NV5, EXP, Jensen Hughes, KPFF, and Thornton Tomasetti head the rankings of the nation's largest hotel sector engineering and engineering architecture (EA) firms, as reported in Building Design+Construction's 2019 Giants 300 Report.
Top 70 Hotel Sector Engineering Firms
BD+C GIANTS 300 REPORT
| RANK | COMPANY | 2018 HOTEL REVENUE |
| 1 | NV5 Global | $29,582,316 |
| 2 | EXP | $25,700,900 |
| 3 | Jensen Hughes | $16,246,000 |
| 4 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | $13,873,394 |
| 5 | Thornton Tomasetti | $10,368,834 |
| 6 | WSP USA | $9,816,619 |
| 7 | FEA Consulting Engineers | $8,475,000 |
| 8 | Kimley-Horn | $8,233,929 |
| 9 | DeSimone Consulting Engineers | $7,494,518 |
| 10 | Arup | $6,081,109 |
| 11 | IMEG Corp. | $5,913,778 |
| 12 | Jaros, Baum & Bolles | $5,294,172 |
| 13 | Bala Consulting Engineers | $4,823,000 |
| 14 | Salas O'Brien | $3,788,652 |
| 15 | TLC Engineering Solutions | $3,746,678 |
| 16 | Walter P Moore | $3,556,216 |
| 17 | Vanderweil Engineers | $3,129,500 |
| 18 | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger* | $2,617,859 |
| 19 | Walker Consultants | $2,559,626 |
| 20 | Woolpert | $2,375,000 |
| 21 | Henderson Engineers | $2,000,000 |
| 22 | GRAEF | $1,900,783 |
| 23 | I.C. Thomasson Associates | $1,900,000 |
| 24 | Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers | $1,585,855 |
| 25 | AKF Group | $1,488,302 |
| 26 | Interface Engineering | $1,453,811 |
| 27 | M/E Engineering | $1,443,469 |
| 28 | Coffman Engineers | $1,159,616 |
| 29 | Jordan & Skala Engineers | $1,133,244 |
| 30 | Galloway & Company | $1,130,936 |
| 31 | RTM Engineering Consultants | $1,122,250 |
| 32 | Morrison Hershfield | $1,118,202 |
| 33 | Magnusson Klemencic Associates* | $1,016,380 |
| 34 | Allen & Shariff Engineering | $884,607 |
| 35 | Newcomb & Boyd | $815,474 |
| 36 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers, Inc. | $784,427 |
| 37 | Halff Associates | $717,000 |
| 38 | Wallace Engineering | $700,000 |
| 39 | Schaefer | $653,616 |
| 40 | Smith Seckman Reid | $609,128 |
| 41 | Spectrum Engineers | $592,781 |
| 42 | ME Engineers | $590,000 |
| 43 | RMF Engineering | $518,500 |
| 44 | H.F. Lenz Co. | $500,000 |
| 45 | KLH Engineers | $481,053 |
| 46 | Epstein | $458,000 |
| 47 | dbHMS | $425,000 |
| 48 | Karpinski Engineering | $400,000 |
| 49 | Shive-Hattery | $316,706 |
| 50 | HEAPY | $299,579 |
| 51 | Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber | $287,000 |
| 52 | Core States Group | $257,213 |
| 53 | McKinstry | $250,000 |
| 54 | Syska Hennessy Group | $249,393 |
| 55 | KCL Engineering | $222,150 |
| 56 | CESO | $208,000 |
| 57 | Dunham Associates | $200,000 |
| 58 | ThermalTech Engineering | $195,500 |
| 59 | Affiliated Engineers | $158,389 |
| 60 | Davis, Bowen & Friedel | $145,288 |
| 61 | CTA Architects Engineers | $107,165 |
| 62 | KCI Technologies | $100,000 |
| — | Tighe & Bond | $100,000 |
| 64 | JQ Engineering | $88,880 |
| 65 | EAPC Architects Engineers | $85,443 |
| 66 | Peter Basso Associates | $80,000 |
| 67 | Architectural Engineers Inc. | $73,520 |
| 68 | Wick Fisher White | $70,000 |
| 69 | P2S | $53,763 |
| 70 | French & Parrello Associates | $50,000 |
| 71 | ESD | $49,940 |
| 72 | PBS Engineers | $25,000 |
| 73 | CMTA | $16,730 |
| 74 | Barge Design Solutions | $11,612 |
| 75 | Paradigm Structural Engineers | $7,085 |
| 76 | STV | $7,025 |
| SOURCE: BD+C 2019 GIANTS 300 REPORT * EDITORS’ ESTIMATE | ||
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