Giants 300 Index and Methodology

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BD+C's annual Giants 300 list consists of U.S. firms that designed or constructed the largest volume of commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily residential buildings in 2008. Each spring, the editors survey the country's largest firms, ranking the top 300 across six categories: architects, architect/engineers, engineers, engineer/architects, contractors, and construction managers. Design firms are ranked on billings for work performed in-house. Contractors and construction managers are ranked on the value of construction put in place. For multi-year projects, only work from the survey year applies.

Please note: Civil engineering work (including roads and bridges), single-family homes, and certain building types (e.g., power plants, oil drilling rigs) are not included in BD+C's Giants 300 financial data.

AECOM Technology Corp.	EA 2
Affiliated Engineers	E 4
Alberici Corp.	C 72
Albert Kahn Associates	AE 30
Allen & Shariff Corp.	E 51
Anshen+Allen	A 17
Arquitectonica	A 12
Arup	EA 3
Austin Industries	C 31
B.L. Harbert International	C 59
Baker and Associates	EA 25
Bala Consulting Engineers	E 47
Balfour Beatty Construction	C 16
Ballinger	AE 40
Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon	EA 31
Barton Malow Co.	C 34, CM 8
Baskervill	AE 51
Batson-Cook Co.	C 65
BBG-BBGM	A 25
Beck Group	C 32
BEI Associates	EA 38
Benham Companies	EA 15
Bergmann Associates, Architects	EA 34
Engineers Planners Bernards	C 66
Birdsall Services Group	E 27
BLT Architects	A 27
Boldt Company, The	C 48
Bovis Lend Lease	C 2, CM 4
Brasfield & Gorrie	C 18
Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers	E 39
Brinjac Engineer	E 44
BRPH Companies	EA 26
BSA LifeStructures	AE 24
Burns & McDonnell	EA 19
Burt Hill	AE 6
C. H. Guernsey & Co.	EA 39
C.W. Driver	C 55
Callison	A 3
Cambridge Seven Associates	A 51
Cannon Design	AE 8
Carrier Johnson + Culture	A 49
CASCO Diversified Corp.	AE 48
CB Engineers	E 46
CG Schmidt	CM 15
CH2M HILL	EA 5
Choate Construction Co.	C 47
CJL Engineering	EA 40
Clancy & Theys Construction Co.	C 56
Clark Group	C 5
Clark Nexsen	EA 22
Clark, Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers	E 12
Clayco	C 42
Coakley & Williams Construction	C 78
Coffman Engineers	E 28
Cogdell Spencer Erdman	C 76
Consigli Construction	C 75
Cooper Carry	A 21
CORE Construction Group	C 60
Corgan Associates	A 16
CTA Architects Engineers	AE 35
Cubellis	AE 29
Cuningham Group Architecture	A 46
Davis, Bowen & Friedel	EA 37
Day & Zimmermann International	EA 12
Degenkolb Engineers	E 23
Dewberry	EA 6
DLR Group	AE 12
DPR Construction	C 20
Dunham Associates	E 41
Durrant Group, The	AE 39
E.W. Howell Co.	C 80
Ellerbe Becket	AE 10
EMJ Corp.	C 39
Environmental Systems Design	E 17
Epstein	AE 44
EwingCole	AE 19
EYP Architecture & Engineering	AE 26
Facility Group	EA 33
Fanning/Howey Associates	AE 34
Fentress Architects	A 33
FKP Architects	A 32
Flad Architects	AE 22
Fletcher-Thompson	AE 47
Flintco Cos., The	C 23
Fluor Corp.	C 29, E 2
FRCH Design Worldwide	A 28
FreemanWhite	AE 43
FXFOWLE Architects	A 20
Gensler	A 1
GHT Limited	E 35
Gilbane Building Co.	C 9, CM 6
Glumac	E 20
Goodwyn Mills and Cawood	A 41
Gould Evans Associates	A 50
GRAEF	EA 32
Granary Associates	CM 12
Gray Construction	C 61
Graycor	C 51
GreenbergFarrow	AE 42
Gresham, Smith and Partners	AE 15
GRW	EA 44
H&M Company	C 71
H.F. Lenz Co.	E 32
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson	AE 14
Harley Ellis Devereaux	AE 28
Harvard Jolly	A 47
Haskell Co., The	C 52
HBE Corp.	C 70
HDR Architecture	AE 3
Heapy Engineering	E 33
Heery International	AE 21, C 41, CM 14
Henderson Engineers	E 7
Henneman Engineering	E 34
Hensel Phelps Construction	C 8
Hill International	CM 3
HITT Contracting	C 33
Hixson Architecture, Engineering, Interiors	EA 35
HKS	AE 4
HLW International	AE 40
HMC Architects	A 11
HNTB	AE 13
Hoar Construction	C 53
Hoffman Construction	C 30
HOK	AE 1
Holder Construction Co.	C 26
Hunt Building Co.	C 37
Hunt Construction Group	C 15
Ingenium Group	EA 13
Interface Engineering	E 26
Jacobs	C 4, CM 1, EA 1
James G. Davis Construction	C 50
James McHugh Construction	C 45
James Posey Associates	E 45
