Considering the significantly negative impacts—such as delayed and halted projects—that the COVID pandemic inflicted upon the nation's construction industry in 2020, the topic of how firms have fared over the past year has been of primary importance in ENR's reporting.

ENR Southeast's still-ongoing* Top Design Firms survey—one of 11 ENR regional surveys—offers some insight into how architectural and engineering firms working in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico performed during the dramatically challenging year of 2020.

EDITOR's NOTE: * The deadline for ENR Southeast's Top Design Firms survey has passed, but will remain open until April 5. To participate in the survey, please click here at your next opportunity. (To participate in another Regional Top Design Firms survey, click here.)

While it's impossible to make a broad conclusion based solely on the nearly 135 responses to the Southeast Top Design Firms survey that have come in so far, it's fair to report that, in spite of 2020's challenges, many firms achieved some level of revenue growth during the past year, while others came up shy of last year's numbers.

While more than 100 firms have responded to ENR Southeast’s 2021 Top Design Firms survey, we are extending the deadline to March 29. The Southeast Top Design Firms ranking will appear in the April 26th print edition of ENR Southeast. An important note, however, because of space limitations for ENR Southeast’s print edition, it’s possible that some firms listed here may not be included in the print ranking as a result of their revenue totals.

With that, here's our preview of this year's respondents, listed alphabetically.

Adache Group Architects
AECOM
Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
AIM Engineering & Surveying, Inc.
Alfred Benesch & Company
Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.
American Engineering
Arcadis North America
Atkins, Member of the SNC-Lavalin Group
Atwell, LLC
Ayers Saint Gross
Ayres
Barge Design Solutions, Inc.
BCC Engineering, LLC
Beck Architecture
Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc.
Bowman (Bowman Consulting Group Ltd)
BSA LifeStructures
Buchart Horn, Inc.
Building & Earth Sciences, Inc.
Burgess & Niple, Inc.
Burns & McDonnell
CallisonRTKL
Carollo Engineers, Inc.
CHA Consulting, Inc.
CJMW Architecture, P.A.
Clark Nexsen
Colliers Engineering & Design
Collins Engineers, Inc.
Connelly & Wicker Inc.
Cooper Carry
COWI North America, Inc.
CPH, Inc.
Croy Engineering
Davis-Martin-Powell & Associates, Inc.
Dennis Group
DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Dewberry
DLR Group
DRMP, Inc.
EAC Consulting, Inc.
ECS Southeast, LLP
Edmonds Engineering, Inc.
Electrical Consultants, Inc.
Erdman Anthony
ESP Associates, Inc.
EXP
Florida Engineering Group, Inc.
Freese and Nichols, Inc.
GAI Consultants, Inc.
Gannett Fleming
Gensler
Geotechnology, Inc.
GLE Associates Inc.
Goodwyn Mills Cawood
GRAEF
Greeley and Hansen
Hardesty & Hanover
Hargrove Engineers + Constructors
Harvard Jolly, Inc.
Haskell
HDR
HNTB Corporation
HOK
Holt Consulting Company, LLC
Hussey Gay Bell
IMEG Corp.
Infrastructure Consulting & Engineering, PLLC
IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC
JCJ Architecture
Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc.
Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc.
KCI Technologies Inc.
Kimley-Horn
Kisinger Campo & Associates Corp
Kleinfelder
Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
LS3P
McKim & Creed, Inc.
McMillan Pazdan Smith
Merrick & Company
Metric Engineering Inc.
Michael Baker International
Miller Legg
Moseley Architects
Mott MacDonald
Newcomb & Boyd
NOVA Engineering & Environmental, LLC
Patel, Greene & Associates, LLC
Perkins Eastman
Pevida Highway Designers, LLC
PGAL
Pickett and Associates
Pond
Primus Design Services, LLC
Ramey Kemp & Associates,Inc.
RATIO Design
RS&H, Inc.
Rule Joy Trammell Rubio
S&ME
Salas O'Brien
SAM, LLC
Schenkel & Shultz, Inc.
Schnabel Engineering
SfL+a Architects
SMALLWOOD
Smith Seckman Reid, Inc.
Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB)
Stanley Consultants
Stantec
STV
Summit Design and Engineering Services
SWCA Environmental Consultants
Syska Hennessy Group
T2 Utility Engineers
Terracon Consultants, Inc.
TLC Engineering Solutions, Inc.
TranSystems
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
Vanderweil Engineers
Volkert
Walter P Moore
WDG Architecture
Wetherill Engineering, Inc.
WGI, Inc.
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
WithersRavenel, Inc.
WK Dickson & Co., Inc.
Woodard & Curran
Woolpert Inc.
WSP USA
Zachry Group
Zyscovich Inc.

Editor's Note: The above list was updated with the latest survey respondents on April 5.