2009 limps out with mergers, closings, Dubai

摘要

Mergers and acquisitions among AEC firms are supposedly down this year, but don't tell that to the 450 staff at A/E firm Ellerbe Becket, recently acquired by AECOM, or the 15,000 at Parsons Brinckerhoff who were gobbled up by the U.K.'s Balfour Beatty last month.