News and Events

Joe Ducharme joins CMA Engineers as Vice President - Joseph M. Ducharme, Jr., P.E., formerly the President/CEO of TTG Environmental Consultants, LLC, a division of The H.L.Turner Group Inc. of Concord, has joined CMA Engineers as Vice President and will manage CMA Engineers' office in Manchester, NH. Mr. Ducharme holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Civil and Public Works Engineering from Texas A&M University. Joe has 26 years of construction and engineering experience with a focus on planning, permitting, design and construction administration of municipal water, wastewater and storm water projects.

Manchester, NH Office opened June 1, 2008 - CMA Engineers has opened a new office in Manchester, NH at Langer Place off South Commercial Street. Located on the fourth floor of a renovated mill building, the office overlooks the Merrimack River and is adjacent to Manchester's minor league baseball stadium. Another Cool Place to work.

CMA Engineers President Named Distinguished Member by ASCE - Craig N. Musselman, P.E., of CMA Engineers has been named a Distinguished Member by the American Society of Civil Engineers in recognition of his engineering career and his national professional involvement in the areas of licensure and engineering education reform. This is an honor given by ASCE to no more than one in 7,500 civil engineers each year.

Visit ASCE Website: http://content.asce.org/handa/DistinguishedMemberClass2008.html

Britt Audet joins CMA Engineers - Britt E. Audet, P.E., of Nottingham, NH, has joined CMA Engineers as a project manager/ project engineer. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Audet has five years experience in civil engineering design.

CMA Engineers' President appointed to ABET Board of Directors - Craig N. Musselman, P.E., CMA Engineers' president, has been appointed to a three year term on the Board of Directors of ABET, the organization which accredits university engineering programs in the United States. He will represent the National Society of Professional Engineers on the ABET board.

Roch D. Larochelle, P.E. Joins CMA Engineers as Vice President, Civil Engineering - Roch Larochelle, a civil engineer with twenty years experience in highway engineering, has joined CMA Engineers as Vice President in charge of civil engineering. He will serve as a project manager on civil and highway engineering projects.

Kareckas named Principal - CMA Engineers has announced that John C. "Jack" Kareckas has been named a principal of the firm. Jack is in charge of construction resident inspection for the firm.

Concord, MA, Warner's Pond Dam Reconstruction - CMA Engineers is administering the reconstruction of Warner's Pond dam in Concord, MA and is preparing plans and specifications for other drainage improvements in Concord.

Seabrook, NH Wastewater Improvements - CMA Engineers is designing and administering the construction of various improvements to the Seabrook, NH wastewater treatment and collection system including modifications to the disinfection control system and SCADA improvements to all wastewater pumping stations.

Single Stream Recycling Facility - CMA Engineers is assisting the Concord Solid Waste Cooperative in the implementation of a state of the art single stream recycling facility to serve southern New Hampshire.

Verso Paper Landfill Expansion, Jay, ME - CMA Engineers designed and is administering the construction of an all-geosynthetic expansion of an existing paper mill landfill in Jay, ME.

Ash Landfill Expansion, Franklin, NH - CMA Engineers is designing and administering the construction of a Phase V ash landfill expansion in Franklin, NH to provide ash disposal capacity for the Concord, NH waste to energy facility through 2014.

CMA Engineers' President receives national award - Craig N. Musselman, P.E. received the 2006 American Society of Civil Engineers "President's Medal". Two such medals are issued annually by ASCE to recognize the "accomplishments and contributions of eminent engineers to the profession, the Society, or the public". This award pertains to an initiative to change the Model Law for engineers in the US to require additional engineering education as a prerequisite for licensure in the future.

CMA Engineers Retained by City of Rockland, Maine - The City of Rockland has selected CMA Engineers to provide environmental testing and engineering planning for a 6 acre 100+ foot deep rock quarry backfilled over the past 80 years with a mixture of wet waste seaweed, construction demolition debris and bulky wastes. Creative thought and engineering are needed to begin to address intolerable neighborhood odor impacts.

CMA Engineers Website Wins National Award - The American Association of Webmasters has recognized the CMA Engineers website for its design, layout and quality of content with a national Silver Award for 2006-2007.

CMA Engineers Vice President Bill Straub, P.E. has been named as the "Engineer of the Year" for 2006 by the Joint Committee of New Hampshire Engineering Societies.

CMA Engineers Project Manager Paul Schmidt, P.E. has been named as the "Young Engineer of the Year" for 2006 by the Joint Committee of New Hampshire Engineering Societies.

The Town of Kittery, Maine has retained CMA Engineers to provide comprehensive municipal services including planning board review assistance, roadways, bridges, drainage, marine facilities and other municipal projects.

The City of Portsmouth has selected CMA Engineers to prepare plans for sewer separation, reuse of an abandoned drain line and outfall, and streetscape improvements for the Lower Court Street/Strawbery Banke area in downtown Portsmouth.

CMA Engineers is preparing a capital improvements plan for the Waterville Valley, NH wastewater treatment facility. Constructed in the 1970's this facility was then, and is now, one of the most advanced wastewater treatment facilities in the United States. The facility includes biological treatment, chemical addition and sedimentation, rapid sand filtration and granular activated carbon treatment.

CMA Engineers announces the addition of four new principals. CMA Engineers Vice President Robert J. Grillo,P.E.; Paul Schmidt, P.E., Eric Reitter, P.E. and Jeff Murray, P.E. have become principals of CMA Engineers.

Drew Vardakis, EIT has joined CMA Engineers as a project engineer in the Portsmouth office. Mr. Vardakis graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BSCE degree in August, 2005.