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New York is home to CHA’s headquarters and the home base of 500+ CHA staff. As a trusted partner to our valued clients, we’ve been asked to mobilize specialized teams quickly to support the battle against COVID-19, providing essential services to our neighbors in need. From site inspections and designs to retrofit facilities for different uses, to assessing HVAC and electrical systems and modifying manufacturing spaces to produce different, desperately needed products, our teams have been there from the start. And CHA will continue to be there on the way back to normal, providing essential services related to environmental indoor air quality and facility planning and re-organizing work layouts.

Inc. (CHA), a highly diversified, full-service engineering consulting and construction management firm, announced today that it has acquired CME Associates, Inc. (CME). CME is a transportation engineering firm based in Mansfield, Connecticut with 85 employees, five offices with a focus on complex highway and bridge projects, and national expertise in accelerated bridge construction (ABC). The joining of CHA and CME will create great breadth and depth to our growing transportation business bringing immediate resources and value to our transportation clients and accelerating our expansion in the Northeast including Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island,” said Jim Stephenson, CEO of CHA Holdings. We are deepening our accelerated bridge construction capability with this union which cements CHA as a full-service transportation leader to serve the critical infrastructure needs of our clients,” said John Hensley, CHA Infrastructure Sector President.

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has recognized Rachel A. B. McQuillen, PE, Vice President of Project Management at CME Associates, Inc., for her impact on the Society as well as the engineering community with the Fellow Grade award. Ms. McQuillen is a past National President for the Society of Women Engineers (2002-2003) and has been a Life Member of SWE since 1992. I am truly honored to be recognized for my contributions to mentoring other women in engineering and for promoting the Society of Women Engineers as the principal organization for supporting our members from their college years, through their professional careers and into retirement,” said Ms. McQuillen, Vice President of Project Management. The award also recognizes Ms. McQuillen’s continuing dedication to SWE’s mission – striving to highlight the impact and importance of women in engineering across the globe, leading by example, and demonstrating that a career in engineering can be a fulfilling, rewarding pursuit for women of any background.

CME officially opened its new office in Rhode Island For the past five years, CME has been growing throughout Connecticut and New Hampshire; however the demands of our clients were plenty, so to provide better services, expand our offices and create new projects, we decided we need our own space in Rhode Island. The new location in Providence will strengthen CME’s presence and offers dedicated space for meeting with our clients and partners. We are thrilled about the impending launch of our new office. We have many existing clients throughout Rhode Island whose needs will be better serviced by us having an office on their doorstep” said Bryan Busch, PE, Chief Operating Officer.