Santa Ana, Calif.-based Salas O'Brien, a national facilities design and planning firm, has merged with Columbus, Ohio-based Varo Engineers, creating a combined firm with 16 offices and 460 employee-owners. Salas O’Brien is a 100% employee stock ownership plan-owned company, so each Varo team member will become an owner of the combined firm.
The combined company will serve the manufacturing, critical environments, industry, power transmission and distribution, clean energy, education, and telecommunications markets. Varo will become the Midwest arm of Salas O'Brien joining other offices serving the Southeast, Texas/Louisiana, California, and the Northwest.