NEW YORK CITY —WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization here, has acquired Halvorson and Partners, a 40-person Chicago-based firm that provides structural engineering services for developers, private owners, and institutions worldwide.
Halvorson's portfolio includes the Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower in Abu Dhabi; OneEleven, a 60-story luxury apartment tower in Chicago; Wolf Point West Tower, the first tower in a multi-phase $1 billion development in Chicago; and Vantone Tower, a 600-foot-tall corporate headquarters in Tianjin, China.
"Halvorson and Partners is a world class structural firm that shares our culture of deeply caring about the success of our clients and staff," says David Cooper, president of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff's US buildings practice and the region's chief commercial officer. "This acquisition not only enhances our building structures practice with additional expertise, it also gives us a platform upon which to build a fully integrated buildings engineering practice in the great city of Chicago, the birthplace of the steel frame skyscraper."
Robert Halvorson, founding principal of Halvorson and Partners will remain with the firm and has been named an EVP at Halvorson and Partners, a WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff company. He will continue to lead the Chicago office and will work with WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff's leadership to integrate and grow the national structural engineering practice.
“We are excited to be joining forces with WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global organization that shares a core philosophy of partnering with clients to provide the highest level of quality services,” adds Halvorson. “As a part of one of the world's leading engineering organizations, we are better able to collaborate with our architect partners and to serve our clients wherever they are pursuing projects. It also enables us to offer more of a one-stop approach for structural engineering and the comprehensive high performance building services that are critical to the success of today's technologically advanced building projects.”
Aside from structural engineering services, Halvorson and Partners offers technical expertise in such areas as adaptive reuse/tenant modification, forensic engineering, value engineering, building assessment, and peer review. Its clients include owners and developers of commercial office towers, residential buildings, hotels, and mixed-use complexes as well as educational and civic institutions.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
