Engineering Services Acquisitions in 2025

ATIS, a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), has acquired Bayline Lift Technologies, an independent elevator inspection and consulting firm headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. The add-on strengthens ATIS's footprint in the Mid-Atlantic and expands its inspection and consulting capabilities for government and private-sector clients.

ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) has acquired VARA 3D, Inc., a Murray, Utah-based surveying and 3D mapping firm. The deal expands ZenaTech's Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) and drone-enabled inspection capabilities and accelerates its entry into the high-growth solar infrastructure market.

Reserve Advisors, a Milwaukee-based national consulting firm specializing in reserve studies and property wellness solutions, has acquired Waldman Engineering Consultants, Inc., a Lisle, Illinois-based engineering and building inspection firm. The transaction closed on December 18, 2025 and expands Reserve Advisors’ engineering and building evaluation capabilities for homeowner associations, condominiums, high-rise buildings and private clubs.

PRIME AE Group, a Platform Holdings-managed engineering and architecture firm, has acquired Faller, Davis & Associates (FDA), a Florida-based civil engineering consultancy specializing in transportation and environmental services. The add-on strengthens PRIME AE’s Florida footprint, expands transportation and environmental capabilities, and enhances service capacity for state and municipal public-sector clients across key corridors.

Nscale has acquired Future-tech, a European data‑centre engineering consultancy of roughly 60 employees, to strengthen its AI infrastructure design, project delivery and operations capabilities across Europe and North America. The deal brings Future-tech’s specialist engineering, design and management team into Nscale as the company scales execution of AI‑ready data centres globally.

BCP-backed Brailsford & Dunlavey (B&D) and Project Management Advisors (PMA) have merged to form an integrated institutional program management and real estate advisory platform. The combined firm—supported by Bernhard Capital Partners—brings together more than 450 professionals and expands geographic reach and sector capabilities across higher education, healthcare, life sciences, civic projects and energy infrastructure.

Jensen Hughes, a Gryphon Investors-backed global engineering and consulting firm, has acquired Safety Management Services, Inc. (SMS), an energetic materials and process safety engineering and testing firm headquartered in West Jordan, Utah. The deal expands Jensen Hughes' capabilities in process safety, energetic materials testing and related risk-management services and will be integrated into its broader global platform.

Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners acquired Enviromatic Systems, a Grand Prairie, Texas-based provider of building management systems (BMS) and essential facility services, from Audax Private Equity's Origins strategy. Wind Point will partner with Enviromatic's leadership to invest in technician training, technology and infrastructure to support an aggressive growth and geographic expansion strategy; terms were not disclosed.

OceanSound Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, has made a strategic/control investment in Burns Engineering, a Philadelphia-headquartered provider of electrical, mechanical and technology systems engineering for transportation and critical infrastructure markets. Burns' leadership team (including Matthew and John Burns) will retain significant ownership and continue to run the business as OceanSound backs growth initiatives and targeted acquisitions to expand capabilities and geographic reach. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Global consulting firm J.S. Held has acquired GLI Advisors, a West Coast and Hawaii-based construction project and program management consultancy. The deal expands J.S. Held's construction advisory and project support capabilities and strengthens its presence on the U.S. West Coast.

Qualus Corporation acquired Aquawolf, the transmission and distribution engineering subsidiary of Mammoth Energy, expanding Qualus' high-voltage transmission and grid modernization capabilities and adding offices in San Diego, Denver and Vancouver, Washington. The acquisition deepens Qualus' engineering and construction support services across the project life cycle and strengthens its technical capabilities in transmission and distribution design, resiliency and grid hardening.

ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) completed the acquisition of Smith Surveying Group LLC, a Jacksonville, Florida-based land surveying and inspection firm founded in 1988. The purchase expands ZenaTech’s Drone as a Service (DaaS) network and strengthens its capabilities to serve government, aviation, and commercial infrastructure markets in the Jacksonville region.

