expanding its Florida footprint<\/a> with the acquisition of Conceptual Design Group Inc., Bangor-based engineering firm Haley Ward announced another deal.<\/p>\nThe most recent acquisition is for Michael B. Schorah & Associates Inc., an engineering firm based in West Palm Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis acquisition strengthens our presence along Florida’s Atlantic Coast and positions us to better support clients throughout the region with expanded resources and multidisciplinary expertise,\u201d said Roderick Kennedy, Haley Ward\u2019s Southeast operations director.<\/p>\n
Expanded footprint<\/p>\n
With the integration of Schorah, Haley Ward now has Florida offices in West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie, Stuart, Melbourne and the Gulf Coast city of Fort Myers.<\/p>\n
The expanded footprint positions the firm to better serve clients across some of Florida’s fastest-growing communities and development markets, according to a news release.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s anticipated that clients of both firms will benefit from access to a broader range of services, including architecture, engineering, environmental consulting, landscape architecture, planning, surveying, geospatial technologies and related disciplines.<\/p>\n
The acquisition creates new opportunities for Schorah employees and clients, said Michael LaCoursiere, Schorah\u2019s senior vice president and co-owner.<\/p>\n
Schorah was established in 1979.<\/p>\n
With 136 employees in Maine and 300 overall in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Florida,\u00a0Haley Ward\u00a0ranks No. 9 among the state\u2019s largest engineering firms in the 2026 Mainebiz Book of Lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the latest deal, Haley Ward now has Florida offices in West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie, Stuart,\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0and,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-335750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}