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Gryphon International Engineering Services is Now CHA Canada CHA Subsidiary Rebrands and Launches New Website
CHA Consulting, Inc. (CHA), a highly diversified, full-service engineering design firm, announces its subsidiary, Gryphon International Engineering Services, has rebranded as CHA Canada. Based in St. Catharines, Ontario, the award-winning thermal, power and energy engineering arm of CHA has also launched a new website at www.chacanada.com. Gryphon International Engineering Services was acquired by CHA Consulting, Inc. in 2011. The name change and rebranding is intended to clarify to the market the full-service capabilities CHA can now offer our Canadian clients. This branding change completes the full integration of the companies and aligns the Canadian operation with the CHA brand. CHA Canada will serve its clients with the highly professional staff and excellent service they have come to expect as well as offer additional services to meet our clients’ many needs. “Our team is inspired to be clearly identified as part of the CHA team through our new name and redesigned website,” said Rich Rappa, CHA Canada’s President and CHA’s Manufacturing and Energy Market Leader. “This branding and alignment will support our team’s approach to serving clients with resources from across all of the CHA Companies thus providing a single source solution.” “Branding our Canadian team under CHA reaffirms our aspiration to elate our clients by offering them a truly one-stopshop for all their engineering and environmental needs that CHA’s fully integrated team of professionals can bring to North America,” said Michael Carroll, CHA President and CEO. “Under our stronger, integrated brand in Canada and the United States, we will continue to responsibly improve the world we live in.” CHA Canada’s new website was redesigned to showcase the firm’s expertise and extensive experience providing highlyspecialized power and energy engineering services. The new website includes resources for clients and potential clients, including descriptions of complex domestic and international projects CHA Canada has successfully completed. The website also provides information about career opportunities available with the CHA Companies. q
Barton & Loguidice Grows Planning Services With Acquisition of Steinmetz Planning Group Firm Expands in Western New York Market, Increases Offerings
In a move to increase its presence in Western New York and expand its Community Planning services, Barton & Loguidice (B&L), an engineering, planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm with over 250 employees throughout the Northeast, has acquired Steinmetz Planning Group, a planning, zoning and public engagement firm with offices in Rochester and Buffalo, New York.
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“Adding the planners from Steinmetz provides further depth to the municipal services we can provide our clients in all of the geographic areas we serve, while adding to our family of talented professionals in Western New York,” said John F. Brusa, Jr., P.E., Barton & Loguidice President & CEO. “The synergies between our two firms has been building as we worked previously together on Rochester-
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area projects, demonstrating our shared vision for providing tailored solutions for our clients that exceed their expectations.” With this acquisition, Steinmetz employees have joined the B&L team, including Principal John Steinmetz, AICP and Molly Gaudioso, AICP, who have become Molly Gaudioso part of B&L’s Sustainable Planning and Design Group. They will be operating out of the existing B&L offices in Rochester and Buffalo, New York. “We are excited about what this means for our clients and the communities we serve,” said Steinmetz. “By bringing together our assets to work for the communities across New York and throughout the northeast, our clients will get the best of our joint expertise.” q NOVEMBER 2018 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 21