Southeast Top Design Firms by Market Sector 2013

May 6, 2013

The Top Design Firms list, published annually, ranks the largest U.S.-based designs firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue.

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Georgia
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 ARCADIS U.S. 50.15
2 Atkins  34.44
3 AECOM  29.25
4 Geosyntec Consultants  22.93
5 Perkins+Will 22.81
6 Hargrove Engineers + Constructors 17.52
7 HNTB Corp.  17.36
8 Gensler 16.13
9 Gresham, Smith and Partners 14.24
10 Cooper Carry Inc.  14.17
11 Pond & Co. Inc. 13.70
12 Merrick & Co. 13.02
13 MWH Global 11.81
14 CDH Partners Inc. 11.57
15 Morrison Hershfield 11.56
16 Terracon Consultants Inc. 11.47
17 Parsons Brinckerhoff  10.58
18 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 9.99
19 Stantec 9.68
20 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 9.66
South Carolina
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 O'Neal Inc. 19.60
2 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 18.17
3 AECOM  14.97
4 Terracon Consultants Inc. 12.28
5 Gresham, Smith and Partners 9.13
6 BRPH 5.70
7 Atkins 5.32
8 ARCADIS U.S. 5.28
9 Stevens & Wilkinson 5.21
10 KCI Technologies Inc. 5.10
11 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 4.80
12 Woolpert Inc.  4.77
13 Stantec 4.47
14 GEL Engineering LLC  4.35
15 STV 3.59
16 ESP Associates P.A.  3.14
17 Parsons Brinckerhoff  2.63
18 Collins Engineers Inc. 2.59
19 Pond & Co. Inc. 2.49
20 Cooper Carry Inc.  2.48
Florida
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 AECOM 151.42
2 Atkins 138.63
3 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 100.20
4 Zachry Holdings Inc. 97.99
5 HNTB Corp.  89.81
6 Parsons Brinckerhoff 71.84
7 ARCADIS U.S. 59.25
8 Stantec 31.39
9 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 27.49
10 DRMP Inc. 26.92
11 CPH Inc. 26.33
12 Kisinger Campo & Associates Corp.  26.19
13 Gresham, Smith and Partners 26.08
14 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc.  25.75
15 Terracon Consultants Inc. 24.36
16 exp 22.58
17 Geosyntec Consultants 18.40
18 BRPH 16.94
19 Schenkel & Shultz Inc.  16.14
20 Gannett Fleming Inc. 15.79
North Carolina
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 ARCADIS U.S. 40.58
2 McKim & Creed Inc. 30.08
3 AECOM 28.06
4 STV 22.47
5 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 20.47
6 HNTB Corp. 17.75
7 Dewberry 16.06
8 Little 15.47
9 Atkins 14.13
10 Terracon Consultants Inc. 13.25
11 Stantec 12.95
12 Stewart 12.71
13 Parsons Brinckerhoff 11.85
14 ESP Associates P.A. 11.68
15 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 11.38
16 Perkins+Will 10.25
17 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 9.80
18 Woolpert Inc. 8.63
19 KCI Technologies Inc. 8.05
20 Gensler 8.01
Environmental & Geotechnical
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Geosyntec Consultants 39.70
2 Terracon Consultants Inc. 34.99
3 AECOM 31.31
4 Atkins 14.88
5 Woolpert Inc. 12.87
6 Stantec 11.09
7 Parsons Brinckerhoff 9.69
8 MWH Global 9.55
9 GLE Associates Inc. 5.78
10 GEL Engineering LLC 5.70
11 KCI Technologies Inc. 4.83
12 Gannett Fleming Inc. 4.25
13 ESP Associates P.A. 2.32
14 Stewart 2.18
15 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 1.51
16 STV 1.21
17 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 1.08
18 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 0.56
19 Cherokee Enterprises Inc. 0.50
20 Dewberry 0.15
21 Gresham, Smith and Partners 0.09
22 Chen Moore and Associates 0.08
23 Hatch Mott MacDonald 0.08
24 Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood Inc. 0.05
25 Ayres Associates 0.01
Green Design
