Engineering and consulting agency T. Baker Smith has acquired Kenner-based surveying firm BFM Company, increasing its surveying capabilities and strengthening its presence within the Larger New Orleans market.

The Houma-headquartered agency introduced it has bought 100% of BFM, a land and hydrographic surveying firm based in 1982. Monetary phrases of the transaction weren’t disclosed.

As a part of the acquisition, BFM’s staff have joined T. Baker Smith’s Metairie workplace at 6660 Riverside Drive. Firm officers stated no layoffs resulted from the transaction.

The acquisition provides greater than 4 many years of surveying expertise and historic data to T. Baker Smith whereas broadening the companies out there to shoppers throughout Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf South.

“This acquisition is at first an funding in individuals,” stated Kenny Smith, PE, PLS, FACEC, chief government officer of T. Baker Smith. “BFM has spent greater than forty years constructing real, trusted shopper relationships and deep regional information via a workforce of outstanding survey professionals. We’re dedicated to honoring that legacy whereas increasing the sources and capabilities out there to shoppers all through Southeast Louisiana.”

Based in 1982, BFM has offered land and hydrographic surveying companies for municipal, transportation, industrial and private-sector shoppers all through Southeast Louisiana.

In accordance with T. Baker Smith, BFM’s survey data, plats, CAD recordsdata, area notes and geospatial knowledge will likely be included into the agency’s inside AI-enabled information platform, referred to as TBS Insights, to assist venture planning and shopper companies.

Gary Lambert, who served as BFM’s vp, has joined T. Baker Smith as a senior venture supervisor.

“Our precedence was discovering a agency that might proceed serving our shoppers with the identical dedication to high quality whereas additionally creating new alternatives for our workforce,” Lambert stated. “T. Baker Smith shares these values, and becoming a member of a bigger multidisciplinary agency means we will protect the relationships we’ve constructed over the previous 4 many years whereas having access to extra experience and sources. I’m enthusiastic about what we’ll accomplish collectively.”

The acquisition additionally expands shopper entry to T. Baker Smith’s engineering, environmental, planning and development administration companies.

Based in Houma in 1913, T. Baker Smith supplies engineering, surveying and environmental consulting companies to public- and private-sector shoppers throughout the Gulf Coast. The agency employs almost 400 associates and operates workplaces all through Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, together with areas in Houma and Metairie.