Formerly | Clough, Harbour and Associates, LLP |
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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 as Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP) is an international engineering consulting and construction management firm headquartered in Albany, New York. [1] The firm was founded in 1952 by John Clarkeson, P.E., in Boston, 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]
According to a recent listing by Engineering News-Record (ENR), a publication which ranks design firms based on information about their revenue, CHA is the 61st largest engineering design firm in the United States. [4]
CHA Consulting and its subsidiary companies were sold in 2018 to First Reserve, a private equity firm that focuses on the acquisition of internationally-based energy companies. [5]
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