CH2M HILL is an American-based global full-service provider of consulting, design, construction, and operations services for corporations, and federal, state, and local governments. The firm is headquartered in Meridian, an unincorporated area of Douglas County, Colorado in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. The postal designation of nearby Englewood is commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and local news accounts. As of December 2011 CH2M HILL had approximately 30,000 employees due to the November 2011 acquisition of Halcrow Group, Ltd., and 2011 revenues... totaled $5.56 billion. The firm is employee-owned, with an internal stock market that operates buy/sell events quarterly. CH2M HILL was founded in 1946 in Corvallis, Oregon by Oregon State University civil engineering professor Fred Merryfield and three of his students: Holly Cornell, Jim Howland and T. Burke Hayes . Cornell, Howland, and Hayes were all graduates of Oregon State University. The Hill name was added after a 1971 merger with Clair A. Hill and Associates of Redding, California.
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