The nation’s largest architecture, engineering, and construction companies are on the BIM bandwagon in a big way, according to Building Design+Construction’s first annual Top 170 BIM Adopters ranking, published as part of the 2009 Giants 300 survey.
Of the 320 AEC firms that participated in Giants survey, 83% report having at least one BIM seat license in house, half have more than 30 seats, and nearly a quarter (23%) have 100-plus seats. In total, the Giants hold 28,174 BIM seats, with the average firm having 106 seats.
As expected, design firms are the biggest adopters of BIM, representing 48 of the top 50. AECOM Technology Corp. and HDR Architecture hold the most BIM seats, each with 2,000, followed by Parsons Brinckerhoff (1,800), Gensler (1,320), and HOK (840). Editor's Note: Several firms, including Fluor Corp., report having an enterprise license for BIM-related software, and, therefore, could not provide accurate adoption numbers.
Turner (#8 with 530 seats) and Mortensen Construction (#38 with 163 seats) are the only pure contractors to make the top 50. Other contractors to make the list are DPR Construction (#61 with 121 seats), McCarthy Holdings (#62 with 120 seats), Hensel Phelps Construction (#91 with 71 seats), JE Dunn Construction Group (#102 with 62 seats), and Ryan Companies US (#106 with 60 seats).
BIM adoption seems to be slowing among the Giants, which is expected given the rough economic environment. Slightly more than half (51%) of the respondents have added or plan on adding BIM seat licenses in 2009, down from 63% in 2008. And the number of seats being purchased is expected to drop by 56% this year, from a total of 6,465 in 2008 to 2,837 in 2009.
Stantec and Gensler are adding the most seats this year (250 and 199) and are two of only four firms adding more than 100 seats in 2009—compared to eight firms in 2008. Other firms active in BIM software acquisition this year are: Turner (adding 100 seats), URS Corp. (100), DPR Construction (90), KlingStubbins (75), and Dewberry (65).
Here are the Top 170 BIM Adoptors for 2009:
| Top 170 BIM Adopters | ||||
| Company* | # of BIM seat licenses | # of BIM seats added in 2008 | # of BIM seats planning to add in 2009 | |
| 1 | AECOM Technology Corp. | 2,000 | ||
| 1 | HDR Architecture | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
| 3 | Parsons Brinckerhoff | 1,800 | 40 | 50 |
| 4 | Gensler | 1,320 | 300 | 199 |
| 5 | HOK | 840 | ||
| 6 | Perkins+Will | 800 | 80 | |
| 7 | HKS | 650 | 200 | |
| 8 | Turner | 530 | 200 | 100 |
| 9 | SSOE | 500 | 150 | 50 |
| 10 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 450 | 75 | 25 |
| 11 | Arup | 407 | ||
| 12 | RTKL Associates | 373 | 43 | |
| 13 | Cannon Design | 320 | ||
| 14 | SmithGroup | 312 | 80 | |
| 15 | Merrick & Co. | 302 | 15 | 25 |
| 16 | CH2M HILL | 300 | 40 | |
| 17 | Jacobs | 280 | 280 | 15 |
| 18 | Middough | 270 | 10 | 20 |
| 18 | TLC Engineering for Architecture | 270 | 25 | |
| 20 | Day & Zimmermann International | 265 | ||
| 21 | Stantec | 250 | 100 | 250 |
| 22 | Dewberry | 233 | 30 | 65 |
| 23 | Smith Seckman Reid | 225 | 45 | 20 |
| 23 | Perkowitz+Ruth Architects | 225 | ||
| 25 | KJWW Engineering Consultants | 209 | 35 | |