Legence Corp. (Nasdaq: LGN), a Blackstone-backed national MEP engineering and services provider, has acquired Innovative Mechanical & Design, LLC (IMD), a Windsor, Colorado-based mechanical and plumbing contractor serving healthcare, pharmaceutical, higher education, semiconductor and hyperscaler clients. The acquisition is a bolt-on to Legence’s platform to expand its service, maintenance and fabrication capabilities and broaden its regional footprint.

McKim & Creed, an employee-owned engineering, planning, and geospatial services firm, has acquired Texas-based engineering consulting firm Signature Automation, LLC to expand its electrical and instrumentation capabilities and strengthen its presence in Texas. The deal brings Signature Automation's SCADA, instrumentation, controls, and IT infrastructure expertise into McKim & Creed's broader water and wastewater and electrical services offering.

Egis has acquired RockSol Consulting Group, a Thornton, Colorado-based transportation infrastructure engineering firm with more than 240 employees. The acquisition expands Egis' presence across the Mountain States and Western U.S., adding RockSol's capabilities in engineering, planning, environmental compliance, design, construction management, inspection, and materials testing for municipal, state, and federal clients.

Milrose Consultants, a portfolio company of Southfield Capital, has acquired Surface Design Group. Monroe Capital provided a senior credit facility to support the acquisition; the deal expands Milrose's architecture and engineering consulting capabilities—particularly façade and building envelope services—through the addition of Surface Design, which is headquartered in New York, NY.

Inframark has acquired Dmytryka Jacobs Engineers (DJE), a Toledo-based firm that designs and implements instrumentation, control, and automation systems for municipal water and wastewater clients. The purchase expands Inframark’s Automation & Intelligence capabilities and Midwest presence; DJE’s leadership and staff will remain with the business.

DeepCoolAI and MAS HVAC have merged to create a single thermal management company combining DeepCoolAI’s liquid-cooling technology with MAS HVAC’s mission-critical air-cooling and HVAC engineering capabilities (including MAS HVAC’s Daedex subsidiary). The combined organization aims to offer comprehensive air, liquid and hybrid cooling solutions for data centers, enabling faster deployment, simplified vendor management and improved scalability for high-density AI and HPC workloads.

ZenaTech, a Vancouver-based technology and Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) provider, has acquired Rampart Surveys Inc., a Woodland Park, Colorado land surveying firm founded in 1997. The deal expands ZenaTech's DaaS footprint into Colorado and broadens its surveying and precision-agriculture capabilities.

Ardurra Group, Inc. has acquired MKN & Associates, a California-based water and wastewater engineering firm headquartered in San Luis Obispo with more than 85 professionals. The acquisition is an add-on to Ardurra’s platform that strengthens its water and wastewater capabilities and expands its presence across the Western United States; MKN will continue to operate from its San Luis Obispo headquarters and additional California offices.

UES has acquired GEOMAT, a Farmington, New Mexico-based geotechnical engineering, materials testing, and special inspection consultancy. The 50+ person firm will join UES’s West region as its first New Mexico presence, expanding UES’s footprint and service offering into the Four Corners area while GEOMAT continues to be led by President Matt Cramer, PE.

Pape-Dawson has acquired Coffman Associates, a U.S.-based airport planning firm with offices in Kansas and Arizona, expanding Pape-Dawson's aviation planning capabilities and geographic reach. The deal brings Coffman's airport master planning, environmental, and noise/land use expertise into Pape-Dawson's broader engineering and infrastructure services.

LDC-backed The Pace Group has acquired Gateshead-based Exel Elevator and Kent-based The Lift Company (DJ Lifts) as add-on acquisitions to accelerate its UK expansion. The deals expand The Pace Group's geographic footprint and service capability, bringing the Group's maintained units to around 13,000 and ~5,000 customers nationwide.

AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. has acquired C2AE, Inc., a Lansing, Michigan–headquartered architecture and engineering firm with eight locations and about 120 professionals. The deal expands AtkinsRéalis' presence in the U.S. Upper Midwest and strengthens its capabilities in key end-markets such as Water, Transportation and Buildings.

