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| Stantec adds Vollmer Associates Stantec has signed a letter of intent to acquire Vollmer Associates LLP, a 650-person firm headquartered in New York City. Vollmer provides engineering, architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and survey services focused on the transportation sector, from offices throughout the northeast United States. The transaction is expected to close in April. Stantec, with more than 6,000 employees and over 80 locations, is a North American firm providing professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, and project management. In 2005, Vollmer Associates gross revenue was approximately US$80 million. The Engineering News Record included Vollmer in the top 50 US transportation design firms in 2006. The firm has won many awards for its work including Project of the Year from the New York Construction News for the Columbus Circle Reconstruction in Manhattan, which reestablished the monument as one of Central Park's four grand entrances. The company has also won awards for its work on the Hearst Office Tower (New York Construction News 2006 Project of the Year) and the Times Square Station Rehabilitation. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |