Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning, and consulting services, has officially acquired Gavan-Graham Electrical Products, a premier original equipment manufacturer within the power distribution market. To give you some context, Gavan-Graham is best-known for providing custom designed electrical equipment to a wide variety of clients and across a range of verticals. By doing so, it effectively caters to several unique and innovative applications currently present within the $90.0 billion electrical switchgear market. The company’s primary capabilities, at the time of acquisition, include its core custom design, engineering, project management and manufacturing skillsets, as well as the customization and distribution of existing products from its partners. Keeping that in mind, Gavan-Graham’s integration into Michael Baker’s technical setup will make it possible for the latter to access an expansive growth opportunity. You see, already boasting the global presence and the necessary financial support to get maximum growth out of a company like Gavan-Graham, Michael Baker will now invest in expansion, top-notch talent, and state-of-art machinery to continue growing its commercial business. Next up, the company will leverage Gavan-Graham’s specialty in critical power design, along with its own knowhow of critical data protection, to implement next generation cybersecurity solutions for critical network. Here, projects involving customer switchgear and Internet of Things (IOT) will go a long way to ensure critical security components are addressed in projects for customers.
“The addition of Gavan-Graham to Michael Baker International exemplifies our commitment to providing our customers with diverse service offerings and expertise to solve their most complex challenges. Gavan-Graham’s products are well known for delivering efficient, customized solutions to a dynamic and rapidly changing market,” said Brian A. Lutes, Chief Executive Officer at Michael Baker International. “The contributions Gavan-Graham will make as part of Michael Baker reflect our commitment to provide resilient solutions to energy infrastructure customers.”
Moving on, thanks to the development in question, Michael Baker’s line-up of best MEP and structural engineers in the world can now go and ahead and tap into the intelligible ecosystem of Gavan-Graham. This they can do to support their various existing products, such as electrohouses, work with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), and seismic structures. Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t acknowledged the arrival of several turnkey solutions. In simpler terms, bringing Gavan-Graham into the mix enables Michael Baker to use the latter’s added manufacturing and critical capabilities for the purpose of creating end-to-end customer support. By capabilities, we refer to various cutting-edge services like measurements, installation consulting, start-up, and commissioning, among others. Rounding up highlights is the prospect of achieving end-to-end execution control. With operations stationed at every touchpoint from concept to manufacturing, Michael Baker and Gavan-Graham can be expected to maintain complete control of the supply chain, and therefore, improve client satisfaction.
The given features will markedly join Michael Baker’s Sustainable and Resilient Solutions (SRS) vertical. which includes Akela Engineering and Consulting, a San Diego based mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) firm, and Infinity MEP+S, a Texas-based MEP firm that delivers a full continuum of MEP. Not just that, the vertical also has plenty structural engineering, fire protection, design, telecommunications, cybersecurity and technology services already on the offer.
“Our services and customer portfolio, coupled with the design and engineering capabilities that Michael Baker offers, will spark innovation and growth opportunities for our unified organization and allow us to achieve even more for our customers,” said Andrew Sharkey, CEO of Gavan-Graham.
