AECOM, Arup, and Populous head BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest cultural facilities sector architecture, engineering, and construction firms, as reported in the 2020 Giants 400 Report.
Top 100 Cultural Facilities Sector Architecture and AE Firms for 2020 | ||
FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
1 | Populous | $59,194,498 |
2 | Gensler | $33,977,512 |
3 | DLR Group | $23,974,000 |
4 | CallisonRTKL | $19,841,518 |
5 | Quinn Evans | $18,181,119 |
6 | HKS | $12,931,795 |
7 | LPA | $12,522,794 |
8 | Davis Brody Bond | $11,170,714 |
9 | HGA | $10,317,974 |
10 | Huitt-Zollars, Inc. | $9,917,000 |
11 | Ayers Saint Gross | $8,247,312 |
12 | Diamond Schmitt Architects | $7,647,413 |
13 | SmithGroup | $7,599,327 |
14 | GWWO Architects | $7,281,976 |
15 | Ennead Architects | $6,567,043 |
16 | LMN Architects | $5,969,500 |
17 | Stantec | $5,651,550 |
18 | HDR | $5,494,892 |
19 | EwingCole | $5,300,000 |
20 | Clark Nexsen | $4,794,000 |
21 | GBBN | $4,018,000 |
22 | Fentress Architects | $4,000,000 |
23 | Perkins Eastman | $3,900,000 |
24 | Ratio Architects | $3,847,234 |
25 | Architectural Resources Cambridge (ARC) | $3,450,969 |
26 | Payette | $3,163,250 |
27 | Perkins and Will | $3,123,870 |
28 | Moody Nolan | $2,484,280 |
29 | Grimm + Parker Architects | $2,400,984 |
30 | HOK | $2,290,000 |
31 | FXCollaborative | $2,283,874 |
32 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | $2,249,999 |
33 | Leo A Daly | $2,244,575 |
34 | PGAL | $2,226,000 |
35 | JCJ Architecture | $2,158,158 |
36 | RDC / Studio One Eleven | $1,909,235 |
37 | Holst Architecture | $1,854,660 |
38 | Goettsch Partners | $1,800,000 |
39 | Elkus Manfredi Architects | $1,796,000 |
40 | Emersion Design | $1,691,627 |
41 | Sasaki | $1,617,387 |
42 | BHDP Architecture | $1,539,994 |
43 | CPL | $1,535,862 |
44 | Mithun | $1,219,262 |
45 | HuntonBrady Architects | $1,122,012 |
46 | Little Diversified Architectural Consulting | $1,108,430 |
47 | Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects (SNHA) | $1,000,000 |
— | ThenDesign Architecture | $1,000,000 |
49 | Progressive AE | $944,353 |
50 | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture | $868,346 |
51 | MEIS Architects | $828,000 |
52 | Kahler Slater | $790,179 |
53 | Clark Enersen Partners, The | $787,569 |
54 | StudioGC architecture + interiors | $767,103 |
55 | Alliiance | $725,862 |
56 | WATG | $716,393 |
57 | Hollis + Miller Architects | $712,833 |
58 | Wendel | $701,829 |
59 | Finegold Alexander Architects | $694,865 |
60 | CBT | $676,513 |
61 | RSP Architects | $646,000 |
62 | BKV Group | $578,049 |
63 | H2M Architects + Engineers | $493,340 |
64 | Bostwick Design Partnership | $450,000 |
65 | RDG Planning & Design | $446,501 |
66 | ZGF Architects | $422,929 |
67 | Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood | $394,616 |
68 | Dattner Architects | $390,909 |
69 | VMDO Architects | $374,000 |
70 | DLZ Corporation | $293,600 |
71 | Stevens & Wilkinson | $250,000 |
72 | GFF | $240,280 |
73 | Miller Dunwiddie | $217,200 |
74 | AHL | $192,604 |
75 | CTA Architects | $183,652 |
76 | AE Works Ltd. | $183,000 |
77 | Design 3 International (D3i) | $175,000 |
78 | Shepley Bulfinch | $171,730 |
79 | Urbahn Architects | $169,415 |
80 | Cooper Carry | $164,739 |
81 | Cuningham Group Architecture | $143,549 |
82 | Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA) | $140,000 |
83 | Ballinger | $129,450 |
84 | JLG Architects | $109,672 |
85 | Marmon Mok Architecture | $108,165 |
86 | SHP | $100,000 |
87 | SchenkelShultz Architecture | $98,718 |
88 | NAC Architecture | $87,277 |
89 | HMC Architects | $76,076 |
90 | Method Architecture | $72,302 |
91 | Ayres | $67,000 |
92 | Champlin Architecture | $65,920 |
93 | SWBR Architecture, Engineering & Landscape Architecture | $55,660 |
94 | EXP | $48,496 |
95 | BWBR | $35,000 |
96 | Fennick McCredie Architecture | $34,663 |
97 | DLA Architects | $31,224 |
98 | Massa Multimedia Architecture | $30,000 |
99 | TreanorHL | $30,000 |
— | Architectural Design Consultants | $30,000 |
101 | Ashley McGraw Architects | $25,962 |
102 | S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | $15,000 |
103 | Baskervill | $14,347 |
104 | Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) | $4,086 |
Top 60 Cultural Facilities Sector Engineering and EA Firms for 2020 | ||
FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
1 | Arup | $27,069,971 |
2 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | $18,837,000 |
3 | Thornton Tomasetti | $11,477,247 |
