When the owner changed, the records didn't have to.

A privately held midstream company backed by private capital was acquired in the middle of an active records engagement. Construction and asset records were being organized and validated across multiple ongoing projects — and overnight, the audience for that work changed from one owner to another. Acquisition is the moment construction records get stress-tested. The acquiring company inherits every evidence gap, every unresolved exception, every closeout package that was never finished.

The records program continued without interruption through the ownership change. Project books were received, reviewed, reconciled, and delivered under the new ownership — the same evidence chain, now serving a new audience with higher stakes.

The engagement carried through the transition intact, and the experience shaped how MPS builds records programs today: portable, traceable, and owner-controlled, so that the evidence survives whatever happens to the owner. Across its history, MPS has supported construction and asset records through multiple ownership changes — each one confirming the same conclusion: accurate construction information is not overhead. It is asset value.

Owners preparing for acquisition, divestiture, or system integration inherit the records posture of everything they buy. The time to make records transactable is before the transaction — not during it.