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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