Domestic Transactions:
10/3/2022
Civil engineering firm VHB (Watertown, MA) acquired landscape architecture firm HG Design Studio (Richmond, VA). Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Kimley-Horn (Raleigh, NC), a planning and design consulting firm, acquired full-service structural design and consulting firm Pangolin Structural (Phoenix, AZ). Link to Details.
10/4/2022
Multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm Pennoni (Philadelphia, PA) acquired Hygenix (Stamford, CT), a leader in environmental consulting, testing, and laboratory services. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
To meet the growing need for design support and cutting-edge solutions, including system hardening and grid modernization, in the Gulf Coast and Southeast U.S., engineering and environmental consultancy POWER Engineers (Hailey, ID) acquired power delivery engineering and design company Hardy Engineering (Birmingham, AL). Link to Details.
9/27/2022
Expanding its Climate Solutions offering and ESG capabilities, TRC Companies (Windsor, CT), a global environmentally focused and digitally powered solutions provider, added the Founder and CEO and key members of global sustainability consultancy Enzo Advisors (New York, NY). Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) (Hunt Valley, MD), an engineering/architecture and related consulting services firm, acquired ECM International (El Paso, TX), a program and construction management services firm. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Professional services firm WSP (Montreal, Canada) acquired structural engineering firm Odeh Engineers (North Providence, RI). Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Quantum Environmental & Engineering Services (Knoxville, TN), a leading environmental and civil engineering company, joined Fisher Arnold (Memphis, TN), an engineering, architectural, consulting, and planning firm. Link to Details.
10/5/2022
JSI (Greenbelt, MD), a consulting and broadband solutions leader, acquired Mitchell Engineering (Wills Point, TX), a telecommunications engineering and consulting firm that specializes in outside plant (OSP) engineering and design services. Link to Details.
10/5/2022
CT Consultants (Mentor, OH), a consulting firm that provides engineering, architectural, and planning services, merged with Henry T. Welka and Associates (Erie, PA), a land surveying, civil engineering, and land planning services provider. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Structural design, steel connection design, and forensic engineering firm Tarantino Engineering Consultants (TEC) (Fulton, MD) acquired structural consultancy Dunlap Engineering (Bethesda, MD). Link to Details.
9/29/2022
Civil and environmental engineering firm Sevee & Maher Engineers (Cumberland, ME) acquired civil consultancy Bono Consulting (Park Ridge, IL). Link to Details.
10/5/2022
Haley Ward (Brewer, ME), a professional engineering, environmental, and surveying consulting firm, acquired The MilCor Group (Hobe Sound, FL), a multidisciplined engineering firm. Link to Details.
9/21/2022
Main-Land Development Consultants (Livermore Falls, ME), a land consulting firm that provides civil engineering, land surveying, and environmental sciences, acquired land surveying firm Boundary Points (Falmouth, ME). Link to Details.
10/11/2022
National design, consulting, and program & construction management services provider DCCM (Houston, TX) acquired Matthews Design Group (St. Augustine, FL), a full-service civil engineering, roadway design, land development, landscape architecture, and consultancy. Link to Details.
10/12/2022
Architecture, interior design, and planning company L2P (Philadelphia, PA) joined Stantec (Edmonton, Canada), the global leader in sustainable architecture, interior design, and engineering. Link to Details.
10/11/2022
Expanding its technology solutions, TRC Companies (Windsor, CT), a global consulting, engineering, and construction management firm providing environmentally focused and digitally powered solutions, acquired geospatial information systems (GIS) consulting and implementation services provider for the utilities and telecom industries MagikMinds (Warrenville, IL). Link to Details.
10/10/2022
Shigemura, Lau, Sakanashi, Higuchi and Associates (Honolulu, HI), a structural engineering firm, joined Coffman Engineers (Seattle, WA), a consulting engineering firm. Link to Details.
10/13/2022
CHA Consulting (Albany, NY), a full-service engineering consultancy and CM firm, acquired Frazier Engineering (Charlotte, NC), a civil engineering firm specializing in sanitary sewer assessments, design, and rehabilitation. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Award-winning global leader in planning, architecture, and interior design Michael Graves Architecture & Design (Princeton, NJ) acquired architecture firm Jose Carballo Architectural Group (Hackensack, NJ). Link to Details.
