Stewart Engineering and landscaping firm HadenStanziale to merge

Stewart Engineering and HadenStanziale announced Tuesday that they are merging to become one of the largest engineering and landscape architectural design firms in the state.

The two companies will have a total of 115 employees, including about 85 in the Triangle.

Raleigh-based Stewart, which has about 90 employees, had been looking for ways to expand its capabilities in land planning and landscape architecture, said Robert Macia, the firms president and chief operating officer. Although Stewart offers both civic engineering and landscape architecture services, Macia said HadenStanziale has a level of design and sophistication that is sort of beyond what we have been able to provide historically.

The two companies have worked together on numerous projects, with Stewart doing the engineering work and HadenStanziale handling the land planning and overall aesthetic design of a site.

This is an opportunity for us as a combined company to provide all those complementary services together for our clients on those types of projects, Macia said.

The combined companys headquarters will be Stewarts Raleigh office, but HadenStanziales Durham office will also remain open. The Charlotte offices of the two companies will be consolidated into a single office.

We have no intention of laying off any staff or doing any staff reductions, in fact, we hope this creates some opportunities for us to continue to hire, Macia said.

The companies are still working through several details of the merger, including the new firms name. Terms of the deal are expected to be finalized in the coming months.

Both Macia and Willy Stewart, Stewarts CEO and chairman, will retain their roles in the merged company. The two main principals in HadenStanziale, George Stanziale Jr. and Jim Haden, will become owners, vice presidents and principals in the new company.

Macia said that after a rough three-year stretch where very little new construction took place, business began to pick up for Stewart last year.

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