Featured transaction in ME in another busy week for M&A activity

Commentary & Insight

This week sees strong M&A activity with a total of 23 new transactions. 17 domestic deals were announced in ME, PA, CA, TX, MN, VA, MT, DE, NJ, MI, and ID. Overseas, we report deals in Australia, the UK, and Ireland.

Domestic Transactions

2/16/2026
Multidisciplinary engineering and architecture firm PRIME AE Group (Baltimore, MD) (ENR #239) acquired Klavon Design Associates (Pittsburgh, PA), a landscape architecture and planning services firm serving the federal, state, local, and private-sector markets. Link to details >

2/17/2026
ENR’s #59 ranked environmental firm, Apex Companies (Rockville, MD), acquired Tully Consulting Group (Dixon, CA), a stormwater management and civil engineering firm. Link to details >

2/17/2026
Amtech Solutions (El Paso, TX), a firm that offers building envelope and related consulting services, joined engineering and consulting firm Universal Engineering Sciences (UES) (Orlando, FL) (ENR #40). Link to details >

2/19/2026
NCS Engineers (Phoenix, AZ), a water, wastewater, and environmental engineering firm, acquired LightPoint Engineering (Houston, TX) and Spear Point Engineering (Willis, TX), two firms with experience in water production and distribution systems, wastewater collection and treatment systems, stormwater and hydrology, and roadway design and land development. Link to details >

2/6/2026
Land surveying and civil engineering firm Bogart, Pederson & Associates (Becker, MN) merged with architecture, engineering, environmental, and surveying firm Widseth (Baxter, MN). Link to details >

2/3/2026
Agathos AEC (Galveston, TX), a growth platform for architecture, engineering, and specialty design firms, expanded in California with two acquisitions: Plump Engineering (Anaheim, CA), an architecture, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil engineering, and survey firm; and JMPE Electrical Engineering (Santa Barbara, CA), an electrical engineering and lighting design firm. Link to details >

2/14/2026
Architecture and interior design firm Hummel Associates (Richmond, VA) merged with architecture and consulting firm PSH+ (Richmond, VA). Link to details >

2/11/2026
Pinyon Environmental (Lakewood, CO) acquired Confluence Consulting (Bozeman, MT), a science-based water resources consulting firm specializing in process-based stream engineering and wetland restoration. Link to details >

2/16/2026
The Stonewall Group (Lafayette, LA), a national architecture platform firm, acquired Architectural Alliance (Wilmington, DE), an architecture firm with experience in commercial, residential, institutional, historic, and adaptive reuse projects. Link to details >

2/17/2026
Control Point Associates (Warren, NJ), a firm specializing in land surveying and geospatial services, acquired Borbas Surveying & Mapping (Boonton, NJ), a surveying, digital mapping, and facility documentation services firm.
Link to details >

2/16/2026
Tandem Engineering (Windsor, Canada), an engineering and project management firm serving the industrial, commercial, manufacturing, energy, and process engineering sectors, acquired architecture and interior design firm Ann Arbor Architects Collaborative (Ann Arbor, MI). Link to details >

2/13/2026
Investment firm Jadida Capital (Walnut Creek, CA) acquired Construction Inspection Specialists (Santa Rosa, CA), a firm that provides construction inspection and risk-management services. Link to details >

2/16/2026
Wapiti Holdings (Idaho Falls, ID) acquired Bailey Engineering (Eagle, ID), a civil engineering firm focused on the real estate development industry offering initial property evaluation and conceptual planning, construction drawings, and long-term project execution services. Link to details >

Global Transactions

2/6/2026
Global engineering firm TYLin (San Francisco, CA) (ENR #30) acquired Kilborn Consulting (Wellingborough, UK), a rail systems consulting firm with expertise in command, control, and signalling alongside wider rail systems design. Link to details >

2/16/2026
ENR’s #22 ranked global design firm, AFRY (Stockholm, Sweden), entered into an agreement to acquire AMC (Melbourne, Australia), a leading independent mining firm with expertise in mining strategy optimization, evaluation, planning, and advisory services. Link to details >

2/12/2026
DNV (Oslo, Norway) acquired Smarter Power Solutions (Melbourne, Australia), a power systems engineering firm known for its advanced grid-connection capabilities. Link to details >

2/15/2026
Dynamic Safety Solutions (Armagh, UK), a health, safety, and compliance services 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 >

2/13/2026
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) entered into an agreement to acquire Premium Power (Dublin, Ireland), an electrical engineering firm. Link to details >

2/6/2026
Drumacross (St. Albans, UK), a commercial, procurement, and project management specialist, acquired Croftstone (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK), a firm with experience in quantity surveying, commercial management, and project management services. Link to details >

2/17/2026
HSL Compliance (Ross-on-Wye, UK), a firm focused on the legal compliance market, acquired environmental monitoring specialist Enitial (Staffordshire, UK). Link to details >