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CH2M Hill
CH2M Hill is an American engineering company that provides consulting, design, construction, and operations services for corporations, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm's headquarters is in Meridian, an unincorporated area of Douglas County, Colorado in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. The postal designation of nearby Englewood is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and local news accounts. As of December 2013 CH2M Hill had approximately 26,000 employees and 2013 revenues totaled $5.88 billion.〔 The firm is employee-owned,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=CH2M Hill )〕 with an internal stock market that operates buy/sell events quarterly. CH2M Hill announced a global rebrand on 13 April 2015, adopting the nickname ch2m while retaining CH2M HILL Companies Ltd. as the firm's legal name.
==History==
CH2M was founded in 1946 in Corvallis, Oregon by Oregon State University civil engineering professor Fred Merryfield and three of his students: Holly Cornell, James Howland and Thomas Burke Hayes (the firm was named after the founders, with Howland and Hayes making up the H2 portion).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CH2M Hill – Our History )〕 Cornell, Howland, and Hayes were all graduates of Oregon State University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oregon State University )〕 The company became CH2M Hill name after a 1971 merger with Clair A. Hill and Associates of Redding, California.〔(), CH2M.com〕 The firm remained headquartered in Oregon until 1980, when a decision was made to relocate to Colorado, a more central location in the United States.
Other key acquisitions include Black, Crow & Eidsness (a southeast U.S. engineering firm) in 1977, Gore & Storrie (a Canadian water and wastewater engineering firm) in 1995,〔()〕 Gee & Jensen (a Florida-based Ports and Harbor firm) in 2002,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CH2M Hill Companies Ltd – 10-K – For 12/31/04 )〕 DeMil International (a U.S.-based weapons destruction firm) in 2002, EHS Consultants Ltd (a Hong Kong-based consulting firm),〔()〕 Lockwood Greene, the oldest continuously operating professional services firm in the United States in 2003,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CH2M Hill Lockwood Greene )〕 and BBS Corporation (an Ohio-based environmental engineering firm) in 2005. On September 7, 2007, CH2M Hill finalized the purchase of most of the components of VECO, an Alaska-based firm specializing in services to the oil, gas, and energy sector that had become embroiled in the Alaska political corruption probe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CH2M Hill Finalizes Acquisition of VECO – re> DENVER, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ )〕 In December 2007, CH2M Hill acquired Trigon EPC. In March 2008, CH2M Hill acquired Texas-based Goldston Engineering, a company specializing in marine and coastal transportation engineering services.〔()〕 In July 2011, CH2M Hill finalized the acquisition of Booz Allen Hamilton’s State & Local Government Transportation Consulting (S&L Transportation) business. In September 2011, CH2M Hill announced that it intended to acquire the share capital of Halcrow Group Limited, a UK-based engineering consultancy that operates worldwide. The acquisition for £124m was completed on November 10, 2011. In 2014, CH2M Hill acquired TERA Environmental Consultants of Calgary, Alberta.
CH2M Hill adopted the shortened nickname CH2M on April 13, 2015.〔
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