The deal allows Northeast Civil Solutions to continue the first year under its existing name as a division of Nobis Group and brings Northeast into Nobis’s employee-owned structure.
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A New Hampshire environmental and engineering firm is making its first foray into Maine with the acquisition of Northeast Civil Solutions Inc. in Scarborough.
The deal brings Northeast into the Nobis Group’s employee-owned structure.
The acquisition, announced this week, was part of a strategy for Nobis Group to expand services throughout New England, according to a news release.
Under the terms of the deal, Northeast will continue business for the first year under its existing name as a division of Nobis Group, and will continue to operate out of its office at 381 Payne Road in Scarborough.
Leadership transition
Established in 1992, Northeast offers land surveying, site/civil engineering, traffic engineering, wetlands and soils science, land planning and federal and state permitting services. It serves public and private clients spanning commercial, residential, industrial and public clients in Northern New England.
“This union allows Northeast Civil Solutions to continue to provide our clients with end-to-end services, from initial site analysis and in-depth land surveying to complex engineering design, land planning, permitting and construction support services,” said Troy McDonald, previously Northeast’s owner and president and now Nobis’s director of survey for Maine.
McDonald is a land surveyor with more than 40 years of experience. The leadership transition includes Northeast’s Alex Frederick, who specializes in fieldwork, boundary resolution and deed research and will join Nobis’ as survey project manager for Maine.
Northeast has seven employees. All of them were brought on board, bringing Nobis’s team to 82 people, a Nobis spokesperson told Mainebiz.
Nobis has worked in Maine, but up until now, didn’t have an office location.
The tie-up came about when Nobis approached Northeast, since the latter’s services and geography fit within Nobis’s target objectives. Northeast was looking to be acquired.
Employee-owned
Founded in 1988, Nobis is headquartered in Concord, N.H., and has additional offices in Lowell, Mass., Montpelier, Vt., and Princeton, N.J. Nobis’ offerings include environmental consulting, geotechnical and civil engineering, and surveying across commercial, state/municipal, transportation, residential, and federal sectors.
It became employee-owned in 2021.
Nobis’s expanded footprint allows it to provide multi-disciplinary services to Northeast’s clients in southern Maine and the New Hampshire seacoast area, said Chris Adams, Nobis’s president and CEO.
“Bringing the teams together represents a strong strategic and cultural fit for Nobis,” Adams added.
It was Nobis’s second acquisition in three months. In December, the firm acquired Richard D. Bartlett & Associates, a small land surveying firm in New Hampshire.