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Engineers unite: Brinjac folds into Nelson

More consolidation in Phila architecture

Philadelphia's Nelson architecture, design and engineering firm has acquired Brinjac Engineering and its 65 professionals in Philadelphia and five other offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Nelson's Nelco mechanical, engineering and plumbing broup will become part of the new Nelson's Brinjac Engineering division, headed by former Brinjac president John M. Brinjac, with David A. Brinjac as Chief Operating Officer.

It's the latest in a string of deals consolidating Philadelphia's construction professional firms. In a statement, John Brinjac said the new division will hire outside firms for some clients and provide "bundled" Nelson services for others, depending on the job. The Brinjac firm has worked for Temple, CHoP, Penn, the National Constitution Center, Penn State's Hershey Medical Center and others.

The enlarged Nelson says it will employ "almost 400 designers, architects, engineers, planners and strategists with 38 locations" in the U.S. and abroad. That headcount is about where it was a year ago, after major changes to Nelson's portfolio: the sale of Nelson's and H2L2's bridges and infrastructure business, to Synterra last August; and Nelson's acquisition of Philadelphia's H2L2 and its multinational college-design business a year ago, and of Space Design Inc.'s mid-Atlantic office last February.