& associates cra type private industry environmental engineering construction founded 1976 founder frank a. rovers & associates and conestoga engineering headquarters waterloo ontario canada niagara falls new york united states area served worldwide key people ed roberts president revenue usd 650 million 2009 number of employees 3 000 2009 website craworld.com conestoga rovers & associates cra is a group of companies that provides engineering environmental consulting construction and information technology it services . on july 2 2014 cra became a division of the ghd group . 1 its current overall headquarters is located in waterloo ontario however the firm has locations in multiple countries 2 with a separate headquarters in each . their u.s. headquarters resides in niagara falls new york where the company s seminal project the love canal took place . since its establishment in 1976 cra has expanded its services to include environmental site assessment and remediation regulatory compliance and permitting environmental health and safety solid and hazardous waste management air quality management municipal infrastructure planning and design and many other areas . 3 conestoga rovers & associates provides services to private sector and public sector clients ranging from small single location operations to large multi national corporations including approximately half of the fortune 500 companies . 3 cra has undertaken more than 50 000 projects to date ranging from small due diligence projects to comprehensive engineering construction projects with total project values of over 500 million . 3 contents 1 history 1.1 love canal 2 cra group 3 units 4 services 2 5 countries of operation 6 6 references 7 external links history edit since 1976 cra has grown from a small regional engineering company to a worldwide multi disciplinary engineering and consulting canadian firm . starting with the merger in 1976 of frank a. rovers & associates and conestoga engineering and fewer than 10 employees cra has grown to become a group of companies with 3000 employees in over 90 offices . in the late 1970s cra s reputation for strategic project management at environmentally polluted properties developed from its investigation remedial design and oversight of the love canal cleanup project in niagara falls ny . this project was the primary impetus for what is now the cercla superfund program in the united states and gave cra international recognition in the environmental field . since then completed projects number in the thousands . cra s civil engineering municipal infrastructure roots lie in providing traditional full service engineering design and construction oversight services to several municipalities commencing in the 1970s . many of these early clients still work with cra today . 2 love canal edit the love canal landfill one of the pinnacle environmental projects in us history was an open trench that was filled with hazardous chlorinated organic wastes from a chemical plant in niagara falls ny during the 1940s and 1950s . a residential area and elementary school were constructed immediately adjacent to the former three block landfill in the 1960s resulting in an environmental disaster that eventually prompted the initiation of the superfund legislation in the united states . cra s involvement at love canal began in 1977 shortly after the chemical wastes were discovered in the backyards of homes along the canal . cra was retained to investigate the chemical presence and develop a plan to address the issues . cra developed an understanding of the hydrogeology and chemical presence designed a remedial plan and provided construction oversight for its implementation . cra continues to be involved in the operation maintenance and monitoring for this project to this day . 4 5 cra group edit the cra group includes conestoga rovers & associates and a number of other entities that continue to maintain their own regional identity while working within the entire organization . the family of companies consists of over 90 offices and 3 000 people working on projects around the world . the cra has 41 offices registered under the iso 9001 2008 standard for consulting engineering and design services . 2 on july 2 2014 cra and the ghd group joined together to create a global engineering environmental consulting architecture and construction services company . the combined company has more than 8 500 employees with 4 000 in north america alone . the merger included the entire cra group including inspec sol and esolutions . the merger was one of the largest private stock transactions in the engineering and environmental consulting industry . 3 units edit conestoga rovers & associates cra contractors limited cra developments limited cra engineering group inc. conestoga rovers & associates europe ltd. cra infrastructure & engineering esolutionsgroup hsa engineers & scientists inspec sol secra inc. services 2 edit agricultural services air quality brownfield redevelopment building sciences construction data management decommissioning services emergency response energy services engineering design environmental site assessment geotechnical and materials engineering ghg assurance hydrogeology information technology insurance support services municipal infrastructure planning and design noise and vibration consulting risk assessment services safety and industrial hygiene sediment management solid waste management surface water resources surveying services sustainability services training services waste management services water wastewater countries of operation 6 edit canada united kingdom united states references edit johnson nathan . ghd in massive merger with conestoga rovers & associates and takes on north american market . architecture & design . retrieved 2014 07 20 . a b c d corporate website http www.craworld.com en index.asp a b c d craworld . conestoga rovers & associates inc. http www.craworld.com en . missing or empty title help leckie john december 1 2006 . growing and cleaning up . canadian consulting engineer . retrieved march 12 2010 . http www.health.state.ny.us environmental investigations love canal lctimbmb.htm office locations http www.craworld.com en locations index.asp external links edit corporate website cra europe corporate website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title conestoga rovers % 26 associates & oldid 739441582 categories construction and civil engineering companies of canadacompanies based in waterloo ontariocompanies established in 1976hidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent 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