M&A Update: Featured deal in IN; Eight other domestic transactions

Commentary & Insight

It was another busy week for industry consolidation, with nine new domestic deals, including two transactions in the Lone Star State. Overseas, we report five deals in Australia, Mexico, Spain, and the UK.

Domestic Transactions

10/8/2024
Civil engineering, design, and land use consulting firm KFM Engineering & Design (Dallas, TX) acquired Balanced Site Design (San Antonio, TX), a civil engineering firm. Link to details >

10/8/2024
Civil engineering, environmental, and surveying services firm Pape-Dawson Engineers (San Antonio, TX) (ENR #93) acquired KSA Engineers (Longview, TX) (ENR #448), a firm that offers municipal engineering, aviation planning and design, architecture, and surveying services. Link to details >

10/8/2024
Technology, conformity assessment, and consulting solutions firm and one of our Nine Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2024, NV5 (Hollywood, FL) (ENR #24), acquired two domestic data center commissioning and energy management companies, Kisebach Consulting (Olympia, WA) and Senergy BCS (Salt Lake City, UT). Link to details >

10/10/2024
Stapleton Group (Los Angeles, CA), a fiduciary and financial advisory services firm, joined one of the AE industry’s most prolific buyers, J.S. Held (Jericho, NY). Link to details >

10/7/2024
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services (Parsippany, NJ) (ENR #55), an environmental and engineering consulting firm, acquired Robert Stephen Consulting (San Ramon, CA), a leader in Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions. Link to details >

10/7/2024
Architecture and interior design firm Plunkett Raysich Architects (Milwaukee, WI) acquired Align Architecture & Planning (Waterloo, IA), an architecture firm that serves the senior living, commercial, education, and residential markets. Link to details >

10/6/2024
MMCG Invest (San Francisco, CA), a feasibility study provider, and Innowave Studio (Wilmington, DE), a site plan provider, merged to enhance service offerings and expand market reach. Link to details >

Global Transactions

10/8/2024
Pioneering AEG and strategic consulting firm Woolpert (Dayton, OH) (ENR #47) acquired Greenbox Architecture (Sydney, Australia), an architecture firm that specializes in providing interior and exterior design services for data centers and commercial, health care, and residential clients. Link to details >

10/8/2024
Colliers Engineering & Design (Holmdel, NJ) (ENR #50), a national multi-disciplinary engineering, architecture, design, and consulting firm, acquired TTM Group (Brisbane, Australia), a transportation engineering consulting firm. Link to details >

10/8/2024
FastGrid (Gilbert, AZ), a provider of utility-scale solar and energy storage engineering solutions, acquired Wisergy (La Paz, Mexico), an engineering firm specializing in high-voltage and substation design. Link to details >

10/7/2024
Bureau Veritas (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) acquired IDP Group (Barcelona, Spain), a provider of BIM (Building Information Modeling), project management assistance, and digital twin services. Link to details >

10/6/2024
Engineering, surveying, and monitoring services company Survey Solutions (Ipswich, UK) acquired JWG Survey & Engineering (Wirral, UK), a provider of surveying and engineering management services to the rail market. Link to details >