owned corporation 1 industry engineering procurement construction and operations founded corvallis oregon 1946 as cornell howland hayes and merryfield headquarters meridian colorado united states key people jacqueline hinman president and chief executive officer 2 revenue us 5.88 billion fy 2013 3 operating income us 192.4 m fy 2013 3 net income us 118.3 m fy 2013 3 total assets us 3.06 billion fy 2013 3 total equity us 642.6 m fy 2013 3 number of employees 26 000 2013 3 website www.ch2m.com ch2m hill also known as ch2m is a global engineering company that provides consulting design construction and operations services for corporations and federal state and local governments . the firm s headquarters is in meridian an unincorporated area of douglas county colorado in the denver aurora metropolitan area . the postal designation of nearby englewood is commonly listed as the company s location in corporate filings and local news accounts . as of december 2013 ch2m had approximately 26 000 employees and 2013 revenues totaled 5.88 billion . 3 the firm is employee owned 1 with an internal stock market that operates buy sell events quarterly . ch2m hill announced a global rebrand on 13 april 2015 adopting the nickname ch2m while retaining ch2m hill companies ltd. as the firm s legal name . 4 contents 1 history 2 services 3 awards and industry rankings 4 acquisitions 5 see also 6 references history edit ch2m was founded in 1946 in corvallis oregon by oregon state university civil engineering professor fred merryfield and three of his students holly cornell james howland and thomas burke hayes the firm was named after the founders with howland and hayes making up the h2 portion . 5 cornell howland and hayes were all graduates of oregon state university . 6 the company became ch2m hill name after a 1971 merger with clair a. hill and associates of redding california . 7 the firm remained headquartered in oregon until 1980 when a decision was made to relocate to colorado a more central location in the united states . services edit ch2m hill offices at the parkside tower in salt lake city utah the former veco building now ch2m hill s alaska headquarters the company operates in multiple business units 8 among the operating divisions water energy & facilities ; government environment & infrastructure ; and international . business groups served include water ; transportation ; operations and maintenance ; government facilities and infrastructure ; nuclear ; environmental ; energy and chemicals ; power ; and industrial and advanced technology . the company developed maintains and publishes its own method for managing projects for clients called the ch2m hill project delivery system which may be found at popular internet book retailers . 9 as a firm specializing in project management ch2m hill has been associated in several large complex projects around the world . in 2005 a ch2m hill joint venture known as kaiser hill decommissioned and closed a former nuclear weapons facility at the rocky flats site in colorado former rocky flats plant . in singapore the company was part of a joint venture to replace the country s sanitary services infrastructure . 10 the new singapore deep tunnel system was designed to improve reliability ease and economy of operation and to help handle singapore s increasing waterfront utilization . 11 ch2m hill assisted in reconstruction efforts along the us gulf coast in the wake of hurricane katrina . 12 its main assignments included providing temporary housing debris removal and other services . other large projects include a 660 million gas fired power plant in australia in conjunction with general electric 13 and an 11.7 billion project to relocate american military bases in korea . 14 in august 2007 the panama canal authority selected ch2m hill to manage the 5.25 billion panama canal expansion project which will add new locks to the pacific and atlantic ends of the canal and allow post panamax ships passage through the canal for the first time . 15 in 2009 a ch2m hill consortium was named program partner to oversee construction of the crossrail 16 project to expand london s transit system . on august 30 2006 as part of joint venture clm ch2m hill was a supplier for the london 2012 olympics . 17 the other two members of the venture are project management service provider mace group and laing o rourke the largest privately owned construction firm in the uk . the company manages projects for the clients taking into account the environmental footprint aiming to use sustainable technology . the firm reduced its own internal environmental footprint in 2011 . 18 in 2008 the u.s. department of energy doe contracted a ch2m hill company ch2m hill plateau remediation company llc chprc to manage deconstruction and remediation of the central plateau on the hanford nuclear site in eastern washington one of the world s largest environmental cleanup projects . the project focused on shrinking the environmental footprint of the hanford site from a 586 square mile 1 520 km2 area large enough to fit the city of los angeles to 75 square miles 190 km2 or less . more importantly the project will reduce legacy infrastructure costs on site by more than 25 million per year starting in 2015 . using american recovery and reinvestment act arra funding chprc sped up cleanup of the site over two years reducing the site footprint 25 percent employing an additional 1 350 people in the process . citation needed when arra funded work concludes in september 2012 the site footprint was targeted to shrink to a total of 290 square miles 750 km2 roughly half its previous size . without arra funding however the scope of doe contracted work at hanford will be reduced . the company also announced that its workforce would reduce by up to 1 350 workers later that year through a combination of voluntary and involuntary separations . citation needed in february 2012 the qatar 2022 supreme committee appointed the company to manage the delivery of the 2022 fifa world cup in qatar . 19 awards and industry rankings edit engineering news record ranked ch2m 3 on their 2016 list of top 500 design firms . 20 ch2m is currently ranked 478 on fortune magazine s fortune 500 list . 21 in march 2016 the ethisphere institute announced ch2m on its list of the world s most ethical companies for an eighth consecutive year . 22 in 2015 the firm received the stockholm industry water award for its leadership in potable water reuse . ch2m is the first engineering company to receive this industry recognition . 23 the firm was named by fortune magazine as one of the top 100 companies to work for in 2013 marking the company s sixth time on the list . 24 in october 2009 the company s canadian division ch2m hill canada ltd. was named one of canada s top 100 employers by mediacorp canada inc. and was featured in maclean s newsmagazine . later that month ch2m hill canada ltd. was named one of greater toronto s top employers which was announced by the toronto star newspaper . 25 in may 2012 ch2m was named the water company of the year in the annual global water awards . 26 in 2009 the firm became the first company in the engineering and construction industry to receive the catalyst award in recognition of its efforts to develop and advance women in the company . 27 acquisitions edit key acquisitions include black crow & eidsness a southeast u.s. engineering firm in 1977 28 gore & storrie a canadian water and wastewater engineering firm in 1995 29 gee & jensen a florida based ports and harbor firm in 2002 30 demil international a u.s. based weapons destruction firm in 2002 31 ehs consultants ltd a hong kong based consulting firm 32 lockwood greene the oldest continuously operating professional services firm in the united states in 2003 33 and bbs corporation an ohio based environmental engineering firm in 2005 . 34 on september 7 2007 ch2m hill finalized the purchase of most of the components of veco an alaska based firm specializing in services to the oil gas and energy sector that had become embroiled in the alaska political corruption probe . 35 in december 2007 ch2m hill acquired trigon epc . 36 in march 2008 ch2m hill acquired texas based goldston engineering a company specializing in marine and coastal transportation engineering services . 37 in july 2011 ch2m hill finalized the acquisition of booz allen hamilton s state & local government transportation consulting s & l transportation business . in september 2011 ch2m hill announced that it intended to acquire the share capital of halcrow group limited a uk based engineering consultancy that operates worldwide . 38 the acquisition for 124m was completed on november 10 2011 . 39 in 2014 ch2m hill acquired tera environmental consultants of calgary alberta . see also edit top 100 us federal contractors references edit a b employee ownership . ch2m hill . retrieved 2007 09 04 . jacqueline hinman p.e. leed . a b c d e f g ch2m hill 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