San Antonio-based civil engineering firm scoops up Houston-area firm

A major Texas-based civil engineering firm is adding to its Houston office with the acquisition of a local firm.

San Antonio-based Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc. is acquiring Tomball-based ArborLeaf Engineering & Surveying, according to a press release. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Walter Smith launched ArborLeaf in 2004 and will become a vice president at Pape-Dawson, per the release. About 80 percent of ArborLeaf’s work is land surveying, with civil engineering making up the other 20 percent,…