Hardy·Heck·Moore, Inc., a small business enterprise (SBE) founded in 1983, is a historic preservation and cultural resources management consulting firm located in the revitalized South Congress commercial district in Austin, Texas. HHM features an interdisciplinary team of professionals who meet the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualifications Standards in the following categories:

  • History
  • Architectural History
  • Architecture
  • Historic Architecture

HHM is also precertified by the Texas Department of Transportation in the following work categories:

  • 2.8.1 - Surveys, research and documentation of historic buildings, structures, and objects
  • 2.9.1 - Historic architecture
  • 2.11.1 - Historical and archival research

Our specialists possess the knowledge and experience to assist clients with the identification, documentation, and assessment of architectural and historic landmarks within small communities or across large installations. HHM's business philosophy is simple: to provide the highest level of professional services to meet our clients' needs.

Our projects and research have taken us to each of the 50 states, with much of our work being concentrated in the southern United States. Our clients include major federal and state agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations, neighborhood groups, and individual property owners. We have a comprehensive understanding of architecture, history, cultural influences, and commercial and institutional development that is unsurpassed in the region.

HHM has teamed successfully with other professionals, including engineering, environmental, architectural, planning, and archaeology consulting firms, for comprehensive cultural resources and environmental studies. In addition, HHM provides preservation educational services by teaming with academic institutions and offering public outreach programs for agencies and communities.

Architectural Services
With their varied backgrounds in architectural design, history, architectural history, photography, and architectural conservation, HHM professionals offer a wide array of supporting architectural services that not only augment the firm’s preservation consulting activities, but also stand as strong, independent professional assistance to fulfill the specialized needs of public, educational, and private-sector clients. In addition to our experienced professional staff, when necessary, we can call upon long-standing working relationships with noted preservation architects and structural engineers to further assist us meet our clients’ cultural resources compliance needs.

HHM offers the following architectural services to its clients:

  • Building investigation and analysis
  • Historic structures reports
  • Condition assessment reports
  • Case alternatives reports
  • Architectural photography
  • Preservation analysis reports
  • Building materials analysis
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation
  • Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation
  • 3-D laser scanning
  • Large-format photography

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Management and Planning Services
The professionals at HHM understand the complex sets of cultural resources issues facing managers, planners, and decision makers. At HHM, we take a hands-on approach to our clients’ needs and work with them to address their compliance requirements. The professionals within our Management and Planning program regularly work to develop creative and innovative solutions to meet your challenges and have earned a nationwide reputation for excellence. The following represents a sample of the wide range of services and products we can provide:

  • Cultural resources plan preparation
  • Programmatic Agreements, Memoranda of Agreement, and
    Memoranda of Understanding preparation
  • Preservation plans for communities, installations, and buildings
  • Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan preparation
  • Design guidelines
  • Section 106 coordination with federal/state agencies
  • Section 110 property surveys
  • NEPA compliance
  • Cultural resources surveys
  • Workshops, meeting facilitation, education
  • Tribal consultation facilitation services
  • Cultural resource management training and education
  • Public outreach meetings and materials
  • Historic resources inventories/databases

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Historical Services
HHM’s history program offers a wide variety of research, synthesis, and presentation services to assist our clients in addressing their cultural resource compliance needs. Over the past 22 years, HHM historians have regularly conducted research at numerous local, state, and federal institutions, archives, and repositories across the United States. HHM's emphasis on research, scholarship, and effective communication has produced written histories that not only capture the past but also present information that is understandable and accessible to all readers. Such documents may chronicle the history of a single structure, neighborhood, or community; or, they may examine broad trends and events of a nationwide scale. Regardless of the complexity, scope, or size of the task at hand, HHM understands and addresses the needs of our clients.

The following is a sample of services offered by our history program:

  • Archival research
  • Deed and census research
  • Historic map research
  • Oral history research
  • Historic contexts and narratives
  • Research designs
  • Settlement pattern and land-use studies
  • Historical socioeconomic studies
  • National Register of Historic Places nominations
  • Historically focused interactive media
  • Museum services
  • Historic records management services

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