Featured deals in NY and IN; busy week for global activity  

Featured Transactions

Commentary & Insight

This week, we report eight domestic deals in IN, NY, UT, MD, CA, and MA. On the global front, activity ramped up with 10 additional international transactions announced in Australia, Canada, Norway, the UK, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Domestic Transactions

11/2/2025
ENR’s #59 ranked environmental firm, Apex Companies (Rockville, MD), acquired Forsgren Associates (Salt Lake City, UT), a multi-discipline civil engineering, environmental sciences, and land surveying firm. Link to details >

10/31/2025
Civil, structural engineering, geospatial, safety, and environmental firm LJB (Miamisburg, OH) (ENR #300) acquired Aldea Services (Frederick, MD), a firm that offers engineering solutions for complex underground structures. Link to details >

11/4/2025
Fortune 500 and S&P 500 commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE (Dallas, TX) acquired Pearce Services (Paso Robles, CA), a firm that provides advanced technical services for digital and power infrastructure. Link to details >

11/5/2025
ENR’s #184 ranked environmental firm, Spheros Environmental (Denver, CO), acquired Ironwood Consulting (Redlands, CA), an environmental firm with expertise in biological resources, habitat mitigation and monitoring, environmental permitting, and data-driven field services. Link to details >

11/1/2025
Architecture and engineering firm HFA (Bentonville, AR) acquired TRIA Architects (Boston, MA), an architecture firm known for its deep expertise in life sciences and laboratory design. Link to details >

11/5/2025
VCA Consultants (Orange, CA) acquired Green Econome (Los Angeles, CA), a sustainability consulting firm recognized for its lifecycle strategies, building performance reporting, and efficiency consulting. Link to details >

Global Transactions

10/31/2025
ENR’s #42 ranked global design firm, SYSTRA (Paris, France), acquired BG&E (Sydney, Australia), a multi-disciplinary engineering firm with experience in transportation infrastructure and complex buildings. Link to details >

11/3/2025
Colliers International (Toronto, Canada), through its subsidiary Colliers Engineering & Design Australia (Adelaide, Australia), acquired urban development firm Greenhill Engineers (Dulwich, Australia). Link to details >

11/6/2025
Global environmental and advisory consultancy SLR (Aylesbury, UK) acquired Fuse Advisors (Vancouver, Canada), a mining advisory and management consulting firm. Link to details >

11/5/2025
Multi-disciplinary engineering and design firm Norconsult (Sandvika, Norway) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of PM firm Metier Group (Oslo, Norway) from Tetra Tech RPS Energy Limited (Abingdon, UK). Link to details >

11/4/2025
DNV (Oslo, Norway) strengthened its power grids expertise in Asia Pacific with the acquisition of Amplitude Consultants (Brisbane, Australia), an engineering advisory firm that provides transmission and distribution power grid services. Link to details >

10/31/2025
Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services, acquired Testall (Belfast, UK), a firm that offers materials testing and geotechnical services. Link to details >

11/3/2025
Environmental firm Adler & Allan (Harrogate, UK) acquired environmental firms Thomson Environmental Consultants (Guildford, UK) and Atmos Consulting (Edinburgh, UK) from Mornington Partners (London, UK). Link to details >

11/4/2025
Gould Singleton Architects (Halesowen, UK), an architecture firm with experience in the commercial, community, education, healthcare, residential, and retail markets, received a strategic investment from architecture practice Bracewell (Stirling, UK). Link to details >

11/5/2025
Nippon Koei Energy Solutions (Tokyo, Japan) expanded in Asia with the acquisition of shares of Tractebel Engineering Thailand and PT Tractebel Engineering Indonesia, the associated companies of Tractebel Engineering (Brussels, Belgium). Link to details >