10/18/2022
Civil engineering, surveying, planning, and environmental firm Sambatek (Minnetonka, MN) acquired civil engineering and land surveying firm Commercial Site Design (Raleigh, NC). Link to Details.
10/19/2022
Thomas & Hutton (Savannah, GA), professional consultancy that provides consulting, planning, and engineering design services related to land and infrastructure, acquired consulting, engineering, land planning, landscape architecture, surveying, and construction administration services provider Coulter Jewell Thames (Durham, NC). Link to Details.
10/12/2022
National transportation consulting firm and engineering, architectural, planning, and construction solutions provider TranSystems (Kansas City, MO) acquired Overland, Pacific & Cutler (Long Beach, CA), a real estate consulting firm specializing in right-of-way and infrastructure. Link to Details.
10/17/2022
MOREgroup (Fort Worth, TX) acquired E4H Environments for Health Architecture (Boston, MA), a leading consulting planning, and facility design architecture services provider for the healthcare and health science and technology industry. MOREgroup is the new holding company brand for the family of companies formerly known as Huckabee Architects (Fort Worth, TX) and the national architecture, design and engineering services and solutions platform for lower middle-market Defense & Government services, solutions, and technology-focused private equity firm Godspeed Capital (Washington, DC). Link to Details.
10/19/2022
ENTRUST Solutions Group (Warrenville, IL), an engineering, consulting, design, asset integrity, data solutions, and automation services provider for utilities, operators, and industrial customers, acquired Magellan Advisors (Denver, CO), a planning, engineering, grant writing, and fiber and broadband network managing services provider. Link to Details.
10/13/2022
Integrated professional services and design-build firm for the Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) and commercial sectors urban-gro (Lafayette, CO) acquired engineering firm Dawson Van Orden (Houston, TX). Link to Details.
10/1/2022
Shannon & Wilson (Seattle, WA), a consultancy that provides integrated geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, environmental, and natural resource services globally, acquired Hultgren-Tillis Engineers (Concord, CA), a geotechnical engineering services provider for industrial, municipal, commercial, and civil works projects. Link to Details.
10/12/2022
Professional land surveying, geospatial, and consulting services firm Control Point Associates (Warren, NJ) acquired land surveying, GIS, land planning, expert testimony, and litigation support services provider Brooks & Brooks Land Surveyors (Highland, NY). Link to Details.
10/10/2022
The world’s largest pure play sustainability consulting firm ERM (London, UK) acquired sustainability-focused marketing and communications company Shelton Group (Knoxville, TN). Link to Details.
10/12/2022
Yellow Sub Geo (Cardiff, UK), a climate change technology-specialized environmental company, acquired AnAqSim (Scarborough, ME), a groundwater modelling software firm. Link to Details.
10/19/2022
Structural design engineering firm O’Donnell & Naccarato (Philadelphia, PA) acquired structural engineering firm Douglas Wood Associates (Miami, FL). Link to Details.
10/18/2022
EcoAnalysts (Moscow, ID), a leading ecological field sampling, laboratory, and consulting services provider, acquired Hydrosphere Research Environmental Services (Alachua, FL), a leading regional aquatic ecotoxicity testing services provider. Link to Details.
10/18/2022
The leading U.S. professional geospatial and inspection solutions provider for customers in the utility, transportation, and infrastructure industries SAM Companies (Austin, TX) acquired professional land surveying, mapping, and subsurface utility engineering (SUE) solutions firm Echezabal & Associates (Tampa, FL). Link to Details.
10/13/2022
Private investment firm Comvest Partners (West Palm Beach, FL) made a significant private investment in GAI Consultants (Homestead, PA), an engineering, planning, and environmental services company. Link to Details.
10/19/2022
Woolpert (Dayton, OH), an AEG and strategic consultancy, acquired full-service architecture firm Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects (Chicago, IL), which specializes in mission critical and technically challenging projects. Link to Details.
Global Transactions:
10/5/2022
Arcadis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a global design & consultancy organization for natural and built assets, acquired DPS Group (Cork, Ireland), a global consulting, engineering, and construction management firm that serves high-tech industries worldwide. Link to Details.
