The Chazen Companies

What The Chazen Companies does

The Chazen Companies is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm headquartered in Poughkeepsie, New York, founded in 1947. It operates as a private, for-profit professional services organization with 101–250 employees, serving clients in the United States. The firm provides consulting services across the built and natural environment, with practice areas spanning engineering, environmental, surveying, and related disciplines typical of an integrated infrastructure and land development consultancy.

The firm's go-to-market relies on direct, relationship-based client engagement, primarily serving government agencies, commercial enterprises, and institutional clients through project-based engagements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, consistent with bespoke professional services contracting. The firm employs content marketing and careers-oriented communications to attract both clients and talent, and reports a 4-star Glassdoor rating alongside claims of 25% annual revenue growth sustained for over a decade and a documented project portfolio of approximately 570 projects. In 2017, the company executed a strategic acquisition of Adler Consulting, indicating an active inorganic growth posture.

Name

The Chazen Companies

Legal name

LaBella Associates

Website

https://chazencompanies.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Chazen Companies is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm founded in 1947 and headquartered in Poughkeepsie, New York, serving government, commercial, and institutional clients across the United States with engineering, environmental, and related professional services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering & Environmental Consulting Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (541330), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Waste Collection (5621)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Waste & Hazardous Materials Management (incl. HazMat) (BPAHAJAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Circularity Consulting & Program Management (EPR, Design-for-Circularity, LCA) (EUAIANAH), Supply Chain Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing (SMETA, supplier ESG) (EUAHAJAE)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Environmental consulting
• Architecture design
• Power systems engineering
• Transportation engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Poughkeepsie

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Chazen Companies is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm providing integrated architecture, engineering, environmental consulting, and program/project management services for the built and natural environment. The firm delivers twelve major service categories—architecture and interior design, buildings engineering, civil engineering, environmental consulting, environmental contracting, landscape architecture, planning, power systems engineering, program and project management, survey and mapping, transportation engineering, and waste and recycling services—coordinated in-house across commercial, education, healthcare, industrial, justice, power and energy, public works, residential, sports, transportation, and waste and recycling markets.

Product overview

LaBella Associates is a professional services firm offering a unified portfolio of integrated services rather than a traditional product-platform architecture. The company provides twelve major service categories spanning architecture, engineering (civil, buildings, power systems, transportation), environmental consulting and contracting, landscape architecture, planning, project management, survey and mapping, and waste/recycling services. These services are offered as an integrated, in-house delivery model where multiple disciplines coordinate under single-project oversight to serve clients across diverse markets including commercial, education, healthcare, industrial, justice, power and energy, public works, residential, sports, transportation, and waste and recycling sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture & Interior Design
• Buildings Engineering Engineering services for buildings including building code services, electrical engineering, energy efficiency, mechanical engineering, plumbing and fire protection engineering, and structural engineering.
• Civil Engineering Civil engineering services covering data intelligence (GIS), gas utility engineering, geotechnical engineering, land development, municipal engineering, pipeline integrity management and inspection, stormwater management, and water/wastewater systems.
• Environmental Consulting Environmental consulting services including air permitting, brownfield and urban redevelopment, due diligence investigation and remediation, environmental permitting and compliance, ecological services, wetlands services, regulated building materials, and water supply and resource planning.
• Environmental Contracting Environmental contracting services including drilling, ecological construction and restoration, and petroleum bulk storage compliance.
• Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture services including parks and recreation planning and design, residential landscape planning and design, and urban design and planning.
• Planning Planning services including environmental review, grants and financing, and planning and development for municipal and commercial clients.
• Power Systems Engineering Power systems engineering services including dams and hydropower generation, electric transmission and distribution, and substation design.
• Program & Project Management Project management services including owner's engineer, program management teams, project delivery, project management and construction management, and staff augmentation.
• Survey & Mapping Survey and mapping services for land development and infrastructure projects.
• Transportation Engineering Transportation engineering services including bridge and structure design, construction engineering, highway and street design, multi-modal planning and design, traffic engineering, and trail design.
• Waste & Recycling Services Comprehensive waste and recycling services including landfill closure and post-closure, landfill compliance and remediation, landfill gas system design and management, landfill leachate, solid waste engineering and development services, sustainable waste management solutions, and training operations consulting in the solid waste industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects delivered on time and on budget

Segments14 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• WSP: Global professional services firm with deep transportation, environment, property, and power engineering practices; directly competes for Northeast municipal and utility engagements.
• GHD: Global employee-owned engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm with overlapping transportation, water, and environmental service lines; broader geographic reach than LaBella but similar integrated delivery model.
• Stantec: Global multi-disciplinary engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm with comparable buildings, infrastructure, water, and energy practices; competes with LaBella for larger program mandates across North America.
• Tetra Tech: Global leader in water, environment, and sustainable infrastructure consulting; overlaps directly with LaBella's environmental consulting, water/wastewater, and waste & recycling practices, but operates at much larger scale.
• Kimley-Horn: Privately held planning, engineering, and design consulting firm; shares LaBella's private, organic-growth ethos and multi-disciplinary approach to land development, transportation, and environmental services.
• Burns & McDonnell: 100% employee-owned engineering, architecture, and construction firm with comparable power, environmental, and infrastructure practices; competes for utility and municipal clients in the Northeast.

Regional players

• Boswell Engineering: New Jersey-based civil, structural, environmental, and municipal engineering firm; mirrors LaBella's Northeast public-sector focus at a similar mid-market size.

Direct peers

• TRC Companies: Engineering and environmental consulting firm with strong pipeline integrity, environmental, and power practice overlap; comparable mid-cap profile and East Coast presence to LaBella.
• VHB: Northeast-US headquartered multi-disciplinary engineering, planning, and environmental consulting firm serving transportation, real estate, and public-sector clients; highly comparable in size, regional footprint, and integrated service model to LaBella.

Others

• Hawkins Delafield & Wood: Specialized municipal advisory and environmental finance law firm commonly co-engaged with engineering firms on infrastructure and brownfield projects; adjacent rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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