EYP Architecture & Engineering and North Carolina-based BJAC will merge into a new firm called EYP/BJAC.

With offices in Raleigh and Charlotte, BJAC provides architectural design and planning services to healthcare, education, research and municipal clients. EYP Architecture & Engineering is an architecture and engineering firm specializing in sustainable design for higher education, government and corporate clients. EYP has offices in Albany, N.Y.; Boston; Greenville, S.C., New York City; Orlando, Fla., and Washington, D.C.

The new partnership, marking EYP’s commitment to growth in North Carolina, will combine EYP’s strength in research and expertise-driven design with BJAC’s extensive healthcare and medical education design portfolio. The combined firm will be led by EYP President and CEO Tom Birdsey, and BJAC Founding Partner Lou Jurkowski.

"The EYP/BJAC partnership perfectly aligns with EYP’s commitment to expertise-driven design," said Birdsey in a statement. "Through this partnership, we add depth and breadth to our areas of expertise and provide BJAC clients access to expanded resources and new areas of expertise."

"We wanted to form a strategic partnership that looked to the future with a respected peer that would maintain BJAC’s core values of strong client relationships, knowledge-based design and an employee-centric organization. EYP is the perfect match," said Jurkowski in a statement.