Quality at CDM Smith

Since 1947, we have been solving the most complex environmental and infrastructure challenges and serving our clients with a passion that stems from our commitment to quality — our core value of excellence in action. Being the best means continuously raising the bar, elevating our commitment and delivering exceptional results for our clients and ourselves.

Our Quality Mission

We passionately pursue excellence in everything we do and proudly stand behind our work. Our commitment to quality is an enterprise-wide mission focused on delighting our clients, empowering our staff and relentlessly rising to the standards set by our founders. We know how important it is to match the right people with the right knowledge and expertise, onto the right assignment, at the right time, on every task. We are investing in industry-leading certification programs, tools and trainings to be the experts needed to solve our clients’ challenges. Our dynamic tools that make it possible to drive consistent, internal processes and help instill successful practices in the future.

Our Culture of Excellence

We are all in this together with the common goal to delight our clients and empower staff. Take a look and see the incredible projects we’ve been a part of and the passionate people who make up our incredible firm.

Quality in Action

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Pioneering PFAS Treatment

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Pioneering PFAS Treatment

A western Massachusetts community has become a leader in drinking water innovation by taking the initiative on perfluorinated compounds.

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Pilot Project Converts Food Waste into Bio-methane Fuel

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Pilot Project Converts Food Waste into Bio-methane Fuel

A team of CDM Smith engineers successfully pilot an innovative biogas purification system at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

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Alternate Care Facility Helps Montana Prepare for COVID-19

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Alternate Care Facility Helps Montana Prepare for COVID-19

CDM Smith supported the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, in converting a vacant floor of Montana Children’s Hospital into an alternate care facility in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Setting a Higher Bar for Biosolids in Texas

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Setting a Higher Bar for Biosolids in Texas

To capitalize upon the success of Trinity River Authority's previous project and to build on the lessons learned from its implementation, CDM Smith was retained to design a cutting-edge thermal hydrolysis system at their largest plant—helping them move beyond biosolids disposal to a new era of resource recovery.

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Complex Conversion to All-Electronic Tolling

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Complex Conversion to All-Electronic Tolling

CDM Smith helped deliver America’s largest, most complex all-electronic tolling system design-build project on the Mass Pike. CDM Smith administered overall quality control on this award-winning project, reviewing and approving more than 250 civil design plans and specifications, toll system design documentation, toll system and equipment testing scripts and construction plans.

Training and Certification

Through CDM Smith University (accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training), we provide rigorous training for our client sales leaders, project managers, technical professionals and administrative staff. We strive to be the best and the brightest in the industry and our culture of learning empowers staff to stay at the forefront of the latest industry trends, deliver high-quality results and always keep learning to solve complex problems for our clients.