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ARCHAS LTD
EAST REGION OFFICE
Evans Business Centre
John Smith Business Park
1 Begg Road
Kirkcaldy
KY2 6HD
WEST REGION OFFICE
North Lodge
Kilmun Court
Dunoon
PA23 8SF
Email:
Manager:
Alastair.Rees@archas.co.uk
Admin:
admin@archas.co.uk
Mobile:
07974 678071
Telephone:
01592 647730
Website:
www.archas.co.uk
About ARCHAS
ARCHAS Cultural Heritage LTD provide a wide range of heritage sector services, principal amongst these being –
Cultural Heritage and Historical Environment input (Archaeology/Built Heritage/Historic Landscape) for Environmental Impact Assessments and Environmental Statements.
Desk Based Assessments, Walkover Surveys, Historic Building Recording and the full range of Mitigation fieldwork including Watching briefs, evaluations and excavations.
Advice on Listed Building and Scheduled Monument Consents as well as providing Expert Witness for Public Local Enquiries and Public Meetings. If required, we can apply for the above on behalf of the client.
ARCHAS Ltd understand the pressure on Construction contractors and developers to ensure that the Historic Environment is adequately protected and will partner with you to develop pragmatic solutions based on the most economic and appropriate mitigation measures.
ALASTAIR REES - MA FSA Scot MCiFA
ARCHAS Ltd is managed by Alastair Rees MA FSA Scot MCiFA who has over thirty years of experience in the Heritage sector. Alastair has extensive excavation experience principally in Scotland although he has also worked in Cyprus, Jordan and France, publishing widely in National Journals. Allied to his extensive excavation experience, he has worked in the Planning Department of a local authority and was latterly the Principal Consultant and Heritage team leader within a Multidisciplinary Environmental Project Team with Jacobs, a large International Engineering Company for over seven years.
In that role he provided and managed Heritage services to a wide range of Clients. Principally: Transport Agencies, National Government, Local Authorities, Renewable Energy Companies and National Utility Providers.
Alastair was responsible for preparing and managing the Cultural Heritage chapters of Environmental Impact Assessments for some of the largest infrastructure Projects undertaken in Scotland in recent years.
Amongst these were: M80 Stepps to Haggs Improvements, Upper Forth Kincardine Crossing, Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route and the Queensferry Crossing. Alastair was involved in preparing tender documents, PQQ and ITT documentation for all of these projects prior to assessing tenders and managing the archaeological contractors. He also has experience of completing Heritage chapters for wind farms and other large developments. This experience ensures that ARCHAS Clients will receive advice and service from one of the most experienced Archaeological Consultants working in Scotland.
Alastair has appeared as an expert witness at Public local Enquiries and received expert witness and contract law training.
Field Archaeologists employed by ARCHAS Ltd are amongst the most experienced in the Heritage sector and ARCHAS Ltd have a policy of not employing any field staff with less than 5 years of field experience post-graduation. This ensures that unfortunate situations do not arise when inexperienced or junior staff are put into the field and make important and potentially very expensive decisions. CVs are available of all staff employed by ARCHAS Ltd.