Gensler, AECOM, and Turner Construction top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest university sector architecture, engineering, and construction firms, as reported in the 2020 Giants 400 Report.
| Top 155 University Sector Architecture and AE Firms for 2020 | ||
| FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
| 1 | Gensler | $80,513,358 |
| 2 | CannonDesign | $70,000,000 |
| 3 | SmithGroup | $46,863,030 |
| 4 | Perkins and Will | $37,619,650 |
| 5 | Stantec | $36,028,229 |
| 6 | EYP Architecture & Engineering | $29,149,414 |
| 7 | HMC Architects | $26,412,198 |
| 8 | Page | $25,000,000 |
| 9 | Perkins Eastman | $23,314,200 |
| 10 | S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | $22,007,000 |
| 11 | Flad Architects | $20,580,000 |
| 12 | DLR Group | $19,570,000 |
| 13 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | $18,700,716 |
| 14 | Mithun | $16,244,121 |
| 15 | Ballinger | $15,303,355 |
| 16 | Clark Nexsen | $14,412,000 |
| 17 | NBBJ | $13,700,000 |
| 18 | Moseley Architects | $13,363,328 |
| 19 | Ayers Saint Gross | $12,531,195 |
| 20 | EXP | $12,522,864 |
| 21 | ZGF Architects | $11,421,847 |
| 22 | LMN Architects | $11,292,500 |
| 23 | Shepley Bulfinch | $11,267,230 |
| 24 | LPA | $9,477,852 |
| 25 | RDG Planning & Design | $9,298,243 |
| 26 | LS3P | $9,287,190 |
| 27 | HED | $9,000,000 |
| 28 | Hord Coplan Macht | $8,628,290 |
| 29 | Huitt-Zollars | $8,524,000 |
| 30 | Kirksey Architecture | $8,284,729 |
| 31 | BHDP Architecture | $8,277,079 |
| 32 | Leo A Daly | $7,875,026 |
| 33 | Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) | $7,828,890 |
| 34 | Diamond Schmitt Architects | $7,194,956 |
| 35 | Davis Brody Bond | $7,168,377 |
| 36 | Sasaki | $7,112,077 |
| 37 | Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood | $7,049,397 |
| 38 | Hastings+Chivetta Architects | $6,681,246 |
| 39 | Niles Bolton Associates | $6,663,255 |
| 40 | HDR | $6,431,488 |
| 41 | Ratio Architects | $6,302,350 |
| 42 | Moody Nolan | $6,210,700 |
| 43 | HOK | $6,003,000 |
| 44 | PBK | $5,900,000 |
| 45 | HGA | $5,677,017 |
| 46 | Harvard Jolly Architecture | $5,253,319 |
| 47 | Carrier Johnson + Culture | $5,213,779 |
| 48 | HLW | $5,100,000 |
| 49 | Quinn Evans | $5,059,504 |
| 50 | Little Diversified Architectural Consulting | $4,819,227 |
| 51 | FXCollaborative | $4,760,457 |
| 52 | Kahler Slater | $4,425,491 |
| 53 | CO Architects | $4,399,800 |
| 54 | GBBN | $4,305,000 |
| 55 | TreanorHL | $4,100,000 |
| 56 | PGAL | $4,013,000 |
| 57 | CPL | $4,004,401 |
| 58 | Baskervill | $3,932,934 |
| 59 | Legat Architects | $3,919,000 |
| 60 | Ashley McGraw Architects | $3,641,278 |
| 61 | Ennead Architects | $3,638,570 |
| 62 | BSA LifeStructures | $3,606,429 |
| 63 | GWWO Architects | $3,534,695 |
| 64 | Champlin Architecture | $3,518,354 |
| 65 | Huckabee | $3,388,362 |
| 66 | Cooper Carry | $3,337,436 |
| 67 | Whitman Requardt and Associates | $3,070,553 |
| 68 | Nelson Worldwide | $3,000,000 |
| 69 | Grimm + Parker Architects | $2,687,444 |
| 70 | Ratcliff | $2,621,000 |
| 71 | NAC Architecture | $2,360,146 |
| 72 | JLG Architects | $2,357,170 |
| 73 | BWBR | $2,319,000 |
| 74 | EwingCole | $2,300,000 |
| 75 | Finegold Alexander Architects | $2,235,635 |
| 76 | Zyscovich Architects | $2,229,543 |
| 77 | Spiezle Group | $2,220,000 |
| 78 | SWBR Architecture, Engineering & Landscape Architecture | $2,090,724 |
