Congratulations to our Director of Water Resources/Senior Engineer Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP for being honored with Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award by the National Engineers’ Council! Brent received his award at the National Engineers Week Honors & Awards Banquet hosted by the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County on February 28 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The ceremony is an annual event recognizing engineers and engineering projects in all disciplines of engineering including: aerospace; mechanical; electrical; structural; and civil.  For more information, please visit https://www.bdb.org/index.php

Chen Moore and Associates Senior Engineer/Fort Lauderdale Branch Manager Daniel Davila, P.E. was mentioned in the Trenchless International article about our 30 inch trenchless design build project in Fort Lauderdale with Murphy Pipeline. To see the article please visit https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/01/29/watch-trenchless-main-replacement-in-florida/   

CMA staff participated in the Feeding South Florida Outrun Hunger 5K along Hollywood beach on Saturday. Outrun Hunger 5K is a fundraising event supporting Feeding South Florida’s mission to end hunger in South Florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts and transforming lives through innovative programming and education. Feeding South Florida distributes over 50.5 million pounds (42 million meals) of food to 706,130 food insecure individuals struggling to put food on the table in South Florida – 240,190 of whom are children and 110,000 of whom are older adults. For more information, please visit www.feedingsouthflorida.org

CMA was named as one of the ‘Best Places to Work’ at the South Florida Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in South Florida awards program.  The event was held at The Signature Grand in Davie. The awards program recognized small, medium and large companies deemed by their employees to be the ‘Best Places to Work’ in South Florida. More than 500 professionals attended the event. CMA ranked 11th overall in the medium-sized company category – congratulations! For more information, please visit https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/

Congratulations to Chen Moore and Associates Associate Engineer Madeley Arriola Guerrero, EI for being named one of 10 ASCE 2019 New Faces of Engineering in the professional category. The program highlights civil engineering leaders under the age of 30 and celebrates their achievements, as well as their contributions to and impact on society. Madeley will receive her award at the Opal Awards Gala on March 14 in Virginia. Way to go Madeley! Checkout her New Faces video here https://lnkd.in/eZmsGTY

CMA along with FES Broward assisted Equine-Assisted Therapies of South Florida on February 16. The group raised and leveled the barn and installed new scratching posts. This organization provides different therapies to children with disabilities by teaching them to take care of and ride horses. For more information, please visit http://equineatsf.org/

Chen Moore and Associates staff participated in the ASCE Broward Third Annual Engineer for a Day event last week. The student outreach program was created to encourage high school students to consider civil engineering as a future career field. The day was divided up into two sessions. The morning session was hosted at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 4 offices in Fort Lauderdale, where students interacted with local engineering university students, professors and other professional engineers, where they learned about the academic requirements necessary for completing an engineering degree and general information in the engineering field. In the afternoon session, the students split up into smaller groups and toured local engineering firms, including Chen Moore and Associates’ Fort Lauderdale office. Thanks to our staff for welcoming these students and giving them the opportunity to become Engineers for a Day! For more information, please visit http://www.broward-asce.org/

Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE, Cris Betancourt, RLA, Danny Davila, P.E., Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP and Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP attended the FES/ACEC Professional Engineer Legislative Days in Tallahassee on Tuesday and Wednesday where they met most of the legislators and/or staff that represent Southeast Florida. CMA also sponsored the FES led social on Tuesday. For more information, please visit https://www.fleng.org/

CMA participated in the 7th Annual Miami-Dade ASCE Field Day Event on Saturday as a beverage sponsor. The event is a fundraiser for UM and FIU student scholarships and included tug-of-war, giant jenga, and ladder golf competitions. For more information, please visit https://www.miamidade-asce.org/

Chen Moore and Associates Director of Water Resources/Senior Engineer Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP coordinated the Joint Professional Societies Annual Legislative Breakfast at the Palm Beach Gardens Marriott Hotel on Friday. Participants had the opportunity to meet local legislators, share opinions and learn about the 2019 legislative session. The event was hosted by several organizations including ASCE Palm Beach Branch and The Palm Beach County Planning Congress. CMA served as a premium sponsor and several of our staff attended the event as well.