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  • May 2026 M&A Transactions in AEC

    May 2026 M&A Transactions in AEC

    May 18, 2026

     Zweig Group is the leading advisory firm for the AEC industry, providing expert guidance across the entire M&A lifecycle. With deep industry knowledge and decades of experience, we help firms navigate transactions, maximize value, and...

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  • Better insight for better employee experience

    Better insight for better employee experience

    May 10, 2026 | Shirley Che

    By Shirley Che | Improving employee experience may be the AEC industry’s most important group project.

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  • April M&A Transactions in AEC

    April M&A Transactions in AEC

    May 01, 2026

    Zweig Group is the leading advisory firm for the AEC industry, providing expert guidance across the entire M&A lifecycle. With deep industry knowledge and decades of experience, we help firms navigate transactions, maximize value, and...

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  • Catch Zweig Group in the field

    Catch Zweig Group in the field

    March 06, 2026

    Zweig Group consultants and leaders regularly speak, teach, and participate in major industry events across the AEC community.

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  • February M&A Transactions in AEC

    February M&A Transactions in AEC

    February 23, 2026

    Explore the latest AEC M&A transactions from the past month. Zweig Group tracks and reports on every merger and acquisition in architecture and engineering to keep you informed.

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  • January M&A Transactions in AEC

    January M&A Transactions in AEC

    January 21, 2026

      Zweig Group is the leading advisory firm for the AEC industry, providing expert guidance across the entire M&A lifecycle. With deep industry knowledge and decades of experience, we help firms navigate transactions, maximize value,...

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  • December M&A Transactions in AEC

    December M&A Transactions in AEC

    December 17, 2025

      Zweig Group is the leading advisory firm for the AEC industry, providing expert guidance across the entire M&A lifecycle. With deep industry knowledge and decades of experience, we help firms navigate transactions, maximize value,...

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  • October M&A Transactions in AEC

    October M&A Transactions in AEC

    October 23, 2025

        Zweig Group is the leading advisory firm for the AEC industry, providing expert guidance across the entire M&A lifecycle. With deep industry knowledge and decades of experience, we help firms navigate transactions, maximize...

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  • KGD Architecture Enters Strategic Partnership, Joins Influential National Platform, with Signal Hill Equity Partners

    KGD Architecture Enters Strategic Partnership, Joins Influential National Platform, with Signal Hill Equity Partners

    October 08, 2025

    Zweig Group client KGD Architecture has entered into a strategic partnership with Signal Hill Equity Partners.

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  • Making brutalist architecture less brutal

    Making brutalist architecture less brutal

    September 14, 2025

    One of my all-time favorite Zweig Letter articles was written by no less than Mark Zweig himself, titled, “Frank Wouldn’t Be Happy.”  The “Frank” in this case was Frank Lloyd Wright, and the article described...

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  • What young leaders want

    What young leaders want

    June 22, 2025 | Sara Parkman

    By Sara Parkman | Zweig Group’s 2025 Rising Stars share what inspires purpose, loyalty, and change in the AEC workplace.

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  • February M&A Transactions in AEC

    February M&A Transactions in AEC

    March 04, 2025

    February 1 - IMEG Corp. (Rock Island, IL) acquired Warner Larson Landscape Architects (Boston, MA), a firm specializing in Architecture, expanding its capabilities in landscape architecture and site design and strengthening its presence in civic,...

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  • M&A Weekly Activity Report for 11/4/24-11/10/24

    M&A Weekly Activity Report for 11/4/24-11/10/24

    November 11, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/30/24 - 10/6/24

    M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/30/24 - 10/6/24

    October 04, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/23/24 - 9/29/24

    M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/23/24 - 9/29/24

    September 27, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/16/24 - 9/22/24

    M&A Weekly Activity Report for 9/16/24 - 9/22/24

    September 24, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • The IRS is gearing up to audit innovation

    The IRS is gearing up to audit innovation

    August 18, 2024

    By Eric Tuthill & Jordan Wilson | It’s become increasingly apparent that Section 174 may be around longer than anyone believed possible.

