More M&A in the Southeast with two new featured transactions in Florida

Commentary & Insight

This week sees robust M&A activity with a total of 23 new domestic and global transactions. The Southeast continues to consolidate rapidly with three new deals, including two featured deals in Florida. 

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Domestic Transactions

12/8/2025
Integrated global designer CannonDesign (New York, NY) (ENR #79) expanded in the Southeast with the addition of Jenkins•Peer Architects (Charlotte, NC), a planning, architecture, and interior design firm with experience in the higher education, science and technology, sports, civic, and cultural markets. Link to details >

12/3/2025
Morrissey Goodale strategy client Vanasse Hangen Brustlin (VHB) (Watertown, MA) (ENR #61) entered into an agreement to join forces with Drive Engineering (Lansdale, PA), a transportation engineering firm recognized for applying technology to improve mobility and traffic operations. Link to details >

12/4/2025
Industry leader and innovator Foth (De Pere, WI) (ENR #110) enhanced its capabilities within the food and beverage manufacturing sector with the acquisition of Food Plant Engineering (Cincinnati, OH). Link to details >

12/8/2025
One of our 10 Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2025, Verdantas (Tampa, FL) (ENR #81), acquired Crawford Environmental Services (Roanoke, VA), a firm with experience in environmental investigation and assessment, remediation, compliance, and emergency response services. Link to details >

12/9/2025
Jensen Hughes (Columbia, MD) (ENR #78), a firm that offers fire & life safety, security, and risk-based engineering and consulting, acquired Safety Management Services (West Jordan, UT), an engineering firm specializing in process safety hazards analysis and energetic materials consulting and testing. Link to details >

12/9/2025
ENR’s #66 ranked environmental firm and recipient of the 2024 M&A Best Practices Award, Trinity Consultants (Dallas, TX), acquired Meridian Consultants (Westlake Village, CA), a firm with expertise in community, environmental, and natural resource planning. Link to details >

12/9/2025
Engineering, architecture, and consulting firm Stratus Team (Coraopolis, PA) (ENR #214) acquired E.A. Bonelli + Associates (Oakland, CA), a specialist in master planning and design of processing plants, cold storage warehouses, and distribution facilities for the dairy, food, and beverage industries. Link to details >

12/9/2025
Architecture and interior design firm Delawie (San Diego, CA) joined AE firm LEO A DALY (Omaha, NE) (ENR #225). Link to details >

12/8/2025
Dunaway (Fort Worth, TX), a civil engineering, structural, landscape architecture, surveying, and construction inspection services firm, acquired structural engineering firm Bontempo Structural Engineering (Austin, TX). Link to details >

12/9/2025
Environmental services firm McAlister GeoScience (Long Beach, CA) acquired Orswell & Kasman (Pasadena, CA), an environmental due-diligence firm. Link to details >

12/5/2025
Environmental, geotechnical, and civil engineering firm Nobis Group (Concord, NH) acquired Richard D. Bartlett & Associates (Concord, NH), a land surveying firm serving residential, commercial, and municipal clients. Link to details >

12/10/2025
Planning, development, and PM advisory firm Brailsford & Dunlavey (Washington, D.C.) and real estate consulting and project delivery firm Project Management Advisors (PMA) (Chicago, IL) merged to form an integrated, scalable platform with broader capabilities across project lifecycles. Link to details >

Global Transactions

12/8/2025
ENR’s #3 ranked global design firm, WSP (Montreal, Canada), acquired Harmonic Analytics (Wellington, New Zealand) a firm that provides data science, predictive modelling, and decision optimization services. Link to details >

12/9/2025
ENR’s #13 ranked CM-for-fee firm, Turner & Townsend (Leeds, UK), announced its intention to acquire Profica (Johannesburg, South Africa), a firm specializing in real estate project management and construction solutions across Africa. Link to details >

12/10/2025
Environmental consulting and services firm RSK Group (Helsby, UK) acquired Civil Geotechnical Consultants (Brisbane, Australia), a geotechnical sector specialist that offers site investigations, design and analysis, construction services, advisory services, aerial mapping, and asset management. Link to details >

12/2/2025
ZenaTech (Toronto, Canada), a technology firm specializing in AI drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and quantum computing solutions, acquired Casado Design (Weston-super-Mare, UK), a land surveying and inspection firm with expertise in 3D modeling and scanning services for tower and infrastructure building in the telecom sector. Link to details >

12/4/2025
The Kardham Group (Paris, France), a firm that offers architecture, space design, engineering, and digital services in the real estate market, acquired DK Architectes (Paris, France), a specialist in data center design. Link to details >

12/8/2025
Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance (TICC) services, acquired SERPRAM (Santiago, Chile), a firm that offers environmental measurement, diagnostic, and control services. Link to details >

12/8/2025
Architecture practice Carabiner (Perth, Australia) joined Architectus (Melbourne, Australia), expanding the firm’s capabilities across the sport, education, and healthcare sectors. Link to details >

12/9/2025
Structural engineering firm Design 4 Structures (London, UK) received an investment from Frontier Development Capital (Birmingham, UK). Link to details >

12/2/2025
Multidisciplinary engineering firm setec (Paris, France) acquired Kasadenn (La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, France), a firm specializing in the management of projects and quality, offering consulting, training, and operational assistance services. Link to details >