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TRANSACTIONS EDWARDS-PITMAN ENVIRONMENTAL JOINS FORCESWITH BRAUN INTERTEC CORPORATION Zweig Group, a full- service AEC management advisory firm, announced its client Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc. was acquired by Braun Intertec Corporation . Jamie Claire Kiser, Zweig Group’s managing principal, served as Edwards-Pitman’s lead advisor on the engagement, with support from advisor Johnathon Postell and senior analyst Drake Hamilton. “I’m very excited for the Edwards-Pitman team, and was privileged to advise such an outstanding group,” Hamilton said. “I believe alongside Braun Intertec, the Edwards-Pitman leadership team will go on to achieve incredible feats throughout the rest of their careers, and wish them the best.” Edwards-Pitman, a Georgia-based environmental compliance consulting firm, will continue as a wholly owned

subsidiary of Braun Intertec. Braun Intertec is an employee-owned geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and testing firm that employs more than 1,000 people in 35 locations in the Midwest and South-Central United States. “This is an exciting opportunity for our team to join a highly respected, employee-owned company with similar values for building long-term client relationships and high-quality work. Together, we can offer a variety of services to meet the needs of our clients in the Southeast and nationally,” said Linda Edwards, president and CEO of Edwards-Pitman Environmental. The Edwards-Pitman team has served Georgia and the surrounding states since 1994 and will continue to support its clients and partners in the Southeast and across the U.S. With Braun Intertec, the Edwards-Pitman team now has additional resources and expertise to

expand regionally and to solve complex environmental compliance issues for clients with its traditional focus on the transportation and infrastructure sectors. The deal, effective September 30, 2021, added more than 86 team members skilled in environmental compliance consulting to Braun Intertec. Zweig Group, three times on the Inc. 500/5000 list, is the leading research, publishing, and consulting resource for the built environment. The firm provides strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, ownership transition, marketing, business development, market research, financial management, project management, recruiting and executive search services nationwide. Zweig Group also provides a comprehensive suite of products including industry reports and surveys, executive training, and business conferences covering virtually every aspect of AEC firm management.

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easiest – in large part due to the help of Concord Adams, our partner on this project, and the great team we have here at Zweig Group. Although “too many cooks can spoil the pot,” when you have a good project management technique, careful tracking, and excellent communication, “many hands make light work.” Our work over this past year with Concord Adams underscored the importance of getting the right partner on these kinds of projects. Although we have some talented individuals on staff, it would not have been possible to pull off a project of this magnitude without the dedicated help of professionals who not only had more technical skills, but also were not likely to get distracted by their daily job functions and clients (sometimes it’s nice to be the client for a change). Working with a good web developer doesn’t necessarily mean hiring the biggest, fanciest company, but rather one that understands what your firm does, who your clients are, and will work tirelessly to ensure a good user experience on both sides of the screen – that means both the staff who will ultimately have to work with and update the website, and also the clients and future clients who will be viewing it. Concord Adams worked hand in hand with Zweig Group’s marketing team and set us up with a great project structure and just the right number of check-in meetings to keep the project on track. If you’ve been delaying a newwebsite for your firm, there’s never been a better time to get started. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to look around our newwebsite at zweiggroup.com, and discover more about who Zweig Group is today! CHRISTINA ZWEIG NIEHUES is Zweig Group’s director of research and e-commerce. She can be reached at czweig@zweiggroup.com.

capabilities of our firm. Most importantly, this new site helps our clients and potential clients learn about everything we do without having to leapfrog around to different websites. In the past, if someone read an article in The Zweig Letter then wanted to learn more about the Zweig Group staff member who wrote the article, they’d be taken to a completely different site. It was also hard to go from these articles to view the most current research report and learning options available on similar topics. Check out some new articles from The Zweig Letter at zweiggroup.com/blogs/news and see how much easier it is to find related information. “We’ve taken some of the traditional elements of the Zweig Group brand and modernized them, along with new graphics and layout. We wanted to make sure the site stood as being very ‘Zweig’ but also showed that we’ve grown and changed.” Behind what users can see when visiting the site are some important structural changes. A brand new site means we had the opportunity to make sure our website is fully integrated with our social media channels, marketing software, and various other programs we use to run the business. Getting to this new site has been a journey, but of all the web projects we’ve undertaken over the years, it’s been one of the

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