CH2M Hill's Formula for Success: Fly High but Stay Grounded
...and on time. “From a client standpoint, the contractor met its commitments,” says Jim Harlan, Eastman’s vice president of worldwide polymer operations. “We feel good about the plant we got and are doing additional business with the firm.”
The broadened focus also has turned CH2M Hill into a market force in the federal arena, particularly nuclear waste services. The firm’s technical and financial success in expediting the $7-billion Rocky Flats cleanup in Colorado for the U.S. Energy Dept. was a key market catalyst (ENR 10/24/05 p. 10). “It was a watershed project that has to be on any list that defines the firm,” says Senior Vice President Robert G. Card, who developed CH2M Hill’s joint venture approach there and is a key executive running its newly awarded program management contract for the 2012 London Olympics.