August M&A Transactions in AEC

Aug 19, 2025

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August 1 – LJA Engineering (Houston, TX), an employee-owned engineering firm, acquired G&R Surveying (Austin, TX), a land and civil construction surveying services firm. [More information] 

August 1 – HFA (Bentonville, AR), an architecture and engineering firm, acquired boutique architecture firm Chesapeake Design Group (Baltimore, MD). [More information] 

August 1 – Studio Engineers (Santa Barbara, CA), a structural engineering firm, joined John A. Martin & Associates (Los Angeles, CA), a firm specializing in structural engineering, design-build, forensic engineering, and construction services. [More information] 

August 1 – Chartwell Resource Group (Prince George, Canada) and DWB Consulting Services (Chilliwack, Canada) merged to form a multidisciplinary consulting firm specializing in environmental and resource management, GIS, engineering, and sustainable forest stewardship services. [More information] 

August 4 – Corgan (Dallas, TX), a global architecture and design firm, acquired Dyer Brown & Associates (Boston, MA), strengthening its reach in workplace, hospitality, retail, healthcare, and repositioning sectors. [More information] 

August 4 – Ampirical Solutions (Covington, LA), an engineering and software services firm serving the power industry, acquired Cappstone Energy Group (Covington, GA), a utility engineering firm specializing in distribution system planning, GIS development, and line design. [More information] 

August 4 – Mitie (London, UK), a facilities management and professional services firm, acquired Marlowe (London, UK), a specialist in fire & security and environmental services. [More information] 

August 5 – Spheros Environmental (Denver, CO), an environmental firm, acquired Four Peaks Environmental Science and Data Solutions (Wenatchee, WA), a provider of environmental science and data solutions. [More information] 

August 5 – The Vertex Companies (Weymouth, MA), an environmental firm, acquired ADAMS Management Services Corporation (Rome, GA), a healthcare-focused program and project management firm specializing in complex capital programs. [More information] 

August 5 – Horizon Engineering (Pennsburg, PA), a civil engineering, municipal engineering, land surveying, and landscape architectural services firm, acquired Irick Eberhardt & Mientus (Pennsburg, PA), a civil engineering and land surveying firm. [More information] 

August 5 – Allied Resources Group (Exton, PA), a parent organization of technical and professional services companies, acquired Verigent (Huntersville, NC), a firm providing IT staffing and telecom workforce solutions. [More information] 

August 6 – Milrose Consultants (New York, NY), a building regulatory, code compliance, permitting fulfillment, and consulting solutions firm, acquired ARC Private Provider Service (Miami, FL), a specialist in expediting plan review and inspections under Florida’s Alternative Plans Review and Inspection Program. [More information] 

August 6 – PDCo. (New York, NY) and PHB Catalyst Group (New York, NY) merged to form PDCo CATALYST, a project management and construction services firm specializing in commercial, hospitality, residential, institutional, educational, and cultural developments. [More information] 

August 6 – DB Sterlin Consultants (Chicago, IL), a full-service transportation consulting and design firm, acquired M Squared Engineering (Itasca, IL), a firm specializing in water resources, transportation engineering, and site development. [More information] 

August 6 – Hidden Harbor Capital Partners (Boca Raton, FL) announced an investment by Lathan Associates Architects (Hoover, AL) in Lambert Ezell Durham Architecture (Florence, AL), a firm specializing in municipal, higher education, K-12, financial, and religious projects. [More information] 

August 6 – Yellow Brick Consulting (Glendora, CA) joined forces with Blue Cottage of CannonDesign (New York, NY), strengthening CannonDesign’s healthcare transition and activation consulting platform. [More information] 

August 6 – GPRS (Maumee, OH), a provider of private utility locating, concrete scanning, video pipe inspection, leak detection, and mapping services, acquired Accu-Scan GPR Corporation (Forest Hills, NY), a concrete scanning and utility locating firm. [More information] 

August 7 – 97 Land (Denton, TX), a land development firm with expertise in land use and entitlements, economic development, project management, permit assistance, and strategic consulting, joined McAdams (Raleigh, NC), a full-service planning, design, and engineering firm. [More information] 

August 7 – Platte River Equity (Denver, CO) invested in Chemtech-Ford Laboratories (Sandy, UT), a provider of environmental and analytical services specializing in drinking water, wastewater, soil, and surface water analysis. [More information] 

