Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP (CHA), a preeminent multi-disciplined engineering firm headquartered in Albany, New York, announced today that they have opened a new office in Erie, Pennsylvania. The new office is CHA's second in Pennsylvania and 20th overall.

Initially, the new office will be used as a point from which to market CHA's transportation engineering services to the western districts of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). "Pennsylvania has one of the largest in-state transportation networks in the United States and is anticipating strong transportation funding support from the federal government," said Mark Tebbano, CHA's Director of Marketing. "In addition, Pennsylvania also funds state transportation projects from a well-designed gasoline tax program, further increasing the amount of dollars available to fund highway and bridge reconstruction and rehabilitation projects."

CHA also has an office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Since January of 2001, CHA has billed over $3.7 million out of its Scranton office. A large portion of that of that has been transportation-related. PennDOT has eleven districts, five of which are already CHA clients. CHA has billed over $38 million in transportation-related work from all of its offices since January of 2001.

Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP is a highly diversified, multidisciplined engineering firm providing planning and design in the fields of transportation, traffic, aviation, civil, telecommunications, power transmission and distribution, environmental, geotechnical, industrial, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering as well as landscape architecture, land use planning, surveying, wetland delineation, construction inspection and technology services. CHA has 20 offices throughout the United States. The firm was ranked 117th in the Engineering News-Record's (ENR) list of 2002's top 500 engineering firms according to 2001 gross revenues.