TOP CONVENTION CENTER ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2014 Conv. Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Gensler | $16,010,000 |
| 2 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | $14,115,064 |
| 3 | Fentress Architects | $8,547,622 |
| 4 | Populous | $6,929,000 |
| 5 | tvsdesign | $5,900,000 |
| 6 | Cuningham Group Architecture | $5,146,968 |
| 7 | EYP | $4,705,810 |
| 8 | LMN Architects | $3,646,400 |
| 9 | VOA Associates | $1,917,912 |
| 10 | LS3P | $1,813,754 |
| 11 | WATG | Wimberly Interiors | $1,234,000 |
| 12 | HNTB | $1,029,080 |
| 13 | Albert Kahn Associates | $1,000,000 |
| 14 | ZGF Architects | $604,013 |
| 15 | Stantec | $597,877 |
| 16 | Clark Nexsen | $500,000 |
| 17 | Leo A Daly | $462,062 |
| 18 | FXFOWLE Architects | $459,738 |
| 19 | Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio | $450,000 |
| 20 | GSB | $271,412 |
| 21 | Westlake Reed Leskosky | $250,000 |
| 22 | CTA Architects Engineers | $250,000 |
| 23 | HOK | $220,000 |
| 24 | Little | $182,100 |
| 25 | Integrus Architecture | $74,300 |
| 26 | Callison RTKL | $29,330 |
| 27 | ai Design Group | $23,506 |
| 28 | Nelson | $21,500 |
| 29 | HMC Architects | $14,568 |
TOP CONVENTION CENTER ENGINEERING FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2014 Conv. Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | AECOM | $53,574,000 |
| 2 | Smith Seckman Reid | $6,869,914 |
| 3 | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | $2,909,202 |
| 4 | Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates | $2,530,000 |
| 5 | WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff | $1,797,513 |
| 6 | Arup | $1,703,551 |
| 7 | RMF Engineering | $1,650,000 |
| 8 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | $1,125,000 |
| 9 | Epstein | $933,200 |
| 10 | Environmental Systems Design | $849,423 |
| 11 | ME Engineers | $710,000 |
| 12 | TLC Engineering for Architecture | $568,000 |
| 13 | Affiliated Engineers | $499,000 |
| 14 | Syska Hennessy Group | $427,965 |
| 15 | Newcomb & Boyd | $378,226 |
| 16 | GRAEF | $265,000 |
| 17 | Vanderweil Engineers | $225,500 |
| 18 | TTG | $223,500 |
| 19 | Martin/Martin | $215,478 |
| 20 | I. C. Thomasson Associates | $210,000 |
| 21 | Aon Fire Protection Engineering | $200,000 |
| 22 | Jensen Hughes | $190,730 |
| 23 | Spectrum Engineers | $178,746 |
| 24 | Ross & Baruzzini | $114,770 |
| 25 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | $78,300 |
| 26 | Thornton Tomasetti | $74,012 |
| 27 | Dewberry | $72,308 |
| 28 | Karpinski Engineering | $55,000 |
| 29 | Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon | $50,000 |
| 30 | Dunham Associates | $50,000 |
| 31 | Wick Fisher White | $38,000 |
| 32 | Henderson Engineers | $10,937 |
| 33 | G&W Engineering | $10,700 |
| 34 | William Tao & Associates | $5,400 |
| 35 | Zak Companies | $2,925 |
TOP CONVENTION CENTER CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
| Rank | Company | 2014 Conv. Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Turner Construction | $59,992,466 |
| 2 | PCL Construction | $38,605,557 |
| 3 | Yates Companies, The | $21,000,000 |
| 4 | Messer Construction | $20,679,027 |
| 5 | Layton Construction | $8,700,000 |
| 6 | Clark Group | $3,586,540 |
| 7 | Hill International | $3,000,000 |
| 8 | Manhattan Construction | $2,198,000 |
| 9 | Skanska USA | $1,384,260 |
| 10 | Cumming | $1,247,116 |
| 11 | Weitz Company, The | $682,000 |
| 12 | Gilbane Building Co. | $496,122 |
| 13 | JLL | $22,562 |
| 14 | Whiting-Turner Contracting, The | $17,159 |
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