CMA attended the Cuban American Association of Civil Engineers and the Association of Cuban American Engineers 62nd Annual Engineers Day Gala on October 7 at Jungle Island in Miami. The event celebrated the engineering and construction profession and recognized colleagues with various awards. CMA Executive Vice President Jose Acosta, P.E. is the director and past president of CAACE. https://c-aace.org/

Congratulations to CMA Director of Water and Sewer and Principal Engineer Danny Davila, P.E. who recently received the Best WEFTEC Program Abstract Award at the WEFTEC Awards Conference! The event was held September 30-October 4 in Chicago. Danny received the award for the “Horizontal Directional Drilling of 7 miles of Large Diameter Forcemain through Downtown Fort Lauderdale” project. CMA Chief Executive Officer – President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, FACEC and Executive Vice President – Business Development Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE were also in attendance.

The event is the largest conference of its kind in North America and offers water quality professionals from around the world water quality education and training. WEFTEC (Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference) serves as a forum for domestic and international business opportunities and promotes invaluable peer-to-peer networking among registrants.  #WEFTEC #ChenMoore #BestoftheBest  https://www.weftec.org/about/about-weftec/

CMA participated in the 2023 International Coastal Cleanup on September 23. The Miami office volunteered at the Darwin Beach cleanup organized by MORAES. MORAES is an environmental research organization located in Miami, founded with the intent to inspire and retain local marine ecologists through research, publishing, volunteering and education outreach. The Fort Lauderdale office picked up trash at Hollywood North Beach Park. CMA teamed up with Cummins Cederberg and Brizaga to volunteer for this event. Cummins Cedeberg is a prominent engineering firm specialized in coastal and marine environment in South Florida. Brizaga is a consulting firm that works to plan for and address the impacts of rising seas, and changing environment to create practical solutions in the face of more frequent flooding.  Collectively, CMA picked up over 70 pounds of trash along the shores of South Florida.

CMA Director of Quality Assurance Shahin Hekmat, P.E., F.FES; Executive Vice President – Business Development Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE and Chief Executive Officer- President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, FACEC attended meetings with Florida’s congressional delegates September 27-28. The meetings were held in Washington D.C.

CMA ranked 18th in the Jacksonville Business Journal Top Engineering Firms List!  The list includes the top engineering firms located Duval, Clay, St. Johns, Nassau, Baker, Putnam and Flagler counties ranked in order by number of licensed engineers. We would like to congratulate our entire staff for helping to make this happen!

CMA is proud to announce that we have ranked #30 in the Zweig Group 2023 Hot Firm List, an annual ranking of the 100 fastest-growing firms in the architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting industry, up from #56 in 2022. We placed #15 in the Zweig Group 2023 Best Firms to Work For Award for the Architecture/Engineering/Construction industry in North American (100-199 employee category), up from #16 in 2022.  CMA also placed #30 in the Zweig Group 2023 Multidiscipline Firm Category for the Best Firms to Work For Award in North America, up from #31 in 2022. CMA Executive Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE accepted the awards on behalf of our firm at the 2023 Zweig Group ElevateAEC Conference and Awards Gala at the Omni PGA Frisco Resort in Frisco, Texas September 13 – 15. Congratulations to the entire CMA Team! https://www.zweiggroup.com/

CMA’s Fort Lauderdale Teambuilding Initiative hosted an evening of food and baseball at LoanDepot Park on September 6. CMA Staff attended the Miami Marlins versus Los Angeles Dodgers game and took the Brightline train to travel to and from the stadium.