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CH2M HILL Companies Ltd.

Type	Employee Owned Corporation
Founded	Corvallis, Oregon (1946) (as Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merryfield)
Headquarters	Meridian, Colorado, United States
Key people	Ralph Peterson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lee McIntire, President and Chief Operating Officer Nancy Tuor, Vice Chair
Industry	Engineering, procurement, and construction, Operations and Maintenance Services
Revenue	▲$4.5 Billion USD (2006)
Operating income	▲ $46.6 Million USD (2006)
Employees	22,000 (2007)
Website	www.ch2m.com

CH2M HILL is a global provider of engineering, construction, and operations services for corporations, nonprofits, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm is headquartered in the Denver suburb of Meridian, Colorado, though the postal designation of nearby Englewood is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and local news accounts. 2006 revenues totaled $4.5 billion.^[1] The firm is entirely employee-owned,^[2] with an internal stock market that operates buy/sell events quarterly.

1 History
2 Services
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

CH2M HILL was founded in 1946 in Corvallis, Oregon by Oregon State University professor Fred Merryfield and three of his students: Holly Cornell, Jim Howland and T. Burke Hayes (the firm was named after the founders, with Howland and Hayes making up the H2 portion).^[3] Cornell, Howland, and Hayes were all graduates of Oregon State University.^{[citation needed]} The Hill name was added after a merger with Clair A. Hill and Associates of Redding, California.^[4] 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.

Other key acquisitions include Black, Crow & Eidsness (a southeast U.S. engineering firm) in 1977, Gore & Storrie (a Canadian water and wastewater engineering firm) in 1995, Gee & Jensen (a Florida-based Ports and Harbor firm) in 2002, DeMil International (a U.S.-based weapons destruction firm) in 2002, EHS Consultants Ltd (a Hong Kong-based consulting firm), Lockwood Greene (a U.S.-based industrial engineering firm) in 2003, and BBS Corporation (an Ohio-based environmental engineering firm) in 2005. On September 7, 2007, CH2M HILL finalizedthe purchase of most of the components of VECO, an Alaska-based firm specializing in services to the oil, gas, and energy sector.

[edit] Services

CH2M HILL offers full-service capabilities in 13 business units, (called markets) among three key client sectors, Federal, Civil, and Industrial. Business groups served include: Water, Wastewater and Water Resources; Transportation; Operations and Maintenance; Federal Facilities and Military Operations; Nuclear; Environmental; Energy; Power; Electronics and Advanced Technology; Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology; Manufacturing; Chemicals; and Communications and Information Solutions.

As a project management firm CH2M HILL has been involved in several large, complex projects. In 2005, a CH2M HILL joint-venture known as Kaiser-Hill successfully decommissioned and closed a former nuclear weapons facility at the Rocky Flats site in Colorado. The Department of Energy initially estimated that the closure of Rocky Flats would require 65 years and $36 billion in budget. Kaiser-Hill completed the work in 10 years and -- according to the Department of Energy -- cost taxpayers $30 billion less than initial estimates.

In Singapore, a joint venture is helping to replace an entire nation's sanitary services infrastructure with one that can handle wastewater needs for the next 100 years. The new Singapore Deep Tunnel System will surpass the existing infrastructure in reliability, ease, and economy of operation, and will be critical in handling Singapore's burgeoning waterfront renaissance. CH2M HILL was involved in reconstruction efforts along the US Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Its main assignments included providing temporary housing, debris removal and other services.

Recently, CH2M HILL subsidiary CH2M HILL OMI has won contracts to manage all municipal services (except police and fire) for four newly incorporated Georgia cities: Sandy Springs^[5], Milton, Johns Creek, and Chattahoochee Hill Country. CH2M HILL OMI won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest award for quality, in 2000.

Other large projects include a $660 Million gas-fired power plant in Australia, in conjunction with General Electric, and an $11.7 billion project to relocate American military bases in Korea. In August 2007, the Panama Canal Authority selected CH2M HILL to manage the $5.25 billion Panama Canal Expansion program, 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.

CH2M HILL is a global provider of Enterprise Spatial Solutions, systems which integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other information technology systems.

On August 30, 2006, as part of joint venture CLM, CH2M HILL was named Delivery Partner for the London 2012 Olympics The other two members of the venture are Project Management service provider Mace Limited and Laing O'Rourke, the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK.

On October 17, 2007, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company ^[6] selected CH2M HILL as the program manager for its Masdar initiative. Masdar is a visionary city to be designed and built on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi near its international airport. Masdar is intended to be the world's first carbon-neutral city. Other key participants include architect Foster + Partners and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is participating in Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, or MIST.