Three year-end 2023 acquisitions by IMEG — JQ Engineering, E&D Company, and ES² — help expand the firm’s national industrial capabilities and full-service offerings in the Northwest and Texas. The deals capped off a 12-month period that added seven firms, helping grow IMEG to nearly 2,600 team members at 93 U.S. locations.

JQ Engineering (JQ), a Texas-based firm has served clients since 1984, providing structural and civil engineering, land surveying, and facility assessment solutions in multiple market sectors including aviation, commercial, education, government, healthcare, hospitality, housing, science & technology, and sports & recreation. Read more.

Engineering System Solutions (ES²) has offices in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Savannah, Georgia, Sacramento, California, and Las Vegas. The firm has delivered terminal and plant design solutions for decades, providing clients with structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls design as well as civil, rail, bulk material handling, process engineering, and advanced soil and finite element analysis services. Read more.

E&D Company, is an Idaho Falls-based owner’s representative and engineering firm providing civil, rail, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering design along with automation, geotechnical, and owner’s rep services. For nearly 20 years E&D has worked with private and public organizations across the globe. E&D is in market d.b.a. ES². Read more.

"We are extremely pleased to welcome the JQ, E&D, and ES² teams into our company," said IMEG President and CEO Paul VanDuyne. “The cultural synergy and expanded specialties these three firms bring us help grow our full-service engineering presence throughout the U.S. – aligning with our value proposition to deliver a client-centric approach with national expertise and local connections.

The firms are doing business, respectively, as JQ Engineering now IMEG, Engineering System Solutions (ES²), now IMEG, and E&D d.b.a. ES², now IMEG. They will continue to operate out of their existing locations.