Featured deals in CA and TX in a very busy week for M&A activity

Commentary & Insight

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This week sees strong domestic M&A activity with a total of 17 new transactions. The Southeast continues to consolidate rapidly with three new deals in FL, GA, and SC. Overseas, we report deals in Australia, Norway, the UK, Germany, and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

12/2/2025
ZenaTech (Toronto, Canada), a technology firm specializing in AI drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and quantum computing solutions, acquired Smith Surveying Group (Jacksonville, FL), a land surveying and inspection firm. Link to details >

11/24/2025
Edwards-Pitman Environmental (Atlanta, GA), an environmental consulting, compliance, and planning firm, acquired TerraXplorations (Tuscaloosa, AL), a firm that specializes in cultural resources and environmental consulting services. Link to details >

11/21/2025
Professional, technical, and consulting services firm Willdan Group (Anaheim, CA) (ENR #45) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Compass Municipal Advisors (Columbia, SC), a firm that helps public agencies address the financial challenges of rehabilitating aging infrastructure and developing new capital projects to support population growth. Link to details >

11/24/2025
ENR’s #24 ranked global design firm, Egis (Guyancourt, France), acquired RockSol Consulting Group (Thornton, CO), a transportation infrastructure firm specializing in engineering, planning, environmental compliance, design, CM, inspection, and materials testing. Link to details >

12/2/2025
Concept Development & Planning (Austin, TX), a community engagement and strategic communications firm, joined employee-owned industry leader LJA Engineering (Houston, TX) (ENR #52). Link to details >

12/2/2025
Burns Engineering (Philadelphia, PA) (ENR #237), an engineering firm providing transportation, critical infrastructure, and built environment services, received a strategic investment from OceanSound Partners (New York, NY). Link to details >

12/1/2025
Engineering, planning, and geospatial services firm McKim & Creed (Raleigh, NC) (ENR #167) acquired Signature Automation (Dallas, TX), an engineering consulting firm serving the municipal, water/wastewater, and correctional sectors. Link to details >

12/4/2025
ENR’s #178 ranked environmental firm and one of the AE industry’s most prolific buyers, J.S. Held (Jericho, NY) acquired GLI Advisors (Bend, OR), a firm that offers project and program management support, owner’s representation, project and construction management, and feasibility and cost review. Link to details >

12/4/2025
Employee-owned engineering, environmental, and surveying consulting firm Haley Ward (Bangor, ME) (ENR #433) acquired CCA (Brookfield, CT), a consulting engineering and land surveying company providing civil engineering, surveying, environmental consulting, and landscape architecture. Link to details >

12/3/2025
Qualus (Lake Mary, FL), a leading pure-play power solutions provider driving innovation in the transformation of power infrastructure, acquired Aquawolf (Lakewood, CO), the transmission and distribution engineering subsidiary of Mammoth Energy (Oklahoma City, OK) focused on high-voltage transmission infrastructure. Link to details >

12/3/2025
SOCOTEC (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) acquired construction materials testing firm Advance Testing Company (Campbell Hall, NY) and construction special inspection and materials testing firm AAR Testing and Inspection (Redmond, WA). Link to details >

12/2/2025
Legence (San Jose, CA), an integrated provider of energy efficiency and sustainability solutions for the built environment, acquired Innovative Mechanical & Design (Fort Collins, CO), a plumbing and mechanical contractor specializing in plumbing, cooling, heating, and repair services. Link to details >

11/24/2025
Direct Access Group (Nantwich, UK), a global accessibility consulting firm, sold its U.S. subsidiary Direct Access Consultancy (Boston, MA) to Matrix Design Group (Colorado Springs, CO), an interdisciplinary engineering and design firm. Link to details >

12/1/2025
Commercial real estate advisory firm Cresa (Chicago, IL) acquired CMPG (Diamond Bar, CA), a full-service project management services firm for construction projects including office, public sector, entertainment, historic, transit, laboratory, technical, industrial, and retail. Link to details >

Global Transactions

12/2/2025
Engineering services and nuclear firm AtkinsRéalis (Montreal, Canada) (ENR #20) acquired ADG (Brisbane, Australia), a firm with expertise in civil, structural, and digital engineering across transportation infrastructure, commercial and residential developments, and urban renewal. Link to details >

11/27/2025
AECOM (Los Angeles, CA) (ENR #1) acquired AI startup CONSIGLI (Oslo, Norway). CONSIGLI provides an AI platform branded “The Autonomous Engineer” for engineering automation, including space analysis, MEP loadings, plant room optimization, and automated report generation. Link to details >

11/24/2025
Environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK) strengthened its presence in the UK transportation infrastructure sector with the acquisition of Octavius Infrastructure (London, UK) from Sullivan Street Partners (London, UK). Link to details >

11/12/2025
SPIE (Cergy, France), a multi-technical services firm focused in the areas of energy and communications, signed an agreement to acquire PIK AG (Berlin, Germany), a firm that specializes in the integration and maintenance of complex audiovisual systems, particularly for conference rooms, lecture halls, and concert halls. Link to details >

11/27/2025
Planning, environmental, and design consulting firm Lanpro Group (Norwich, UK) acquired CarneySweeney (Birmingham, UK), a planning services firm focused on residential and commercial development projects. Link to details >

12/1/2025
Facilities management firm Bellrock (Leicester, UK) acquired Axiom (Edinburgh, UK), a property and construction firm with experience in the leisure, residential, and industrial sectors. Link to details >

12/1/2025
Rural Solutions (Skipton, UK), a planning, architecture, and landscape architecture firm, joined Celnor Group (London, UK), a group of companies that offer services in the testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) arena. Link to details >

12/1/2025
BluMetric Environmental (Ottawa, Canada), an engineering WaterTech and full-service environmental consulting firm, entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of environmental and geotechnical engineering DS Consultants (Vaughan, Canada). Link to details >

12/3/2025
MCA Architects (Dublin, Ireland) and TTSP HWP (Frankfurt, Germany) merged to create a fully integrated European group dedicated to design, engineering, and project delivery for large and complex data centers. Link to details >