Featured deal in CT; 19 other transactions in a very active week

Commentary & Insight

This week, we’re reporting a bonanza of M&A activity, with 20 domestic and international transactions, including another deal in the Lone Star State. Looking to make meaningful connections and explore deal-making opportunities? Don’t miss the Texas and the South M&A and Business Symposium, the premier networking event for AE industry executives and investors taking place at the five-star Post Oak Hotel at Uptown Houston. Register today to reserve your spot! 

Domestic Transactions

9/5/2025 
ANS Geo (South Plainfield, NJ), a geotechnical engineering firm, and FastGrid (The Woodlands, TX), a renewable energy engineering firm, have come together under the ANS brand (Columbus, OH), a multi-disciplinary engineering firm. Link to details >

9/11/2025 
Industry leader and one of our 10 Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #31) expanded its MEP engineering expertise with the addition of AME Consulting Engineers (Charlotte, NC). Link to details >

9/9/2025 
Full-service engineering, design, consulting, and PM/CM firm CHA (Albany, NY) (ENR #63) acquired Midwestern Engineers (Loogootee, IN), an engineering firm that offers water, wastewater, stormwater, and survey solutions. Link to details >

9/8/2025 
Architecture firm Hecht Burdeshaw Architects (Columbus, GA) joined architecture and advisory firm McMillan Pazdan Smith (Spartanburg, SC) (ENR #242). Link to details >

9/10/2025 
Christner Architects (St. Louis, MO) joined integrated global designer CannonDesign (New York, NY) (ENR #79). Link to details >

8/31/2025 
LaBella Associates (Rochester, NY) (ENR #123), an architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm, acquired land surveying firm Welch & O’Donoghue (Avon, NY). Link to details >

9/8/2025 
Signal Hill Equity Partners (Toronto, Canada), expanded its architecture, engineering, and design platform through a partnership with Kluber Architects + Engineers (Aurora, IL), an architecture and engineering firm serving the government, education, health services, and private sectors. Link to details >

9/9/2025 
Kuo Diedrich Chi Architects (Atlanta, GA), an architecture and design firm specializing in lifestyle-focused solutions for club and resort clients, joined ClubWorks (West Palm Beach, FL), a network of architecture and design companies. Link to details >

9/8/2025 
Environmental firm Eolas Environmental (Redding, CT) joined environmental and engineering firm Terraphase Engineering (Oakland, CA). Link to details >

9/11/2025 
ZenaTech (Toronto, Canada), a technology firm specializing in AI drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and quantum computing solutions, acquired Lescure Engineers (Santa Rosa, CA), a civil engineering and land surveying firm. Link to details >

Global Transactions

9/10/2025 
Engineering platform and 2023 Best Post Transaction Award recipient Englobe (Quebec City, Canada) finalized a transaction to acquire LRL Associates (Ottawa, Canada), an engineering services firm serving a mix of public and private clients, with a focus on buildings and land development projects. Link to details >

9/3/2025 
Powerhaus Consulting (Toronto, Canada), an engineering firm specializing in renewable energy, joined ENR’s #55 ranked environmental firm SLR (Aylesbury, UK). Link to details >

9/8/2025 
SOCOTEC (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) strengthened its capabilities in the infrastructure field with the acquisition of Lloyds Datum Group (Moira, UK), a firm that delivers foundation pile testing, monitoring, asset integrity, and stability monitoring services. Link to details >

9/4/2025 
Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services, acquired Prensa (Hawthorn, Australia), a firm focused on the health safety & environmental risk management market. Link to details >

9/4/2025 
Civil engineering firm I.CO.P. S.p.A. Società Benefit (Basiliano, Italy) completed the acquisition of 61.89% of the share capital of Palingeo (Carpenedolo, Italy), a geotechnical firm. Link to details >

9/8/2025 
In its second and third deals of the week, SOCOTEC (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) acquired 100% of Greenwich (Medolago, Italy), an environmental sustainability firm, and Prisma (Campania, Italy), a marine environmental firm. Link to details >

9/4/2025 
Middleton Group (Melbourne, Australia), an engineering firm serving the renewables, grid connection services, data centers, transportation, water, power utilities, and industrial markets, joined engineering, environment, planning, and surveying firm FYFE (Adelaide, Australia). Link to details >

9/10/2025 
PAI Partners (Paris, France) entered an agreement to acquire Orion Environment (Veggiano, Italy), an environmental monitoring services firm, from Xenon Private Equity (Luxembourg, Luxembourg). Link to details >