Seven U.S. deals and three global transactions highlight continued M&A momentum

Commentary & Insight

This week saw seven new U.S. transactions across ID, TN, TX, CA, KS, and SC, reflecting continued momentum in domestic deal activity. On the global front, three additional transactions were reported in the UK, Denmark, and Canada.

Domestic Transactions

3/18/2026
Industry leader, recipient of the 2023 Best Post-Transaction Performance Award, and one of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2026, Salas O’Brien (Irvine, CA) (ENR #31) merged with Axiom (Boise, ID), a structural design and engineering firm. Link to details >

3/18/2026
ENR’s #66 ranked environmental firm, recipient of the 2024 M&A Best Practices Award, and one of our Ten Movers and Shakers to Watch in 2026, Trinity Consultants (Dallas, TX), acquired Process Improvement Institute (Knoxville, TN), a training firm specializing in process safety management, risk management, and process reliability. Link to details >

3/12/2026
ENR’s #10 ranked CM/PM-for-fee firm, Cumming Group (New York, NY), merged with Vidaurri Management Group (Fort Worth, TX), an owner’s representation and project management firm serving the municipal, K-12/higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, aviation, entertainment, hospitality, multi-family, mixed-use, and corporate sectors. Link to details >

3/17/2026
ENR’s #59 ranked environmental firm, Apex Companies (Rockville, MD), acquired CWE (Fullerton, CA), a civil infrastructure, water resources, and environmental engineering services firm. Link to details >

3/18/2026
Engineering firm DeSimone Consulting Engineering (New York, NY) (ENR #241) merged with Constructive Engineering Design (Overland Park, KS), a firm that offers steel procurement, structural engineering, structural connection design, and detailing. Link to details >

3/12/2026
Architecture and advisory firm McMillan Pazdan Smith (Spartanburg, SC) (ENR #242) acquired MCA Architecture (Greenville, SC), a firm with design experience serving clients in the industrial development, manufacturing, and energy markets. Link to detail >

3/16/2026
Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group (Clovis, CA), a civil and agricultural engineering, environmental, land use planning, hydrogeology, geology, surveying, and CM services firm, acquired Pezzoni Engineering (Modesto, CA), a firm that specializes in power distribution, automation controls, lighting design, information technology systems, and communications systems. Link to details >

Global Transactions

3/16/2026
Superstructures (Ipswich, UK), a structural and civil engineering firm, merged with Zenon Group (Vancouver, Canada), a multidisciplinary construction group. Link to details >

3/17/2026
XPartners (Stockholm, Sweden), a platform of companies in the environmental and civil engineering industries, acquired All-Energy (Odense, Denmark), a specialized engineering firm that provides technical advisory and project execution to the energy, marine, and industrial process sectors. Link to details >

3/17/2026
Inline Group (Edmonton, Canada), a geotechnical and geomatics services firm, acquired Challenger Geomatics (Edmonton, Canada), a land surveying, geomatics, and geospatial firm. Link to details >