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CONVENTION CENTER GIANTS: A ranking of the nation's top convention center sector design and construction firms

CONVENTION CENTER GIANTS: A ranking of the nation's top convention center sector design and construction firms

Gensler, LMN Architects, AECOM, Turner Construction Co., and WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff top Building Design+Construction’s annual ranking of the nation’s largest convention center sector AEC firms, as reported in the 2016 Giants 300 Report.


By BD+C Staff | August 30, 2016

Los Angeles Convention Center. Photo: Pixabay Public Domain

TOP 20 CONVENTION CENTER ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Firm 2015 Revenue
1 Gensler $19,900,000
2 LMN Architects $16,924,000
3 Populous $15,588,984
4 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill $12,362,704
5 tvsdesign $11,360,000
6 Diamond Schmitt Architects $2,852,000
7 HGA $1,924,000
8 HOK $1,833,000
9 Cuningham Group Architecture $1,029,733
10 FXFOWLE $959,463
11 Rosser International $708,234
12 HNTB Corporation $605,842
13 Clark Nexsen $500,000
14 ZGF Architects $474,877
15 Albert Kahn Associates $400,000
16 HMC Architects $248,967
17 Nadel $242,689
18 GSB $195,000
19 Corgan $150,000
20 Leo A Daly $127,164
21 VOA Associates $64,493
22 Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood $40,760
23 JLG Architects $27,270
24 HKS $22,200
25 LS3P $11,458
26 4240 Architecture $10,140
     
     
TOP 10 CONVENTION CENTER CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Firm 2015 Revenue
1 AECOM $200,000,000
2 Turner Construction Co. $57,066,603
3 PCL Construction Enterprises $53,599,024
4 Webcor Builders $46,743,610
5 Clark Group $15,552,875
6 Yates Companies, The $9,200,000
7 Manhattan Construction Group $7,133,000
8 WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff $2,003,000
9 Hill International $2,000,000
10 Skanska USA $1,880,221
11 Messer Construction Co. $1,500,000
12 Jacobs $1,410,000
13 Gilbane Building Co. $1,019,000
14 Cumming $513,500
15 Coakley & Williams Construction $375,625
16 Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The $88,495
     
     
TOP 10 CONVENTION CENTER ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Firm 2015 Revenue
1 WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff $21,726,000
2 AECOM $10,000,000
3 Jacobs $4,030,000
4 Arup $3,756,688
5 Magnusson Klemencic Associates $3,004,765
6 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates $2,700,000
7 Wallace Engineering $1,900,000
8 Walter P Moore $1,702,566
9 RMF Engineering $1,676,000
10 Environmental Systems Design $1,571,840
11 TLC Engineering for Architecture $1,008,242
12 ME Engineers $710,000
13 I. C. Thomasson Associates $622,000
14 Jensen Hughes $576,963
15 Dewberry $572,120
16 Vanderweil Engineers $413,800

 

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