M&A Activity Report (9/12/21 – 9/19/2021)

Sep 20, 2021

Domestic Transactions:
  • Employee-owned professional engineering, environmental and surveying consulting firm, Haley Ward, Inc., (Brewer, ME) formerly CES, Inc. is announcing the acquisition of Whitman & Bingham Associates, LLC (Leominster, MA). Whitman & Bingham Associates is a surveying and civil engineering company servicing clients throughout the New England region. Link to Details
  • Civil engineering, structural, land planning, landscape architecture, and land surveying firm, The Reaves Firm, (Memphis, TN) has announced that McCaskill and Associates, (Memphis, TN) has merged with The Reaves Firm. Link to Details
Global Transactions:
  • Premier architecture, engineering geospatial, and strategic consulting firm, Woolpert, (Dayton, OH) has announced the acquisition of AAM, (Sydney, Australia) a geospatial technology company specializing in collection, analysis, and integration of geospatial information. Link to Details
  • Jensen Hughes, (Baltimore, MD) a leading provider in safety, security, and risk-based engineering and consulting, announced the acquisition of BCA Logic (Sydney, Australia). BCA Logic is a market leader in Australia in code consulting and performance-based design engineering. Link to Details
  • Dawood Engineering (Harrisburg, PA) has acquired ArchiTube, (Częstochowa, Poland) a multi-disciplinary technology company specializing in 3D BIM. The dynamic companies create a path for transformative digital twin visualization of the built environment for international clients. Link to Details
  • SOCOTEC UK, (Burton upon Trent, UK) the leading provider of testing, inspection, and compliance services and second most important geographical platform in the SOCOTEC Group (Yvelines, France), has announced the acquisition of rotary drilling specialists, TOR Drilling (Glastonbury, UK). Link to Details
  • Thornton Engineering, (Colomba, Sri Lanka) the Nextventures owned civil engineering company, has announced the acquisition of 100% stake in Dane Engineering, (Colombo, Sri Lanka) creating a new entity, Thornton and Dane Engineering. Link to Details
  • ARCO Architecture Company will be established from the merger of three Finnish companies, enabled by the Finnish private equity firm, Intera Partners (Helsinki, Finland). Aihio Arkkitehdit, (Tampere, Finland) Arkkitehdit Soini & Horto, (Helsinki, Finland), and Cederqvist & Jantti Architects, (Helsinki, Finland) will be the three firms merging to create the largest architecture firm in Finland. Link to Details
  • BPA, (Montréal, Canada) expands its building design expertise and technical capabilities with the merger with Clark Engineering (Edmonton, UK). Clark Engineering is a leader in mechanical design for high performance buildings, but also has expertise in Combined Heat and Power Solutions. Link to Details
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