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/1/24-7/7/24

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/1/24-7/7/24

    July 05, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 6/17/24-6/23/24

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 6/17/24-6/23/24

    June 28, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team...

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  • Tax uncertainty hurts AEC firms

    Tax uncertainty hurts AEC firms

    May 26, 2024

    By Dan Houf | If AEC firms cannot have certainty in how they operate and grow, it will be difficult to stay competitive.

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 04/08/2024 – 04/14/2024

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 04/08/2024 – 04/14/2024

    May 03, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory...

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 04/01/2024 – 04/07/2024

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 04/01/2024 – 04/07/2024

    April 08, 2024

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory...

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  • M&A Activity Report for 10/9/2023 – 10/22/2023

    M&A Activity Report for 10/9/2023 – 10/22/2023

    October 24, 2023

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here.   Domestic...

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  • Cooper Carry acquires 505Design

    Cooper Carry acquires 505Design

    September 29, 2023 | Will Swearingen

    Zweig Group announces its client 505Design has been acquired by Cooper Carry.

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  • 8/28/2023 – 9/17/2023 M&A Activity Report

    8/28/2023 – 9/17/2023 M&A Activity Report

    September 21, 2023

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here.   Domestic...

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 1/23/2023 – 1/29/2023

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 1/23/2023 – 1/29/2023

    January 30, 2023

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry, advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here. Domestic Transactions:...

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  • People’s leader: Eric Lucas

    People’s leader: Eric Lucas

    November 27, 2022

    By Liisa Andreassen | CEO of MKSK, a collective of planners, urban designers, and landscape architects who are passionate about the interaction between people and place.

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  • Zweig Group announces Ken Siebert as 2022 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award Winner

    Zweig Group announces Ken Siebert as 2022 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award Winner

    October 04, 2022

    Ken Siebert, CMTA, is the recipient of the 2022 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding accomplishments through leadership in the AEC industry.

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 9/12/2022 – 9/18/2022

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 9/12/2022 – 9/18/2022

    September 22, 2022

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry, advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here.   Domestic...

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/18/2022 – 7/24/2022

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/18/2022 – 7/24/2022

    July 25, 2022

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here.   Domestic...

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/4/2022 – 7/10/2022

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 7/4/2022 – 7/10/2022

    July 18, 2022

    Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here. Domestic Transactions:...

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  • Creating opportunities: Rob Winstead

    Creating opportunities: Rob Winstead

    May 29, 2022

    By Liisa Andreassen | Principal at VMDO, an architectural planning and design firm that creates community-centered environments that connect people and place through design.

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  • M&A Activity Report 2/14/2022 - 2/20/2022

    M&A Activity Report 2/14/2022 - 2/20/2022

    February 22, 2022

      Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here. -...

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  • M&A Activity Report 1/31/2022 - 2/6/2022

    M&A Activity Report 1/31/2022 - 2/6/2022

    February 07, 2022

      Zweig Group is the leading AEC Industry advisory service provider. We blend industry and sector knowledge with experience across the M&A lifecycle to help you capture value for shareholders. Reach our Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory team here. -...

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  • M&A Activity Report (11.22.2021 - 11.28.2021)

    M&A Activity Report (11.22.2021 - 11.28.2021)

    November 30, 2021

    Domestic Transactions:   Bernardon (West Chester, PA), a full service architecture, interior design and landscape architecture firm has announced that they have joined the Core States Group of Companies (Duluth, GA). Core States Group is a leading national provider...

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  • M&A Activity Report (8/16/21 – 8/22/2021)

    M&A Activity Report (8/16/21 – 8/22/2021)

    August 23, 2021

    Domestic Transactions: EVstudio (Denver, CO), an architecture and engineering firm has merged with neUdesign (Meridian, UT). neUdesign specializes in a variety of process-driven services aimed at the modular, commercial, residential, and industrial markets. Zweig Group...

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  • The human factor: Mike DeRouin

    The human factor: Mike DeRouin

    August 01, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | President at FitzGerald (Chicago, IL), a nationally recognized architecture firm with roots dating back more than 100 years.

