| Formerly | Clough, Harbour and Associates, LLP |
|---|---|
| Company type | Limited liability partnership (Private) |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Headquarters | 575 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207 |
Number of locations | 43 (Includes Subsidiaries as of 2022) |
Key people | Jim Stephenson,CEO |
| Services | Consulting Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management |
| Revenue | $320 Million (2021) |
Number of employees | 1300 (Includes Subsidiaries as of 2021) |
| Subsidiaries | American Fire Protection Inc. (Affiliate) |
CHA Consulting, Inc. (previously known asClough, Harbour & Associates LLP) is an internationalengineering consulting and construction management firm headquartered inAlbany, New York.[1] The firm was founded in 1952 by John Clarkeson, P.E., inBoston, Massachusetts and focused on civil design work. The firm was subsequently purchased by Ronald Clough and renamed Clough & Associates. Ronald Clough then partnered with Bill Harbour and the firm was renamed Clough, Harbour & Associates, LLP.
Some of the firm’s first notable projects were its work on Boston’s "Inner Belt" highway and the Interstate Highways throughout the Northeast.[2]
CHA has grown substantially since then and now has a large presence in several different engineering fields, including power supply and distribution, communications infrastructure, structural, electrical, mechanical, environmental, geotechnical, civil, aviation, rail, and traffic/transportation engineering, as well as landscape architecture, land use planning, surveying, sports and recreation, wetland delineation, construction engineering and technology services.[3]
In 2020,Engineering News-Record (ENR), a publication which ranks design firms based on information about their revenue, ranked CHA as the 61st largest engineering design firm in the United States.[4]
CHA Consulting and its subsidiary companies were sold in 2018 toFirst Reserve, a private equity firm that focuses on the acquisition of internationally-based energy companies.[5]
In theAlbany, NY area, CHA has engineered some large scale projects, including theTimes Union Center, theJoseph L. Bruno Stadium, the Albany Pedestrian Walkway, the expansiveColonie Town Park, and the Albany Capital Center.[6]
CHA Consulting designed the $50 million project including renovations and improvements to Albany's Rensselaer Station, which included the addition of a fourth track.[7] Furthermore, improvements to the train tracks betweenAlbany, NY and Schenectady, NY are currently ongoing, a project which received the 2018ACEC Gold Award for Excellence in Engineering.