Giants 400

2021 Airport Sector Giants: Top architecture, engineering, and construction firms in the U.S. airport facilities sector

Oct. 22, 2021
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AECOM, Hensel Phelps, PGAL, and Gensler top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest airport sector architecture, engineering, and construction firms, as reported in the 2021 Giants 400 Report.

  • Top 50 Airport Facility Architecture and AE Firms
  • Top 70 Airport Facility Engineering and EA Firms
  • Top 55 Airport Facility Contractors and CM Firms

Top 50 Airport Facility Architecture and AE Firms
  FIRM 2020 REVENUE
1 PGAL $106,397,000
2 Gensler $79,420,491
3 Corgan $55,219,565
4 HOK $50,537,000
5 ZGF Architects $46,013,866
6 HNTB $44,255,419
7 RS&H $35,800,000
8 Fentress Architects $29,000,000
9 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill $28,089,294
10 Bermello Ajamil & Partners $21,069,104
11 Kohn Pedersen Fox $20,371,577
12 Gresham Smith $20,367,900
13 Stantec $18,488,869
14 HDR $8,000,000
15 Perkins and Will $7,500,000
16 SmithGroup $6,922,195
17 SchenkelShultz Architecture $6,599,539
18 Miller Dunwiddie $6,377,654
19 LEO A DALY $6,173,187
20 Page $5,156,075
21 HKS $4,875,000
22 Populous $4,354,523
23 Clark Nexsen $4,144,000
24 CBRE $4,114,518
25 Solomon Cordwell Buenz $3,116,637
26 KZF Design $2,400,483
27 Huitt-Zollars $2,373,790
28 Moody Nolan $2,012,146
29 Zyscovich $1,745,325
30 LS3P Associates $1,545,756
31 Niles Bolton Associates $1,493,840
32 Larson Design Group $1,417,310
33 Barge Design Solutions $1,406,137
34 NORR $1,084,997
35 Lunz Group, The $625,903
36 Ware Malcomb $528,707
37 DLZ Corp. $500,513
38 CallisonRTKL $425,176
39 TreanorHL $303,094
40 NAC Architecture $269,638
41 Goodwyn Mills Cawood $267,995
42 Emersion Design $223,388
43 Woolpert $203,124
44 BCA Architects & Engineers $200,000
45 McMillan Pazdan Smith $161,569
46 Crawford Architects $154,000
47 JLG Architects $61,320
48 Hafer $46,500
49 CPL $44,643
50 AHL $36,237
51 GRW $32,001
52 Jackson | Main Architecture $21,500
53 SLAM $10,129
54 H2M Architects + Engineers $9,500
55 CESO $4,720
56 Method Architecture $2,059

SOURCE: 2021 Giants 400 Report 

 

 

