History
Since 1976, CRA has grown from a small, regional engineering company, to a worldwide multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting Canadian firm. Starting with the merger in 1976 of Frank A. Rovers & Associates and Conestoga Engineering, and fewer than 10 employees, CRA has grown to become a group of companies with 3000 employees in over 90 offices.
In the late 1970s, CRA's reputation for strategic project management at environmentally polluted properties developed from its investigation, remedial design, and oversight of the Love Canal cleanup project in Niagara Falls, NY. This project was the primary impetus for what is now the CERCLA Superfund program in the United States and gave CRA international recognition in the environmental field. Since then, completed projects number in the thousands.
CRA'scivil engineering/municipal infrastructure roots lie in providing traditional full-service engineering design and construction oversight services to several municipalities commencing in the 1970s. Many of these early clients still work with CRA today.
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