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"We continue to invest heavily in the latest GPS equipment each year to ensure we always provide our clients with the best possible spatial solutions. This equipment and staff training means we can produce highly accurate data for our clients, which is critical when you are dealing with spatially challenging projects," Mott said. "We are a GIS-based company so we can deal with spatial data from virtually any source, providing that data back to our clients in any GIS format they choose". "It's our view that if we remain objective and obtain very precise data and understandings of the heritage landscape in which we are operating there is no situation where a mutually agreed outcome cannot be found," Mott said. ACHM's Executive Manager of Information Technology, Andrew Maland, says, "GIS enables us to capture these cultural assets in time and space with a high degree of precision in industrial or mining sites that often have significant space limitations. Having highly accurate spatial data gives us the ability to often avoid impact to sites where data of lesser quality may suggest otherwise. This may save our clients tens of thousands of dollars and many months in the approvals pipeline." "Our GIS experts map, manage and analyse site data with sub-metre accuracy, which provides utmost certainty for projects which depend on accuracy and precision. "We have always been at the forefront of the adoption of new technology because we understand that mining companies and other developers increasingly need to maximise the accuracy of heritage data to provide greater certainty when complying with heritage requirements while at t he same time providing the greatest degree of freedom and usability f or their most valuable asset - land." Another key philosophy which underpinned the company's continued success was ACHM's approach to staff selection. "We choose our staff very carefully, not just to find the people with the right qualifications and experience but also to ensure they are very robust in their ability to undertake quite difficult field campaigns which can involve quite complex socio-political situations. We hand select staff not just for their skills and experience but also f or their capacity to navigate their way through these situations," Mott said.