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A&E Design and SMA Architecture + Design Are Joining Forces
Natick, MA (October 8, 2025) – Multidisciplinary firm A&E Design has merged with SMA Architecture + Design, an architecture and interior design firm.
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Natick, MA (October 8, 2025) – A&E Design, a multidisciplinary firm offering architecture, interiors, historic preservation, graphic design, branding, environmental design, and landscape architecture services, has merged with SMA Architecture + Design, an architecture and interior design firm.
The merger expands the new firm’s expertise across architecture, interior design, historic preservation, environmental graphic design, branding, landscape architecture, and construction project management. Together, A&E Design and SMA Architecture + Design bring complementary strengths in education, healthcare, commercial, military, hospitality, and residential design.
A&E Design and SMA Architecture + Design will unify under a shared brand that reflects their mission, values, and vision. Operating under the name A&E + SMA Design, the co-branded identity highlights each firm’s heritage while emphasizing their collaboration and integration.
The merger brings both teams together under one umbrella, combining experience, creativity, and energy. The executive team includes four leaders representing both legacy firms: Dusty Eaton, CEO; Tim Meldrum, COO; Brad Doll, CDO; and Jason Davis, CXO.
For more details about this transaction click here.
Morrissey Goodale, a specialized management consulting and research firm exclusively serving the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industries, advised A&E Design in the transaction.
Source: A&E & SMA Design
About Morrissey Goodale
Morrissey Goodale has helped hundreds of clients transform and grow their architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting companies into high-level performers through strategic business planning, mergers and acquisition advisory, valuation and ownership transition, market research, marketing and business development, leadership training and development, Lean Operation Strategies, organizational development and management, AI and innovation, and acquisition integration services. Morrissey Goodale’s team of M&A consultants assist throughout the M&A process, from preparing firms for a transaction to a successful integration.
Morrissey Goodale’s extensive network of relationships with AE industry decision-makers around the globe uniquely qualifies the firm to identify the right buyers or sellers and guide AE firms through the complex merger or acquisition process, from conception to close.
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