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Top 60 office engineering firms

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Top 60 office engineering firms

AECOM, WSP, and Thornton Tomasetti top BD+C’s ranking of the nation’s largest office sector engineering and EA firms, as reported in the 2017 Giants 300 Report.


By BD+C Staff | October 17, 2017
222 S. Riverside office

Photo: Wright Heerema Architects

TOP 60 OFFICE ENGINEERING FIRMS

RANK COMPANY 2016 OFFICE REVENUE
1 AECOM $255,200,000
2 WSP $164,900,000
3 Thornton Tomasetti $110,313,979
4 Arup $64,685,840
5 Mason & Hanger Group $57,000,000
6 Syska Hennessy Group $40,910,523
7 Ghafari Associates $28,300,000
8 AKF Group $25,242,711
9 Environmental Systems Design $24,098,625
10 Wiss, Janney, Elstner $19,020,000
11 GHT Ltd. $14,114,091
12 Glumac $13,591,375
13 Vanderweil Engineers $13,196,000
14 Magnusson Klemencic Associates $12,831,865
15 Simpson Gumpertz & Heger $12,300,000
16 Bala Consulting Engineers $11,770,000
17 Jensen Hughes $11,622,738
18 Burns & McDonnell $11,503,267
19 IMEG/KJWW/TTG $11,460,487
20 RDK Engineers $11,189,000
21 ME Engineers $8,300,000
22 Heapy Engineering $8,215,669
23 Interface Engineering $8,088,346
24 Cardno $7,144,871
25 Walker Parking Consultants $6,790,591
26 H.F. Lenz Co. $6,676,200
27 Morrison Hershfield $6,457,606
28 Newcomb & Boyd $6,370,887
29 CJL Engineering $6,232,353
30 Affiliated Engineers $5,456,000
31 Shive-Hattery $5,449,912
32 NV5 Global $5,206,451
33 Hixson $5,200,000
34 Henderson Engineers $5,195,492
35 Martin/Martin $5,016,213
36 Walter P Moore $4,511,968
37 Ross & Baruzzini $4,365,000
38 Kamm Consulting $4,090,646
39 Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers $3,944,889
40 Guernsey $3,830,941
41 Pedco E&A Services $3,800,000
42 TLC Engineering for Architecture $3,461,088
43 Loring Consulting Engineers $3,300,000
44 SSOE Group $3,200,000
45 Smith Seckman Reid $3,164,620
46 OLA Consulting Engineers $3,116,000
47 Dunham Associates $3,000,000
48 ThermalTech Engineering $3,000,000
49 I. C. Thomasson Associates $2,800,000
50 Rock Brook Consulting Group, The $2,700,000
51 DeSimone Consulting Engineers $2,617,660
52 Spectrum Engineers $2,446,042
53 Coffman Engineers $2,047,344
54 Karpinski Engineering $2,000,000
55 JQ Engineering $1,914,000
56 Kohler Ronan $1,519,782
57 Stanley Consultants $1,451,557
58 M/E Engineering $1,250,782
59 Setty $1,108,716
60 Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering $1,080,000
61 Primera Engineers $1,006,823
62 KCI Technologies $1,000,000
63 RMF Engineering $1,000,000

 

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