GAI Aquires Ovideo company

    GAI Consultants Inc.  GAI Consultants Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company added a local structural engineering firm to its fold, its second acquisition of a Central Florida company this year, the Orlando Business Journal reports.
    The Homestead, Pa.-based civil engineering firm bought Oviedo-based Metz and Associates LLC for an undisclosed price to expand services in the transportation industry and strengthen its design-build capabilities, said a news release. Metz and Associates, founded in 1995, specializes in design-build, value engineering and specialty engineering markets, the release said.
    About six employees from Metz and Associates will move to the GAI Building on South Street in downtown Orlando this fall, said a spokeswoman. Metz and Associates will continue to operate under its own name as a GAI company.
    GAI Consultants, which earlier this year also announced its acquisition of Orlando-based Real Estate Research Consultants Inc., was Central Florida’s 18th largest engineering firm based on its 2011 local billings of $5.5 million, according to Orlando Business Journal research. GAI now has 66 employees in its local office.

AECOM buys Glatting Jackson

AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM - News), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, has acquired Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin. Both firms have done or are doing work for Osceola County.

The 90 employees from GJKA will enhance AECOM’s offerings in the areas of environmental services, landscape architecture, planning, transportation and urban design, according to a press release.