Giants 300 University Report

Residence halls, infrastructure bright spots in university sector

Project: Medical Education Building, Emory School of Medicine, AtlantaArchitect: The S/L/A/M Collaborative (AE 31)Structural engineer: KSI Structural EngineersMEP engineer: Newcomb & Boyd (E 31)General contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. (C 7)Photo: Courtesy The S/L/A/M Collaborative

University construction spending is 13% higher than a year ago—mostly for residence halls and infrastructure on public campuses—and is expected to slip less than 5% over the next two years. However, the value of starts dropped about 10% in recent months and will not return to the 2007–08 peak for about two years.

	Company	Billings ($)
Source: 2009 Giants 300 survey. For expanded university design rankings, visit: www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
1	Burt Hill	81,834,000
2	HOK	75,200,000
3	AECOM Technology Corp.	63,529,000
4	Cannon Design	51,084,000
5	Perkins+Will	48,000,000
6	Gensler	37,215,000
7	SmithGroup	36,948,750
8	HDR Architecture	33,940,000
9	Arup	33,000,000
10	RMJM	32,497,392
11	Sasaki Associates	30,950,000
12	Ellerbe Becket	28,299,184
13	Dewberry	28,270,000
14	Jacobs	27,144,560
15	Affiliated Engineers	27,132,120
16	EYP Architecture & Engineering	25,500,000
17	Parsons Brinckerhoff	25,098,000
18	Stantec	24,596,000
19	URS Corp.	21,000,000
20	R.G. Vanderweil Engineers	20,393,105

	Company	Value put in place ($)
Source: 2009 Giants 300 survey. For expanded university contractor rankings, visit: www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
1	Turner	1,150,600,000
2	Gilbane Building Co.	703,599,820
3	Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.	492,258,678
4	Structure Tone	454,141,500
5	Skanska USA Building	427,071,221
6	Swinerton Inc.	299,360,000
7	Webcor Builders	293,807,692
8	PCL Construction Enterprises	288,471,629
9	McCarthy Holdings	277,101,000
10	Flintco Cos., The	254,428,800
11	JE Dunn Construction Group	248,391,000
12	Mortenson Construction	226,008,000
13	Hoffman Construction	224,000,000
14	Bovis Lend Lease	212,903,379
15	Clark Group	210,050,000
16	Austin Industries	208,199,672
17	Hensel Phelps Construction	200,220,000
18	C.W. Driver	177,710,764
19	Hunt Construction Group	175,000,000
20	DPR Construction	165,245,490

2009	2008	Company	2008 Billings ($)
Rank
Source: 2009 Giants 300 survey. For expanded Engineering Firmrankings, visit: www.BDCnetwork.com/Giants
1	4	Syska Hennessy Group	115,600,000
2	2	Fluor Corp.	114,470,000
3	3	KPFF Consulting Engineers	81,000,000
4	6	Affiliated Engineers	75,367,000
5	5	Smith Seckman Reid	68,260,000
6	10	Walter P Moore	64,572,266
7	18	Henderson Engineers	58,350,590
8	14	KJWW Engineering Consultants	58,265,636
9	8	R.G. Vanderweil Engineers	55,116,500
10	11	TLC Engineering for Architecture	54,685,784
11	—	John A. Martin & Associates	53,821,300
12	15	Clark, Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers	53,688,000
13	17	TMAD Taylor & Gaines	51,030,000
14	16	Schirmer Engineering Corp.	49,483,833
15	20	M-E Engineers	44,700,000
16	19	Rolf Jensen & Associates	44,595,000
17	23	Environmental Systems Design	42,000,000
18	21	Weidlinger Associates	41,000,000
19	22	Magnusson Klemencic Associates	40,000,000
20	25	Glumac	35,500,000
21	41	Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch	32,500,000
22	26	RDK Engineers	32,000,000
23	—	Degenkolb Engineers	31,124,000
24	33	KCI Technologies	28,300,000
25	12	X-nth	27,095,370
26	27	Interface Engineering	26,624,398
27	9	Birdsall Services Group	26,350,000
28	29	Coffman Engineers	26,259,000
29	28	Sparling	26,250,000
30	30	M/E Engineering	25,735,000
31	44	Newcomb & Boyd	25,577,207
32	32	H.F. Lenz Co.	24,000,000
33	42	Heapy Engineering	21,573,000
34	31	Henneman Engineering	21,083,000
35	37	GHT Limited	19,600,000
36	43	Rutherford & Chekene	17,236,000
37	38	Joseph R. Loring & Associates	16,800,000
38	35	Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers	16,000,000
39	46	Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers	15,341,792
40	36	Wallace Engineering	15,070,000
41	—	Dunham Associates	14,500,000
42	47	Peter Basso Associates	14,300,000
43	40	KTA Group	13,800,000
44	—	Brinjac Engineer	12,540,000
45	50	James Posey Associates	12,200,000
46	49	CB Engineers	10,410,000
47	45	Bala Consulting Engineers	10,200,000
48	48	Wick Fisher White Engineers	10,000,000
49	51	RMH Group, The	9,848,715
50	—	KLH Engineers	9,595,932
51	—	Allen & Shariff Corp.	9,500,000

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