4 | WSP | $8,876,160 |
5 | ME Engineers | $8,450,000 |
6 | Morrison Hershfield | $6,826,071 |
7 | AECOM | $5,900,000 |
8 | Kohler Ronan | $5,049,393 |
9 | Walter P Moore | $4,253,592 |
10 | NV5 Global | $3,796,000 |
11 | TLC Engineering Solutions | $3,498,908 |
12 | Jaros, Baum & Bolles | $2,570,338 |
13 | Jacobs | $2,457,300 |
14 | IMEG Corp. | $2,400,000 |
15 | Jensen Hughes | $2,354,453 |
16 | Ross & Baruzzini | $2,197,000 |
17 | Henderson Engineers | $1,785,498 |
18 | Osborn Engineering | $1,590,000 |
19 | Martin/Martin | $1,015,326 |
20 | Dewberry | $863,546 |
21 | GRAEF | $840,746 |
22 | Peter Basso Associates | $830,000 |
23 | Bernhard | $551,000 |
24 | JQ Engineering | $550,786 |
25 | RTM Engineering Consultants | $537,215 |
26 | Smith Seckman Reid | $510,528 |
27 | OLA Consulting Engineers | $508,000 |
28 | Milhouse Engineering and Construction | $501,059 |
29 | Dunham Associates | $500,000 |
30 | Newcomb & Boyd | $490,845 |
31 | Cushing Terrell (formerly CTA Architects Engineers) | $429,660 |
32 | Wiley|Wilson | $387,500 |
33 | Affiliated Engineers | $372,000 |
34 | ESD | $369,789 |
35 | RMF Engineering | $340,000 |
36 | Karpinski Engineering | $289,250 |
37 | Vanderweil Engineers | $277,600 |
38 | Salas O'Brien | $270,899 |
39 | Wallace Engineering | $270,000 |
40 | Highland Associates | $250,000 |
41 | DeSimone Consulting Engineers | $247,527 |
42 | AKF Group | $240,000 |
43 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | $212,280 |
44 | LaBella Associates | $180,495 |
45 | Spectrum Engineers | $148,000 |
46 | Schaefer | $136,801 |
47 | Sherlock, Smith & Adams | $135,000 |
48 | KCL Engineering | $131,865 |
49 | PS&S | $123,000 |
50 | Allen & Shariff | $112,506 |
51 | KLH Engineers | $101,451 |
52 | EAPC Architects Engineers | $95,041 |
53 | Arora Engineers | $83,253 |
54 | LBYD Engineers | $72,197 |
55 | Primera Engineers | $59,287 |
56 | Tec Inc. Engineering & Design | $50,197 |
57 | Apogee Consulting Group | $19,200 |
58 | SSC Engineering | $16,455 |
59 | Marque Engineering | $14,000 |
60 | STV | $9,330 |
61 | KZF Design | $5,730 |
62 | Davis, Bowen & Friedel | $5,176 |
Top 55 Cultural Facilities Sector Contractors and CM Firms for 2020 | ||
FIRM | 2019 REVENUE | |
1 | AECOM | $348,100,000 |
2 | Clark Group | $259,392,380 |
3 | Turner Construction Company | $254,269,030 |
4 | Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, The | $209,956,489 |
5 | Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction | $177,594,000 |
6 | McCarthy Holdings | $122,087,694 |
7 | Skanska USA | $101,113,775 |
8 | Gilbane Building Company | $96,020,000 |
9 | Manhattan Construction Group | $86,685,436 |
10 | STO Building Group | $69,000,000 |
11 | Hensel Phelps | $56,000,054 |
12 | DPR Construction | $53,176,000 |
13 | Shawmut Design and Construction | $50,330,004 |
14 | C.W. Driver Companies | $46,332,898 |
15 | Swinerton | $46,000,000 |
16 | VCC | $33,303,744 |
17 | JE Dunn Construction | $32,504,723 |
18 | McCownGordon Construction, LLC | $26,211,647 |
19 | Balfour Beatty US | $22,947,722 |
20 | Mortenson | $21,682,000 |
21 | Choate Construction | $18,848,503 |
22 | S. M. Wilson | $18,403,598 |
23 | W. M. Jordan Company | $16,450,416 |
24 | Hill International | $13,841,718 |
25 | PCL Construction Enterprises | $12,815,216 |
26 | Austin Industries | $11,669,444 |
27 | LeChase Construction Services | $10,575,960 |
28 | Hoffman Construction | $8,212,905 |
29 | Cumming | $8,025,200 |
30 | DeAngelis Diamond | $7,828,123 |
31 | Haselden Construction | $6,521,535 |
32 | Batson-Cook Construction | $5,715,327 |
33 | Walsh Group, The | $5,075,218 |
34 | Pepper Construction | $4,437,711 |
35 | S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | $4,186,000 |
36 | Wohlsen Construction | $3,960,000 |
37 | Jacobs | $3,489,000 |
38 | Russell Construction | $3,000,000 |
39 | JLL | $2,199,893 |
40 | Andersen Construction | $2,000,000 |
41 | Messer Construction | $1,952,813 |
42 | Nabholz Corporation | $1,700,869 |
43 | Arc Building Partners | $1,500,832 |
44 | Clancy & Theys Construction | $1,339,548 |
45 | Walbridge | $1,321,346 |
46 | Cotter Consulting | $931,552 |
47 | BL Harbert International | $537,835 |
48 | Progressive AE | $262,204 |
49 | Brownstone | $66,088 |
50 | Yates Companies, The | $41,000 |
51 | KBE Building Corporation | $31,919 |
52 | Level 10 Construction | $25,042 |
53 | JLG Architects | $19,113 |
54 | Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors | $12,140 |
55 | Richard Group | $4,864 |
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