CH2MHill
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| Employee owned corporation | |
| Industry | Engineering, procurement, construction, and operations |
| Founded |
Corvallis, Oregon (1946) (as Cornell, Howland, Hayes, and Merryfield) |
| Headquarters | Meridian, Colorado, United States |
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Key people
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Jacqueline Hinman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Revenue |
 US$5.88 Billion (FY 2013)
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 US$192.4M (FY 2013)
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US$118.3M (FY 2013)
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| Total assets |
US$3.06 Billion (FY 2013)
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| Total equity |
US$642.6M (FY 2013)
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Number of employees
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26,000 (2013) |
| Website | www |
CH2M HILL, also known as CH2M, is a global 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 had approximately 26,000 employees and 2013 revenues totaled $5.88 billion. The firm is employee-owned, 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.
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). Cornell, Howland, and Hayes were all graduates of Oregon State University. The company became CH2M Hill name after a 1971 merger with Clair A. Hill and Associates of Redding, California. 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.
On August 2, 2017 CH2M agreed to be purchased by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. in a US$2.85 billion cash and stock deal. If approved, the sale is expected to close at the end of 2017.
The company operates in multiple business units, among the operating divisions, Water, Energy & Facilities; Government, Environment & Infrastructure; and International. Business groups served include: Water; Transportation; Operations and Maintenance; Government Facilities and Infrastructure; Nuclear; Environmental; Energy and Chemicals; Power; and Industrial and Advanced Technology.
The company developed, maintains and publishes its own method for managing projects for clients, called the CH2M Hill Project Delivery System, which may be found at popular internet book retailers. As a firm specializing in project management, CH2M Hill has been associated in several large, complex projects around the world. In 2005, a CH2M Hill joint-venture known as Kaiser-Hill decommissioned and closed a former nuclear weapons facility at the Rocky Flats site in Colorado (former Rocky Flats Plant).
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