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  • M&A Activity Report (6/21/2021 – 6/27/2021)

    M&A Activity Report (6/21/2021 – 6/27/2021)

    June 28, 2021

    Facility planning, design, construction management and commissioning firm, Salas O'Brien, (Santa Ana, CA) has acquired PCI Skanska (Evansville, IN) from Skanska USA. The acquisition of PCI Skanska adds an engineering team focused on power and...

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  • Humility: David Shove-Brown

    Humility: David Shove-Brown

    June 20, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | Partner at //3877, a boutique design firm that’s committed to providing innovative and creative designs that enhance and enrich the lives of its clients, partners, and communities.

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  • M&A Activity Report (5/31/2021 - 6/06/2021)

    M&A Activity Report (5/31/2021 - 6/06/2021)

    June 07, 2021

    Domestic Transactions HDR, (Omaha, NE) a leading design firm has acquired WKE (Santa Ana, CA). WKE has expertise in design and construction management for streets and highway corridors, bridges, runway structures, trail and transit facilities,...

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  • Trends accelerated by COVID-19

    Trends accelerated by COVID-19

    November 15, 2020

    By Jamie Claire Kiser | Companies are adopting fluid work from home policies and people have begun migrating away from dense cities.

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  • The Vertex Companies acquires Xpera Inc.

    The Vertex Companies acquires Xpera Inc.

    August 19, 2020

    The Vertex Companies Inc. has acquired Xpera Inc., a premier construction forensics, quality assurance, and real estate consultancy firm headquartered in San Diego. Xpera Group’s team is recognized as the West Coast’s most comprehensive team...

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  • Architects as advocates

    Architects as advocates

    May 18, 2020

    It’s our responsibility as AEC professionals, as well as citizens, to champion solutions to problems that affect our global and local communities.

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  • Difficult conversations

    Difficult conversations

    May 11, 2020

    Changing your mindset and discarding your assumptions allows you to start a dialogue to improve performance, relationships, and model the type of leadership that you want to see in others.

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  • GES joins Salas O’Brien

    GES joins Salas O’Brien

    April 09, 2020

    Engineering, program management, and construction management firm Global Engineering Solutions has joined Salas O’Brien, a 100 percent employee-owned engineering, facility planning, and commissioning firm. The combined firm has 33 offices with more than 800 team...

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  • Westwood acquires Main Line Energy Consultants

    Westwood acquires Main Line Energy Consultants

    December 31, 2019

    Westwood Professional Services, Inc., a leading multi-disciplined surveying and engineering firm, completed the acquisition of Main Line Energy Consultants, LLC on October 1, 2019. The acquisition combines the firms’ expertise and strength to better serve...

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  • Zweig Group launches open call for ElevateHer™program; backed by founding patrons

    Zweig Group launches open call for ElevateHer™program; backed by founding patrons

    November 12, 2019

    FAYETTEVILLE, AR (November 11, 2019) – Zweig Group’s commitment to promote diversity as a means to combat recruitment and retention challenges in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is realized with 2020 launch of...

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  • Zweig Group M&A: Go Midwest

    Zweig Group M&A: Go Midwest

    September 11, 2019

    Mid-Atlantic firm O’Donnell & Naccarato adds Indiana office through merger with Carmel-based McComas Engineering. O’Donnell & Naccarato has merged operations with structural engineering firm McComas Engineering. With four offices in the Mid-Atlantic region, this merger...

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  • Apple orchards and water rights

    Apple orchards and water rights

    July 22, 2019

    Taylor Dayton, EIT, is a project engineer at Aspect Consulting’s office in Wenatchee, Washington.

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  • Zweig Group M&A: West Texas Swing

    Zweig Group M&A: West Texas Swing

    May 17, 2019

    DBR Engineering Consultants, Inc. expands El Paso footprint with acquisition of Borunda & Associates After three years of success in the El Paso market, DBR Engineering Consultants, Inc. cemented its presence in West Texas with...

