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TRANSACT IONS MCADAMS ACQUIRES G&A CONSULTANTS, EXPANDS CLIENT REACH McAdams , a North Carolina- based engineering and design firm, announced the company’s expanded reach through its acquisition of Texas-based engineering and design firm, G&A Consultants . The firms will operate in Texas under a temporarily combined identity, G&A | McAdams, until fully transitioning to McAdams. During this transition McAdams will continue to operate under the name McAdams in North Carolina. The newly combined firm will continue to cater to many of the largest, most notable projects in North Carolina and Texas through services such as land planning, landscape architecture, engineering, survey, environmental consulting, and more. True to McAdams and G&A’s people- focused mission, all leadership and employees will be retained through the merger, capitalizing on both teams’ collective client-service experience. “With G&A and McAdams’ remarkable industry expertise, this merger complements both firms’ combined talent and creative approach to projects,” said Robert J. Dollak, Jr., director of Dallas-Fort Worth at G&A | McAdams. “This union strengthens our ability to grow and flourish in Texas and beyond, both as individuals and as a company.” The acquisitionmarks the first office forMcAdams outside of North Carolina and will grow the firm of 215 employees to more than 260. Over its last 39 years in business, McAdams has focused on large-scale commercial developments, residential communities, education campuses,

municipal projects, energy companies, and healthcare facilities. “We are embarking on a new chapter for McAdams,” said Mike Munn, CEO of McAdams. “G&A and McAdams together are positioned to expand our abilities for our clients as we move forward. We will continue our vision of creating meaningful experiences through inspired design.” Founder and Chairman, John McAdams adds, “The strength of our firm has always been in serving large-scale, fast-paced projects; and adding the great team at G&A provides us the opportunity to expand that capability into the growing DFW market.” McAdams is a full-service civil engineering, land planning, landscape architecture, and geomatics firm located in Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina. McAdams has built its reputation throughout the industry over 39 years by delivering unmatched expertise and unwavering commitment to clients in a variety of markets including municipal, education, healthcare, as well as commercial and residential development. The firm is comprised of more than 215 professionals that are united in their desire to achieve their clients’ visions through a thoughtful and resourceful process to create meaningful experiences through inspired design. G&A Consultants is a 28-year-old multi- disciplined consulting firm providing services in civil engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture and land planning services in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas region.

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DIDN’T do the best job they could. Maybe they were a little slow. There could be any number of reasons to be unhappy with someone but the effective leader realizes you have to balance all criticism with praise or the resulting morale damage could kill the goose that lays golden eggs. ❚ ❚ You have to be honest. That applies to everything all of the time. A lack of honesty will be apparent to those who work for you and will destroy any trust they have in you. As a leader, you cannot afford to lose all trust. Lose that and no one will do what you want them to do the way you want them to do it. ❚ ❚ You cannot ask anyone to do anything you won’t do yourself. An effective leader isn’t going to be too proud to do the dirty work, or any work for that matter, that has to be done in order to get the job out. ❚ ❚ You cannot let your emotions get the best of you. Remaining calm in the midst of battle or conflict or other stressful situations is something that an effective leader HAS to do. If the leader panics, everyone else will most certainly freak out, too. And that’s never a good thing! ❚ ❚ You have to be accessible. Most good leaders keep their doors open most of the time and don’t have their admins guard their doors too carefully. A good leader realizes that cutting themselves off from the people they are leading is never a good thing. I could go on but I’m out of space. Are you doing what you should be doing to train your next generation of leaders? MARK ZWEIG is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.

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