| 26 | HNTB | 208 | ||
| 27 | Burt Hill | 205 | 25 | |
| 28 | Gresham, Smith and Partners | 203 | 30 | |
| 29 | Bergmann Associates, Architects Engineers Planners | 200 | 30 | 20 |
| 29 | Syska Hennessy Group | 200 | ||
| 31 | X-nth | 199 | 10 | |
| 32 | PageSoutherlandPage | 181 | 36 | 50 |
| 33 | Albert Kahn Associates | 180 | 35 | 10 |
| 33 | Goodwyn Mills and Cawood | 180 | 20 | |
| 35 | Affiliated Engineers | 175 | 13 | |
| 36 | Heery International | 173 | 10 | 10 |
| 37 | Fanning/Howey Associates | 169 | 12 | 26 |
| 38 | Mortenson Construction | 163 | 25 | |
| 39 | Morris Architects | 162 | 20 | |
| 40 | KMD Architects | 155 | 20 | 10 |
| 41 | Clark Nexsen | 153 | 10 | |
| 42 | KlingStubbins | 150 | 50 | 75 |
| 42 | RNL Design | 150 | ||
| 44 | Leo A Daly | 145 | 22 | 30 |
| 44 | GRAEF | 145 | 15 | 5 |
| 44 | NTD Architecture | 145 | ||
| 47 | Arquitectonica | 140 | ||
| 47 | Corgan Associates | 140 | 25 | |
| 47 | CTA Architects Engineers | 140 | 115 | |
| 47 | Little | 140 | ||
| 51 | BSA LifeStructures | 139 | 20 | |
| 51 | Facility Group | 139 | ||
| 53 | Anshen+Allen | 135 | 33 | 2 |
| 54 | Flad Architects | 131 | ||
| 55 | RDK Engineers | 130 | ||
| 56 | TRO Jung/Brannen | 127 | 20 | |
| 57 | URS Corp. | 125 | 25 | 100 |
| 57 | BRPH Companies | 125 | 12 | |
| 59 | Shive-Hattery | 124 | 10 | |
| 60 | Cogdell Spencer Erdman | 123 | ||
| 61 | DPR Construction | 121 | 61 | 90 |
| 62 | McCarthy Holdings | 120 | 25 | 30 |
| 63 | PGAL | 119 | 5 | |
| 64 | EYP Architecture & Engineering | 118 | 27 | 15 |
| 65 | Ellerbe Becket | 116 | ||
| 66 | BBG-BBGM | 113 | ||
| 67 | DLR Group | 106 | 58 | 26 |
| 68 | Cubellis | 105 | 95 | |
| 69 | H+L Architecture | 103 | ||
| 70 | Perkins Eastman | 100 | 50 | 50 |
| 70 | OWP/P | 100 | 40 | 10 |
| 70 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | 100 | ||
| 73 | VOA Associates | 95 | ||
| 74 | H.F. Lenz Co. | 93 | 5 | |
| 75 | Kirksey | 91 | ||
| 76 | Polshek Partnership Architects | 87 | 20 | 21 |
| 77 | CASCO Diversified Corp. | 86 | 36 | |
| 78 | LPA | 85 | 17 | 20 |
| 78 | Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners | 85 | ||
| 80 | PBS&J | 80 | 15 | 13 |
| 80 | Thornton Tomasetti | 80 | 20 | |
| 82 | Walter P Moore | 79 | 16 | |
| 83 | Heapy Engineering | 75 | 15 | 30 |
| 83 | OZ Architecture | 75 | 40 | 25 |
| 83 | M/E Engineering | 75 | 5 | 5 |
| 83 | Hammel, Green and Abrahamson | 75 | 75 | |
| 87 | FKP Architects | 74 | 10 | |
| 87 | Environmental Systems Design | 74 | ||
| 89 | Westlake Reed Leskosky | 73 | 42 | 28 |
| 89 | WWCOT | 73 | ||
| 91 | Hensel Phelps Construction | 71 | 23 | 13 |
| 92 | Peter Basso Associates | 70 | 17 | 12 |
| 92 | Gould Evans Associates | 70 | ||
| 94 | SchenkelShultz | 68 | 7 | 54 |
| 94 | tvsdesign | 68 | 10 | |
| 96 | Teng & Associates | 67 | 6 | 4 |
| 96 | Fentress Architects | 67 | 15 | 3 |
| 98 | Fletcher-Thompson | 66 | 4 | |
| 99 | Cuningham Group Architecture | 65 | 25 | 10 |
| 99 | Joseph R. Loring & Associates | 65 | 3 | |
| 101 | Crafton Tull Sparks | 64 | 5 | |
| 102 | Nadel Architects | 62 | 20 | 42 |
| 102 | JE Dunn Construction Group | 62 | 3 | 5 |
| 102 | Carrier Johnson + Culture | 62 | 5 | |
| 105 | DGA planning | architecture | interiors | 61 | 26 | |
