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Geo-Marine Awarded $400M 5-year Design-Build Contract

GMI has been selected as an AFRC contractor under the new Command-wide Operations and Maintenance Project Execution Contract (COMPEC) II. The company is one of a small number of contractors selected for the 5-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.

Archaeology Fair Draws Record Crowd

Pint-sized explorers, budding artists and junior archaeologists were among those who visited this year's Archaeology Fair in Plano, TX. The event was sponsored by Geo-Marine, The Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation, and the City of Plano in Plano, Texas.

Beckemeyer Named GMI President

Curt Beckemeyer, Senior V.P. and Transportation Sector Manager for Applied Research Associates (GMI's parent company), has been named President of GMI. Beckemeyer takes on this position in addition to his existing ARA responsibilities.

Cultural Resources

Archeological Investigations • Human Osteology • Historic Architecture • Ethnography •
3D Laser Scanning • Public Outreach

Historic Architecture and Cultural Landscapes

Historic architectural and cultural landscape surveys consist of the inventory, documentation, and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluation for buildings, structures, and landscape features. Surveys are conducted for maintaining compliance with Section 110 or Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Surveys may also be an important first step for NRHP nominations, National Historic Landmark nominations, and mitigation.

Mitigation for NRHP-eligible properties that stand to be adversely impacted can take several forms. One of the most common mitigation measures is the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering (HAER), or Historic American Landscape Surveys (HALS) documentation at Levels I, II, or III. Historic properties are carefully documented with measured drawings (for Level I), large-format black and white photography (for all levels) and historic narrative (for all levels). Other forms of mitigation include in-depth historic contexts, photo documentation, popular books for a general audience, museum exhibits, documentary film/videos, brochures, oral history interviews, and interpretive signage.

Documentation and preservation of buildings, structures, and landscapes are vital to protecting our nation’s cultural heritage, but in today’s world, there is an important “next step” to ensure their future. That next step is sustainability—making efforts to reduce the amount of energy expended by a building or structure. In doing so, we not only promote energy conservation, but extend the life of those properties that are valuable to understanding our past.

GMI’s staff includes LEED certified architectural historians, historical architects, historians, cultural resources specialists, and energy auditors with extensive experience in surveys and evaluations, landscape studies, mitigation, sustainability recommendations, and public outreach. GMI is a recognized leader in cultural resources studies involving military, agricultural, and urban properties. Areas of expertise include:

Cold War-era evaluations
Military architectural and landscape studies
Rural, irrigation, and urban architectural and landscape studies
Sustainability recommendations
HABS/HAER/HALS documentation
Potential impacts to historic properties
Museum exhibits, popular books, films/videos, brochures, and interpretive signage
Oral history interviews
In-depth historic contexts
Archival research
NRHP nominations

PORTFOLIO

Cultural Resources Support to Access Gates Security Upgrades

GMI conducted architectural, historical, and archaeological investigations of the five access gates at the West Point U.S. Military Academy. The historical investigation involved the production of a historic context documenting the evolution of access gates at the academy from its establishment in 1802 to the most recent gate in 1995. Architectural studies focused on documenting the appearance and condition of each gate, conducting a National Register of Historic Places evaluation on the main gate (Thayer Gate), and completing Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Level I documentation on the historic Washington Gate. The archaeological investigation consisted of a Phase I survey. These cultural resources investigations were performed in advance of security upgrades to several access gates at the academy.

Landscape Survey and Evaluation Of Five Historic Resources

A landscape survey and National Register of Historic Places evaluation of five architectural resources were conducted at Ellsworth AFB. The evaluated resources ranged from World War II to Cold War era and included a warehouse, wastewater treatment facility, nuclear ammunition storage facility, family housing unit, and bomber alert facility. Level II HABS documentation was undertaken for the World War II warehouse. The landscape inventory and assessment focused on the significance of runways and associated features.

Cold War Historic Properties Survey for Air Combat Command

Avon Park AFR, FL	Dyess AFB, TX	Nellis AFB, NE
Barksdale AFB, LA	Ellsworth AFB, SD	Offut AFB, NE
Beale AFB, CA	Holloman AFB, NM	Seymour Johnson AFB, NC
Cannon AFB, NM	Minot AFB, ND	Shaw AFB, SC
Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ	Mountain Home AFB, ID	Whiteman AFB, MO

Database inventories and evaluations were conducted of buildings, structures, sites, and objects built or used during the Cold War era (1946-1991) which may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places at 15 ACC bases across the country. Approximately 5,500 buildings were evaluated. Real property records and original drawings were pulled and each building was photographed so that their integrity could be assessed and a recommendation could be made regarding NRHP eligibility. Databases were also assembled for each installation.