Featured deals in CO and NC; thirteen other domestic deals 

Commentary & Insight

This week sees three more deals in the South – two in Texas and one in Arkansas. Registration for this year’s Texas and the South M&A and Business Symposium opened this week. Reserve your place and join over 200 AE and environmental consulting industry executives and investors in one of the nation’s most dynamic and fastest-growing cities for our biggest Symposium of the year. 

Domestic Transactions

7/16/2024 
Ehvert Mission Critical (Dallas, TX), a firm specializing in the design, construction, and operation of mission-critical facilities, joined facilities planning and design firm and another of our Nine Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2024, Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #39). Link to details >  

7/18/2024 
Civil, structural engineering, geospatial, safety, and environmental firm LJB (Miamisburg, OH) (ENR #350) acquired Grantham & Associates (Garland, TX), a civil engineering and surveying firm with experience in water & wastewater, transportation, and trail design. Link to details >  

7/16/2024 
Employee-owned industry leader Terracon (Olathe, KS) (ENR #18) acquired Harbor Environmental (Little Rock, AR), a multi-disciplinary firm that provides engineering, compliance, and sustainability services. Link to details > 

7/18/2024 
In its second deal of the week, Bowman Consulting Group (Reston, VA) (ENR #78) acquired FCS Group (Redmond, WA), a financial, economic, and management services firm focused on public sector entities including utilities, state and local governments, regional agencies, and public safety organizations. Link to details > 

7/17/2024 
Industry leader Benesch (Chicago, IL) (ENR #104) acquired Big Muddy Workshop (Omaha, NE), a landscape architecture, master planning, and green infrastructure services firm serving communities, public agencies, institutions, and non-profit environmental groups. Link to details > 

7/15/2024 
Power services firm Qualus (Cincinnati, OH) acquired Linda Rogers & Associates (Sacramento, CA), a PM and engineering firm offering information technology, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity, in support of critical power infrastructure and network resiliency and reliability. Link to details > 

7/11/2024 
ENR’s #29 ranked global design firm, GHD (Sydney, Australia), acquired RIM Architects (Anchorage, AK) and its subsidiary companies. RIM is an architecture firm serving the entertainment, hospitality, healthcare, and government facilities sectors. Link to details > 

7/17/2024 
Environmental and management services firm SWCA Environmental Consultants (Phoenix, AZ) (ENR #107) acquired River Design Group (Whitefish, MT), an ecosystem and river restoration firm. Link to details > 

7/18/2024 
Environmental and engineering firm Pinchin (Mississauga, Canada) acquired CodeGreen Solutions (New York, NY), a building and fire code consulting, special inspections, and sustainability advisory services firm; and Environmental Building Solutions (New York, NY), an indoor air and water quality inspection and consulting services firm. Link to details >

7/16/2024 
APEX Elevator Inspection & Testing (Collegeville, PA), a firm that offers specialized elevator inspections, joined elevator and escalator consulting firm VDA (East Hanover, NJ). Link to details > 

7/16/2024 
Civil engineering, surveying, and planning firm Interstate Engineering (Jamestown, ND) acquired Landteam (Alexandria, MN), a firm focused on environmental work, private development, construction surveys, and municipal engineering. Link to details > 

7/9/2024 
Ashley McGraw Architects (Syracuse, NY) acquired studioMLA Architects (Brookline, MA), an architecture and landscape design firm. As part of the acquisition, studioMLA Architects will become the Early Childhood Education Studio. Link to details > 

Global Transactions

7/16/2024 
ENR’s #22 ranked global design firm, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden), acquired Frilling + Rolfs GmbH (Vechta, Germany), an engineering firm specializing in water management and wastewater treatment. Link to details > 

7/16/2024 
In its second deal of the week, Sweco (Stockholm, Sweden) acquired Valstar Simonis BV (The Hague, The Netherlands), an engineering firm focused on circularity and technical installations for sustainability, comfort, and safety in buildings. Link to details > 

7/18/2024 
The SOCOTEC Group (Yvelines, France) acquired Impulse Geophysics (Bedfordshire, UK), a firm that provides 4K digital video and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) services. Link to details > 

7/17/2024 
Façade engineering firm Wintech Group (Wolverhampton, UK) acquired structural, civil engineering, and surveying firm SDP Consulting Engineers (St. Albans, UK). Link to details > 

7/17/2024 
SPIE (Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France), a multi-technical services firm focused on the energy and communications sectors, signed an agreement to acquire Otto Life Science Engineering GmbH (Nürnberg, Germany), an EPC services firm serving the pharmaceutical and biotech production facilities and laboratories. Link to details > 

7/10/2024 
Forestry services firm Forsite Consultants (Salmon Arm, Canada) joined Barr GeoSpatial Solutions (Mesquite, TX), a group of companies that offer analytics and remote sensing to help manage and protect natural resources and critical infrastructure. Link to details >