and others), Electricity supply infrastructure (Electranet SA, ETSA), and many major urban planning and development projects for State and Local Government and commercial development projects.
Spatial analysis, predictive modelling and digital mapping projects related to the distribution of heritage sites on the landscape (e.g., Onkaparinga Water Catchment Board SA, WA Government, Woodside), and the distribution of environmental features for organisations such as the Department of Defence.
Community development and cultural tourism projects such as the draft tourism policy report for the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands [with Pat Katnich, Red Dune Consultancy]; Kaurna community consultation on cultural tourism for Sunset Cove development, SA.