Headline transactions in TX and VA; Seventeen U.S. deals

Commentary & Insight

This week we lead with seventeen more domestic transactions as industry deal-makers show no signs of slowing down following a blowout year of M&A in 2021. To see some of the most important M&A trends and highlights from 2021, as well as our projected outlook for 2022, be on the lookout next week for our AE M&A Year-in-Review.

Domestic Transactions

1/20/2022
RMA Group (Rancho Cucamonga, CA) (ENR #308), a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners (New York, NY), merged with Western Technologies (Phoenix, AZ) and Enviro-Drill (Phoenix, AZ). 
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1/19/2022
Design firm Greenman-Pedersen (GPI) (Babylon, NY) (ENR #64) acquired Holbert Apple Associates (Olney, MD), a structural engineering firm specialized in new construction and renovations.
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1/18/2022
Engineering consulting firm Psomas (Los Angeles, CA) (ENR #136) acquired KPG (Seattle, WA), a civil engineering, surveying, mapping, landscape architecture, urban design, transportation planning, and construction services firm. 
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1/17/2022
Fast-growing Ardurra Group (Tampa, FL) (ENR #190), backed by RTC Partners (Miami, FL), acquired the assets of ZEL Engineers (Augusta, GA), a water infrastructure design firm, and Milam Land Surveying (Ocala, FL), a land surveying firm. 
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1/14/2022
Civil engineering firm Bolton & Menk (Mankato, MN) (ENR #150) acquired Fortin Consulting (Hamel, MN), a water resources consulting firm specialized in advanced chlorides management and reduction research and education. 
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1/13/2022
WGI Ventures (West Palm Beach, FL), the infrastructure technology arm of WGI (West Palm Beach, FL) (ENR #175), acquired software firm Streamline Technologies (Winter Springs, FL). Streamline’s modeling software is used by many ENR 500 firms, as well as federal, state, and local agencies, and universities. 
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1/20/2022
Environmental risk management expert PM Environmental (Lansing, MI) announced a partnership with private investment firm Keystone Capital (Chicago, IL). 
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1/19/2022
Architecture and design firm Oakline Studio (Creve Coeur, MO) acquired ESD Partners (Charlotte, NC), a firm providing commercial architectural, interior design, and project management services. 
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1/19/2022
Horizons Engineering (Littleton, NH), a civil engineering, land surveying, and environmental services firm, acquired White Mountain Survey & Engineering (Ossipee, NH), a civil engineering and land surveying firm. 
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1/19/2022
Civil and environmental firm The Sigma Group (Milwaukee, WI) merged with River’s Bend Engineering (Sturtevant, WI), a civil and electrical engineering, automations and controls, design/build, and information technology company. 
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1/18/2022
Global real estate advisor Avison Young (Toronto, Canada) acquired Studio Eagle (Springfield, NJ), a workplace studio, space planning, and interior design firm.
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1/17/2022
GdB Geospatial (Melville, NY) announced that Geomaps International (Bethpage, NY) has joined its team. GdB provides geospatial services to AEC professionals, government agencies, and the general public. 
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1/13/2022
Electric Power Engineers (EPE) (Austin, TX), a consulting engineering firm focused on the power, renewable energy, grid modernization, and energy storage industries, announced an investment by Lime Rock New Energy (Westport, CT), a growth equity investment firm specialized in the energy industry. 
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1/12/2022
VCA Consultants (Orange, CA), a portfolio company of Scott Capital (Darien, CT), acquired Verde (Orange, CA), a sustainability consulting firm. Verde joins the VCA family of companies that includes VCA Structural, VCA Code, and VCA Green. 
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