Chicago Based HACIA Honors CSA Group With the Professional Service Firm of the Year Award

The Hispanic American Construction Industry Association’s (HACIA) recently awarded the Professional Service Firm of the Year Award to CSA GROUP, the largest Hispanic-owned full service engineering, architectural, and construction management firm in North America. CSA Group recently attended HACIA’s 29th Annual Awards Banquet held in Chicago, IL., where it named CSA Group the recipient of this annual award. Accepting the award was president and CEO of CSA, J.J. Suarez.

“We are extremely proud to have received this recognition from HACIA, a leading institution in our Industry. I humbly accept it in the name of all our professionals.” Said Dr. Suarez after receiving the award.

CSA Group was selected based on their growth and expansion in the Midwest as well as all of North America. For over half a century, CSA Group has been diligently developing their brand to be synonymous with quality of product, quality of service, and quality of personnel.

“This was an excellent event where CSA Group was at the forefront before the members of HACIA and this event placed CSA Group front-stage before a key audience in Chicago,” said Tony Caballero, CSA’s Senior Program Manager and Chicago representative to HACIA.

CSA Group entered the Chicago market in late 2005 and created a Mentor-Protege affiliation with the well-known Chicago architectural firm, Macondo Corp. The Mentor-Protege Program (MPP) was designed to assist other minority companies in the engineering field and related businesses. CSA’s Mentor-Protege Program is a private program, based on the Federal U.S. model, designed to enhance the capabilities of small business partners by improving their ability to successfully compete and effectively execute government and private industry contracts. Since CSA entered the agreement with Macondo Corp, their relationship blossomed into an immediate growth for both organizations. CSA Group has been extremely proud of their progress with Macondo Corp and the obvious success of the Mentor-Protege Program. This award illustrated CSA’s influence and growth in the Midwest market. Consequentially, CSA Group was once again formally and officially welcomed to the Chicago market.

Founded in 1979 in Chicago, IL., HACIA’s mission was to create equal access for minority firms and to prevent discriminatory practices in the construction industry. Since then, HACIA has opened doors of opportunity for thousands of minority owned construction businesses. The organization is one of the largest in Chicago area for construction contractors, both Hispanic and non. Throughout its history, HACIA has been an advocate not only of Hispanic- owned businesses in the construction industry but has grown as a valuable resource to majority-owned firms who seek to include MBE and WBE businesses in their work. Today, HACIA’s membership represents over 140 highly qualified construction companies, professional services and construction related services in our industry.

The HACIA dinner is an annual awards event. It is recognized as the largest construction industry event in the Midwest. The awards banquet brings together members and organizational partners to celebrate the year’s accomplishments. The Awards Banquet is held in February of each year and provides an opportunity to award those members and partners who have gone the extra mile in support of HACIA.

The dinner was attended by approximately 1400 people including all of the larger construction contractors and members of various agencies. Pat Ryan, the keynote speaker, is also the head of the committee working diligently to bring the Olympics to Chicago.

It was a great opportunity to put the CSA brand at the forefront with various agencies and get our name out there. During the dinner a large screen displaying advertisements, featured CSA Groups message to the HACIA, which congratulated HACIA on their 29th Awards Banquet. During another slideshow, CSA was also able to include over twenty photos of significant projects with CSA logo embedded within the description, thereby further establishing the CSA name in the Midwest.

The banquet program also included award presentations to Harris NA, Corporate Leadership Award, Mark Morales and Cutting Edge Electric Inc took home Contractor of the Year Award, Fransisco Carrillo and The Home Depot walked away with Member of the Year Award, Rosemarie Andolino, O’Hare Modernization Program, and Phase I Runway Expansion Project received Project of the Year Awards, Rosalinda “Rusty” Castillo took the Hispanic Leadership award, and Dominic Delgado received the Past President Award.”*

*From: http://sev.prnewswire.com
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