{"id":71428,"date":"2016-12-09T17:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/consulting-giant-to-close-durango-offices\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:21:53","slug":"consulting-giant-to-close-durango-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/consulting-giant-to-close-durango-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting giant to close Durango offices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d493fef5-a885-4f2c-94e7-0301adb0e512&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Engineering and environmental consulting giant CH2M will close its leased offices at Tech Center Drive in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the location will be vacated, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ch2m.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CH2M<\/a>  spokeswoman Lorrie Crum said the company\u2019s business model is shifting so that employees working out of the local office \u2013 there are about 10 \u2013 can work remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Most of CH2M\u2019s offices outside of its Englewood headquarters are temporarily leased as the company handles major projects, Crum said. She could not provide an official date for the office\u2019s closing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding our work in Durango, we provide a variety of services to private and public sector organizations in the greater area, including management services in water, wastewater, environmental and general service operations,\u201d Crum wrote in an email. \u201cThe office decision isn\u2019t specific to any singular project in Durango; it simply makes more sense for us to operate in a more nimble model, where teleworking is a win-win for clients and our employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that employees spend most of their time in the field, so it isn\u2019t economical to maintain office space. The change, she said, is not a workforce reduction.<\/p>\n<p>CH2M ranks at No. 71 on Forbes\u2019 largest private U.S. companies with reportedly $5.4 billion in revenue and 22,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Durango office originated from CH2M\u2019s December 2007 acquisition of Trigon EPC, a leading engineering firm specializing in oil and gas projects.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jpace@durangoherald.com\">jpace@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CH2M employees to work remotely, official says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[431,21,13,477],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-general","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-natural-gas"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71428"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}