Chen Moore and Associates

What Chen Moore and Associates does

Chen Moore and Associates (CMA) is a privately held, multi-disciplinary engineering firm headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded in 1986 by Dr. Ben Chen. The firm delivers professional engineering services across civil, transportation, electrical, water/wastewater, water resources, environmental, landscape architecture, planning, and construction management disciplines to municipal, county, state, institutional, and private developer clients. CMA's service offering spans planning, design, permitting, and construction administration, with specialized capabilities in trenchless technology installation (HDD, Swagelining, Pipe Bursting, CIPP), large-diameter utility design, design-build delivery (over $200M in completed utility engineering projects), and neighborhood improvement programs (~$67M in Broward County alone). The firm is positioned as Florida's "Neighborhood Engineers" with 34+ years of regional experience, holds 60+ municipal and county continuing services contracts, and has expanded to 15 offices across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

CMA's revenue model is professional services — project-based consulting fees derived from competitive bidding for public-sector work and direct selection for private developer and institutional engagements. Distribution is direct enterprise field sales targeting government agencies, utilities, universities, healthcare systems, and real-estate developers, with no intermediaries or marketplace channels. The firm has scaled primarily through acquisition — including Fred Wilson & Associates (Jacksonville, 2021) and NZ Consultants (Jupiter, 2023) — alongside organic geographic expansion, growing from 3 employees to approximately 150 across two decades under CEO Peter M. Moore. The underlying technology stack is industry-standard hydraulic modeling and GIS tooling (WaterGEMS/SewerGEMS, Innovyze InfoWater/InfoSewer, H2ONET/H2OMAP, ESRI), with competitive differentiation grounded in domain expertise, regulatory relationships with FDOT/SFWMD/FDEP, and senior talent with deep professional society leadership rather than proprietary technology.

Name

Chen Moore and Associates

Legal name

Chen Moore and Associates

Website

https://chenmoore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Chen Moore and Associates is a privately held, multi-disciplinary engineering firm founded in 1986, delivering civil, water/wastewater, transportation, electrical, environmental, and planning services to municipal, institutional, and private clients across the Southeast US.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering Consulting Services

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Construction Management & Delivery (EPCM/CMAR/Design-Build Oversight) (EUANALAE)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Water and wastewater engineering
• Transportation engineering services
• Environmental engineering consulting
• Landscape architecture planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Lauderdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices15 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Engineering Services: Project-based consulting and engineering services for government and private sector clients. Revenue derived from planning, design, construction administration, and project management for infrastructure projects including water/wastewater systems, transportation, and site development.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Chen Moore and Associates (CMA) is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm providing professional engineering consulting services across civil, transportation, electrical, water and wastewater, water resources, landscape architecture, planning, environmental, and construction engineering disciplines. The firm delivers planning, design, permitting, and construction administration services for infrastructure projects to municipal, county, state, and private sector clients throughout Florida and the Southeast US.

Product overview

Chen Moore and Associates (CMA) is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm offering a comprehensive portfolio of professional engineering and design services. The firm operates as a unified service platform organized around core engineering disciplines including civil engineering, transportation engineering, electrical engineering, landscape architecture, planning, environmental services, construction management, and specialized utility engineering. The service offering is structured around key market segments (Water & Wastewater, Water Resources, Transportation, Energy, Government Services, Institutional & Educational, Land Development, Community Advancement, and Parks & Recreation) with specialized capabilities in trenchless technology, neighborhood improvement programs, public space design, and aviation services. CMA's services range from planning and design through construction administration, serving municipal, county, state, and private clients throughout Florida and the Southeast U.S.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Engineering Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 3,000 septic properties impacted through environmental improvement projects
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NZ ConsultantscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 January 2023Acquired NZ Consultants, a Jupiter-based planning company, to expand services and increase team to 120 employees. This acquisition enhanced CMA's presence in Florida and supports projects including Florida Department of Transportation District 4 work.
• Fred Wilson & Associates, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 October 2021Acquired Fred Wilson & Associates, Inc., a Jacksonville-based engineering firm, to expand services across Florida. The acquisition increased their statewide team and enhanced infrastructure projects including transportation and electrical engineering.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Stantec: Global multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a substantial Florida water, environmental, and infrastructure practice that directly competes with CMA on municipal and transportation projects at scale.
• Tetra Tech: Leading water, environmental, and sustainable infrastructure consulting firm with Florida presence; competes with CMA on water/wastewater, environmental, and resilience projects.
• WSP: Global professional services firm with strong Florida transportation, water, and environmental practices acquired through legacy firms; competes with CMA on FDOT and large municipal programs.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with major Florida water and transportation practices; competes with CMA on large design-build utility and FDOT pursuits.
• HDR: Employee-owned engineering firm with significant water, transportation, and environmental practices serving Florida municipalities and FDOT — overlaps with CMA's core utility and transportation services.
• Jacobs Solutions: Global professional services firm with deep water, transportation, and environmental engineering capabilities in Florida; competes on large-scale municipal and FDOT contracts.

Regional players

• Calvin, Giordano & Associates: Florida-based multi-discipline engineering firm (Fort Lauderdale headquarters) competing with CMA on municipal continuing-services contracts, transportation, and site development across Southeast Florida.

Direct peers

• Kimley-Horn: Privately held, employee-owned multi-disciplinary engineering firm with deep Southeast US presence in transportation, water, environmental, and land development — the closest direct peer to CMA in size, ownership structure, and service mix.
• Brown and Caldwell: Employee-owned environmental engineering and water/wastewater consulting firm with comparable Florida utility practice; closest mid-sized peer by service focus and ownership model.
• Hazen and Sawyer: Employee-owned environmental engineering firm focused on water and wastewater infrastructure with a strong Florida presence; directly comparable in service mix and client base to CMA's utility engineering practice.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Chen_Moore
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/chen-moore-and-associates

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A2 records

Investments

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