| 79 | JCJ Architecture | $2,090,568 |
| 80 | Lawrence Group | $2,023,300 |
| 81 | FGM Architects | $2,014,078 |
| 82 | Corgan | $1,738,150 |
| 83 | TETER | $1,712,262 |
| 84 | Bostwick Design Partnership | $1,600,000 |
| 85 | Urbahn Architects | $1,581,211 |
| 86 | GMB Architecture + Engineering | $1,576,148 |
| 87 | CBT | $1,504,079 |
| 88 | Orcutt | Winslow | $1,500,000 |
| 89 | ThenDesign Architecture | $1,500,000 |
| 90 | Clark Enersen Partners, The | $1,451,295 |
| 91 | SchraderGroup | $1,372,689 |
| 92 | Wendel | $1,336,012 |
| 93 | HuntonBrady Architects | $1,258,816 |
| 94 | Dattner Architects | $1,253,109 |
| 95 | DLZ Corporation | $1,236,000 |
| 96 | Design Collaborative | $1,204,675 |
| 97 | Emersion Design | $1,178,010 |
| 98 | Prellwitz Chilinski Associates (PCA) | $1,132,067 |
| 99 | CSArch | $1,117,543 |
| 100 | SchenkelShultz Architecture | $1,035,127 |
| 101 | Progressive AE | $1,014,211 |
| 102 | Stevens & Wilkinson | $956,000 |
| 103 | ACAI Associates | $952,641 |
| 104 | Ayres | $930,000 |
| 105 | Alliiance | $908,400 |
| 106 | BLT Architects | $889,973 |
| 107 | Fennick McCredie Architecture | $871,394 |
| 108 | Cuningham Group Architecture | $836,349 |
| 109 | Miller Dunwiddie | $812,600 |
| 110 | RSP Architects | $807,000 |
| 111 | YGH Architecture | $764,257 |
| 112 | BLDD Architects | $752,000 |
| 113 | HBG Design | $652,000 |
| 114 | RBB Architects | $600,000 |
| 115 | M+A Architects | $588,365 |
| 116 | Holst Architecture | $544,064 |
| 117 | JRS Architect | $500,000 |
| 118 | Wold Architects and Engineers | $500,000 |
| 119 | Bergmann | $500,000 |
| 120 | SHP | $500,000 |
| 121 | Ware Malcomb | $492,406 |
| 122 | VMDO Architects | $477,000 |
| 123 | Caldwell Associates Architects | $445,535 |
| 124 | Dyer Brown Architects | $406,055 |
| 125 | Architectural Resources Cambridge (ARC) | $374,754 |
| 126 | AHL | $356,359 |
| 127 | Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) | $352,000 |
| 128 | Hussey Gay Bell | $348,983 |
| 129 | Fanning Howey Associates | $323,861 |
| 130 | GSB | $279,100 |
| 131 | G70 | $261,000 |
| 132 | GRW | $255,175 |
| 133 | BCA Architects & Engineers | $250,000 |
| 134 | Hoefer Wysocki | $222,000 |
| 135 | SGA|NarmourWright Design | $211,130 |
| 136 | Hollis + Miller Architects | $206,960 |
| 137 | Garmann/Miller Architects-Engineers | $182,076 |
| 138 | WLC Architects | $180,496 |
| 139 | HMFH Architects | $160,005 |
| 140 | Blair + Mui Dowd Architects | $160,000 |
| 141 | REES | $138,230 |
| 142 | GFF | $130,270 |
| 143 | CTA Architects | $129,813 |
| 144 | SEI Design Group Architects | $123,466 |
| 145 | H2M Architects + Engineers | $106,113 |
| 146 | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture | $98,340 |
| 147 | GreenbergFarrow | $68,808 |
| 148 | Crawford Architects | $63,900 |
| 149 | Smallwood | $57,845 |
| 150 | FCA | $46,147 |
| 151 | TEG Architects | $38,793 |
| 152 | Populous | $12,313 |
| 153 | Method Architecture | $12,285 |
| 154 | AE Design Group | $12,250 |
| 155 | RDC / Studio One Eleven | $11,188 |
| 156 | Line Scale Form Architects | $2,850 |
| Top 80 University Sector Engineering and EA Firms for 2020 | ||
| FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
| 1 | AECOM | $129,300,000 |
| 2 | Jacobs | $50,820,000 |
| 3 | Arup | $30,293,678 |
| 4 | NV5 Global | $22,957,000 |
| 5 | IMEG Corp. | $20,418,176 |
| 6 | P2S | $19,764,780 |
| 7 | WSP | $19,570,551 |
