M&A Update: Ardurra further expands in Florida; Six other domestic deals 

Commentary & Insight

In addition to this week’s announcement of the acquisition of Inwood Consulting Engineers by Ardurra, we report an additional six domestic deals including yet another deal in Texas.  If you’d like to attend the biggest industry networking event in Texas – the Texas and Southern States M&A, Strategy & Innovation Symposium – register here to be placed on the waitlist! 

Domestic Transactions

10/10/2023 
RDLR Architects (Houston, TX), an architecture firm known for its community-driven approach in the public sector, acquired W [Squared] Architects (Houston, TX), an architecture firm with expertise in the private commercial market. Link to details > 

10/13/2023
Bowman Consulting Group (Reston, VA) (ENR #87), a national engineering services firm, acquired Dennis Corporation (Columbia, SC), a civil engineering, surveying, and construction management firm. Link to details >

10/9/2023 
TRC Companies (Windsor, CT) (ENR #16) acquired Advanced Civil Technologies (Santa Ana, CA), a firm that offers project/program management, highway design, water quality, and planning and project initiation services for large-scale transportation projects. Link to details > 

10/5/2023 
Engineering, architecture, and surveying firm Farnsworth Group (Bloomington, IL) (ENR #213) acquired Sterling Design Associates (Littleton, CO), a planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture firm. Link to details > 

10/4/2023 
C2AE (Lansing, MI), an architecture and engineering firm offering civil, structural, mechanical and electrical, interior design, and landscape architecture services, acquired commercial interior design firm T2 Designs (Brighton, MI). Link to details > 

10/9/2023 
Qualus (Cincinnati, OH), a power engineering, project management, and technical field services firm, acquired GridBright (Alamo, CA), a technology solutions firm that specializes in secure and sustainable grid integration. Link to details >  

Global Transactions

10/9/2023 
Engineering firm DeSimone Consulting (New York, NY) (ENR #271) expanded its construction consulting services in the United Kingdom with the acquisition of Decipher (Cheshire, UK).  Link to details > 

10/6/2023 
Reach Subsea ASA (Rogaland, Norway), a firm that provides sub-sea services such as engineering and PM, surveying, and geophysical monitoring, entered an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Guardian Geomatics (West Perth, Australia), a marine surveying firm. Link to details > 

10/4/2023 
Architecture firms Building Design Northern (Sunderland, UK) and Fitz Architects (Sunderland, UK) merged. The firms will now operate as sister companies, working on commercial and residential projects, respectively. Link to details > 

10/11/2023 
Environmental and geospatial services firm APEM Group (Stockport, UK) acquired Aspect Ecology (Banbury, UK), an ecological planning serving the infrastructure sector and commercial projects. Link to details > 

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