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  • July 2026 M&A Transactions in AEC

    July 2026 M&A Transactions in AEC

    July 31, 2026

      July 1 – Atwell (Southfield, MI), an engineering, planning, and consulting firm, acquired NEI Electric Power Engineering (Lakewood, CO), a transmission, substation, and power systems engineering firm. The acquisition creates an integrated platform focused on critical power and...

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  • From efficiency to impact

    From efficiency to impact

    August 17, 2025 | Tom Godin

    By Tom Godin | Innovation in AEC must create measurable value for owners through smarter, more sustainable solutions.

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  • Building teams with a growth mindset

    Building teams with a growth mindset

    January 05, 2025

    By Leisbel Lam | Harnessing the power of a growth mindset and the S-curve of learning to transform human capital in the AEC industry.

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  • Get up, stand up

    Get up, stand up

    August 04, 2024

    By Javier Suarez | Mentorship relationships are mentee-driven – so, it’s up to you to not only establish one (or more), but to make it worth your while.

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  • Building your own GPT

    Building your own GPT

    April 28, 2024 | Kristin Kautz CPSM

    By Kristin Kautz | AI assistants empower personalized and effective support that will save time and money, and enhance creativity and quality.

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  • Go big or go home

    Go big or go home

    March 24, 2024 | Kristin Kautz CPSM

    By Kristin Kautz | In the rapidly evolving universe of AI, firms willing to “go big” will be at the forefront of transformation – with all of the risk and reward that implies.

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  • Tech trends transforming AEC

    Tech trends transforming AEC

    January 07, 2024 | Keith Sequeira

    By Keith Sequeira | Those who, adapt, organize and pioneer new workflows will excel in this new era of possibilities.

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  • Raising the bar

    Raising the bar

    August 13, 2023

    Zweig Group’s 2023 Best Firms To Work For Award winners share how they’re leading the charge in setting new standards for employee experience.

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  • Go big so your employees don’t go home

    Go big so your employees don’t go home

    June 11, 2023

    By Savina Gonzalez | Our workforce has changed in the years since the pandemic, and companies need to evolve to be successful in what is now an employee’s market.

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 8/22/2022 – 8/28/2022

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 8/22/2022 – 8/28/2022

    August 30, 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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  • Organizational entropy

    Organizational entropy

    June 26, 2022 | Tom Godin

    By Tom Godin | It’s up to leadership to recognize entropic degradation in their firms and respond energetically to restore order.

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  • M&A Activity Report 3/14/2022 - 3/20/2022

    M&A Activity Report 3/14/2022 - 3/20/2022

    March 21, 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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  • Think like a client of your firm

    Think like a client of your firm

    February 27, 2022 | Mark C Zweig

    By Mark Zweig | No matter how you do it, getting inside your clients’ brains is crucial to your long-term success.

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  • M&A Activity Report 2/7/2022 - 2/13/2022

    M&A Activity Report 2/7/2022 - 2/13/2022

    February 14, 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 1/24/2022 - 1/30/2022

    M&A Activity Report 1/24/2022 - 1/30/2022

    January 31, 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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  • Nathelyne Kennedy Awarded 2021 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award by Zweig Group

    Nathelyne Kennedy Awarded 2021 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award by Zweig Group

    December 23, 2021

    Nathelyne Kennedy, President and CEO of Nathelyne A. Kennedy & Associates, Inc., has been announced as the recipient of the 2021 Jerry Allen Courage in Leadership Award, an award recognizing outstanding leaders in the AEC industry....

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  • M&A Activity Report for the week of 12.13.2021 - 12.19.2021

    M&A Activity Report for the week of 12.13.2021 - 12.19.2021

    December 22, 2021

    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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  • Rowing together: Jim Walsh

    Rowing together: Jim Walsh

    November 28, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | President of Universal Engineering Sciences (Orlando, FL), a firm that has provided essential engineering services throughout the United States for nearly six decades.

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  • A blue ocean strategy

    A blue ocean strategy

    May 02, 2021

    By Stephanie Warino | To be successful, firms must find their “blue ocean” of uncontested market space.

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  • Engineering excellence: Sean Bluni

    Engineering excellence: Sean Bluni

    April 25, 2021

    By Liisa Andreassen | CEO of Hardesty & Hanover (New York, NY), a world-renowned full-service engineering firm with more than 130 years of experience.

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  • Jerry Allen – true courage in leadership

    Jerry Allen – true courage in leadership

    March 07, 2021

    By Mark Zweig | There are many ways to show courage, and Jerry Allen showed real courage in his willingness to confront every single obstacle in his life.

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  • The passing of a giant

    The passing of a giant

    September 13, 2020

    By Mark Zweig | “My good friend of more than 25 years, Jack Portman passed away suddenly on the morning of August 28.”

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  • Clear vision: Jeff Plymale

    Clear vision: Jeff Plymale

    August 17, 2020

    President and CEO of RJN Group (Wheaton, IL), a firm that is passionate about the environment, committed to community, and devoted to the welfare of its employees.

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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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  • New financial advisory team creates cross-functional focus on M&A

    New financial advisory team creates cross-functional focus on M&A

    March 02, 2020

    Recent data shows that over 80 percent of AEC firm owners are now over the age of 50. In response to aging workforce and market demands, Zweig Group announces a cross-functional focus on mergers and...

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  • Chief enthusiasm officer: Matthew Saacks

    Chief enthusiasm officer: Matthew Saacks

    May 20, 2019

    President of Ampirical (Best Firm Multi-discipline #21 for 2018), a 200-person firm on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

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  • Decision-making: Joe Derhake

    Decision-making: Joe Derhake

    February 18, 2019

    CEO and founder of Partner Engineering and Science, Inc. (Hot Firm #9 for 2018), a 700-plus person engineering and environmental due diligence consulting firm. By Liisa Andreassen Correspondent “There’s no boundary between entry-level and senior-level...

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  • Revisiting Conscious Capitalism

    January 15, 2018

    We all like and need profits, but there’s more to doing business than the bottom line, and the A/E industry should take heed. I’ve previously written about a group I’ve become active with here in...

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  • The condo conundrum

    October 23, 2017

    Does the specter or a 9 1/2-year lawsuit deter you from the HOA market? Try adding a 20-year maintenance clause to protect your firm. Have you or any of your friends owned a condominium? If...

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  • CRM = CCCC

    July 31, 2017

    Customer relationship management has changed over the decades, but some things have remained the same: currency, correctness, consistency, and completeness. Walkmen were all the rage, cell phones were the size of eggplants, and Whitney Houston’s...

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  • When engineering and the First Amendment collide

    May 12, 2017

    By Richard Massey Managing Editor It started with a Volkswagen, a traffic light, and a ticket in Beaverton, Oregon, back in spring 2013. Mundane enough. But enter Swedish-born Mats Jarlstrom, the Oregon State Board of...

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  • An Inspiration to Us All Passes

    December 14, 1998

    John Burgess, co-founder of Carter & Burgess (Fort Worth, TX), passed away on November 26th. He was a civil engineer who founded the now 1,400-plus-person firm with his childhood friend and fellow Boy Scout, Eugene...

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  • More Secrets of Consulting

    April 29, 1996

    Every so often, it becomes necessary for principals and managers of A/E/P and environmental consulting firms to remind certain staff members that theirs is much more than a technical service business. It is a consulting...

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  • Chasing the Market

    November 15, 1993

    We constantly get asked by principals in A/E and environmental consulting firms about what or where the next “hot markets” will be. It seems that these people have read about market life cycles in the...

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