Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

CMA attended the Cuban American Association of Civil Engineers (CAACE) Gala Saturday at the Miami Airport Hilton. The event recognizes the Association’s best and brightest engineers and projects and awards scholarship recipients. Ben and Susan Chen, Carlos Morales, Jose and Sofie Acosta, Patrick Kaimrajh and Miguel Lockward attended. CMA Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E. currently sits as the Vice President of CAACE.
The CAACE is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1961. The purpose of the association is to assist members in the maintenance of the highest professional engineering skills and to aid members in retaining and exercising those skills; to maintain and support the highest principles of professional engineering achievements; and to obtain the advancement of the science and profession of engineering. For more information about the CAACE, please visit http://www.c-aace.org

Congratulations to team CMA who won the Palm Beach ASCE Bowl-a-thon! Mike Wood, Todd Nochomson, Jason McClair and Mike Lisena bowled an average score of 178. The event was held on Saturday, March 7 at Cine Bowl and Grill in Delray Beach. Other participants included Carollo, Terracon, Kimley Horn, Wantman, Florida Technical Consultants, Collective Water Resources, ADA Engineering and Stanley Consultants. Due to the overwhelming support of all the sponsors and the excitement for raffle prizes, Palm Beach ASCE was able to award a $1,000 check to the FAU Concrete Canoe Team. Their competition begins on March 19 in Tennessee. For more information on ASCE’s Palm Beach Branch, please visit http://www.palmbeach-asce.org.

Happy Valentine’s Week from CMA

FES’ Broward Chapter MATHCOUNTS Competition was held January 31 at Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale. CMA staff volunteered for the event: Peter Moore, P.E., LEED AP, F.ASCE served as the co-emcee, Kathy Horrigan assisted with scoring and Joel Brownsey, EI assisted with scoring and competition control. The MATHCOUNTS Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs, in order to expand their academic and professional opportunities. For more information, please visit http://www.mathcounts.org/

Jose Acosta, P.E. served for the second year in a row as a professional engineering mentor to Nautilus Middle School in the Future Cities Competition held at Florida International University on January 17. For more information, please visit http://aln.fiu.edu/futurecity/

Chen Moore and Associates celebrated the holidays with an employee dinner at Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale on December 18. The event was a great opportunity for our employees to socialize and commemorate a successful 2014. The evening included a welcome speech from President Peter Moore, P.E., LEED AP and a year-in-review slide show, reliving both firm and employee milestones throughout 2014.

Chen Moore and Associates participated in the United Way Day of Caring event on December 5 at Osswald Park in Fort Lauderdale. Volunteers (left to right) Teresa Mills, Jennifer Smith, Kathy Horrigan, Peter Moore, Paula Fonseca and Derrick Smith were tasked with creating murals in the computer lab, painting a magnetic wall and assisting with landscaping duties. For more information, please visit http://www.unitedwaybroward.org/

Meet CMA’s New Project Manager Gregory Mendez, P.E.