Natick, MA (October 3, 2024) – RESPEC, a 100 percent employee-owned engineering consulting firm, serving the energy, mining, infrastructure design, water resources, and digital markets, acquired EARTHRES, Inc., a leading environmental and engineering consulting firm based in Pipersville, PA.

This acquisition supports RESPEC’s mission to deliver outstanding services across the mining, energy, and environmental sectors.

Since 1995, EARTHRES has built a reputation for delivering efficient, compliant, and cost-effective projects to private and public clients across the energy, mining, solid waste, and environmentally regulated sectors. The firm’s services include conceptualization, engineering design, on-site construction support, and operations support.

“We’re excited to bring EARTHRES into the RESPEC family,” says Todd Kenner, RESPEC CEO. “Their expertise and dedication to quality fit perfectly with our values. This partnership will boost our ability to help clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes and expand our services in mining, energy, and environmental projects.”

“One of the hallmarks of our success has been the broad base of knowledge and experience we bring to our clients,” says Jan Hutwelker, PE, President and CEO of EARTHRES. “With RESPEC, we will have over five times that amount to draw on for innovative solutions. That is powerful!”

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, initiated the transaction and advised RESPEC.

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, virtual reality solutions, and executive search. 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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