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Ranked: Top convention center AEC firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Ranked: Top convention center AEC firms [2014 Giants 300 Report]

Gensler, AECOM, and Hunt Construction top BD+C's rankings of the nation's largest convention center design and construction firms.


By BD+C Staff | August 21, 2014
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Top Convention Center Architecture Firms

Rank Company 2013 Convention Center Revenue
1 Gensler $10,593,000
2 Populous $8,803,000
3 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill $6,495,077
4 Epstein $4,608,000
5 LMN Architects $3,251,000
6 Cuningham Group Architecture $3,083,802
7 WATG | Wimberly Interiors $2,251,000
8 Fentress Architects $1,450,988
9 HKS $1,258,297
10 FXFOWLE Architects $1,180,000
11 Becker Morgan Group $1,171,329
12 Stantec $1,004,453
13 Moody Nolan $722,616
14 Leo A Daly $664,176
15 ZGF Architects $517,578
16 HMC Architects $422,141
17 Rosser International $327,536
18 RTKL Associates $271,000
19 WHR Architects $261,672
20 Perkins+will $191,650
21 Goodwyn Mills & Cawood $181,239
22 HNTB Corp. $122,424
23 GWWO $105,500
24 HOK $82,982
25 Albert Kahn Associates $63,043
26 Baskervill $60,768
27 LS3P $46,315
28 Integrus Architecture $35,113
29 Ratio Architects $28,937
30 Nadel $20,000
31 NAC|Architecture $2,170

 

 

 

 

Top Convention Center Engineering Firms

Rank Company 2013 Convention Center Revenue
1 AECOM Technology Corp. $61,310,000
2 URS Corp. $9,549,324
3 Magnusson Klemencic Associates $3,172,421
4 Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates $2,440,000
5 TLC Engineering for Architecture $1,812,960
6 Arup $1,344,125
7 Environmental Systems Design $1,135,066
8 M-E Engineers $1,000,000
9 Syska Hennessy Group $882,691
10 WSP Group $830,000
11 Dewberry $781,494
12 KPFF Consulting Engineers $750,000
13 Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corp. $500,000
14 Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor $450,000
15 Smith Seckman Reid $419,529
16 Ross & Baruzzini $387,684
17 Joseph R. Loring & Associates $300,000
18 Interface Engineering $297,000
19 Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers $288,330
20 RMF Engineering $250,000
21 I. C. Thomasson Associates $250,000
22 Coffman Engineers $248,623
23 Vanderweil Engineers $225,300
24 Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon $220,000
25 Affiliated Engineers $219,000
26 Thornton Tomasetti $167,500
27 TTG $152,030
28 Karpinski Engineering $132,175
29 Martin/Martin $100,345
30 Allen & Shariff $100,000
31 Sparling $99,449
32 Wick Fisher White $74,425
33 Davis, Bowen & Friedel $72,612
34 Newcomb & Boyd $63,905
35 Walter P Moore and Associates $52,178
36 Dunham Associates $50,000
37 CJL Engineering $24,500
38 Spectrum Engineers $7,365
39 Henderson Engineers $2,620

 

 

 

Top Convention Center Construction Firms

Rank Company 2013 Convention Center Revenue
1 Hunt Construction Group $75,000,000
2 PCL Construction $62,873,889
3 Turner Construction $62,463,000
4 Bernards $47,000,000
5 Clark Group $39,614,785
6 Messer Construction $24,643,532
7 Yates Companies, The $23,000,000
8 Hill International $6,000,000
9 Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The $1,768,012
10 W. M. Jordan Company $1,572,036
11 Tutor Perini Corp. $326,495
12 Allen & Shariff $100,000

 

Read BD+C's full 2014 Giants 300 Report 

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