AEC Buy-Side Platforms and Bolt-Ons: How Buyers Build Value
A strategic guide to how buyers use AEC platforms and bolt-ons to build scale, expand geographies, add capabilities, deepen leadership, and create value through buy-and-build M&A.

A strategic guide to how buyers use AEC platforms and bolt-ons to build scale, expand geographies, add capabilities, deepen leadership, and create value through buy-and-build M&A.

Selling an AEC firm? This guide walks through the sell-side M&A process—from readiness and buyer mapping to valuation, diligence, and terms. Learn how backlog/WIP, utilization, QoE, earnouts, and the working-capital peg affect headline price and close certainty, and how to prepare schedules that support stronger outcomes.