JE Dunn Construction Group	C 13
Jerde Partnership, The	A 35
John A. Martin & Associates	E 11
Joseph R. Loring & Associates	E 37
KBE Building Corp. (formerly Konover Construction)	C 79
KCI Technologies	E 24
Kirksey	A 52
Kitchell Contractors	C 58
KJWW Engineering Consultants	E 8
KKE Architects	A 30
KLH Engineers	E 50
KlingStubbins	AE 16
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates	A 4
KPFF Consulting Engineers	E 3
Kraus-Anderson Construction	C 44, CM 18
KTA Group	E 43
L. Robert Kimball & Associates	EA 18
L.F. Driscoll Co.	CM 9
Lease Crutcher Lewis	C 62
Leo A Daly	AE 9
Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers	E 38
Linbeck	CM 10
Little	AE 23
LPA	AE 33
M/E Engineering	E 30
M+W Zander	EA 23
Magnusson Klemencic Associates	E 19
Manhattan Construction	C 24
Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch	E 21
MBH Architects	A 40
McCarthy Holdings	C 10
McGough Construction	C 68
McShane Construction	C 28
M-E Engineers	E 15
Merrick & Co.	EA 21
Messer Construction	C 49
Middough	EA 27
Miron Construction	C 69
Mithun	A 45
Morris Architects	A 37
Mortenson Construction	C 12, CM 20
Moseley Architects	AE 37
MulvannyG2 Architecture	A 13
NAC Architecture	A 34
Nadel Architects	A 42
NBBJ	A 5
Nelson	AE 18
Newcomb & Boyd	E 31
Niles Bolton Associates	A 44
NTD Architecture	A 15
O'Neil Industries	C 54
Oltmans Consturction	C 77
OWP/P	AE 27
OZ Architecture	A 18
PageSoutherlandPage	AE 11
Paric Corp.	C 73
Parsons Brinckerhoff	CM 5, EA 4
Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor	EA 24
PBK	AE 25
PBS&J	EA 29
PCL Construction Enterprises	C 6
Pepper Construction Group	C 27
Perkins Eastman	A 8
Perkins+Will	A 2
Perkowitz+Ruth Architects	A 19
Peter Basso Associates	E 42
PGAL	AE 32
Polshek Partnership Architects	A 43
Power Construction Company	CM 16
Power Engineers	EA 41
R.G. Vanderweil Engineers	E 9
RBB Architects	A 38
RDK Engineers	E 22
Reynolds, Smith and Hills	AE 17
RMH Group, The	E 49
RMJM	A 6
RNL Design	AE 52
Robins & Morton	C 38
Rolf Jensen & Associates	E 16
Ross & Baruzzini	EA 36
Rosser International	AE 49
RSP Architects	A 26
RTKL Associates	AE 5
Rutherford & Chekene	E 36
Ryan Companies US	C 40
S. M. Wilson & Co.	C 64
S/L/A/M Collaborative, The	AE 31
Sasaki Associates	AE 20
SBLM Architecture PC	AE 45
SchenkelShultz	A 29
Schirmer Engineering Corp.	E 14
Shawmut Design and Construction	C 35
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott	A 23
Shive-Hattery	EA 28
SHW Group	A 36
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger	EA 16
Skanska USA Building	C 3
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill	AE 2
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates	A 22
Smith Seckman Reid	E 5
SmithGroup	AE 7
Solomon Cordwell Buenz	A 48
Sparling	E 29
Spectrum Engineers	EA 42
SSOE	EA 11
Stanley Consultants	EA 30
Stantec	EA 7
Stellar	C 63
Structure Tone	C 11
STV Group	CM 11, EA 9
Suffolk Construction	C 21
Sundt Construction	C 43
Swinerton Inc.	C 19, CM 7
Syska Hennessy Group	E 1
Taylor	AE 50
Teng & Associates	EA 20
Thornton Tomasetti	EA 10
Tishman Construction	CM 2
TLC Engineering for Architecture	E 10
TMAD Taylor & Gaines	E 13
TRO Jung/Brannen	AE 38
Turner	C 1, CM 17
tvsdesign	A 10
URS Corp.	CM 19, EA 8
Vintage Archonics	EA 45
VOA Associates	A 14
W. M. Jordan Co.	C 67
Walbridge	C 36, CM 13
Walker Parking Consultants	EA 17
Wallace Engineering	E 40
Walsh Group, The	C 17
Walter P Moore	E 6
Walton Construction	C 46
Ware Malcomb	A 24
WATG	A 7
WD Partners	AE 36
Webcor Builders	C 14
Weidlinger Associates	E 18
Weis Builders	C 74
Weitz Co., The	C 22
Westlake Reed Leskosky	AE 46
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The	C 7
WHR Architects	A 39
Wick Fisher White Engineers	E 48
William A. Berry & Son	C 57
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates	EA 14
WWCOT	A 31
X-nth	E 25
Yates Cos., The	C 25
Zak Cos.	EA 43
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects	A 9

The new elements of the facility now include: efficient lighting with day-lighting controls and occupancy sensors, a high-efficiency HVAC system used in conjunction with a newly constructed thermal envelope to help reduce energy consumption, and the installation of low-flow fixtures to reduce water consumption.