CMA Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE attended the 2019 Zweig Group Hot Firm + A/E Industry Awards Conference in Las Vegas October 4-6. The event is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive business conference for leaders and aspiring leaders of AEC firms in the U.S. Attendees networked, gained knowledge, and celebrated with the top firms in the industry. The conference agenda included topics on technology, leadership challenges, business planning, marketing methods, recruiting and retention, and growth strategies. Jose also accepted CMA’s awards: CMA placed #38 in the Multi-Discipline category in the Zweig White Best Firms to Work For awards; #33 in the Civil Engineering category in the Zweig White Best Firms to Work For awards; #70 on the Hot Firms list, an annual ranking of the 100 fastest-growing firms in the architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental consulting industry, up from #88 in 2018. Congratulations to the entire CMA team!

Representatives of Chen Moore and Associates attended the Leadership Broward Gala ‘Evening on the Nile’ on October 5 at The Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort as a table sponsor. CMA staff were Safiya Brea, P.E., LEED AP, Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP, Sathvika Ramaji, E.I., Jennifer Smith, P.E. and Derrick Smith, CFM, LEED AP.  For more information, please visit https://www.leadershipbroward.org/

On behalf of CMA, Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE, Mike Buick, P.E., Nick Karpathy, EI, ENV SP, Jose McCray and Greg Mendez, P.E. attended the Miami-Dade County League of Cities (MDCLC) 9th Annual Best Practices Conference at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel on October 3. Through this conference, the MDCLC facilitated a venue for Cities as well as its associate members to find a distinctive forum where views were shared. MDCLC was established in 1953 for the purpose of uniting the common interests of the municipalities within Miami-Dade County. For more information, please visit http://www.mdclc.org/

CMA employees Gregory Mendez, P.E. and Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP attended the ESSIE (Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment) Evening with Industry Event on September 24.  The annual event, held at The University of Florida, provides the opportunity to meet and interview students interested in engineering and for students to interact directly with top industry leaders and learn more about specific career opportunities and internships in civil, coastal and environmental engineering. For more information about ESSIE please visit http://www.essie.ufl.edu/

Congratulations to CMA Associate Engineer Teresa Lewis, EI who was installed as Vice President of the Broward Chapter Florida Engineering Society and Associate Engineer Vince Locigno, EI who was installed as Secretary at the Annual Broward Chapter FES Induction Ceremony on September 23. The event was held at Tarpon River Brewing and CMA served as a gold sponsor. Other CMA employees who attended were Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE, Danny Davila, P.E., Jason McClair, P.E., CFM, LEED AP and Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP. For more information about FES, please visit https://www.fleng.org/page/Broward

CMA participated in the International Coastal Cleanup at El Pardo Park in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea on Saturday September 21st and collected 33 pounds of trash! This was our second year participating! Our volunteers were David Castro, P.E., Jessica Diaz, E.I., Charmaine Emanuels, E.I., Megan Schmidt, Derrick Smith, CFM, LEED AP, Jennifer Smith, P.E., Ruben Soto and Johanna Zona. The International Coastal Cleanup began more than 30 years ago, when communities rallied together with the common goal of collecting and documenting the trash littering their coastline. Volunteers from states and territories throughout the U.S. and more than 100 countries come together each year and participate in a Cleanup event near them. Thanks to CMA’s community service committee for organizing the event. For more information, please visit https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/volunteer/

CMA staff Mike Albert, P.E., Suzanne Dombrowski, P.E., ENV SP, Paula Fonseca, P.E. and Karen Rachles attended the 13th Annual Palm Beach Partners Business MatchMaker Conference and Expo as a silver sponsor on September 20. The conference was held at the Kravis Center for Performing Arts in West Palm Beach and included workshops exposing business owners on how to build connections and contracting opportunities with government agencies, and how to build credit and obtain small business loans. The event ended with a networking reception and awards presentation. For more information, please visit https://goo.gl/fNt1Mf

CMA attended the Broward Branch ASCE 50th Year Anniversary, Installation and Awards Banquet Thursday, Sept 12th. CMA was a platinum sponsor for the event, held at the Hillsboro Club in Hillsboro Beach.  All Broward Branch Past Presidents were acknowledged, including Jose Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE; Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP; and Jennifer Smith, P.E. The current board was also recognized, including Jennifer Smith, P.E. as President and Teresa Lewis, E.I. as Treasurer. Chairpersons were acknowledged as well including Jessica Diaz (Bowl-a-thon); Natalie Mecklenburg (Membership Chair and Scholarship Chair), Ruben Soto (Community Outreach Chair), Teresa Lewis, E.I. (Social Media). Dan Davila, P.E. won project of the year for the Ft. Lauderdale Emergency Replacement of 30”FM. As ASCE Region 5 Director, Peter Moore P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP performed the Installation for the new officers. Keynote speaker Broward County Commissioner Beam Furr presented on civil engineering concerns in Broward County. Congratulations to all CMA staff involved with the success of the branch for the past 50 years!

Today, CMA remembers those lost and affected by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.  

CMA, teamed with Holtz Consulting Engineers, participated in the Inaugural Seacoast Classic Softball Tournament on September 7.  CMA won two out of the three games.  Players from CMA included Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP, Cris Betancourt, RLA, Jennifer Cook, Madeley Arriola Guerrero, EI, Marvin Moore, Mike Wood, Jennifer Smith, P.E., Derrick Smith, CFM, LEED AP, Joel Brownsey, P.E. and Suzanne Dombrowski, P.E., ENV SP. Other teams that participated were Seacoast Utility Authority, City of Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens Police Department, City of West Palm Beach Utilities, Martin County Utilities, South Florida Lawmen and Globaltec.  All proceeds went to Water for People. Thank you to everyone who participated!