CULTURAL SECTOR GIANTS: A ranking of the nation's top cultural sector design and construction firms

TOP 40 CULTURAL SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	Gensler	$85,750,000
2	Perkins+Will	$17,560,000
3	VOA Associates	$16,121,396
4	Morris Architects	$14,468,000
5	Westlake Reed Leskosky	$13,183,448
6	SmithGroupJJR	$10,842,000
7	HGA	$9,720,000
8	Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners	$8,739,399
9	HOK	$7,982,000
10	Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture	$7,734,620
11	Heery International	$7,321,231
12	Diamond Schmitt Architects	$6,057,000
13	HKS	$5,338,274
14	BRPH	$4,917,261
15	ZGF Architects	$4,561,694
16	Cambridge Seven Associates	$4,542,000
17	Beck Group, The	$4,508,765
18	TK Architects International	$4,422,291
19	Mithun	$4,069,000
20	EwingCole	$3,942,000
21	Grimm + Parker Architects	$3,756,248
22	Stantec	$3,697,399
23	GBBN Architects	$3,480,000
24	Parkhill, Smith & Cooper	$3,183,204
25	GWWO	$2,585,811
26	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill	$2,464,695
27	LMN Architects	$2,442,000
28	Dattner Architects	$2,146,035
29	NBBJ	$2,000,000
30	Perkins Eastman	$1,950,000
31	Davis Brody Bond	$1,763,336
32	Rosser International	$1,720,245
33	CallisonRTKL	$1,428,000
34	Robert A.M. Stern Architects	$1,060,000
35	Studios Architecture	$922,964
36	Bostwick Design Partnership	$780,000
37	Leo A Daly	$725,626
38	Cuningham Group Architecture	$722,045
39	Lord Aeck Sargent	$693,231
40	LS3P	$663,572
41	GFF	$605,970
42	Baskervill	$559,658
43	tvsdesign	$550,000
44	Carrier Johnson + Culture	$547,358
45	Bergmann Associates	$513,765
46	Clark Nexsen	$500,000

TOP 60 CULTURAL SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	PCL Construction Enterprises	$312,903,970
2	Turner Construction Co.	$293,092,149
3	Clark Group	$242,175,518
4	Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The	$227,642,582
5	Layton Construction Co.	$139,900,000
6	Gilbane Building Co.	$118,141,000
7	Structure Tone	$115,810,000
8	Webcor Builders	$112,988,671
9	Yates Companies, The	$95,000,000
10	McCarthy Holdings	$84,411,236
11	Skanska USA	$71,648,842
12	C.W. Driver Companies	$60,001,544
13	Linbeck Group	$56,000,000
14	VCC	$53,795,632
15	Hill International	$47,000,000
16	Shawmut Design and Construction	$45,000,000
17	Graycor	$44,150,084
18	Hoar Construction	$38,081,000
19	W.E. O’Neil Construction Co.	$37,051,850
20	Pepper Construction Group	$31,520,000
21	Bernards	$31,500,000
22	Hunter Roberts Construction Group	$26,837,221
23	Alberici-Flintco	$26,250,018
24	JE Dunn Construction	$22,662,081
25	Leopardo Companies	$20,685,504
26	S. M. Wilson & Co.	$19,482,196
27	AECOM	$17,860,000
28	Core Construction Group	$17,617,229
29	Consigli Building Group	$16,847,665
30	Messer Construction Co.	$16,800,000
31	Rodgers Builders	$16,341,000
32	McGough Construction	$14,000,000
33	Manhattan Construction Group	$13,297,000
34	LeChase Construction	$12,500,000
35	W.M. Jordan Company	$11,848,713
36	Bomel Construction Co.	$11,500,000
37	Suffolk Construction Co.	$10,710,701
38	New South Construction Co.	$10,608,000
39	Gray Construction	$9,118,930
40	Branch & Associates	$7,715,816
41	Cumming	$7,702,500
42	Austin Industries	$7,700,682
43	James McHugh Construction Co.	$7,498,218
44	Bette Companies, The	$7,270,429
45	Coakley & Williams Construction	$6,511,300
46	Walsh Group, The	$6,492,444
47	Batson-Cook Co.	$6,296,880
48	KBE Building Corp.	$6,278,172
49	Hoffman Construction	$6,211,181
50	BL Harbert International	$3,756,709
51	JLL	$3,134,139
52	Balfour Beatty US	$3,050,704
53	Paric Corporation	$3,000,000
54	Jordan Foster Construction	$3,000,000
55	Beck Group, The	$2,791,670
56	Level 10 Construction	$2,667,495
57	Zak Companies	$2,634,730
58	DPR Construction	$1,902,000
59	LPCiminelli	$1,692,000
60	Jacobs	$1,670,000
61	Stalco Construction	$1,500,000
62	WSP \| Parsons Brinckerhoff	$1,347,000
63	Fortis Construction	$1,271,926
64	Hagerman Group, The	$1,000,000
65	Choate Construction Co.	$960,624

TOP 20 CULTURAL SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank	Firm	2015 Revenue
1	AECOM	$25,000,000
2	WSP \| Parsons Brinckerhoff	$19,854,000
3	Arup	$15,947,139
4	Jacobs	$9,420,000
5	KJWW / TTG	$8,757,610
6	Thornton Tomasetti	$6,336,313
7	Magnusson Klemencic Associates	$4,268,713
8	Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber	$3,900,000
9	Simpson Gumpertz & Heger	$3,544,000
10	Heapy Engineering	$3,484,461
11	Dewberry	$3,281,400
12	Jensen Hughes	$2,463,592
13	Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates	$2,330,000
14	Glumac	$1,924,803
15	DeSimone Consulting Engineers	$1,693,936
16	Affiliated Engineers	$1,543,000
17	Cardno Haynes Whaley	$1,345,292
18	TLC Engineering for Architecture	$1,316,458
19	dbHMS	$1,152,000
20	Syska Hennessy Group	$1,004,943
21	Henderson Engineers	$1,002,177
22	ME Engineers	$860,000
23	Hankins and Anderson	$828,945
24	Wallace Engineering	$700,000
25	Interface Engineering	$620,393
26	Loring Consulting Engineers	$600,000
27	JBA Consulting Engineers	$508,728

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