August 7 – ZenaTech (Toronto, Canada), a technology firm specializing in AI drones, DaaS, enterprise SaaS, and quantum computing, acquired Cardinal Civil Resources (Williamsburg, VA), a land surveying and engineering firm. [More information] 

August 12 – Providus Capital Partners (Detroit, MI) partnered with Wold Architects and Engineers (Minneapolis, MN), an architecture and engineering firm serving the education, government, and healthcare markets. [More information] 

August 12 – J.S. Held (Jericho, NY) acquired GHL Consultants (Vancouver, Canada), a fire engineering and building code services firm. [More information] 

August 12 – WMK Architecture (Sydney, Australia) joined forces with Meli Studio (Sydney, Australia), a boutique interior design firm serving the hospitality, luxury residential, and aged care markets. [More information] 

August 13 – Ramboll Group (Copenhagen, Denmark) acquired TransGrid Solutions (Winnipeg, Canada), a power systems firm with expertise in advanced grid modelling, HVDC systems, and power network performance. [More information] 

August 13 – Turner & Townsend (Leeds, UK) acquired ValueMetric Consultants (Cairo, Egypt), a cost management and quantity surveying specialist. [More information] 

August 13 – XPartners (Stockholm, Sweden), a platform of environmental and civil engineering companies, acquired Protekno (Tønsberg, Norway), a firm specializing in design management, project administration, and HVAC systems. [More information] 

August 14 – RSK Group (Helsby, UK), an environmental consulting and services firm, acquired Renzo Tonin & Associates (Sydney, Australia), expanding its expertise in noise, vibration, and structural dynamics services. [More information] 

August 14 – Lochner (Chicago, IL), a transportation infrastructure planning and engineering services firm, merged with Egis (Guyancourt, France), a global design firm. The combination creates a major transatlantic platform with expanded expertise and geographic reach. [More information] 

August 14 – Atwell (Southfield, MI) acquired a majority stake in Centurion Power (Washougal, WA), adding electrical acceptance testing and commissioning services to its portfolio. [More information] 

August 19 – Engineering Analytics (Fort Collins, CO), a civil and environmental engineering firm specializing in site remediation, mining, water resources, municipal infrastructure, and energy projects, joined MacKay Sposito (Vancouver, WA). [More Information] 

August 19 – Mace Consult (London, UK), a program and project management, PMO and controls, cost and commercial management, and advisory services firm, acquired Turton Bond (New York, NY), a cost management, procurement, and project management firm. [More information] 

August 19 – Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance services, expanded in continental Europe with the acquisition of Sfera (Rome, Italy), a regulatory consulting firm. [More information] 

August 20 – Green Companies (Cedar Rapids, IA), the parent company of the HR Green family of firms, acquired Gauge Engineering (Houston, TX), an engineering firm specializing in transportation and drainage design, analysis, and construction management. [More information] 

August 20 – Collins Cooper Carusi Architects (Atlanta, GA), a design firm with expertise in education, housing, and community facilities, joined global integrated design firm DLR Group (Omaha, NE). [More information] 

August 20 – The Vertex Companies (Weymouth, MA) completed the acqui-hire of ARCHforensic (Chester, NJ), a full-service forensic architecture and engineering firm. [More information] 

August 21 – Blackstone (New York, NY) entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Shermco (Irving, TX), an electrical testing, maintenance, commissioning, and repair services firm, from Gryphon Investors (San Francisco, CA). [More information] 

August 22 – LaBella Associates (Rochester, NY), an architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning firm, acquired Environmental Assessment & Remediations (EAR) (Patchogue, NY), a hydrologic and environmental consulting firm. [More information] 

August 25 – Milrose Consultants (New York, NY), a provider of building regulatory, code compliance, permitting fulfillment, and consulting solutions, acquired Borne Consulting (San Francisco, CA), an architecture and engineering firm specializing in building envelope solutions. [More information] 

August 25 – TRC Companies (Windsor, CT), a global professional services firm providing integrated strategy, consulting, engineering, and applied technologies, acquired Strategic Energy Group (Portland, OR), an expert in strategic energy management. [More information] 

August 26 – Atwell (Southfield, MI) acquired Manhard Consulting (Lincolnshire, IL), a nearly 400-person engineering and surveying firm. The transaction, the largest in Atwell’s history, significantly expands its national capabilities in land development and energy markets. [More information] 

August 26 – Phenna Group (Nottingham, UK), a family of businesses providing testing, inspection, certification, and compliance services, acquired ISGroup (Perth, Australia), a firm offering geospatial and surveying services. [More information] 

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