Our Annual Family Picnic was held on Saturday, September 10th at Spanish River Park in Boca Raton. Festivities included a BBQ lunch, ball and water balloon toss and a hula hoop contest. Prizes for gift cards were awarded to our contest winners. Congratulations to Whitney Tidd for winning the t-shirt design contest! Everyone received a t-shirt. Approximately 60 people enjoyed the day including employees, friends and families.

CMA Wishes Everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday!

Joel Brownsey, EIT, Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE, Paula Fonseca, P.E., Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, LEED AP, Jennifer Smith, P.E. and Derrick Smith, CFM, LEED AP attended FAUﾒs Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineeringﾒs 15th anniversary party on August 27. The event was held at the FAU Stadium Delray Acura Club on the FAU Boca Raton campus where 15 years of educational excellence and alumni successes were celebrated. The programs have granted more than 700 BS/MS degrees since its inception. Chen Moore and Associates served as a platinum sponsor for the event. For more information about FAUﾒs civil engineering program, please visit http://www.cege.fau.edu/undergraduate/civil/

Congratulations to Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E., Senior Engineer, who was installed as President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Miami-Dade Branch on August 25 at the officer installation and awards banquet. Patrick previously held the position of President-elect. CMA was a gold sponsor of the annual meeting, held at the Rusty Pelican in Key Biscayne, where new ASCE Miami-Dade Officers are inducted as well as certain ASCE members within the County are recognized for excellence in engineering through a variety of awards. Vice President Jose Acosta, P.E. of CMA presented the 2016 Report Card for Floridaﾒs Infrastructure as ASCE Florida Section President. Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE, Ricardo Jimenez, Miguel Lockward, EIT, Greg Mendez, P.E., and Pamela Munoz, also attended the event as pictured. The ASCE Miami-Dade County Branch is a subsidiary of the Florida Section ASCE. For more information on ASCE’s Miami-Dade Branch, please visit http://www.miamidade-asce.org/

Cristobal Betancourt, RLA, Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E., Stefan Bortak, CID, Whitney Tidd and Jose Acosta, P.E. recently attended the grand opening of the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus Student Housing facility. CMA served as a subconsultant to PGAL for the design, permitting and construction administration of the new 595-bed student dormitory. Our responsibilities included providing all site services for the project such as survey, geotechnical, civil and landscape services. The site program includes a resort style swimming pool with hammocks, barbecue areas, outdoor seating, and cabana, bicycle parking facilities, pedestrian pathways, site seating and a 300-space parking facility. CMA applied its experience with Low Impact Development (LID) techniques to provide site design in the highly constrained site. The project was designed to a LEED silver standard.

Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, LEED AP, Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E., Greg Mendez, P.E., Jose Acosta, P.E. and Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE (not pictured) recently attended the Regional Utility Coalition event at the Port of Miami. Miami-Dade County, FES, MDWASD, ASCE Miami and AWWA sponsored the event.

The 28th Annual American Society of Civil Engineers Broward Branch Bowl-A-Thon was held on Saturday, August 13, 2016 in Tamarac at Sawgrass Lanes. CMA team members included Joel Brownsey, E.I.; Jason McClair, P.E., CFM, LEEDﾮ AP; Peter Moore, P.E., LEEDﾮ; Derrick Smith, LEEDﾮ AP; Jennifer Smith, P.E.; Kathy Horrigan; Jose Acosta, P.E.; Michael Wood; Greg Mendez, P.E.; and Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE. The event is held on an annual basis to raise money for a scholarship provided to a Broward County resident pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering. ASCE successfully raised $2,000 for the scholarship fund. For more information about the ASCE’s Broward Branch, please visit http://www.broward-asce.org/

President Peter Moore, P.E., LEEDﾮ AP, F.ASCE was inducted as president-elect for FICE (Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers) on August 5 at the FES/FICE 100th Annual Conference in Ponte Vedra Beach. Established in 1973, FICE represents the professional and business interests of professional engineers in private practice in Florida and their companies, serving to advance the profession of consulting engineering. Congratulations Peter! For more information about FICE, please visit http://www.fleng.org/fice/fice-more.cfm

CMA Branch Manager Suzanne Dombrowski, P.E. graduated from the Florida Engineering Leadership Institute (FELI) last month and was recognized with her classmates during the FES/FICE 100th Annual Conference in Ponte Vedra Beach! FELIﾒs mission is to transition engineering professionals into community professionals and leaders within our societies, communities and workplaces. FELI enhances the leadership skills of its participants and sets out a clear pathway to put these skills into practice serving our profession and our communities over a 10-month class. FELI also provides networking across the current and past classes, serving as an outreach group to business and community leaders. By fostering interaction that puts training into practice, FELI achieves its mission to ﾓTransform Leadership Opportunities into Reality.ﾔ Other CMA alumni of FELI include Peter Moore, P.E., LEEDﾮ AP, F.ASCE; Safiya Brea, P.E., LEEDﾮ AP; Jose Acosta, P.E.; Greg Mendez, P.E. and Jason McClair, P.E., CFM, LEEDﾮ AP. For more information, please visit http://ow.ly/y5py304qWO7

Our Chairman and Founder Dr. Ben Chen, P.E., BCEE will receive the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 2016 Community Service Award at the ACEC Fall Conference in Colorado Springs on October 21. The award is presented to outstanding individuals who have been involved in community service; have demonstrated a sustained commitment to their communities; have served to influence decision-making on issues other than professional; and have enhanced the quality of life in their community through their civic involvement. Congratulations to Ben on this important honor! For more information about ACEC, please visit http://www.acec.org/