As a full-service cultural resources management firm, Gray & Pape, Inc., is capable of bringing large, multi-phase projects from inception to completion. A recent example is the Ohio Department of Transportation Route 30 (STA/COL-30-18.35/0.00) Eastern Segment Project. To date, this project has involved historic context development and literature review for the study area, Phase I predictive model development, and Phase I cultural resources survey. The latter objective was directed at a complete inventory of all resources in a project area containing 5, 2000-foot wide corridors totaling some 48 miles in length, totaling approximately 18 square miles. The project team involved over 70 individuals and included a project manager, historians, architectural historians, researchers, archaeologists, a geoarchaeologist, GPS survey teams, a GIS analyst, and laboratory personnel. The logistical management of the project was the key to its successful completion.

Because the logistical management involved the use of in-house GPS and GIS hardware in addition to database management systems, Gray & Pape was able to complete fieldwork in four months, submit a management summary to their client two weeks after fieldwork completion, and submit a draft report within six weeks of fieldwork completion. In total, 408 cultural resources, including pre-1944 architectural resources and prehistoric and historic archaeological sites, were identified using systematic survey methods. The methods involved the strict recording of field data and its concomitant input into database files. A computerized form generator was created to take the resultant data output and use it to complete Ohio Historic Inventory and Ohio Archaeological Inventory forms and to provide information for analytical manipulation using GIS.