CDM Smith


CDM Smith is an engineering and construction company which provides solutions in water, energy, transportation, and facilities projects for government and private clients. The employee owned company is currently ranked 22nd on Engineering News-Record's 2015 Top 500 Design Firms list and 13th on their 2015 Top 200 Environmental Firms list.

History

Camp Dresser & McKee was founded in 1947 by Thomas Camp with partners Herman Dresser and Jack McKee. In 2011, CDM acquired Wilbur Smith, a 1,000-employee transportation engineering firm to form CDM Smith. CDM Smith later acquired the Ohio-based Louis Perry Group in late 2014 as an independent subsidiary to expand its industrial expertise in the rubber and plastic industry. In 2015, CDM Smith moved its headquarters from a 180,000 square foot space at 50 Hampshire St, Cambridge, Massachusetts to a 120,000 sq ft office space at 75 State Street in Boston., Boston, Massachusetts
On June 21, 2017, the US Justice Department declined to prosecute CDM Smith for corruption, despite finding that the company had paid $1.18 million to officials in India. In July 2017, CDM Smith agreed to pay around $4 million to the US Treasury.
Investigations by the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice intro bribery were closed, after CDM Smith agreed to disgorge US $4 million. CDM Smith has been sanctioned by the World Bank for “failing to disclose a subcontract on a project in Vietnam, and were conditionally non-de-barred for one and half years.
On July 15, 2017, it was announced that the Goa government has asked state chief secretary Dharmendra Sharma to investigate bribes from CDM Smith in India.
Based on Special Investigation Team of Central Vigilance Commission, India's Central Bureau of Investigation filed first FIR in this case on February 02, 2018.

Principal subsidiaries

CDM Smith's principal subsidiaries are: