About Dovetail
Our Story
Dovetail Cultural Resource Group, a Mead & Hunt Company (Dovetail), is a full-service cultural resource management firm serving the Mid-Atlantic region. Dovetail was founded by Kerri Barile Tambs and Mike Carmody, who bring decades of experience working with cultural resources across the United States. In 2024, Dovetail joined Mead & Hunt, a full-service, national engineering, architecture, and construction services firm consistently ranked in ENR’s Top 100 Design Firm list.
Together, the team has more than 60 cultural resource specialists, including cultural resource compliance specialists, archaeologists, architectural historians, historians, historic preservation planners, and Geographic Information System (GIS) analysts. Expertise includes assisting clients with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, and performing technical studies to help clients achieve their preservation goals.
Our Experience
Dovetail has undertaken a wide variety of cultural resource projects across a broad range of client sectors, including transportation-related projects, utility projects, municipal improvements, federal and governmental projects, private developments, and other client preservation initiatives. Our architectural historians, historians, and archaeologists identify and evaluate buildings, structures, sites, objects, and historic districts to tell the story of our precontact and historic past. We have recorded resources spanning thousands of years throughout the Mid-Atlantic and beyond.
Our depth of staff experience, multiple offices, and experience allows us to provide a full range of cultural resource services, such as:
- Section 106 and 110 Process
- Section 4(f) Process
- Consulting Party Consultation
- Resource Eligibility Coordination
- Project Effect Evaluations
- Phase I–Phase III Archaeology
- Architectural Identification and Evaluation Studies
- Historical and Archival Research
- Historic Cemetery Identification, Analysis, and Reinterment
- HABS/HAER/HALS Documentation
- Battlefield Surveys and Delineations
- Development of Historical Public Materials and Programs
- Viewshed Analysis
- National Register of Historic Places and Local Registry Nominations
- Historic District Evaluations
- Tribal Consultation
Our Safety Culture
At Dovetail, safety is paramount. Our goal is to promote and maintain an injury- and incident-free workplace, which includes our work sites. From starting each meeting with a safety moment to providing our employees the necessary equipment and resources, we strive to create a safe work environment for our team as well as our clients.
We emphasize safety throughout every stage of a project from project planning through project completion. We understand that safety is a collective responsibility and requires diligent work, preplanning, careful attention, and genuine care for everyone around. Our ongoing trainings offer both information and hands-on experiences that equip our team members with the education and tools to deliver our best work and keep ourselves, our partners, and our job sites safe.
The strong safety culture at Dovetail translates to a safe work environment where employees feel comfortable in their workplace. This leads to greater efficiency and a more satisfactory work experience.
