M&A Update: Active week for both domestic and global deals

Commentary & Insight

This week was a buying bonanza with 14 new deals announced around the country in VA, AZ, CT, AL, NY, TX, RI, TN, PA, MD, IL, FL, and ME. Maine was a hotbed of consolidation with multiple transactions. Overseas there were eight new transactions in a number of countries including Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK, Malaysia, and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

10/3/2022
HG Design Studio (Richmond, VA), a land planning and landscape architectural consulting business, joined forces with VHB (Watertown, MA) (ENR #62). Link to details >

10/3/2022
Pangolin Structural (Phoenix, AZ), a structural engineering, design, and consulting firm, joined planning and design consulting firm Kimley-Horn (Raleigh, NC) (ENR #10). Link to details >

10/4/2022
Multi-disciplinary consulting firm Pennoni (Philadelphia, PA) (ENR #95) purchased certain assets of Hygenix (Stamford, CT), an environmental consulting, testing, and laboratory services firm. Link to details >

10/3/2022
Employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting firm POWER Engineers (Hailey, ID) (ENR #32) acquired Hardy Engineering (Birmingham, AL), a power delivery engineering and design firm. Link to details >

9/27/2022
TRC Companies (Windsor, CT) (ENR #17) expanded its climate solutions offerings and ESG capabilities with the addition of Enzo Advisors (New York, NY), a sustainability consulting firm that helps companies build sustainable business models within an ESG construct. Link to details >

10/3/2022
Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) (Hunt Valley, MD) (ENR #60) acquired ECM International (El Paso, TX), a CM and PM services firm specialized in the local government, education, housing, roadways, airports, and utilities sectors.Link to details >

10/3/2022
ENR’s #6 ranked global design firm, WSP (Montreal, Canada), acquired Odeh Engineers (North Providence, RI), a structural engineering firm serving the property and buildings sector. Link to details >

10/3/2022
Quantum Environmental & Engineering Services (Knoxville, TN) joined engineering, architectural, planning, and design firm Fisher Arnold (Memphis, TN). Link to details >

10/5/2022
Full-service consulting firm JSI (Greenbelt, MD) acquired Mitchell Engineering (Wills Point, TX), a telecommunications engineering and consulting firm specializing in outside plant (OSP) engineering and design services. Link to details >

10/5/2022
Engineering, architectural, and planning services firm CT Consultants (Mentor, OH) merged with Henry T. Welka and Associates (Erie, PA), a land surveying, civil engineering, and land planning services firm. Link to details >

10/3/2022
Tarantino Engineering Consultants (Fulton, MD), a structural design, steel connection design, and forensic engineering firm, acquired structural consultants Dunlap Engineering (Bethesda, MD). Link to details >

9/29/2022
Sevee & Maher Engineers (Cumberland, ME), an engineering firm that serves the commercial, industrial, residential, and municipal sectors, acquired Bono Consulting (Park Ridge, IL), a civil engineering firm focused on stormwater, surveying, and construction oversight services. Link to details >

10/5/2022
Employee-owned engineering, environmental, and surveying consulting firm Haley Ward (Brewer, ME) acquired The MilCor Group (Hobe Sound, FL), a civil-site, roadway, stormwater, utilities, agricultural engineering, construction inspection, and PM services firm. Link to details >

9/21/2022
Main-Land Development Consultants (Livermore Falls, ME), an engineering, surveying, and environmental science firm, acquired land surveying firm Boundary Points (Falmouth, ME). Link to details >

Global Transactions

10/5/2022
ENR’s #8 ranked global design firm, Arcadis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), entered into an agreement to acquire ENR’s #103 ranked global design firm, DPS Group (Cork, Ireland). Link to details >

9/27/2022
Specialist infrastructure communications firm Copper Consultancy (London, UK) joined environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK). Link to details >

10/4/2022
In the firm’s second deal announcement of the week, RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired WGM Engineering (Glasgow, UK), a mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering firm. Link to details >

10/3/2022
CPP Wind Engineering Consultants (Windsor, CO), a wind engineering and air quality firm, acquired Venturi Asia (Kajang, Malaysia), a firm specialized in wind engineering services. Link to details >

10/4/2022
Stiles Harold Williams Partnership (London, UK), a property real estate advisory business, entered into a definitive merger agreement with WSW Consultancy (Fleet, UK), a building surveying and architectural design firm. Link to details >

10/3/2022
Mechanical, electrical, and sustainability firm Kaizen Consulting Engineer (Leeds, UK) joined forces with Verisys (Warrington, UK), a specialist in testing, commissioning, and validation/verification services. Link to details >

10/3/2022
HARDIES Property & Construction Consultants (Edinburgh, UK), a building surveying, quantity surveying, PM, and energy surveying firm, acquired quantity surveying firm BDG Thomson Gray (Aberdeen, UK). Link to details >

10/3/2022
McElhanney (Vancouver, Canada), a geomatics, engineering, geospatial, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services firm, acquired Abacus Datagraphics (Red Deer, Canada), a firm that offers mapping services, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle services, and aerial imagery. Link to details >