As promised, we're continuing to provide some additional previews of some of the numerous rankings we're going to be publishing in our upcoming Top Design issue. We've already posted a preview of the main ranking, which is based on design billings generated during 2008 from the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. We also just posted a look at the top 25 firms in the state of Florida.

This breakout ranking of the top Georgia firms is based upon the amount of design revenue each firm generated during the 2008 calendar year from projects located within the state of Georgia. CH2M Hill took the top spot on this Georgia breakout, and also was No. 1 in the overall ranking. (CH2M Hill knocked out PBS&J from the overall top spot for the first time.)

Together, the top 25 design firms listed here reported more than $908 million in 2008 design billings from the state of Georgia. All figures are in millions.

1 CH2M HILL                                             261.57
2 AECOM Technology Corp.                         67.46
3 MACTEC                                                  65.89
4 Jordan, Jones and Goulding                       64.19
5 PBS&J                                                     62.00
6 ARCADIS                                                 50.34
7 Gresham, Smith and Partners                    33.81
8 Heery International                                    29.40
9 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates  28.89
10 HNTB                                                     26.85
11 HKS Architects                                       21.80
12 Kimley-Horn and Associates                    21.73
13 Perkins+Will                                           20.33
14 Lord, Aeck & Sargent                              17.15
15 Cooper Carry                                          16.07
16 Facility Group Inc.                                   15.00
17 QORE                                                    14.97
18 Parsons Brinckerhoff                                13.70
19 Stevens & Wilkinson                                13.04
20 Niles Bolton Associates                            12.91
21 HOK                                                        12.15
22 tvsdesign                                                 11.39
23 Rosser International                                  10.12
24 Wakefield Beasley & Associates                 9.00
25 The LPA Group                                          8.90

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