We’re nothing if not creatures of habit and routine. Just as I know that every September begins the judging process for that year’s Best Of awards, February and early March mean gathering data for our annual Top Contractors rankings.
It’s not as difficult as it sounds: we simply leave it to you guys to get us as much information to us as you can. We begin sending out the surveys in the early part of the year, setting a deadline for the last week, or so, of February. The surveys ask each firm to break down the amount of revenue they brought in the previous year in a number of different regional and discipline-oriented categories. Once we get the surveys in, we compile the data and we rank the firms in descending order based on the amount of revenue in each category.