| 8 | Affiliated Engineers | $18,719,922 |
| 9 | RMF Engineering | $16,500,000 |
| 10 | Vanderweil Engineers | $16,102,800 |
| 11 | Dewberry | $13,899,311 |
| 12 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | $11,877,000 |
| 13 | Burns & McDonnell | $9,990,039 |
| 14 | Thornton Tomasetti | $9,958,258 |
| 15 | HEAPY | $8,076,453 |
| 16 | Walter P Moore | $7,574,985 |
| 17 | Wiley|Wilson | $7,095,900 |
| 18 | Bernhard | $5,560,000 |
| 19 | M/E Engineering | $5,170,914 |
| 20 | Ross & Baruzzini | $4,970,000 |
| 21 | Karpinski Engineering | $4,930,884 |
| 22 | Salas O'Brien | $4,912,492 |
| 23 | ME Engineers | $4,580,000 |
| 24 | Syska Hennessy Group | $4,235,847 |
| 25 | Jensen Hughes | $4,005,350 |
| 26 | CDM Smith | $3,807,049 |
| 27 | Martin/Martin | $3,687,132 |
| 28 | Newcomb & Boyd | $3,551,394 |
| 29 | Shive-Hattery | $3,551,001 |
| 30 | Jaros, Baum & Bolles | $3,459,451 |
| 31 | LaBella Associates | $3,299,663 |
| 32 | H.F. Lenz | $3,110,250 |
| 33 | TLC Engineering Solutions | $3,105,229 |
| 34 | Spectrum Engineers | $3,076,209 |
| 35 | Dunham Associates | $3,000,000 |
| 36 | Cushing Terrell (formerly CTA Architects Engineers) | $2,799,933 |
| 37 | Morrison Hershfield | $2,746,826 |
| 38 | Mazzetti | $2,605,340 |
| 39 | JQ Engineering | $2,580,336 |
| 40 | Peter Basso Associates | $2,300,000 |
| 41 | RTM Engineering Consultants | $2,148,859 |
| 42 | Architectural Engineers Inc. | $2,119,127 |
| 43 | SSOE Group | $2,088,842 |
| 44 | Henderson Engineers | $2,085,594 |
| 45 | AKF Group | $2,060,000 |
| 46 | Bala Consulting Engineers | $1,818,000 |
| 47 | Kohler Ronan | $1,723,695 |
| 48 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | $1,704,093 |
| 49 | KZF Design | $1,579,085 |
| 50 | LBYD Engineers | $1,570,724 |
| 51 | French & Parrello Associates | $1,395,576 |
| 52 | RMH Group, The | $1,205,511 |
| 53 | Woolpert | $1,118,848 |
| 54 | RWB Consulting Engineers | $1,104,000 |
| 55 | GRAEF | $1,071,182 |
| 56 | Halff Associates | $1,050,000 |
| 57 | ThermalTech Engineering | $1,000,000 |
| 58 | KCI Technologies | $1,000,000 |
| 59 | Primera Engineers | $998,099 |
| 60 | Tec Inc. Engineering & Design | $952,708 |
| 61 | STV | $809,257 |
| 62 | Smith Seckman Reid | $786,896 |
| 63 | Allen & Shariff | $650,000 |
| 64 | Highland Associates | $600,000 |
| 65 | OLA Consulting Engineers | $530,000 |
| 66 | Arora Engineers | $416,266 |
| 67 | DeSimone Consulting Engineers | $399,510 |
| 68 | Schaefer | $363,251 |
| 69 | KLH Engineers | $341,251 |
| 70 | KCL Engineering | $315,881 |
| 71 | BRPH Architects Engineers | $311,436 |
| 72 | Stanley Consultants | $296,930 |
| 73 | Wallace Engineering | $250,000 |
| 74 | Pedco E & A Services | $229,000 |
| 75 | PS&S | $201,000 |
| 76 | PBS Engineers | $200,000 |
| 77 | ESD | $155,410 |
| 78 | Milhouse Engineering and Construction | $130,844 |
| 79 | Apogee Consulting Group | $111,500 |
| 80 | Davis, Bowen & Friedel | $72,243 |
| 81 | Paradigm Structural Engineers | $15,917 |
| 82 | SSC Engineering | $9,630 |
| Top 80 University Sector Contractors and CM Firms for 2020 | ||
| FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
| 1 | Turner Construction Company | $1,541,584,819 |
| 2 | Skanska USA | $746,999,591 |
| 3 | McCarthy Holdings | $569,632,212 |
| 4 | DPR Construction | $509,070,000 |
| 5 | STO Building Group | $499,000,000 |
| 6 | Webcor | $427,052,230 |
| 7 | Hensel Phelps | $400,251,848 |