| 106 | SHW Group | 60 | 60 | 50 |
| 106 | Ryan Companies US | 60 | 15 | 15 |
| 106 | Harley Ellis Devereaux | 60 | 5 | 10 |
| 109 | WHR Architects | 59 | 5 | 5 |
| 110 | Webcor Builders | 58 | 21 | 15 |
| 111 | Swinerton Inc. | 57 | 7 | 15 |
| 112 | Ballinger | 56 | 20 | |
| 113 | BLT Architects | 55 | ||
| 114 | RBB Architects | 54 | 7 | 9 |
| 115 | Skanska USA Building | 53 | 25 | 22 |
| 116 | John A. Martin & Associates | 52 | 14 | 2 |
| 116 | Good Fulton & Farrell | 52 | ||
| 118 | Balfour Beatty Construction | 50 | 35 | 50 |
| 118 | MulvannyG2 Architecture | 50 | 50 | 20 |
| 118 | Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott | 50 | ||
| 121 | Barton Malow Co. | 49 | 7 | |
| 122 | BEI Associates | 48 | 2 | 4 |
| 123 | Clark, Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers | 46 | 16 | |
| 124 | Sparling | 45 | 3 | 5 |
| 124 | Clayco | 45 | 45 | |
| 124 | Durrant Group, The | 45 | 30 | |
| 124 | Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor | 45 | ||
| 128 | Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers | 44 | ||
| 129 | M+W Zander | 43 | 5 | 10 |
| 129 | Gray Construction | 43 | 3 | |
| 129 | Spectrum Engineers | 43 | ||
| 132 | Gilbane Building Co. | 42 | 10 | 10 |
| 133 | Nelson | 41 | 25 | 25 |
| 133 | Henderson Engineers | 41 | 17 | |
| 135 | Dunham Associates | 40 | 20 | 30 |
| 135 | Plunkett Raysich Architects | 40 | 20 | 20 |
| 135 | Holder Construction Co. | 40 | 15 | 15 |
| 135 | RSP Architects | 40 | 5 | 15 |
| 139 | Moseley Architects | 39 | 17 | 30 |
| 139 | Sasaki Associates | 39 | 22 | 12 |
| 139 | Weitz Co., The | 39 | 10 | 2 |
| 139 | FreemanWhite. | 39 | ||
| 143 | Omniplan | 38 | ||
| 144 | Reynolds, Smith and Hills | 37 | 21 | 5 |
| 145 | ADD Inc. | 36 | 10 | |
| 145 | NAC Architecture | 36 | 6 | 6 |
| 145 | Wallace Engineering | 36 | 11 | 4 |
| 148 | EwingCole | 35 | 25 | 30 |
| 148 | L. Robert Kimball & Associates | 35 | 25 | 25 |
| 148 | Swanke Hayden Connell Architects | 35 | 15 | |
| 148 | PCL Construction Enterprises | 35 | 10 | 5 |
| 148 | Wick Fisher White Engineers | 35 | ||
| 153 | Stanley Consultants | 34 | 12 | |
| 154 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | 33 | 17 | 29 |
| 154 | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | 33 | ||
| 156 | Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon | 32 | 12 | 20 |
| 156 | Mithun | 32 | 5 | 20 |
| 156 | James Posey Associates | 32 | 32 | 4 |
| 159 | Beck Group | 31 | 22 | |
| 159 | Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates | 31 | 5 | 10 |
| 161 | Benham Companies | 30 | 30 | 25 |
| 161 | HMC Architects | 30 | 10 | 20 |
| 161 | Sundt Construction | 30 | 5 | |
| 161 | Boldt Company, The | 30 | ||
| 161 | Epstein | 30 | ||
| 161 | Hoffman Construction | 30 | ||
| 161 | ka | 30 | 25 | |
| 161 | TMAD Taylor & Gaines | 30 | ||
| 161 | Ware Malcomb | 30 | ||
| 170 | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger | 29 | 16 | 6 |
| *Several firms, including Fluor Corp., report having an enterprise license for BIM-related software, and, therefore, cannot provide adoption numbers. Source: 2009 Giants 300 survey. For more Giants 300 rankings, visit www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants | ||||
