DSI Construction Inc., a Spokane-based metal framing, drywall, and insulation services company, has acquired Noise Control of Washington Inc.

“Our core business and our core values as companies really lined up with how we treat our people and the kind of work we do,” says Jeff Miller, co-owner of DSI.

Miller declines to disclose the terms of the transaction, which was completed last month.

Going forward, Noise Control, an interior subcontractor that specializes in acoustical ceilings and acoustical wall treatments, will be considered a division of DSI.

Noise Control won’t undergo any major operational changes, Miller says, and its nearly 20 employees have been retained by DSI.

Noise Control will continue to operate out of its facility at 812 N. Madelia, in East Central Spokane.

DSI, located at 4301 N. Freya, has 122 employees following the acquisition.

The transaction comes as a result of the retirement of Noise Control’s former owner, Scott Cramer, who was with the company for 42 years.

He had been looking for an appropriate buyer to take over his company for the past few years so he could transition into retirement.

“We found the right group,” says Cramer.

Cramer says there was a lot of crossover in customers between the two Spokane companies.

“It’s been really well received by the marketplace,” he says. “The response we received when we went around and saw all the principals of the general construction companies was incredibly positive.”

The deal made sense for DSI, also, Miller adds.

“We’ve been in the same market, working on the same projects together,” Miller says.

DSI Construction was founded in 1979 by Miller’s father, Perry Miller. In 2006, Jeff and his sister, Tracy Miller, bought out their parents and took ownership of the company.

Noise Control was purchased by Cramer’s family in 1982. Cramer says the company has been around since the 1940s.

“I’m extremely happy and pleased, but it is difficult to move on,” Cramer says of the DSI transaction.

Cramer says he will stick around briefly to help with the transition but plans to move with his wife to the San Juan Islands, in western Washington, soon thereafter.