9/27/2022
Specialist infrastructure communications company Copper Consultancy (London, UK) partnered with RSK Group (Helsby, UK), a global leader in sustainable solutions delivery. Link to Details.
10/4/2022
RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired WGM Engineering (Glasgow, UK), a mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering provider. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Expanding its global services to Southeast Asia, CPP Wind Engineering Consultants (Windsor, CO), a wind engineering services company, acquired Venturi Asia (Kajang, Malaysia), Southeast Asia’s first wind tunnel testing facility for the built environment. Link to Details.
10/4/2022
Stiles Harold Williams Partnership (SHW) (London, UK), an independent full-service property real estate advisory firm, acquired building surveying and architecture company WSW Consultancy (Fleet, UK). Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Kaizen Consulting Engineer (Leeds, UK), a mechanical, electrical, and sustainability company, joined testing, commissioning, and validation/verification services specialist Verisys (Warrington, UK). Link to Details.
10/3/2022
Building surveying, quantity surveying, PM, and energy surveying firm HARDIES Property & Construction Consultants (Edinburgh, UK) acquired BDG Thomson Gray (Aberdeen, UK), one of the oldest surveying firms in Scotland. Link to Details.
10/3/2022
McElhanney (Vancouver, Canada), a professional consultancy that provides geomatics, engineering, geospatial, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services, acquired Abacus Datagraphics (Red Deer, Canada), a line-locating and related services provider. Link to Details.
10/12/2022
Engineering firm Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden) acquired Vibrations Engineering & Acoustics Consulting (VENAC) (Anderlecht, Belgium), an acoustic study and design provider for houses, apartments, offices, cultural buildings, and industrial sites. Link to Details.
10/11/2022
Doubling its Asia operations, Global Infrastructure Solutions (GISI) (New York, NY), the largest privately owned construction manager in the commercial building, industrial, and healthcare markets, acquired the Arcadis Hong Kong Design and Engineering business (Hong Kong, China) and the Arcadis Singapore business (Singapore). Link to Details.
10/10/2022
Handley House (Newark-on-Trent, UK), parent company of Benoy (Newark-on-Trent, UK), an architecture and master planning firm, acquired GH+A (Montreal, Canada), a retail design firm. Link to Details.
10/11/2022
Buckthorn Partners (London, UK), an investment firm focused on energy services companies, in partnership with middle-market private equity firm One Equity Partners (New York, NY), acquired Amey Group (London, UK), an infrastructure services and consulting engineering firm. Link to Details.
10/11/2022
Property development and construction services firm Bennett + Bennett (Bundall, Australia) merged with Skyline Surveyors (Warana, Australia), a surveying company. Link to Details.
10/6/2022
Origin Enterprises (Dublin, Ireland), a specialist advice, inputs, and digital solutions provider for sustainable land use promotion acquired independent ecology solutions provider Keystone Environmental (Tetbury, UK). Link to Details.
10/13/2022
SLR (Aylesbury, UK), a global environmental and advisory consultancy, acquired global leader in data driven ESG performance, responsible sourcing, and responsible mining assurance and technology RCS Global Group (London, UK). Link to Details.
10/12/022
Specialist civil and mechanical engineering firm Hollywood Civil Engineering (Willenhall, UK) joined global leader in sustainable solutions delivery RSK Group (Helsby, UK). Link to Details.
10/19/2022
Market-leading geotechnical consultancy CMW Geosciences (Wembley, Australia) merged with assurance, testing, inspection, certification, training, and data services company Kiwa (Rijswijk, The Netherlands). Link to Details.
10/19/2022
LRI Engineering (Toronto, Canada), a leading fire protection engineering and building code consultancy, merged with CEP Forensic (Laval, Canada), a forensic engineering services provider. Link to Details.
10/17/2022
Acoustic, data, traffic, and waste consultancy TTM Consulting (Brisbane, Australia) acquired MRCagney (Milton, Australia), a traffic and transport planning consulting firm. Link to Details.
These transactions will be uploaded to the M&A Activity Map by the end of the week for your reference. Reports for the rest of October are incoming.
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