Who are we?
Chi Associates, Inc.  was founded in 1974, incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1976. The company participated in the SBA 8(a) Program and obtained contracts from the Department of Defense, Department of Transportation, Department of Commerce and Environmental Protection Agency. The staffs performed more than 300 projects of various kinds such as “Research in Bridge Structural Response to Wind-Induced Vibrations”, “Revision of simulation Model of Automobile Collisions”, and “Support of the Coast Guard Operational Evaluation of an Air Cushion Vehicle Icebreaking Bow”. Two staff members obtained patents from their inventions, one was entitled “Computer Control of the Electron Microscope Sample Stage”, #5179280, and the other was entitled “Shellfish Depuration System” #5249548. These were assigned to the company.

The company graduated from the SBA 8(a) Program in 1986 and diversified its business endeavors. In 1989 several staffs worked with other research scientists and received several Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants from the National Institutes of Health. In 1993 the company began work with Virginia Department of Transportation as a minority sub-contractor provided services in area of Civil Engineering.

The company’s civil engineers are currently providing services in Hydrology/Hydraulics analyses, stormwater management, flood plain management, bridge scour, river mechanics and highway and bridge design. The inspectors conduct field testing and inspection and shop drawing review. The company teamed with more than twenty engineering consulting firms and provided services to the state and local governments as well as private concerns.

Customer satisfaction is our motto. To provide high quality services is our goal. Since its inception, the company received numerous letters of commendations from the satisfied customers. We aim to maintain these impeccable records.

For each project we will make it our responsibility to fully understand our customers’ needs. We will then establish the most efficient and most cost effective methods to satisfy these needs. We will conduct in-depth analyses of the projects to become familiar with the objectives. We will then apply the state-of-the-art quality assurance to the projects. All projects are closely watched by the project managers, detailed accounts are kept, to ensure project completion according to schedule and within the budget limit.