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Top 40 Engineering/Architecture Firms for 2021

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Top 40 Engineering/Architecture Firms for 2021

Jacobs, AECOM, Burns & McDonnell, and Alfa Tech top the rankings of the nation's largest engineering architecture (EA) firms for nonresidential buildings and multifamily buildings work, as reported in Building Design+Construction's 2021 Giants 400 Report.


By BD+C Staff | August 25, 2021
David Rubenstein Forum project at the University of Chicago, Angie McMonigal Photography, Primera Engineers, Top 40 Engineering:Architecture Firms for 2021

Pictured: David Rubenstein Forum at University of Chicago. Photo: Angie McMonigal Photography, courtesy Primera Engineers

   

Jacobs, AECOM, Burns & McDonnell, and Alfa Tech top the rankings of the nation's largest engineering architecture (EA) firms for nonresidential buildings and multifamily buildings work, as reported in Building Design+Construction's 2021 Giants 400 Report.

Top 40 Engineering/Architecture Firms for 2021
  FIRM 2020 REVENUE
1 Jacobs $3,319,210,000
2 AECOM $1,303,400,000
3 Burns & McDonnell $551,599,410
4 Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers $500,000,000
5 EXP $350,011,905
6 Buro Happold $331,749,000
7 Thornton Tomasetti $256,518,041
8 NV5 Global $217,072,000
9 Salas O'Brien $157,962,569
10 IPS-Integrated Project Services $156,528,984
11 CRB $146,810,000
12 SSOE Group $142,413,414
13 CHA Consulting $139,900,000
14 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates $124,850,000
15 Dewberry $118,199,945
16 STV $114,382,473
17 Merrick and Company* $110,175,000
18 Haskell $104,801,302
19 BRPH $86,183,604
20 Morrison Hershfield $86,091,321
21 Ghafari Associates $81,300,000
22 Olsson $75,834,729
23 Farnsworth Group $68,112,548
24 Ross & Baruzzini $61,900,000
25 Cushing Terrell $57,783,842
26 CDM Smith $52,425,406
27 Stanley Consultants $44,111,652
28 Shive-Hattery $44,110,573
29 Black & Veatch Corp. $38,190,000
30 Highland Associates $29,200,000
31 GRAEF $28,192,627
32 Galloway & Company $27,683,047
33 Halff Associates $25,335,000
34 Hixson Architecture, Engineering, Interiors $20,000,000
35 Apogee Consulting Group $18,833,367
36 PS&S $17,515,318
37 Epstein $14,375,000
38 SchraderGroup $11,435,754
39 EAPC Architects Engineers $9,963,829
40 Davis, Bowen & Friedel $9,109,516
41 Primera Engineers $5,508,234
42 VJS Construction Services $785,000

SOURCE: 2021 Giants 400 Report  *Editors' estimate  Note: WSP USA was moved to the Top 75 Engineering Firms for 2021 list on 9/2/21, and GMB Architecture + Engineering was moved to the Top 95 Architecture/Engineering Firms for 2021 list on 10/27/21. 

 

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