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  • The best strategy for AEC firms in 2019

    The best strategy for AEC firms in 2019

    February 04, 2019

    “If we know recruiting and retention are the biggest challenges and our employees are telling us that training and development are the solution, isn’t the investment in a training program at your firm worth it?”...

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  • Zweig Group hires Marci Thompson as Chief Learning Officer; Expands into Washington, D.C. area

    Zweig Group hires Marci Thompson as Chief Learning Officer; Expands into Washington, D.C. area

    January 30, 2019

    Marci D. ThompsonChief Learning Officermthompson@zweiggroup.com800.466.6275 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (January 30, 2019) – Zweig Group, a global leader in products and services for the AEC industry, announced today that Marci Thompson has joined the firm as chief...

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  • Conference call: Rhett Crocker

    Conference call: Rhett Crocker

    November 26, 2018

    President of LandDesign (Best Firm Multi-discipline #30 for 2017), a 165-person landscape architecture, civil engineering, and planning firm based in Charlotte, NC. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “From the day LandDesign was founded, it was intended...

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  • Zweig Group Names Oregon ‘Hottest State’ For Road and Bridge Work; Midwest Goes Cold

    Zweig Group Names Oregon ‘Hottest State’ For Road and Bridge Work; Midwest Goes Cold

    July 31, 2018

    August 1, 2018 Available for Purchase: The Insider’s Guide to the State DOT Market for AEC Firms 2018-2021 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (Aug. 1, 2018) – Anchored by a 10-year, $5.3-billion transportation bill, Oregon, for the foreseeable...

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  • Conference call: Doug McKeown

    Conference call: Doug McKeown

    July 16, 2018

    CEO of Woodard & Curran (Hot Firm #69 for 2018), a 1,000-person integrated engineering, science, and operations company based in Portland, ME. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “Give them that opportunity and watch them soar,” McKeown...

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  • Office tribalism

    Office tribalism

    May 14, 2018

    Tribes provide compelling places for support, validation, and direction, but tribalism cannot be allowed to thwart a firm’s success. I chose psychology as a major in college because I thought it would help me understand...

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  • DAVIS Construction’s New Website Sets the Standard in the Construction Industry, Wins First Place in Zweig Group’s Marketing Excellence Website Awards

    DAVIS Construction’s New Website Sets the Standard in the Construction Industry, Wins First Place in Zweig Group’s Marketing Excellence Website Awards

    May 01, 2018

    Davis Construction (Rockville, MD), a 400-person general contracting construction firm, won first place in the Website category of Zweig Group’s 2017 Marketing Excellence Awards. Davis Construction launched a completely new website early in 2016. Stepping...

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  • Conference call: Mike Cooper

    April 09, 2018

    Managing principal and president of HED, Inc. (Hot Firm #34 for 2017), a 350-person design firm with offices in Illinois, Michigan, and California. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “Small changes often lead to significant results,” says...

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  • Conference call: Doug McKeown

    June 12, 2017

    CEO of Woodard & Curran (Hot Firm #80 for 2016), a 1,000-person integrated engineering, science, and operations firm based in Portland, Maine. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “Live by the contract; never lose sight of it,”...

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  • DAVIS Construction's new website sets the standard in the construction industry, wins FIRST PLACE in Zweig Group's Marketing Excellence Website Award

    DAVIS Construction's new website sets the standard in the construction industry, wins FIRST PLACE in Zweig Group's Marketing Excellence Website Award

    June 08, 2017

    Davis Construction (Rockville, MD), a 400-person general contracting construction firm, won first place in the Website category of Zweig Group’s 2017 Marketing Excellence Awards. Davis Construction launched a completely new website early in 2016. Stepping...

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  • Give a minute, don’t ask for one

    Give a minute, don’t ask for one

    January 23, 2017

    Georgia firm grew by nearly 38 percent last year and is poised to start working nationally, and even internationally. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent Before founding the Foresite Group (Best Firm #18 Multidiscipline for 2016) in...

