The 2020 ENR MidAtlantic Top Design Firms survey indicates that the region’s architects and engineering firms had healthy positions heading into the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on work performed and billed in 2019, the 129 firms represented in this year’s survey reported a combined $6.3 billion in regional revenue—from work in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. That’s a nearly 7% increase from the $5.9 billion recorded by 115 firms on last year’s list.
The $2.4 billion worth of work logged by the top 10 firms on this year’s list, however, was only $100 million more than the revenue posted by last year’s top 10. No. 1 AECOM’s revenue was down 12.5% to $604.65 million, while No. 2 Michael Baker International’s revenue rose 5.5% to $230.80 million. Reporting a 22.3% revenue increase to $224.14 million, third-ranked Stantec swapped places on this year’s survey with Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson Inc., which posted a 3.5% gain, to $219.99 million.