LV engineering firm sold

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 | 11:12 a.m.

Las Vegas-based ABF Consulting Engineers has been acquired by Orlando-Fla.-based GRG Consulting Engineers.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but GRG acquired the assets of the two ABF offices in Nevada, which have 20 Las Vegas employees and 10 in Reno.

The companies focused on different types of industries, but combined will focus on health care, hospitality, retail, theme parks and laboratories nationally and internationally.

Robert Ash, president and chief executive of ABF, said he sold his company for additional opportunities, which were focused regionally prior to the sale on May 1.

"We wanted an opportunity to grow and expand, to offer our clients better services and more services," said Ash, who is now a managing principal with GRG.

Bill Beckman, president and chief executive of GRG, said the Nevada offices will expand to maintain GRG's 20 percent annual growth projection. Beckman said additional services may be also be added with the addition of the Nevada offices.