CMA is proud to have ranked 83rd place in the Zweig Group Hot Firm list. Firms are ranked on the Hot Firm list by a score comprised of both dollar and percentage revenue growth rate over a three-year period. Winners will be honored at the 2021 Elevate AEC Conference in Denver, CO, November 3- November 5 and at Zweig Group’s Virtual Elevate AEC Conference September 13-October 8.  This is the 8th time that CMA has been ranked in the Hot Firm list in the past 15 years. Congratulations to all of our employees!  https://www.zweiggroup.com/

CMA President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP recently gave an interview to the Invading Sea about why governments need to allocate more money to study Florida’s flooding threat.  The Invading Sea is a collaboration of 26 Florida news organizations – 25 daily newspapers and WLRN Public Media, South Florida’s public radio station. The site features editorials from our newspaper partners and opinion pieces by scientists, academics, activists and citizens interested in Florida and the threats posed by climate change. The complete interview can be viewed here: https://www.theinvadingsea.com/2021/05/31/peter-moore-governments-need-to-allocate-more-money-to-study-floridas-flooding-threat-and-how-to-address-it/

CMA Senior Engineers Robert Best, Jr., P.E. and Jennifer Smith, P.E., are participating in the Florida Engineering Leadership Institute (FELI) this year and part of their class project is to connect disadvantaged students to virtual classrooms by providing and installing Wi-Fi towers at public spaces throughout the state! Rob recently helped with installing some of these Wi-Fi towers with FELI classmates in the City of Okeechobee. FELI runs from November through August and consists of six sessions held in key cities throughout Florida. Each session focuses on a different aspect of leadership, ranging from development of personal leadership skills to team building, through interactive sessions and first-hand accounts from experts in their respective fields. CMA is a proud donor of the project. For more information about the class project and ways to contribute (raffle, virtual 5K, and direct donation), please visit https://www.feli21.com/

CMA staff will once again participate in The American Cancer Society Relay For Life!  The event will be held at Cooper City High School Saturday, June 5 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Relay is a national fundraising event where team members take turns walking around a track or designated path. Each event is 6-24 hours in length and each team is asked to have a member on the track at all times to signify that cancer never sleeps. This is an event that also honors the lives lost to cancer, celebrates survivors, and supports the caregivers. For more information or to donate to our team, please visit Relay For Life of Davie-Cooper City: Chen Moore Crusaders | Relay For Life (acsevents.org)

CMA placed 38th in the Multi-Discipline category in the Zweig White Best Firms to Work For awards. CMA also placed 17th for the 50-100 employees category. CMA will receive an award at the upcoming Elevate Leadership Summit in Denver in November. Thank you to all staff that completed the survey!

CMA President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP participated in the Habitat for Humanity of Broward CEO Build 2021 on Saturday, May 15.  More than 47 leaders worked together in Pompano Beach to help Habitat for Humanity of Broward serve more families to have safe shelter. The annual event is offered to local CEOs as an opportunity to champion affordable housing and improve the health of our businesses and our community. https://www.habitatbroward.org/

CMA has been named a South Florida Top Workplace by the Sun Sentinel! CMA was recognized at the Top Workplaces Awards event held virtually on Thursday, May 20 and ranked 17 in the Small Employer Group. CMA will also be featured in Sunday’s edition of the Sun Sentinel in the annual Top Workplaces special section.

Being named a Top Workplace is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, leadership, and connection, just to name a few. Thank you to all of our employees who completed this survey! bit.ly/NTW13