As construction throughout the Midwest Region continues to recover, which firms are responsible for drawing up the plans our contractor friends are champing the bit to dig into?

Every year, we here at ENR Midwest are honored to compile and share data from the region’s leading design firms, based on their activity in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Our Top Design Firms list will be published in the next print issue of ENR Midwest in May … and, if initial survey results are an indication, many of the firms that sat atop lists in 2015 and 2014 are again leading the charge.

That doesn’t mean this year’s rankings will be a carbon copy, however. We anticipate a shuffling of the deck that will mean movement upward for some firms, including a few breaking into the Top 10. Stay tuned!

For now, we’re posting an alphabetical list of 40 firms that appear destined to be included in the upper echelons of this year’s ENR Midwest Top Design Firms ranking:

  • AECOM
  • Alfred Benesch & Company
  • Ambitech Engineering Corp.
  • American Structurepoint, Inc.
  • Arcadis North America
  • Ayres Associates Inc.
  • Burns & McDonnell
  • Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc.
  • DLZ Corporation
  • ESD (Environmental Systems Design, Inc.)
  • Farnsworth Group, Inc.
  • Gensler
  • Ghafari Associates, Inc.
  • GPD Group
  • GRAEF
  • Hanson Professional Services Inc.
  • Harley Ellis Devereaux
  • HDR
  • HKS, Inc.
  • HNTB Corporation
  • HOK
  • IMEG / KJWW / TTG
  • Kapur & Associates, Inc.
  • Lochmueller Group, Inc.
  • Mead & Hunt, Inc.
  • Middough Inc.
  • MWH Global, Inc.
  • OHM Advisors
  • Patrick Engineering Inc.
  • Primera Engineers, Ltd.
  • SmithGroupJJR
  • Stantec
  • Strand Associates, Inc.
  • Terracon Consultants, Inc.
  • V3 Companies Ltd.
  • VOA Associates Inc.
  • Westlake Reed Leskosky
  • Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
  • Woolpert Inc.
  • WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff