Clough & Associates

What Clough & Associates does

Clough & Associates Ltd is a New Zealand-based heritage consultancy established in 1995 and headquartered at 321 Forest Hill Rd, Waiatarua, Auckland. The firm provides archaeological and cultural heritage management services to infrastructure companies, construction firms, government agencies, educational institutions, and commercial developers throughout New Zealand. Its core service lines are Heritage Assessment, Archaeological Services (including Māori archaeology, historical archaeology, and buildings archaeology), Resource Management (resource consents, Fast Track approvals, Environment Court expert witness testimony), Historical Research, Built Heritage recording, and Research and Education, all delivered under statutory frameworks including the Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 and the Resource Management Act 1991.

The firm operates a project-based consulting model with direct client engagement, billing on a per-project basis with no publicly disclosed pricing. Underlying technical capability spans GIS and mapping, geophysics, LiDAR analysis, 3D modelling of heritage structures, and radiocarbon dating — with peer-reviewed research activity including machine-learning-based detection of archaeological features in airborne LiDAR data. The firm maintains an active academic publication record and has won industry recognition, including the 2015 NZPI BP Award for Consultation and Participation for the Mana Whenua Fibre project. Ownership is private and concentrated among four directors (Rod Clough, Ellen Cameron, Sarah Macready, Glen Farley) with no disclosed external investment, funding rounds, or parent company.

Name

Clough & Associates

Legal name

Clough & Associates Ltd

Website

https://clough.co.nz

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Clough & Associates is a New Zealand heritage consultancy providing archaeological assessments, resource management, and built heritage recording services to government, infrastructure, construction, education, and commercial clients throughout New Zealand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Archaeological and Heritage Consulting Services

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Historic Preservation & Conservation Planning (BPAHAKAH)

Keywords

• Archaeological consulting services
• Heritage management consulting
• Cultural heritage assessment
• Archaeological field services
• Heritage impact assessment

Headquarters

HQ city

Waiatarua

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Clough & Associates is a New Zealand heritage consultancy providing archaeological and cultural heritage management services. The firm delivers archaeological assessments, fieldwork, historical research, built heritage recording, resource management and consenting support, and Expert Witness testimony at the Environment Court. Services are delivered under statutory frameworks including the Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act and the Resource Management Act.

Product overview

Clough & Associates is a heritage consultancy firm offering a unified suite of archaeological and heritage management services. The core offerings include Heritage Assessment, Archaeological Services (covering Māori archaeology, historical archaeology, and buildings archaeology), Resource Management (consents, Fast Track approvals, Environment Court expert witnesses), Historical Research (archival and oral history), Built Heritage recording, and Research and Education. The firm also publishes Monograph Series reports documenting excavations and research. All services operate under statutory frameworks including the Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act and Resource Management Act. The company operates as a single integrated consultancy rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Heritage Assessment Expert advice across all stages of projects identifying statutory heritage requirements and determining best approaches to heritage management, for infrastructure, construction, and government clients throughout New Zealand.
• Archaeological Services Expert archaeological fieldwork, assessments, and specialist services covering Māori archaeology, historical archaeology, and buildings archaeology for infrastructure and development projects.
• Resource Management Assessments for resource consents, Fast Track approvals, and Expert Witness services for hearings at local government level and the Environment Court under the RMA framework.
• Historical Research Archival and oral history investigations as part of heritage management processes, including property histories and regional histories for a variety of clients.
• Built Heritage Assessment and recording of built heritage for heritage management purposes, working alongside conservation architects on historic structures.
• Statutory and Planning Services Assistance with resource consents, District Plan schedules, TLA Structure Plans, and Conservation Plans under HNZPTA and RMA frameworks for infrastructure and planning clients.
• Monograph Series Published excavation reports and research monographs documenting archaeological investigations across New Zealand, archived in Heritage NZ and Auckland Council digital libraries.

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Boffa Miskell LtdcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint work on Mana Whenua Fibre project winning 2015 NZPI BP Award. Ongoing collaboration on infrastructure and planning projects.
• BECA LtdcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegular collaboration on infrastructure heritage assessments and resource consent projects throughout New Zealand.
• AECOM LtdcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on large-scale infrastructure projects requiring heritage and archaeological expertise.
• Heritage NZcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOperates under Heritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act authorities for archaeological site modifications. Heritage NZ maintains digital library of excavation reports undertaken by Clough & Associates.
• Auckland CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHeritage NZ Pouhere Taonga Act compliance work. Auckland Council Cultural Heritage Inventory contains assessments and reports by Clough & Associates.

Scale indicators2 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Boffa Miskell: Boffa Miskell is a New Zealand planning, landscape, and environmental consultancy. It is directly comparable to Clough & Associates because both firms sit in the resource-consent and statutory-planning ecosystem serving infrastructure clients, and both are core strategic partners working together on joint NZ infrastructure heritage projects.
• Tonkin + Taylor: Tonkin + Taylor is a major NZ environmental and engineering consultancy. It is comparable to Clough & Associates as a domestic consultancy that regularly conducts site assessments, cultural heritage input, and environmental due diligence for infrastructure developers across New Zealand.
• Beca: Beca is one of New Zealand's largest employee-owned engineering consultancies with heritage and archaeology advisory capacity. It is comparable because it both partners with Clough on infrastructure heritage projects and overlaps at the resource-consent / Environment Court end of the value chain.
• AECOM (New Zealand): AECOM is a global infrastructure consultancy with a substantial NZ heritage and cultural practice. It is comparable to Clough & Associates as both a client counterparty on major NZ infrastructure projects and a potential in-house competitor for heritage scope.
• WSP (New Zealand): WSP is a global professional services consultancy with NZ heritage and environmental assessment capabilities. It competes with Clough & Associates for the same infrastructure-led heritage compliance mandates and operates adjacent services in cultural heritage management.
• Environmental Resources Management (ERM): ERM is a global environmental and sustainability consultancy with cultural heritage services. It is comparable to Clough & Associates at the environmental impact assessment, due diligence, and permitting interface that large infrastructure clients require across the Australasia-Pacific market.

Direct peers

• GML Heritage: GML Heritage is one of Australia's largest specialist heritage consultancies. It is a direct peer to Clough & Associates as a heritage-only firm delivering archaeological assessment, built heritage recording, statutory compliance, and expert witness services for infrastructure clients in Australasia.
• CFG Heritage: CFG Heritage is an Australian specialist heritage consultancy. It is a direct peer because it offers the same core service mix as Clough - archaeological fieldwork, heritage impact assessment, historic building recording, and statutory expertise - for infrastructure and development clients.
• ArchSearch & Assessment: ArchSearch is a New Zealand-focused archaeological consultancy delivering fieldwork and assessment for infrastructure and development projects. It is a direct domestic peer to Clough & Associates in the niche of contract archaeology and heritage assessment for the NZ consent process.

Others

• Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga: Heritage NZ is the statutory authority administering the HNZPTA 2014. It is adjacent to Clough & Associates as the regulator that licenses archaeological site modification work, maintains the digital library of Clough's excavation reports, and effectively governs the demand profile for Clough's services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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