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CMAA Membership Is Growing Dramatically!

How CMAA membership will help you do better work…and better business.

Membership in the Construction Management Association of America gives you easy access to an entire portfolio of services and resources that can improve your professional performance and your firm’s business results, as well as brightening the business outlook for the profession as a whole.

Professional resources

  • CMAA works to set and promote standards of professional CM practice.
  • A “members-only” web area offers government affairs updates, our membership directory, state by state licensing requirements, and online member surveys.
  • Contracts are available, specific to various types of project delivery environments, designed to help you assure consistent, dependable outcomes.
  • Conferences and other programs are held throughout the year, culminating with the National Conference each fall, to expand your networks and knowledge.
  • Publications like CM Advisor and NewsLine keep you abreast of national issues, trends, and association activities.
  • An ongoing research program collects and interprets data on everything from construction costs to management trends.
  • Regional chapters help you connect with other CMs in your home market.
  • Professional liability insurance and other business service programs also help you meet pressing needs, particularly among smaller firms.

Promotion

  • CMAA mounts organized, effective campaigns to help members gain access to major new business opportunities—such as the vast expenditures that will soon be made to construct new schools and upgrade existing facilities.
  • The association works to improve the recognition and understanding of CM as a profession, making owners, developers and other industry participants more aware of the value a professional CM brings to the construction process.
  • CMAA publications such as An Owner’s Guide to Construction Management, and Construction Management Standards of Practice help educate owners of the advantages of CM and help CMs keep current on the industry’s best practices.  Topical brochures in high-profile markets like schools and transportation infrastructure also call the advantages of professional Construction Management to the attention of potential owner clients.
  • CMAA works through advertising, publicity, mailing campaigns, conference participation and other vehicles to spread the word about CM in every appropriate forum.
  • The CMAA web site provides a public, searchable Find a CM/PM Directory, plus a step-by-step guide to evaluating, selecting and working with a professional Construction Manager.

Advocacy

  • CMAA raises your voice in the halls of Congress, regulatory agencies, state legislatures and other settings on a wide range of issues that intimately affect the success of your business.
  • The association creates and strengthens alliances with other professional and industrial organizations to improve both their members’ understanding of CM and the business environment for the construction industry in general.

Professional certification

  • CMAA’s Certification Program is widely recognized as a reliable way to identify practitioners who have demonstrated their knowledge, experience and judgment. The association’s administration and promotion of the “Certified Construction Manager” (CCM) designation both enhances the status of the profession and expands business opportunities for CCM designees.

Business opportunities

  • CMAA gives you access to a continuously updated database of projects and owners seeking CM assistance. 
  • The CMAA website offers owners and developers a convenient way to search the association’s membership and locate CM candidates for their projects.
  • A job posting area gives you first crack at new opportunities as they arise.  Members receive discounts on job posting packages of all sizes.

CMAA is really more than the sum of all these elements.  And like any association, what CMAA is and does largely depends on you.  Become an active member of CMAA, and shape your own future!

CMAA’s Mission is to "promote and enhance leadership, professionalism, and excellence
in managing the development and construction of projects and programs." Successful projects don’t just happen, especially not in today’s environment of complexity and high costs.  Delivering a project on time and on budget, free of disputes and injuries, requires an integrated, managed approach to every phase from concept through design and construction to completion.  Professional construction managers help deliver this value, and CMAA helps these professionals work more effectively.

CMAA’s Members include both individuals and firms, and now exceeds 5,000. These members represent a broad spectrum of the design and construction industry, including CM practitioners, public and private owners, design professionals, contractors, attorneys, insurers, services consultants, educators and students. CMAA is also attracting an increasing number of owners as members. This important trend not only means CMAA is “bringing buyers and sellers” together, but is also helping to enhance communication, knowledge and understanding among both CMs and their prospective owner clients.  CMAA’s membership is also highly diverse geographically, with a growing number of international firms and practitioners. 

CMAA’s Management is directed by a Board of Directors representing the full spectrum of CM practice, including agency CM, CM “at risk” and Owners.  CMAA’s professional staff is based at the association’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, a leading business center in the suburbs of Washington, DC.  A roster of association committees helps members direct their energies into the fields of greatest interest to them, and regional chapters provide members the opportunity to network and become active in their own areas. The CMAA Foundation is building the profession’s future through market research, special projects and scholarships for young people interested in careers in Construction Management.

CMAA’s Mandate is to help professional Construction Managers achieve better results. That includes supporting you in your continuing effort to improve your skills, expand your knowledge and broaden your business.  And it includes helping you run your practice better as a business—through better marketing, training, client relations, project management and long-range business planning. CMAA has achieved recognition and influence within the design and construction community.  This success results from our combination of strong resources and a committed membership.  CMAA and its members, working together, are building a better Construction Management profession.

 

For more information on how to join CMAA please click here.