Our Legacy

John Truemper founded Construction Management Engineering, LLC.

Dave Hellinger, Mark Hellinger, and Harmon Hellinger founded Hellinger Construction.

After the founding of Hellinger Construction, David Hellinger developed leukemia. Mark traveled back and forth from work to the UCLA Medical Center to donate his bone marrow for transfusions to David. The transfusions were a success and David was pronounced cancer-free. Unfortunately, David contracted pneumonia and sadly passed away on August 15th, 1981. After Dave's passing, Mark Hellinger and Harmon Hellinger dissolved Hellinger Construction. Jim Waffle, Pat Bruggeman, Martin Blundall, and Mark Hellinger acquired Construction Management Engineering, LLC, from John Truemper.

Construction Management Engineering, LLC. had completed their first major project, K&K Insurance.

Tom Wagner joined Construction Management Engineering, LLC. He acquired the shares of Jim Waffle and Martin Blundall and was named Vice President of Construction Management Engineering, LLC.

Ryan Hellinger started working for Construction Management Engineering, LLC. in 1989, while in 8th grade. His first job was sweeping floors and picking up trash at the Trane Building in Fort Wayne. Ryan took a break from working during his freshman and sophomore years of high school to focus on sports.

Dave Wells was hired on as a Project Coordinator. Over his 35 years of employment he became CME's first Senior Project Manager.

Tom Wagner changed the entity structure from Construction Management Engineering, LLC. to CME Corporation, Inc. The company moved from The Landing in Downtown Fort Wayne to South Hannah Street (formally the Shinner and Truemper building).

Ryan returned to seasonal field work. He worked under Paul Martin on a concrete crew constructing the Hicksville Bank in Ohio.

Mark Hellinger gained interest in providing his clients with single source design-build solutions. In February of 2000, Mark made his first step on this path by hiring Andrew Zabel, a recent Ball State Architectural graduate. Andrew was hired as a Project Detailer and continued to work with Mark until July 4, 2003, when he passed away from cancer.

Upon returning home from an internship at Olympia Development in Florida, Ryan moved in the office and started working in estimating.

Trey Holcomb joined CME Corporation as a Project Estimator.

An F5 tornado ripped through Cooper Farms in VanWert, OH. CME was called in to rebuild the food plant's existing 50,000 square feet and add another 25,000 square feet in just 6 months. Completing the project quickly and with outstanding quality, deepened an already great relationship. CME has since been called back to complete two major design-build expansions: a slicing line addition totaling $8 million and a recent south & west addition totaling $14 million. More than 100,000 square feet has been added in total.

In November, Mark hired Nathan Moore to help continue Mark's vision of providing integrated design-build services.

CME Corporation moved to Vicksburg Pike.

In August 2011, during the recession, CME Corporation was awarded a $12 million McCarty Dairy project in Colby, Kansas. During this 12-month project, CME field workers drove 16 hours where they would stay in Colby for 2 weeks and then drive back while another group would take their place.

Diana Martin was hired as Office Manager/Bookkeeper.

CME was awarded a $32 million project for Do it Best in Sikeston, Missouri, totaling 575,000 square feet.

Alan Moore was hired as a BIM Coordinator.

Tom Wagner sold his shares to Ryan Hellinger and Trey Holcomb. CME was awarded a design-build project to construct a new $116 million fluid dairy processing facility and warehouse cooler in Tipp City, Ohio.

In April 2016, Trey Holcomb passed away.

Tom Wagner Retired. The re-engineering of CME began with the development of the leadership team. This team included Ryan Hellinger, Alan Moore, Nathan Moore, and Diana Martin.

Ryan Hellinger was named President of CME Corporation.

Alan Moore was named Operations Manager.

Diana Martin was named Controller.

Stacy Bolton was hired as HR & IT Manager.

On July 26, 2020, Mark Hellinger passed away. After Mark's passing, Ryan Hellinger became sole owner of CME.

The structure of CME was modified, and Stacy Bolton became part of the leadership team.

Alan Moore was promoted to Vice President of CME Corporation.

CME was awarded the $100 million Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream project in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Nathan Moore was promoted to Vice President of Design.

Stacy Bolton became an officer of CME Construction.

In July 2023, CME hit a major milestone with the Project Legacy Groundbreaking. On November 15, 2023 a Topping Out Ceremony was held.

In May 2024, CME moved to 2488 Persistence Drive.