Weekly mergers and acquisitions update: January 10, 2024

Domestic Transactions

12/31/2024

GSBS Architects (Salt Lake City, UT) acquired Atlas Architects (Salt Lake City, UT), a small architecture firm known for pioneering the revitalization of Salt Lake City’s transit-oriented Central 9th neighborhood. Link to details

01/03/2025

Planning, architecture, and interiors firm INVISION (Des Moines, IA) expands to the Southeast with the strategic merger of architecture and interior design firm RDB Design Associates (Jacksonville, FL). Link to details

01/05/2024

Multidisciplinary consulting firm AKRF (New York, NY) (ENR #226) acquired the ongoing business and assets of Philip Habib & Associates (New York, NY), a civil and traffic engineering, transportation planning, environmental studies, and construction inspection services firm. Link to details

01/06/2025

Engineering, planning, and consulting firm Michael Baker International (Pittsburgh, PA) (ENR #28) merged with MEP engineering and sustainability firm Akela Engineering and Consulting (San Diego, CA). Link to details

01/06/2025

TowerPinkster (Kalamazoo, MI), an architecture, engineering, and interior design firm, merged with Comprehensive Engineering (Grand Rapids, MI), a firm specializing in mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering. Link to details

01/06/2025

Greenprint Partners (Chicago, IL), a firm specializing in community-based environmental infrastructure, acquired Omni Workshop (Chicago, IL), a landscape architecture and design studio, previously part of Omni Ecosystems. Link to details

01/07/2025

The SOCOTEC Group (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) strengthens its position in the USA with the acquisition of Ninyo & Moore (San Diego, CA) (ENR #212), a firm specializing in geotechnical engineering, environmental services, materials testing, inspection services, industrial hygiene, and occupational safety. Link to details

01/07/2025

Industry leader employee-owned firm and Morrissey Goodale strategy client Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) (Watertown, MA) (ENR #62) joined forces with Close, Jensen & Miller (Wethersfield, CT), a civil engineering firm that provides bridge, highway, hydraulic design, construction support, and land surveying. Link to details

01/07/2025

Electric Power Engineers (Austin, TX), an energy and power systems engineering and consulting firm, received a significant strategic growth investment from private equity firm Berkshire Partners (Boston, MA). Link to details

01/08/2025

Geospatial and inspection solutions firm SAM Companies (Austin, TX) (ENR #86) acquired S. Nelson & Associates (Dallas, GA), a firm offering data collection for electric transmission and distribution line engineering and design surveys. Link to details

01/08/2025

Mancini Duffy (New York, NY), an architecture, interiors, and planning firm, acquired Design Styles Architecture (Tampa, FL), an architecture firm with experience in the multifamily, residential, and education sectors. Link to details

01/08/2025

Ensero Solutions (Fort Collins, CO), a permitting, environmental assessment, water management, remediation technologies, and facility operations firm, joined True Environmental (New York, NY), a platform focused on building a consulting and engineering organization for environmental end markets. Link to details

01/08/2024

Testing, inspection, and certification firm SGS (Geneva, Switzerland) acquired Aster Global Environmental Solutions (North Lawrence, OH), a firm focused on validation and verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and offsets, forestry, ecosystems, and corporate and social responsibility services. Link to details

01/09/2025

Palm Beach Capital (West Palm Beach, FL) launched an architecture-focused platform with a strategic investment in MBI Companies (Knoxville, TN), an architecture and engineering design firm. Link to details

Global Transactions

12/23/2024

Testing, inspection, certification, and compliance firm BES Group (Warrington, UK) acquired ECH Groep (Hertzstraat, The Netherlands), a firm providing certification, verification, and heat measurement services. Link to details

01/06/2025

New building consulting firm Contollo Group (Knutsford, UK) acquired Engineering Services Partnership (ESP) (Croydon, UK), a mechanical, electrical, and public health engineering services firm. Link to details

01/07/2025

DB3 (Leeds, UK), a design firm serving individual customized stores, out-of-town shopping centers, and supermarket chains, acquired TTG Architects (London, UK), an architecture practice focused on education and retail design. Link to details

01/08/2025

Power and energy infrastructure firm ENTRUST Solutions (Warrenville, IL) (ENR #42) acquired Maskwa High Voltage (Calgary, Canada), a firm focused on electric transmission, distribution, substation and renewables design, and engineering services. Link to details

01/09/2025

ENR’s #18 ranked global design firm, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired Sipti Consulting (Kerava, Finland), a specialist in geotechnical and environmental design and consulting. Link to details