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Nevada Construction Services (Las Vegas), a national engi-

neering, environmental and energy consulting and design firm.
ACEC member COWI (Lyngby, Denmark) acquired the U.S.
tunnel resources of ILF Consulting Engineers (Innsbruck,
Austria), bringing COWI's tunnel engineering group to over
500 professionals.
TKDA (St. Paul, Minn.), an ACEC member, acquired structural engineering firm Mazda Consultants (St. Paul, Minn.).
All Mazda staff joined the structural group in TKDA's Facilities
Engineering Division.
ACEC member EnSafe (Memphis, Tenn.), a global provider
of environmental, engineering, health and safety and technology
services, acquired Cirrus Associates, LLC (Richardson, Texas),
which provides engineering, environmental and hydrogeological
consulting services.
ACEC member Golder Associates (Palm Beach, Fla.)
entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Pastor,
Behling & Wheeler, LLC (Round Rock, Texas), an environmental consulting firm with five offices throughout Texas.
Civil engineering firm and ACEC member CT Consultants
(Mentor, Ohio) acquired landscape architecture and planning
firm Cawrse & Associates (Chagrin Falls, Ohio). Cawrse and
CT have partnered on several projects over the last 10 years
before the deal.
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ACEC member Ghafari Associates (Dearborn, Mich.)
acquired Concept Design Group (Grand Rapids, Mich.), an
architectural and interior design firm serving the commercial,
office, multifamily, hospitality, retail and mixed-use markets.
Global design firm and ACEC member Stantec (Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada) acquired engineering and project management
firm Cegertec (Saguenay, Quebec, Canada). The acquisition
adds over 250 employees to Stantec's Quebec operations.
ACEC member Barton & Loguidice (B&L) (Liverpool, N.Y.)
acquired landscape architecture and planning firm Eberlin &
Eberlin, P.C. (Brewster, N.Y.), is a 250-person engineering,
planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm with
nine offices in the state of New York.
ACEC member Malone Finkle Eckhardt & Collins, Inc.
(MFEC) (Springfield, Mo.), merged with RTM Engineering Consultants (Schaumburg, Ill.). MFEC is a full-service
mechanical, electrical and plumbing firm serving the office,
health care, education and hospitality markets.
First Reserve (Stamford, Conn.), a global private equity
firm focused on energy, acquired ACEC member CHA Consulting, Inc. (Albany, N.Y.), from Long Point Capital (New York).
CHA is a diversified, full-service engineering firm with over
1,000 employees across the U.S. and Canada.
AKF Group, LLC (New York), acquired Bold Rock Engineering Group (Henrico, Va.), a mechanical, electrical,
plumbing, fire protection and commissioning firm. Both firms
are ACEC members.
Landscape architecture and planning firm Remenschneider Associates, Inc. (Indianapolis), joined forces with ACEC
member Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

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The acquisition marks a continuation of Kimley-Horn's Midwest expansion.
ACEC member McClure Engineering Co. (Clive, Iowa)
acquired fellow ACEC member Shafer, Kline & Warren, Inc.
(Lenexa, Kan.), a surveying, engineering and construction services firm. McClure specializes in public infrastructure and capital improvement projects.
ACEC member POWER Engineers, Inc. (Hailey, Idaho),
acquired MITKOR Consulting, Ltd. (Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada), a 30-person firm offering distribution engineering and
supplementary transmission design services. The acquisition follows POWER's effort to expand its service offerings in Canada.
ACEC member Farnsworth Group (Bloomington, Ill.)
acquired 11-person architecture firm EWR Architects, Inc.
(Fairview Heights, Ill.). Farnsworth Group is a full-service engineering and architecture firm with 450 employees nationwide.
ACEC member Cardno, Ltd. (Brisbane, Australia), an
infrastructure and environmental services firm, acquired utility
location and management company SureSearch (South
Wentworthville, Australia). SureSearch was founded in 2006 and
employs 52 staff in offices across Australia.
ACEC member COWI (Lyngby, Denmark) acquired PB Teknik
AB (Solna, Sweden), a heating, ventilation and sanitation consulting firm. The acquisition adds 25 employees to COWI's Stockholm operations.
Multidisciplinary forensic consulting firm The LiRo Group
(Syosset, N.Y.), purchased the assets of ACEC member Sidney B.
Bowne & Son (Mineola, N.Y.), an engineering consultancy specializing in the GIS and IT industries.
ACEC member Engineering Consulting Services (ECS)
(Chantilly, Va.) acquired GEM Engineering, Inc. (Louisville, Ky.),
a geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and
environmental engineering firm. GEM's office will become part of
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Nick Belitz is a principal with Morrissey Goodale, LLC, a management
consulting firm that specializes in the A/E industry and provides strategic business planning, merger and acquisition, valuation, executive
coaching, leadership development and executive search services. He
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