The top 10 firms in the ENR MidAtlantic Top Contractor rankings nearly surpassed pre-recession levels in 2015, raising a combined $10.33 billion, up from $9.9 billion in 2014 and $9 billion in 2013. In 2008, the top 10 contractors collected a total of $10.7 billion.
Jumping to 59 on ENR’s national Top 400 Contractors list this year, up from 63 the previous year, Shawmut saw its revenue rise 22.6 percent in 2015 to $1.2 billion.
When a retaining wall collapsed on CSX railroad tracks in Baltimore on April 30, 2014, city officials quickly called on engineering firm Whitman Requardt and Associates for help.
Just as the Broadway hit “Hamilton” packs the epic biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton into a three-hour rap opera, the $120-million Museum of the American Revolution under construction in Philadelphia ambitiously jams the eight-year war into a tight urban site.
Hord Coplan Macht Inc. recently completed the $65-million Engineering, Aviation, Computer and Mathematical Science Building at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Lane says the latest AIA Architecture Billings Index shows the South region, which includes Baltimore, is in the lead nationally with increasing demand for design activity.