CBRE Group, Inc. agreed to acquire Pearce Services, LLC from New Mountain Capital for approximately $1.2 billion in cash plus an earn-out of up to $115 million. The acquisition expands CBRE's digital and power infrastructure capabilities by adding Pearce's design engineering, maintenance and repair services for critical power, cooling, renewable energy and telecom infrastructure; Pearce has more than 4,000 employees and is projected to generate over $660 million of revenue in 2026.

Apex Companies, LLC has acquired Forsgren Associates, Inc., a multi-discipline civil engineering, environmental sciences, and land surveying firm serving the Intermountain West. The deal adds deep engineering capabilities and expands Apex's operational presence across the Rockies and Pacific Northwest as Forsgren will operate as Forsgren, an Apex Company.

Cumming Group has joined with LeftField, a New England owner's project management consultancy led by Jim Rogers, expanding Cumming's presence and capabilities across the Northeast. The deal brings LeftField’s 60+ professionals into Cumming’s platform, strengthening its K–12, higher education, life sciences and municipal project management capabilities in New England.

Osmose Utilities has acquired Centillion Solutions, Inc. to expand its telecom engineering and technical services capabilities. Centillion, an engineering and geospatial services provider for FTTx and Hybrid Fiber Coax networks with operations in the U.S., Europe, Australia and a design center in India, will enable Osmose to offer end-to-end fiber engineering, design, permitting and post-construction services at greater scale; Osmose is a PE-backed platform owned by EQT Infrastructure.

Trinity Consultants has acquired Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B), a New York–based provider of mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and fire protection engineering services. JB&B will operate within Trinity's Built Environment division, with Walter Mehl, Jr. named Divisional President, as Trinity expands its MEP capabilities to deliver more integrated engineering solutions across commercial, healthcare, life sciences, aviation and data center markets.

Salas O'Brien has merged with M/E Engineering to expand its mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), fire protection and sustainable design capabilities across upstate New York. The deal brings M/E Engineering’s team and local offices in Rochester, Buffalo, Schenectady and Syracuse into Salas O'Brien while preserving the M/E leadership and local operations.

Pape-Dawson has acquired Innerlight Engineering, a Miramar Beach, Florida-based civil engineering, surveying, and land planning firm, to expand its footprint and service capabilities in Northwest Florida. The acquisition is Pape-Dawson's fifth in Florida in the past three years and will broaden the combined team's engineering and planning offerings for public and private clients across the state.

RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture has acquired Talson Design, an award-winning landscape architecture and urban planning studio headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The deal expands RVi’s talent footprint and design capabilities in Texas; terms were not disclosed.

Miramar Capital Partners has made a strategic growth investment in Comp-Utility Corporation, a data center power and cooling services and distribution firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. As part of the alliance Miramar partners Jacob Zweig and Noah Berko have taken operating roles at Comp-Utility to accelerate growth while founder Randy Collier remains president.

WSB LLC, a GHK Capital-backed national design and consulting firm, has acquired Agbara Engineering, a power delivery engineering firm. The add-on expands WSB's transmission, distribution and substation capabilities as it builds a national energy practice and brings ~50 employees into WSB's platform.

Certerra, a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has acquired Farabaugh Engineering & Testing, a McKeesport, Pennsylvania-based provider of construction materials testing, auditing, and engineering services. The add-on acquisition (closed August 15, 2025) expands Certerra’s Analytical Labs and Building Products divisions and increases its technical capabilities and geographic presence in key U.S. markets, particularly the Northeast.

Ridge, the multidisciplinary built-environment consultancy backed by Horizon Capital, has acquired Driven International, a specialist racetrack design and motorsport masterplanning firm. The deal brings Driven's racetrack architecture, engineering and visualisation capabilities into Ridge's global motorsport and automotive offering, expanding Ridge's technical capacity and end-to-end service portfolio.

STV Group, Incorporated has acquired Cypress Construction Management, LLC, a Roseville, California-based program, project and construction management firm. The acquisition brings Cypress into STV’s national PM/CM practice as Cypress Construction Management, an STV Company, expanding STV’s capabilities and footprint in Northern California to better serve public-sector clients in education, healthcare and justice projects.

