Stantec Buys IBE Consulting Engineers, British Colombia's AP/ID

Stantec Inc.

announced: North American design firm Stantec is enhancing their buildings design practice on the west coast by acquiring the assets of IBE Consulting Engineers and AP/ID. Based in Sherman Oaks, Calif., IBE is a 50-person buildings engineering firm founded in 1999 that specializes in high-performance, sustainable design of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, while AP/ID out of Vancouver, B.C. has been providing interior design services to a variety of corporate clients for more than 20 years. With more than 300 diverse commissions--completed around the world and with some of North America's best-known signature architects--IBE's notable projects include the world's first LEED-Platinum museum, the Water + Life Museum complex in Hemet, California; New York City's LEED-Platinum Cooper Union New Academic Building; and UCLA's first LEED-certified structure, La Kretz Hall. IBE's current projects include the new 500,000SF Cedars-Sinai Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion in Los Angeles, and the new Berkeley Arts Museum in Berkeley, California.