CMA Chief Executive Officer and President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, FACEC spoke to the Port Everglades Association (PEA) at their September Luncheon on Friday, September 1st. He presented on changes in the workplace and managing the new expectations from labor.

The PEA is Florida’s Premier Port Business organization promoting the growth of Port Everglades Since 1979. PEA serves as a bridge between public and private interests to facilitate the Port’s achievement of its rightful place as a leader in the ranks of America’s port ocean commerce. Chen Moore and Associates has been a proud member of the PEA since 2019. For more information, please visit https://www.portbiz.org/

CMA Principal Engineer Patrick Kaimrajh P.E. attended the International Council of Shopping Centers Conference August 27-29 at the Orange County Convention Center. ICSC@FLORIDA | ICSC

CMA’s Vice President of Landscape Architecture/Planning Cris Betancourt, PLA, AICP and Associate Planner Jennifer Cook attended the Florida Recreation and Park Association (FRPA)’s Annual Conference August 28-31 in Orlando. The conference is a yearly gathering of park and recreation professionals and features workshops and sessions curated to build the park and recreation professional’s skill set. Presenters included professionals from aquatics, park administration, athletics, recreation, childcare, programming, park maintenance and more. A trade show and exhibit hall was held to allow supply and service vendors a chance for face-to-face meetings with professionals. Delegates had opportunities to network with professionals from other agencies and exchange information for future contact.  https://www.frpa.org/conference

CMA’s Currie Park project received the 2023 Award of Excellence in the Planning and Analysis Category from the American Society of Landscape Architecture! Our teaming partner Olin submitted the award, which was given out at the ASLA Florida Annual Conference + Expo last month at the JW Mariott Turnberry Resort in Aventura.

Congratulations to Senior Landscape Architect Stefan Bortak, PLA, CID who was recently appointed to the board of the American Society of Irrigation Consultants. ASIC is a society of professional irrigation consultants dedicated to representing the best interest of the client while advocating the responsible use and preservation of water resources. https://asic.org/member/marc_bortak/

CMA attended the ASCE Miami-Dade Branch Annual Awards and Installation Banquet on Friday, August 25th at the Rusty Pelican, Key Biscayne. The event recognized the efforts and accomplishments of award winners, scholarship recipients, life members, institute and committee members as well as the board of directors. CMA’s project, the Brightline Aventura Station, won Project of the Year (category 2). CMA was a gold sponsor. https://www.miamidade-asce.org/

On August 18, CMA’s Dominique Bethel, Vince Locigno, and Stephanie Williams volunteered as part of the Broward Education Foundation (BEF) School Drive Bookbag Distribution at Castle Hill Elementary, passing out free backpacks with school supplies to children attending orientation for the new School Year. CMA raised $500 to go toward supplying bags of supplies to the Adopt-a-School program in Broward County to support BEF’s mission for the 2023 new school year.

More than 200,000 Broward students live in poverty. For these students, school supplies are a luxury. Three out of four students arrive to class without the requisite school supplies necessary for learning according to 90% of teachers surveyed by the national non-profit Kids in Need Foundation. Last year, contributions to BEF’s School Supply Drive helped more than 130,000 students in 195 schools and assisted more than 12,000 teachers.  Broward Education Foundation (browardedfoundation.org)

CMA’s Orlando landscape architecture staff attended the Florida Nursery Growers Association 2023 Landscape Show at the Orange County Convention Center August 23-25, 2023. Landscape Designer Jinna Cooper and Principal Landscape Architect Jason Sutton, PLA tried their skills at one booth and won prizes!

For more information, please visit https://www.thelandscapeshow.org/2023/public/enter.aspx

CMA’s SFWMD Homestead Field Station project will receive the Merit Award at the 2023 DBIA Florida Region Design Build Awards. The awards will be given out on August 31 at the 2023 DBIA Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Orlando, Florida. CMA is the Civil Engineer of Record for this project.  https://www.fldbia.org/