SLR has acquired Forte Dynamics and Forte Analytical, two U.S.-based mining engineering and metallurgical testing specialists headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. The acquisition strengthens SLR's North American mining capabilities—particularly heap leach design and metallurgical laboratory services—and expands its offering in critical minerals and battery metals markets.

ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) has acquired Tucson-based Putt Land Surveying, Inc., expanding the company's Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) footprint in southern Arizona. The deal is ZenaTech's 11th U.S. acquisition for its DaaS business area and is intended to accelerate the company’s Phoenix and statewide DaaS operations and recurring-service capabilities.

CHA Consulting, a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital, has acquired Steger Bizzell Engineering, a Georgetown, Texas-based civil engineering firm specializing in water/wastewater, land development and surveying. The deal expands CHA’s capabilities and Central Texas presence by adding more than 50 technical experts and will see Steger Bizzell rebrand as Steger Bizzell, A CHA Company.

Irving, Texas-based RailPros has acquired St. Louis-based railroad engineering firm Design Nine, Inc., expanding RailPros' engineering capabilities and regional coverage in the Midwest. The acquisition adds Design Nine's site development, bridge rehabilitation, surveying, drafting and inspection services to RailPros' North American rail engineering and services platform.

SJE, Inc. has acquired LangeTech Inc., a system integrator and engineering services provider for the automation industry, to grow its Engineered Control Solutions (ECS) business. LangeTech, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, brings system integration, SCADA, control systems and aftermarket services—strengthening SJE's capabilities and U.S. footprint. Terms were not disclosed.

SLR Consulting has acquired A. DiCesare Associates, P.C. (ADA), a Connecticut-based engineering firm specializing in highway and railroad bridge inspection, bridge design and underwater inspection services. The deal strengthens SLR’s transportation engineering and inspection capabilities and deepens its client relationships with state transportation agencies and rail clients across the U.S. Northeast.

WSB LLC, a GHK Capital-backed national design and consulting firm, has acquired CAS Consulting & Services, a multidisciplinary civil engineering firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. The add-on brings four offices and 38 employees to WSB and strengthens its water/wastewater, water resources and construction management capabilities while expanding WSB's presence in Texas and the southwestern United States.

Signal Hill Equity Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, has entered into a strategic partnership with KGD Architecture, a multidisciplinary architecture and design firm based in Washington, D.C. KGD will join Signal Hill’s growing national AEC platform alongside CSArch, ZMM Architects and Engineers, and Kluber Architects + Engineers; financial terms were not disclosed and KGD’s leadership and staff will remain in place.

AKS Engineering & Forestry has merged with Lancaster Mobley, adding the Portland-based transportation engineering and planning firm to AKS's multidisciplinary practice. The transaction expands AKS's service offering to include traffic engineering and transportation planning, and brings a new Portland office and Lancaster Mobley's staff into AKS's regional platform.

Capgemini has acquired 100% of SEIMAF, an industrial engineering and technical consulting group specializing in nuclear, to strengthen its engineering and nuclear capabilities across Europe. SEIMAF, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Paris with a team of over 100 engineers across France, the UK and Romania, will bolster Capgemini's capacity to support industrial and energy clients during the energy transition.

Apple Inc. has acquired IC Mask Design Limited (ICMD), an Irish firm that provides physical layout design services for analog integrated circuits and related training. The EU Digital Markets Act listing says Apple will acquire the entire issued share capital and hire certain employees; IC Mask Design is headquartered in Limerick, Ireland and the deal appears to have taken place around mid-2025.

E Source, a Boulder-based provider of customer, grid, and technology solutions for utilities, has acquired CF Power, a power systems engineering firm known for grid modernization and interconnection studies. The deal, supported by E Source investor Align Capital Partners, strengthens E Source's technical engineering capabilities to support utilities and developers across planning, interconnection and transmission work.

BNP Associates, a Godspeed Capital-backed air transportation design and engineering platform, has acquired Studdiford Technical Solutions (STS), a specialized aviation consulting firm focused on baggage and material handling and transportation security. The add-on expands BNP's terminal design capabilities, brings STS's TSA and airline customer relationships, and enhances the platform's technology and commissioning expertise.