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  • Create a healthy workplace: Part one

    December 19, 2016

    Over the years, we have developed work styles that are not good for our physical, mental, or emotional health, but that can be changed. It’s not that we’re bad people, or that we aren’t working...

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  • Rise of the drones

    November 07, 2016

    By assessing how they plan to use drones, and by carefully evaluating related risks, A/E firms will benefit from this new capability. As more A/E firms begin integrating drones into their operations, they need to...

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  • Piano and trombone

    October 17, 2016

    A visionary rather than a command-and-control type of leader, Mike Sanderson has a musical side to him that some might find surprising. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent He doesn’t like the word “client.” He prefers “customer.”...

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  • Welcome back to Buffalo

    September 26, 2016

    In decline since 1950, the city is finally reversing its downward trend, and architects and engineers are taking part in the recovery. By Richard Massey Managing Editor When architect Michael Tunkey graduated from his hometown...

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  • Going nuclear? Yes and no

    September 09, 2016

    Plant closures and small modular reactors are expected to define the nuclear landscape for the foreseeable future – and provide opportunities for enterprising engineers. By Richard Massey Managing Editor Though the future of U.S. nuclear...

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  • A designer embezzlement

    September 09, 2016

    ACI Boland Architects of Kansas City was betrayed by an office manager who, over a decade, funneled millions into secret bank accounts. By Richard Massey Managing Editor A long-time office manager at one of Kansas...

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  • The tilting tower near Transbay

    August 30, 2016

    San Francisco’s tallest and most luxurious residential skyscraper is sinking, leaning, and setting the stage for an epic, and even precedent-setting, bayside court battle. When it was completed in 2008, the 58-story Millennium Tower in...

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  • CMTA Inc. merges with TMR Engineering

    February 24, 2016

    CMTA Inc. is increasing its presence in the Washington, D.C. Metro area via a merger with TMR Engineering (Arlington, Virginia). The transaction was facilitated by Zweig Group and closed on January 1, 2016. Zweig Group...

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  • Marketing Excellence Awards: Art Night

    August 18, 2015

    Hickok Cole Architects (Georgetown, DC) is taking home first place in Zweig Group’s 2015 Marketing Excellence Awards in the Special Event category for its social marketing event – Art Night. Every October, HCA transforms its...

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  • From the Chairman: Finding management & leadership talent

    May 02, 2014

    Search outside the firm or groom from within? To this author, the answer is obvious. I wrote last month about a position description for an office leader. But where do you look for the talent...

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  • Water Market Heating Up For Engineering Firms

    February 08, 2011

    Press Release: February 8, 2011 Increasing regulation and a new focus on efficiency are turning the water market into one of the hottest commodities for engineering firms, The Zweig Letter discovers. A reinvigorated focus on...

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  • The Zweig Letter Reports Growing Disfavor for Looming 1099 Avalanche

    February 02, 2011

    Press Release: February 2 , 2011 FAYETTEVILLE, AR — Firms in the architecture, engineering, planning and environmental consulting sphere are joining the national chorus of opposition to a provision that would significantly boost tax-reporting requirements,...

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  • Three takes on planning for your exit

    December 13, 2010

    Until 2004 Ravi Maniktala ruled supreme at ME Group (Omaha, NE), a 60-person mechanical and electrical engineering, building simulation, and lighting design firm. At that time, however, Maniktala, still the firm’s president today, decided to...

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  • Market-based, or something in between

    November 16, 2010

    John Drinkard thinks Mark Zweig, ZweigWhite CEO, had CJMW Architecture in mind when he recently made the case for organizing firms by market sectors. CJMW, a Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based 97-person architecture, engineering, interior design, and...

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  • A Day That Will Go Down in Infamy

    September 24, 2001

    September 11, 2001— I was talking on the phone when I looked through the glass interior wall of my office out into the rest of our space and noticed people standing around a TV monitor....

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  • A Review and a Preview

    October 02, 1995

    Quickie Conference Review— This year’s PSMA National Convention held at the Red Lion LaPosada Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, was the association’s best ever. It also marked the 20th anniversary of PSMA, which stands for Professional...

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