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Commentary & Insight

This week, we report on twelve new domestic transactions, including six in the rapidly consolidating Western U.S. If you’re planning to acquire, sell, merge, or recapitalize in 2025, or if you’re interested in how to get ahead of the biggest trends reshaping the AE industry, then mark your calendar to join over 200 AE industry executives and investors at the 11th annual Western States M&A and Business Symposium. Reserve your place now and save with our early bird pricing.  

Domestic Transactions

4/1/2025
Industry leader and one of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, IMEG Corp. (Rock Island, IL) (ENR #52), expanded its seismic engineering expertise with the strategic addition of WRK Engineers (Vancouver, WA), a structural and seismic engineering firm. Link to details >

3/31/2025
Chavez-Grieves (Albuquerque, NM), a structural engineering, investigative engineering, and PM firm, joined facilities planning and design firm and another of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #39). Link to details >

4/2/2025
ENR’s #160 ranked environmental firm, Integral Consulting (Boulder, CO), acquired Kinnetic Environmental (Los Alamitos, CA), a firm with expertise in marine and freshwater sediment and water quality studies. Link to details >

4/2/2025
Engineering firm DeSimone Consulting Engineering (New York, NY) (ENR #241) acquired KP Elevator Consulting (San Francisco, CA), a vertical transportation services firm for new, renovated, and converted buildings. Link to details >

4/2/2025
Architecture and planning firm HMC Architects (Los Angeles, CA) (ENR #175) acquired Bassetti Architects (Seattle, WA), an architecture firm with experience in educational and civic design. Link to details >

4/3/2025
Sustainable design and engineering firm Stantec (Edmonton, Canada) (ENR #8) signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Page (Washington, D.C.) (ENR #41), a 1,400-person architecture and engineering firm. The acquisition positions Stantec as the second largest architecture firm in the U.S. Link to details >

3/31/2025
Gannett Fleming TranSystems (Kansas City, MO) (ENR #58) acquired Scalar Consulting Group (West Palm Beach, FL), a firm specializing in transportation engineering and infrastructure services. Link to details >

3/27/2025
Certerra (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) (ENR #112), a provider of technology-enabled testing, inspection, and certification services for critical infrastructure, acquired Tierra (Tampa, FL), a geotechnical and materials engineering firm with experience serving government agencies and private sector clients. Link to details >

4/1/2025
Civil engineering and CM firm Gonzalez Companies (St. Louis, MO) acquired FPBH (North Vernon, IN), a civil engineering and environmental firm with experience in water, wastewater, stormwater, surveying, commercial development, and local agency (roadway) projects. Link to details >

4/2/2025
Garmann Miller (Minster, OH), an architecture, engineering, CM, master planning, and interior design firm, acquired Access Engineering Solutions (Celina, OH), a civil engineering firm with experience in the municipal, utility, and roadway sectors. Link to details >

4/2/2025
DIGroup Architecture (Philadelphia, PA), an architecture, interior design, graphics, signage, and wayfinding services firm, acquired Graf & Lewent Architects (Jamaica, NY), an architecture firm with experience in the higher education and transportation sectors. Link to details >

Global Transactions

4/1/2025
Bligh Tanner (Fortitude Valley, Australia), a structural, façade, civil, environmental, and water engineering firm, joined Tonkin + Taylor (Auckland, New Zealand), ENR’s #102 ranked environmental firm and Morrissey Goodale client. Link to details >

3/27/2025
Industry icon Tetra Tech (Pasadena, CA) (ENR #3) acquired Carron + Walsh (Dublin, Ireland), a firm that provides project and cost management services for large-scale commercial, life sciences, residential, and infrastructure projects. Link to details >

3/27/2025
ABO-Group (Ghent, Belgium), a specialized engineering firm focused on geotechnics, environmental consulting, and soil remediation, acquired Délo Boringen (Schoten, Belgium), a specialist in environmental research. Link to details >

4/1/2025
Multidisciplinary consultant and design firm Multiconsult ASA (Oslo, Norway) entered into an agreement to purchase all the shares of the acoustics company Lifetec (Oslo, Norway). Link to details >

4/2/2025
Applus+ Laboratories (Barcelona, Spain), a testing and certification firm, strengthened its metrology capabilities with the acquisition of Gometrics (Barcelona, Spain), a firm specializing in industrial calibration and instrumentation solutions. Link to details >

4/1/2025
Makami Engineering (Sudbury, Canada), an engineering firm that serves heavy industrial and commercial clients, acquired RA Engineers & Inspectors (Sault Ste. Marie, Canada), a civil, structural, welding engineering and inspection, and project management services firm. Link to details >