Ten parts of the combined entity: DBM’s four operating brands, IES’s four segments, and the connective tissue that turns two companies into one platform. Each circle is one part, sized by how much it holds the combined business together. Hover any circle or name to read what it brings and how it connects. Click to pin. The dashed crimson lines mark the three connections that exist in reality but not yet in the way the two companies sell — the widest runs between DBM’s steel envelope and IES’s electrical fit-out, sold to the same data-center owner.
The biggest circles are Schuff Steel Erection and GrayWolf Modular — the structural-envelope capability that makes DBM the country’s top-ranked erector and the crown jewel of the combined platform. IES’s Communications and Infrastructure Solutions segments sit on the other side, selling the electrical, mechanical, and communications fit-out to the same hyperscale owners. The dashed crimson line down the center is the opportunity: today the steel envelope and the fit-out are sold by separate companies to the same buyer, from separate account lists, with no shared pipeline. A named-account map closes that line — an IES electrical relationship opens a structural-steel door, a Schuff relationship opens an IES fit-out door. The other two dashed lines trace the same opening from other angles: the roll-up’s steel fabricators (Greiner, Gulf Island) never connect to DBM’s erection scale, and DBM’s detailing IP never connects to IES’s data-center demand. The platform is real. The way the two companies sell across it is what the integration builds.