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TRANSACT IONS HDR ACQUIRES MAINTENANCE DESIGN GROUP HDR has acquired Maintenance Design Group , which specializes in the planning and design of vehicle and fleet operations and maintenance facilities. Going forward, MDG will do business as HDR | Maintenance Design Group. Founded in 1995, Maintenance Design Group is known for industry firsts such as designing a 250-bus maintenance facility with a 100 percent drive-through maintenance bay, and designing upper level work platforms for light rail facilities that provide convenient, safe places to work. The firm has offices in Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Houston, Baltimore, and Nashville. “MDG’s innovative approach to facility design makes them a perfect fit for HDR,” said Eric Keen, president and COO for HDR. “We see tremendous growth opportunities in the operations and maintenance facilities market, and MDG’s strengths in facility planning and design complement our asset life-cycle approach to infrastructure development.” Keen added that the relationship is not new. “We have worked together to serve transit clients for more than a decade, and we are pleased to welcome everyone at MDG to the HDR team.” Projects the firms have collaborated on include the Sun Link Streetcar in Tucson, Arizona, and the Kansas City Streetcar. “MDG is excited about joining forces with HDR,” said Don Leidy, MDG managing principal. “We will be able to serve new clients and offer a wider range of services to our current clients. It’s also important that HDR shares our values and offers opportunities for employee-ownership and professional development. We look forward to all the great things we can accomplish together.” Leidy will join HDR as vice president/managing principal and will continue to lead the HDR | Maintenance Design Group team. Co-owners,

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Ken Booth, Mark Ellis, Jon Holler, Steve Radomski, and Darren Pynn will join HDR as senior facility design managers. CHA CONSULTING ACQUIRES PDT ARCHITECTS CHA Consulting, Inc. has acquired PDT Architects . PDT specializes in K-12 schools, health care facilities, corporations, municipalities, colleges and universities, and auditoriums and theaters in and around Portland, Maine, and surrounding New England towns and cities. CHA’s CEO and President Mike Carroll states, “PDT brings CHA experienced licensed architectural resources that will enhance our ability to expand our service offerings in many of our markets. This partnership is extremely positive for both companies. Our values and vision are very well aligned, and I am confident that together, these two firms will continue to responsibly improve the world we live in.” David Webster and Lyndon Keck, PDT’s founding partners stated, “Our vision in 1977 was to create a high-quality, collaborative design firm that stressed innovation grounded in careful listening to client’s functional needs. Our tag line has been ‘Combining art and science to rethink, refine and reshape the built environment.’ This exciting opportunity to join the CHA family gives us a much larger platform to implement that vision.” CHA will actively support PDT’s structure, processes and vision during this transition while allowing PDT to continue to manage daily operations. However, CHA and PDT will work closely together tomaximize the expertise of both firms in order to enhance our ability to provide world-class engineering and architectural services to CHA’s and PDT’s clients. PDT joins the CHA family of companies including CHA Tech Services, Novara GeoSolutions, American Fire Protection, and Gryphon Engineering.

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