CH2M Hill's Formula for Success: Fly High but Stay Grounded La Portada en espa�ol (1.89 MB)
Executives of CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd. like to show off “the little yellow book,” a 4 x 5-in., 15-page illustrated pamphlet of “core values” that has been a corporate operating manual since former chairman Jim Howland wrote it in 1982. Handed to new employees and subcontractors, translated widely and displayed prominently in a headquarters corridor, it zeroes in on what defines the firm, even now as a global engineer-constructor with some 20,000 employees and $4.5 billion in 2006 revenue. The pamphlet may seem dated but it still energizes Denver-based CH2M Hill’s push for people, projects and profits, as well as for environmental stewardship and “corporate immortality.”
CH2M Hill has come a long way since its 1946 founding as a water-wastewater engineer. The firm’s lucrative business lines now include transportation, nuclear waste, power, industrial and high technology, with services branched out to design-build, program management, engineer-procure-construct, operations and research and development. Design-build was banned at CH2M Hill until 1997.