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Global boom for hotels; for retail, not so much

Global boom for hotels; for retail, not so much

The Giants 300 Top 10 Firms in the Hospitality and Retail sectors.


By By BD+C Staff | July 20, 2012
The 230-room InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort, in Qiandaohu Lake
The 230-room InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort, in Qiandaohu Lake, China, designed by WATG for the Wanxiang Group
This article first appeared in the July 2012 issue of BD+C.

High-end hotels in the U.S. have been having a good 2012 and can expect to do even better next year, with average daily room rates expected to be up 5.3% in 2013 compared to 4.7% this year and the 2.8% long-term average, according to PKF Hospitality Research. That bodes well for firms doing hotel design and construction.

On the retail side, the ULI Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate forecasts vacancy rates to begin to turn around this year, down to 12.5% in 2013. Retail rentals should be up 2.0% next year, says the ULI. +

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOP 10 HOSPITALITY SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Hospitality Revenue ($)
1 WATG 54,939,171
2 Gensler 51,750,000
3 HKS 32,336,523
4 HOK 18,287,163
5 Hnedak Bobo Group 14,580,025
6 tvsdesign 14,188,382
7 RTKL Associates 13,970,968
8 BLT Architects 12,200,000
9 BBG-BBGM 12,058,000
10 Perkins Eastman 11,050,000

 

TOP 10 HOSPITALITY SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Hospitality Revenue ($)
1 AECOM Technology  Corp. 296,000,000
2 Parsons Brinckerhoff 17,600,000
3 Rolf Jensen & Associates 9,000,000
4 Arup 8,838,492
5 Jacobs 6,310,000
6 KPFF Consulting Engineers 6,000,000
7 Thornton Tomasetti 5,850,000
8 WSP USA 5,300,000
9 Michael Baker Jr., Inc. 4,340,000
10 Stantec 4,230,000

 

TOP 10 HOSPITALITY SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Hospitality Revenue ($)
1 Tutor Perini Corp. 839,703,000
2 Swinerton 243,415,560
3 Hardin Construction 239,457,598
4 Structure Tone 223,330,000
5 Balfour Beatty US 170,785,709
6 Hunt Construction Group 164,500,000
7 Yates Co., The 137,600,000
8 Weitz Co., The 118,200,000
9 Pepper Construction Group 89,843,000
10 Manhattan Construction Group 84,325,000

 

TOP 10 RETAIL SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Retail Revenue ($)
1 Gensler 84,700,000
2 RTKL Associates 58,957,056
3 MulvannyG2 Architecture 42,033,036
4 WD Partners 35,294,000
5 Perkowitz+Ruth Architects 32,686,910
6 MBH Architects 30,541,000
7 RSP Architects 17,641,000
8 FRCH Design Worldwide 16,630,000
9 LawKingdon Architecture 15,600,000
10 CASCO Diversified Corp. 14,650,000

 

TOP 10 RETAIL SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Retail Revenue ($)
1 AECOM Technology  Corp. 136,000,000
2 Jacobs 60,550,000
3 Stantec 59,220,000
4 Henderson Engineers 47,600,000
5 URS Corp. 23,650,000
6 Parsons Brinckerhoff 21,700,000
7 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates 18,562,000
8 Bergmann Associates 14,200,000
9 Science Applications Int’l Corp. 11,860,000
10 Wallace Engineering 7,210,000

 

TOP 10 RETAIL SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS

Rank Company 2011 Retail Revenue ($)
1 Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The 396,821,222
2 Shawmut Design and Construction 276,700,000
3 PCL Construction Enterprises 188,344,721
4 EMJ Corp. 164,437,662
5 Weitz Co., The 136,700,000
6 Structure Tone 97,500,000
7 O’Neil Industries / W.E. O’Neil 96,620,000
8 Ryan Companies US 92,895,680
9 E.W. Howell 79,395,000
10 KBE Building Corp. 70,365,040

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