BUYING AND SELLING

We have two tie-ups between engineering firms in the US to report this month. R.W. Beck has been bought by SAIC, while Malcolm Pirnie has merged with Dutch environmental engineer Arcadis.

* It follows a continuing trend towards the consolidation of the US engineers market which began with AECOM's acquisitions of Earth Tech and Boyle Engineering. There is still a long way to go, with about 20 or so firms still competing for water and wastewater projects. The fact that many of them are employee-owned like CH2M Hill and Black & Veatch ...

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