STATE GOVERNMENT GIANTS: A ranking of the nation’s top design and construction firms in state sector work

TOP 50 STATE GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	CannonDesign	$43,400,000
2	Stantec	$33,591,783
3	SmithGroupJJR	$30,010,000
4	DLR Group	$26,000,000
5	HOK	$22,540,000
6	LMN Architects	$16,081,000
7	Alliiance	$15,474,270
8	Heery International	$14,158,088
9	RS&H	$13,500,000
10	Clark Nexsen	$8,906,591
11	HGA	$8,425,000
12	ZGF Architects	$7,923,190
13	HDR	$7,370,303
14	JLG Architects	$7,290,470
15	NBBJ	$6,000,000
16	Flad Architects	$4,611,000
17	EYP	$4,387,288
18	Perkins Eastman	$3,835,000
19	Architects Hawaii Ltd.	$3,599,000
20	Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners	$3,469,167
21	tvsdesign	$3,150,000
22	Rosser International	$2,878,114
23	Diamond Schmitt Architects	$2,852,000
24	LS3P	$2,759,407
25	BWBR	$2,441,305
26	Cambridge Seven Associates	$2,194,000
27	Gensler	$2,116,251
28	Grimm + Parker Architects	$2,090,036
29	Bergmann Associates	$2,055,605
30	Nelson Worldwide Holdings	$1,945,639
31	RNL Design	$1,683,000
32	Guernsey	$1,588,393
33	Leo A Daly	$1,514,390
34	FXFOWLE	$1,301,177
35	Integrus Architecture	$998,275
36	KGP Design Studio	$953,000
37	Becker Morgan Group	$928,733
38	CO Architects	$854,000
39	CTA Architects Engineers	$841,991
40	HKS	$782,364
41	Urbahn Architects	$690,000
42	Carrier Johnson + Culture	$656,829
43	Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood	$554,778
44	Morris Architects	$499,000
45	Little	$494,000
46	Wold Architects and Engineers	$475,000
47	Lord Aeck Sargent	$447,176
48	Gresham, Smith and Partners	$431,000
49	CallisonRTKL	$403,000
50	Cuningham Group Architecture	$379,783


TOP 40 STATE GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	Turner Construction Co.	$963,598,623
2	Mortenson Construction	$530,376,000
3	PCL Construction Enterprises	$479,131,846
4	Hensel Phelps	$326,421,000
5	Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The	$156,077,935
6	W.M. Jordan Company	$141,835,518
7	Clark Group	$141,500,511
8	Linbeck Group	$130,000,000
9	Gilbane Building Co.	$129,774,000
10	JE Dunn Construction	$112,992,928
11	Skanska USA	$62,021,060
12	AECOM	$57,770,000
13	Brasfield & Gorrie	$50,190,293
14	Adolfson & Peterson Construction	$46,810,000
15	Ryan Companies US	$41,556,920
16	Balfour Beatty US	$40,853,361
17	Bernards	$38,500,000
18	Walsh Group, The	$34,667,404
19	KBE Building Corp.	$33,152,583
20	Heery International	$29,366,635
21	dck worldwide	$23,405,000
22	Layton Construction Co.	$22,800,000
23	LeChase Construction	$22,000,000
24	Consigli Building Group	$16,544,549
25	STV	$13,750,590
26	Manhattan Construction Group	$12,677,000
27	Fortis Construction	$8,703,767
28	Shook Construction Co.	$6,227,619
29	Holder Construction Co.	$6,000,000
30	Wendel	$4,999,336
31	Coakley & Williams Construction	$4,989,805
32	Jacobs	$4,636,426
33	Core Construction Group	$3,159,742
34	DPR Construction	$2,943,000
35	Bette Companies, The	$2,673,111
36	Yates Companies, The	$1,500,000
37	Suffolk Construction Co.	$1,298,747
38	Cumming	$1,027,000
39	HITT Contracting	$1,000,000
40	Lendlease	$714,000
41	Kitchell Corp.	$540,518
42	McCarthy Holdings	$530,813


TOP 30 STATE GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	WSP \| Parsons Brinckerhoff	$97,613,000
2	AECOM	$60,000,000
3	STV	$26,889,226
4	Arup	$13,749,301
5	Dewberry	$12,044,634
6	Woolpert	$10,296,095
7	Simpson Gumpertz & Heger	$8,745,000
8	Wendel	$6,662,131
9	Loring Consulting Engineers	$4,000,000
10	Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates	$3,700,000
11	KZF Design	$3,305,672
12	Smith Seckman Reid	$3,136,238
13	Thornton Tomasetti	$3,031,189
14	RDK Engineers	$2,598,944
15	Walker Parking Consultants	$2,474,066
16	Shive-Hattery	$2,319,824
17	Architectural Engineers	$2,164,059
18	Vanderweil Engineers	$2,037,900
19	Global Engineering Solutions	$2,000,000
20	Jacobs	$1,949,199
21	dbHMS	$1,800,000
22	Jensen Hughes	$1,708,891
23	RMF Engineering	$1,676,000
24	Syska Hennessy Group	$1,021,903
25	Spectrum Engineers	$982,195
26	Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers	$893,329
27	JBA Consulting Engineers	$667,816
28	H.F. Lenz Company	$650,000
29	I. C. Thomasson Associates	$600,000
30	Affiliated Engineers	$585,000
31	TLC Engineering for Architecture	$546,789
32	KCI Technologies	$500,000

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