Mead & Hunt, a Middleton, Wis.-based architectural engineering firm, acquired EMR, an engineering and construction management firm headquartered in Fenton, Mo.

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group, St. Louis, Mo., and Barry-Wehmiller International, Atlanta, merged to form a single, unified consulting platform that will operate under the Design Group name.

O’Neal, Inc., an Atlanta-based integrated design and construction firm, expanded its capabilities for the food, beverage and consumer packaged goods markets.

A plan to build a $60 million cold storage facility in Houston, Texas, by XTL Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., is just one of 93 project plans by food and beverage firms to expand existing storage and distribution facilities or build new ones across the United States in 2017.