Top Convention Center Architecture Firms
| Rank | Company | 2012 Convention Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Populous | $15,000,000 |
| 2 | HKS | $8,500,000 |
| 3 | Gensler | $5,143,000 |
| 4 | Albert Kahn Family of Companies | $4,411,177 |
| 5 | Fentress Architects | $3,654,925 |
| 6 | HOK | $3,050,000 |
| 7 | LMN Architects | $2,522,000 |
| 8 | WATG / Wimberly Interiors | $1,725,000 |
| 9 | Sasaki Associates | $1,536,974 |
| 10 | Epstein | $1,453,000 |
| 11 | FXFOWLE Architects | $1,143,139 |
| 12 | Moody Nolan | $1,000,000 |
| 13 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | $625,000 |
| 14 | Westlake Reed Leskosky | $500,000 |
| 15 | ZGF Architects | $476,139 |
| 16 | NBBJ | $339,000 |
| 17 | HNTB Archtecture | $216,399 |
| 18 | BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers | $200,000 |
| 19 | Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood | $150,000 |
| 20 | NELSON | $63,001 |
| 21 | CTA Architects Engineers | $55,900 |
| 22 | Perkins+Will | $42,462 |
| 23 | Nadel | $37,978 |
| 24 | IBI Group | $37,900 |
| 25 | SHW Group | $35,651 |
| 26 | LS3P | $19,861 |
Top Convention Center Engineering Firms
| Rank | Company | 2012 Convention Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | AECOM Technology Corp. | $120,190,000 |
| 2 | URS Corp. | $7,789,187 |
| 3 | Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates | $2,720,000 |
| 4 | Syska Hennessy Group | $1,296,118 |
| 5 | Magnusson Klemencic Associates | $1,234,230 |
| 6 | Rolf Jensen & Associates | $1,200,000 |
| 7 | Dewberry | $1,148,500 |
| 8 | Aon Fire Protection Engineering | $1,000,000 |
| 9 | M-E Engineers | $600,000 |
| 10 | Arup | $591,738 |
| 11 | RMF Engineering Design | $500,000 |
| 12 | Smith Seckman Reid | $419,529 |
| 13 | TLC Engineering for Architecture | $321,506 |
| 14 | Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon | $300,000 |
| 14 | Michael Baker Jr. | $300,000 |
| 16 | Interface Engineering | $260,761 |
| 17 | CJL Engineering | $259,857 |
| 18 | TTG | $256,100 |
| 19 | Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor | $250,000 |
| 20 | Degenkolb Engineers | $178,151 |
| 21 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | $168,689 |
| 22 | Sparling | $153,884 |
| 23 | Joseph R. Loring & Associates | $150,000 |
| 24 | GRAEF | $143,034 |
| 25 | Walter P Moore | $139,742 |
| 26 | Davis, Bowen & Friedel | $113,683 |
| 27 | Allen & Shariff | $100,000 |
| 28 | Ross & Baruzzini | $69,038 |
| 29 | Glumac | $64,000 |
| 30 | Thornton Tomasetti | $51,523 |
| 31 | CTLGroup | $50,000 |
| 31 | Dunham Associates | $50,000 |
| 33 | Vanderweil Engineers | $42,100 |
| 34 | Newcomb & Boyd | $38,635 |
| 35 | Science Applications International Corp. | $37,724 |
| 36 | Guernsey | $37,718 |
| 37 | Environmental Systems Design | $29,496 |
| 38 | Total Building Commissioning | $21,832 |
| 39 | Karpinski Engineering | $20,052 |
| 40 | Affiliated Engineers | $14,000 |
| 41 | Henderson Engineers | $4,694 |
Top Convention Center Construction Firms
| Rank | Company | 2012 Convention Center Revenue ($) |
| 1 | Turner Corporation, The | $213,030,000 |
| 2 | Clark Group | $117,804,946 |
| 3 | Bernards | $63,000,000 |
| 4 | Hunt Construction Group | $60,000,000 |
| 5 | Tutor Perini Corporation | $34,343,727 |
| 6 | PCL Construction Enterprises | $33,820,141 |
| 7 | Yates Cos., The | $15,000,000 |
| 8 | Weitz Co., The | $11,647,360 |
| 9 | Jones Lang LaSalle | $6,800,000 |
| 10 | Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The | $6,227,257 |
| 11 | W. M. Jordan Co. | $5,962,525 |
| 12 | Brasfield & Gorrie | $4,263,523 |
| 13 | Walsh Group, The | $3,780,756 |
| 14 | Weis Builders | $3,476,000 |
| 15 | Holder Construction | $1,000,000 |
| 16 | Austin Commercial | $595,174 |
| 17 | Messer Construction | $344,553 |
| 18 | Stalco Construction | $200,000 |
| 18 | Walbridge | $200,000 |
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