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Woolpert

Dayton, Ohio, United States

Global architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) services firm serving public, private, and government sectors. Operates from more than 75 offices across five continents and provides design, geospatial data acquisition/processing, and strategic consulting.

Focus Areas
Architecture, Engineering, Geospatial
Website
woolpert.com

Tracked deals

18

18 tracked deals across 2019-2026.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

16 buyout · 1 divestiture · 1 recapitalization

Woolpert Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 8 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 8 years for Woolpert. 3 2019 2 2020 3 2021 2 2022 1 2023 3 2024 3 2025 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

Showing the 12 most recent of 18 tracked deals for Woolpert.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    UMC Architects
    Industry
    IT Services
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert acquired UMC Architects, a UK-based industrial architecture firm specializing in logistics and large-scale redevelopment. The deal is intended to strengthen Woolpert’s integrated architecture, engineering, and geospatial capabilities to support growing demand for data centers and industrial/logistics redevelopment across Europe.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Dawood Engineering Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Dawood Engineering Inc., a 33-year-old infrastructure and geospatial technology firm headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bringing more than 150 engineers, surveyors, and geospatial professionals into Woolpert. The acquisition expands Woolpert's transportation and utilities capabilities and strengthens its presence in Pennsylvania while adding Dawood's surveying, 3D laser scanning, GIS, digital twin and Twin Track mobile application capabilities.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Bluesky International
    Location
    Leicestershire, United Kingdom
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Bluesky International, the United Kingdom's largest commercial aerial survey firm, adding more than 100 survey and mapping professionals and Bluesky's fleet of aircraft and sensors. The deal expands Woolpert's geospatial capabilities and product offerings (including Bluesky's Mapshop) and strengthens its presence across Europe, North America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Teren
    Seller
    Teren
    Industry
    Data & Analytics

    Woolpert has acquired the lidar operations of Teren and will integrate Teren's analytics and Terevue SaaS platform into its geospatial offerings to better serve energy, utilities, transportation and renewable customers. Teren will remain an independent company while Woolpert also hired Teren's Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Energy Operations, Sam Acheson, to support energy clients.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Greenbox Architecture
    Location
    New South Wales, Australia
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Greenbox Architecture, a Sydney-based architecture and interior design firm that specializes in data center design, workplace interiors, commercial, health and life sciences, and residential architecture. The acquisition expands Woolpert’s architecture services and bench strength in the Asia‑Pacific region and strengthens its global data center design capabilities; Greenbox employs approximately 70 people.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Murphy Geospatial
    Location
    County Kildare, Ireland
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Murphy Geospatial, a Kilcullen, Ireland–headquartered geospatial solutions firm with nearly 400 employees across six offices in Ireland and the U.K. The acquisition expands Woolpert’s geospatial footprint and capabilities in Europe, aligning Murphy’s team to continue operating as Murphy Geospatial, a Woolpert Company.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Bermello Ajamil & Partners Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Bermello Ajamil & Partners (BA), a Miami-based architecture, engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm known for maritime, aviation, healthcare, commercial, and municipal projects. The deal adds roughly 150–160 professionals to Woolpert, deepens its maritime and AE capabilities, and expands its geospatial and AI-enabled service offerings and geographic footprint.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Cooperative Strategies
    Industry
    Education
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Cooperative Strategies, a national education facility and program planning firm that provides K‑12 facility management, enrollment and demographic analysis, capital planning and program planning services. The acquisition adds national education facility expertise and the My Facility Informer (MFI) data platform to Woolpert's architecture, engineering, geospatial and consulting capabilities to expand K‑12 offerings and analytics.

  • Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Sheehan Nagle Hartray Associates
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Sheehan Nagle Hartray Associates (SNHA), a Chicago- and London-based architecture firm known for mission-critical and technically challenging projects serving commercial, civic and education clients. The acquisition expands Woolpert's global presence — adding European capabilities — and enhances its design expertise in areas such as data center and computational design.

  • February 3, 2022
    Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    eTrac Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired eTrac Inc., a San Rafael, California-based vessel-focused hydrographic survey and marine technology firm. The acquisition integrates eTrac's survey vessels and marine sensing expertise with Woolpert's aerial topographic, bathymetric and geospatial capabilities to deepen service offerings and expand geographic reach for public and private clients.

  • September 9, 2021
    Buyer
    Woolpert
    Target
    Optimal GEO
    Type
    Buyout

    Woolpert has acquired Optimal GEO, an Alabama-based geospatial firm specializing in photogrammetric mapping, orthoimagery, lidar and GIS data, strengthening Woolpert's lidar, imagery and geospatial intelligence capabilities. The acquisition expands Optimal GEO's international reach and capacity while adding a data processing hub in Alabama and deepening Woolpert's federal contracting expertise.

  • Buyer
    MSD Partners, Woolpert management team
    Target
    Woolpert
    Seller
    Long Point Capital, TriSpan

    MSD Partners has made a strategic investment in Woolpert in partnership with the company's management team, executing a recapitalization that results in exits for previous sponsors Long Point Capital and TriSpan. Woolpert, a Dayton, Ohio–headquartered architecture, engineering and geospatial (AEG) services firm with ~1,100 employees, will use the new capital to continue its growth and tuck‑in acquisition strategy.

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