Top 70 Airport Facility Engineering and EA Firms
  FIRM 2020 REVENUE
1 AECOM $233,700,000
2 Jacobs $164,610,000
3 Burns & McDonnell $98,851,293
4 Arup $72,878,421
5 Stanley Consultants $34,367,173
6 Arora Engineers $33,755,719
7 Walter P Moore $22,374,257
8 NV5 Global $15,584,000
9 Kimley-Horn $15,029,772
10 Syska Hennessy Group $14,802,229
11 Buro Happold $13,525,000
12 Ghafari Associates $13,000,000
13 STV $12,912,034
14 Thornton Tomasetti $11,210,377
15 M.C. Dean $9,382,909
16 EXP $9,092,656
17 CHA Consulting $8,800,000
18 Jensen Hughes $8,530,012
19 PBS Engineers $7,000,000
20 Swanson Rink $6,775,400
21 Langan $6,000,000
22 Magnusson Klemencic Associates $5,146,686
23 Ross & Baruzzini $5,000,000
24 Haskell $4,005,744
25 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates $3,810,000
26 Henderson Engineers $3,512,580
27 CMTA $2,878,932
28 Bala Consulting Engineers $2,700,000
29 I.C. Thomasson Associates $2,634,969
30 KPFF Consulting Engineers $2,632,000
31 CDM Smith $2,621,270
32 Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers $2,305,376
33 GRAEF $1,916,374
34 TLC Engineering Solutions $1,900,000
35 Morrison Hershfield $1,597,629
36 Vanderweil Engineers $1,560,100
37 IMEG Corp. $1,535,785
38 Salas O'Brien $1,490,078
39 WSP USA $1,456,860
40 Newcomb & Boyd $1,139,568
41 Cushing Terrell $1,119,222
42 AKF Group $1,030,000
43 Alfa Tech Consulting Engineers $1,000,000
44 Mazzetti $859,613
45 JQ Engineering $806,586
46 Epstein $705,000
47 Olsson $649,316
48 Osborn Engineering $600,000
49 Architectural Engineers $509,782
50 Kohrs Lonnemann Heil Engineers $492,753
51 ME Engineers $430,000
52 SSOE Group $383,277
53 Karpinski Engineering $225,000
54 JP Harvey Engineering Solutions $213,868
55 Farnsworth Group $210,178
56 Affiliated Engineers Inc. $178,000
57 PS&S $162,485
58 French & Parrello Associates $162,249
59 Halff Associates $161,000
60 TEECOM $154,673
61 Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers $113,087
62 P2S $110,425
63 Wallace Design Collective $100,000
64 Highland Associates $100,000
65 Davis, Bowen & Friedel $77,684
66 VJS Construction Services $76,000
67 HEAPY $60,282
68 Allen + Shariff $46,185
69 Spectrum Engineers $33,469
70 LBYD $33,046
71 Schaefer $15,098
72 Smith Seckman Reid $9,815
73 MHP Structural Engineers $8,475
74 DeSimone Consulting Engineers $5,413
75 Paradigm Structural Engineers $4,356
76 ESD $2,369

SOURCE: 2021 Giants 400 Report 

 

 

Top 55 Airport Facility Contractors and CM Firms
  FIRM 2020 REVENUE
1 Hensel Phelps $1,779,816,066
2 Turner Construction $1,128,919,730
3 Walsh Group, The $701,673,670
4 Holder Construction $624,000,000
5 Clark Group $594,699,239
6 Austin Industries $540,168,889
7 Skanska USA $461,910,863
8 AECOM $339,300,000
9 Swinerton $331,594,439
10 PCL Construction $310,047,738
11 JE Dunn $281,112,784
12 Messer Construction $220,529,230
13 Weitz Company, The $193,418,900
14 Suffolk Construction $185,561,781
15 Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The $164,257,694
16 Haskell $148,053,366
17 M.C. Dean $118,759,777
18 Power Construction $114,000,000
19 VRH Construction $107,200,000
20 McCarthy Holdings $98,918,417
21 Sundt Construction $95,907,800
22 Manhattan Construction Group $88,497,090
23 Morcon Construction $87,000,000
24 Webcor $83,693,014
25 DPR Construction $68,099,000
26 Hoffman Construction $67,444,650
27 New South Construction $65,336,000
28 Jacobs $62,031,000
29 Yates Companies, The $51,876,000
30 Hill International $51,403,254
31 Clune Construction $46,344,330
32 Burns & McDonnell $34,071,229
33 Balfour Beatty US $32,993,218
34 DeAngelis Diamond $29,386,000
35 STV $25,782,079
36 Walbridge $24,983,735
37 Rodgers Builders $24,970,437
38 Gilbane Building Company $23,076,000
39 Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors $21,821,740
40 VJS Construction Services $20,375,000
41 Miron Construction $16,657,493
42 Saunders Construction $14,768,588
43 CBRE $9,429,773
44 Haselden Construction $8,255,216
45 W.E. O'Neil Construction $8,225,920
46 Hoar Construction $7,378,000
47 Kraus-Anderson Construction $5,000,000
48 Bette Companies, The $4,439,681
49 Mortenson $1,767,000
50 Ghafari Associates $1,700,000
51 Nabholz $1,140,605
52 Fortis Construction $1,020,034
53 Cotter Consulting $678,510
54 BlueScope Construction $666,946
55 James McHugh Construction $610,725
56 Boldt Company, The $435,000
57 Joeris General Contractors $151,923
58 Crossland Construction $57,543
59 LeChase Construction Services $52,472
60 McDonough Bolyard Peck $51,884
61 JLG Architects $4,872

SOURCE: 2021 Giants 400 Report 

 

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