Hill International Wins Project Achievement Award from CMAA’s Southern California Chapter


PHILADELPHIA & IRVINE, Calif., April 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has been recognized with a Project Achievement Award by the Southern California Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) for the company’s management of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa in Southern California.  The project won in the category of “Design-Build Project Valued at More Than $100 Million.”  The award was presented to Hill on April 21, 2016 at the chapter’s annual awards banquet held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

“We are honored to have been recognized by CMAA’s Southern California Chapter,” said John K. Skoury, P.E., Senior Vice President with Hill’s Project Management Group.  “We congratulate our client the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority and the entire construction team for this outstanding accomplishment,” added Skoury.

CMAA is North America’s only organization dedicated exclusively to the interests of professional construction management and program management.  The association, formed in 1982, currently has more than 14,000 members, including individual CM/PM practitioners, corporate members, and construction owners in both the public and private sectors, along with academic and associate members.  For more information on CMAA, please visit their website at www.cmaanet.org.

Hill International, with 4,800 professionals in 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, construction claims and other consulting services primarily to the buildings, transportation, environmental, energy and industrial markets.  Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the seventh largest construction management firm in the United States.  For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

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Senior Vice President of Marketing and
Corporate Communications
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johnpaolin@hillintl.com

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