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'''CH2M HILL''', also known as '''CH2M''', was a global engineering company that provided consulting, design, construction, and operations services for corporations, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm's headquarters was in [[Meridian, Colorado|Meridian]], an unincorporated area of [[Douglas County, Colorado]], in the [[Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area]].
The postal designation of nearby [[Englewood, Colorado|Englewood]] was commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and local news accounts. As of December 2016, CH2M had approximately 20,000 employees and revenues totaled $5.24 billion.<ref name="CH2M-Hill-Companies-Ltd-2016-10-K" /> In December 2017, it was announced that CH2M had been acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group, a Dallas engineering firm, reportedly for $3.3 billion. <ref name="Acquisition"> {{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/18/ch2m-colorado-jacobs-engineering-group-purchase/ |title=CH2M, one of Colorado’s largest private companies, is swallowed up by Texas firm}}</ref>
==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).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ch2m.com/corporate/about_us/history.asp |title=CH2M Hill – Our History |publisher=Ch2m.com |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101022900/http://www.ch2m.com/corporate/about_us/history.asp |archive-date=January 1, 2014 |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Cornell, Howland, and Hayes were all graduates of Oregon State University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oregonstate.edu/ |title=Oregon State University |publisher=Oregonstate.edu |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref>
The company became CH2M HILL, after a merger in 1971. 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 was acquired by [[Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.]] in a US$3.3 billion cash and stock deal.<ref name="businesswire-02Aug2017">{{cite news|title=Jacobs to Acquire CH2M to Create Premier $15 Billion Global Solutions Provider|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170802005550/en/Jacobs-Acquire-CH2M-Create-Premier-15-Billion|accessdate=2 August 2017|work=Business Wire|date=2 August 2017}}</ref>
==Services==
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[[File:CH2anchorage.JPG|thumb|right|The former VECO building, now CH2M Hill's Alaska headquarters]]
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.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/project-delivery-a-system-and-process-for-benchmark-performance/oclc/668106433&referer=brief_results|title=Project Delivery System : A System and Process for Benchmark Performance|author=CH2M Hill Project Managers|publisher=CH2M Hill {{hyphen}} Denver, CO|year=2000|oclc=668106433|isbn=0965261603|access-date=March 31, 2018}}</ref>
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 [[Rocky Flats Plant|(former Rocky Flats Plant)]]. In [[Singapore]], the company was part of a joint venture to replace the country's sanitary services infrastructure.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Feb_21/ai_59580733 | work=Business Wire | title=CH2M Hill and PWD Consultants Awarded $123.9 Million Contract for Portion of One of the World's Largest Wastewater Projects | date=February 21, 2000}}</ref> The new Singapore Deep Tunnel System was designed to improve reliability, ease, and economy of operation, and to help handle Singapore's increasing waterfront utilization.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rowson |first=Jessica |url=http://www.nce.co.uk/news/water/singapore-sewerage-no-space-to-waste/5203685.article |title=Singapore sewerage: No space to waste | Features | New Civil Engineer |publisher=Nce.co.uk |date=June 17, 2009 |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> CH2M Hill assisted in reconstruction efforts along the [[Gulf Coast of the United States|US Gulf Coast]] in the wake of [[Hurricane Katrina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taxpayer.net/budget/katrinaspending/contracts/ch2mhill.htm |title=Federal Budget and Tax Policy {{hyphen}} CH2M Hill|website=www.taxpayer.net|date=December 21, 2005|accessdate=March 31, 2018 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130060945/http://www.taxpayer.net/budget/katrinaspending/contracts/ch2mhill.htm |archivedate=November 30, 2006 }}</ref>
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On August 30, 2006, as part of joint venture CLM, CH2M Hill was a supplier for the [[London 2012 Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aroundtherings.com/article.php?pid=2646 |title=Press Release: London Olympics Delivery Partner |publisher=Around the Rings|website=www.aroundtherings.com|accessdate=March 31, 2018 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061021065221/http://www.aroundtherings.com/article.php?pid=2646 |archivedate=October 21, 2006}}</ref> The other two members of the venture are project management service provider [[Mace (construction company)|Mace Group]] and [[Laing O'Rourke]], the largest privately owned construction firm in the United Kingdom.
In 2008, the [[U.S. Department of Energy]] (DOE) contracted a CH2M Hill company, CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company, LLC (CHPRC), to manage deconstruction and remediation of the Central Plateau on the Hanford Nuclear Site in eastern Washington, one of the world's largest environmental cleanup projects.
The project focused on shrinking the environmental footprint of the Hanford Site from a {{convert|586|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} area (large enough to fit the city of Los Angeles) to {{convert|75|sqmi|km2}} or less. ==Acquisitions==
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}}</ref>, BBS Corporation (an environmental engineering firm based in Ohio) in October 2005.<ref>{{cite web |author=Brian E. Sturtevant |url=http://www.caprep.com/b1005001.htm |title=BBS Corporation Joins CH2M Hill |publisher=Caprep.com |accessdate=October 18, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001000831/http://www.caprep.com/b1005001.htm |archivedate=October 1, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
On September 7, 2007, CH2M HILL finalized the purchase of most of the components of [[VECO]], an Alaska based firm specialising in services to the oil, gas, and energy sector that had become embroiled in the [[Alaska political corruption probe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-07-2007/0004658708&EDATE= |title=CH2M Hill Finalizes Acquisition of VECO – re> DENVER, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ |publisher=Prnewswire.com |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref> In December 2007, CH2M Hill acquired Trigon EPC.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/17/ch2m-hill-raises-energy-level/ |title=CH2M Hill raises energy level : Energy |publisher=The Rocky Mountain News |date=January 17, 2008 |accessdate=October 18, 2011}}</ref>
In March 2008, CH2M Hill acquired Texas based Goldston Engineering, a company specialising in marine and coastal transportation engineering services.<ref> {{cite web
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}}</ref> In October 2014, CH2M HILL acquired TERA Environmental Consultants, a Canadian environmental consulting firm that has worked with pipeline and powerline clients and oil and gas companies for 30 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/02/ch2m-hill-buys-canadian-firm-focused.html |title=CH2M Hill buys Canadian firm focused on energy and environment |publisher=bizjournals.com |date=May 28, 2014 |accessdate=October 27, 2014|deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027003853/https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/02/ch2m-hill-buys-canadian-firm-focused.html |archivedate=October 27, 2014 |df= }}</ref>▼
▲In 2014, CH2M HILL acquired TERA Environmental Consultants, a Canadian environmental consulting firm that has worked with pipeline and powerline clients and oil and gas companies for 30 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/02/ch2m-hill-buys-canadian-firm-focused.html |title=CH2M Hill buys Canadian firm focused on energy and environment |publisher=bizjournals.com |date=May 28, 2014 |accessdate=October 27, 2014|deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027003853/https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/earth_to_power/2014/02/ch2m-hill-buys-canadian-firm-focused.html |archivedate=October 27, 2014 |df= }}</ref>
==Acquisition by Jacobs Engineering==
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