| 8 | Shawmut Design and Construction | $379,395,737 |
| 9 | Gilbane Building Company | $358,790,000 |
| 10 | Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, The | $316,657,986 |
| 11 | Swinerton | $276,600,000 |
| 12 | PCL Construction Enterprises | $271,407,871 |
| 13 | AECOM | $260,500,000 |
| 14 | Sundt Construction | $245,965,667 |
| 15 | Messer Construction | $227,389,994 |
| 16 | Balfour Beatty US | $226,042,141 |
| 17 | CORE Construction Group | $195,621,623 |
| 18 | C.W. Driver Companies | $190,768,284 |
| 19 | JE Dunn Construction | $174,995,367 |
| 20 | LeChase Construction Services | $162,317,365 |
| 21 | Pepper Construction | $156,970,847 |
| 22 | Suffolk Construction | $155,710,970 |
| 23 | Barton Malow | $143,430,531 |
| 24 | Walbridge | $126,749,342 |
| 25 | Mortenson | $124,044,000 |
| 26 | Adolfson & Peterson Construction | $121,728,329 |
| 27 | Austin Industries | $112,666,815 |
| 28 | Holder Construction | $110,000,000 |
| 29 | Nabholz Corporation | $108,888,907 |
| 30 | Andersen Construction | $99,800,000 |
| 31 | Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction | $97,402,000 |
| 32 | Power Construction | $97,000,000 |
| 33 | Hunter Roberts Construction | $95,600,000 |
| 34 | Fortis Construction | $84,234,878 |
| 35 | Manhattan Construction Group | $75,370,983 |
| 36 | Brasfield & Gorrie | $61,595,403 |
| 37 | Clark Group | $57,346,856 |
| 38 | Haselden Construction | $55,023,321 |
| 39 | W.E. O'Neil Construction | $52,862,066 |
| 40 | W. M. Jordan Company | $47,096,879 |
| 41 | Boldt Company, The | $46,039,000 |
| 42 | Yates Companies, The | $36,347,000 |
| 43 | Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors | $34,469,071 |
| 44 | Hoar Construction | $32,649,000 |
| 45 | Choate Construction | $29,501,255 |
| 46 | New South Construction | $28,150,000 |
| 47 | Clancy & Theys Construction | $27,873,564 |
| 48 | Rogers-O'Brien Construction | $24,430,000 |
| 49 | Jacobs | $23,813,000 |
| 50 | Walsh Group, The | $22,088,063 |
| 51 | Robins & Morton | $20,152,456 |
| 52 | Juneau Construction Company | $19,827,483 |
| 53 | Kraus-Anderson Construction | $19,000,000 |
| 54 | Bette Companies, The | $18,364,676 |
| 55 | Hoffman Construction | $17,787,788 |
| 56 | James G. Davis Construction | $16,737,402 |
| 57 | HITT Contracting | $15,115,259 |
| 58 | Cumming | $15,047,250 |
| 59 | Gray Construction | $14,420,540 |
| 60 | Paric Holdings | $13,800,000 |
| 61 | Columbia | $13,000,000 |
| 62 | Russell Construction | $12,000,000 |
| 63 | McCownGordon Construction, LLC | $11,645,829 |
| 64 | Wohlsen Construction | $11,479,000 |
| 65 | Hill International | $10,304,373 |
| 66 | Executive Construction | $10,000,000 |
| 67 | S. M. Wilson | $9,328,160 |
| 68 | Wendel | $8,683,083 |
| 69 | Sachse Construction | $7,000,000 |
| 70 | Lendlease | $5,682,260 |
| 71 | STV | $4,859,801 |
| 72 | S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | $3,908,000 |
| 73 | Ryan Companies US | $3,273,708 |
| 74 | JLL | $1,853,656 |
| 75 | Cotter Consulting | $1,405,501 |
| 76 | Benchmark Construction | $1,143,729 |
| 77 | Burns & McDonnell | $812,277 |
| 78 | JLG Architects | $647,791 |
| 79 | KCI Technologies | $500,000 |
| 80 | BL Harbert International | $497,465 |
| 81 | Doster Construction | $481,207 |
| 82 | Brownstone | $372,272 |
| 83 | Progressive AE | $196,612 |
| 84 | KBE Building Corporation | $107,782 |
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