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 15.46
2 Perkins+Will 13.21
3 Little 12.82
4 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 11.45
5 HuntonBrady Architects 9.00
6 VOA Associates Incorporated 8.46
7 BRPH 7.19
8 Cooper Carry Inc. 6.63
9 Syska Hennessy Group 5.84
10 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 5.09
11 Zyscovich Architects 4.90
12 Schenkel & Shultz Inc. 3.85
13 HNTB Corp. 3.83
14 Stevens & Wilkinson 3.56
15 Burns & McDonnell 3.50
16 Gresham, Smith and Partners 3.48
17 Stewart 3.40
18 Merrick & Co. 2.95
19 ACAI Associates Inc. 2.66
20 The Beck Group 2.40
Manufacturing
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Gresham, Smith and Partners 7.25
2 O'Neal Inc. 4.50
3 GEL Engineering LLC 2.10
4 Terracon Consultants Inc. 1.40
5 Burns & McDonnell 0.94
6 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 0.75
7 Geosyntec Consultants 0.69
8 McKim & Creed Inc. 0.47
9 ESP Associates P.A. 0.19
10 Stantec 0.19
11 Collins Engineers Inc. 0.14
12 Schenkel & Shultz Inc. 0.04
Education/Research
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Perkins+Will 17.11
2 Schenkel & Shultz Inc. 10.89
3 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 8.72
4 Stevens & Wilkinson 7.22
5 SfL+a Architects 6.20
6 Cooper Carry Inc. 5.08
7 Terracon Consultants Inc. 4.96
8 BRPH 4.91
9 Zyscovich Architects 4.06
10 ACAI Associates Inc. 3.88
11 Stewart 3.81
12 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 3.55
13 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 3.09
14 Moseley Architects 2.85
15 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 2.69
16 GALLO HERBERT ARCHITECTS 2.17
17 Niles Bolton Associates 2.07
18 HuntonBrady Architects 1.79
19 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 1.59
20 The Beck Group 1.59
Interior Design
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Gensler 19.99
2 Keith and Schnars P.A. 8.50
3 Perkins+Will 3.96
4 Cooper Carry Inc. 3.84
5 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 3.74
6 Little 3.73
7 Gresham, Smith and Partners 3.55
8 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 2.40
9 Stevens & Wilkinson 2.21
10 CDH Partners Inc. 1.55
11 Wakefield Beasley & Associates Architects 1.49
12 VOA Associates Incorporated 1.48
13 CJMW Architecture 1.36
14 Adache Group Architects 1.10
15 Perkins Eastman 1.09
16 HuntonBrady Architects 0.99
17 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 0.70
18 Merrick & Co. 0.70
19 Niles Bolton Associates 0.60
20 api(+) 0.56
Power
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Zachry Holdings Inc. 103.44
2 McKim & Creed Inc. 6.51
3 Burns & McDonnell 4.51
4 Stantec 4.17
5 Geosyntec Consultants 3.95
6 Atkins 1.36
7 GEL Engineering LLC 1.15
8 KCI Technologies Inc. 1.14
9 Terracon Consultants Inc. 1.13
10 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 1.08
11 O'Neal Inc. 1.00
12 MWH Global 0.99
13 ESP Associates P.A. 0.74
14 Hargrove Engineers + Constructors 0.50
15 exp 0.49
16 Syska Hennessy Group 0.35
17 Dewberry 0.22
18 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 0.08
19 Ramey Kemp & Associates Inc. 0.05
20 Collins Engineers Inc. 0.04
Telecommunications
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Morrison Hershfield 15.76
2 exp 7.69
3 KCI Technologies Inc. 5.76
4 Syska Hennessy Group 5.10
5 Atkins 1.79
6 Gensler 1.15
7 Terracon Consultants Inc. 0.62
8 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 0.46
9 Thornton Tomasetti 0.05
Structural Engineering
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Parsons Brinckerhoff 29.07
2 Zachry Holdings Inc. 28.21
3 STV 19.36
4 Ayres Associates 4.61
5 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 4.60
6 Morrison Hershfield 4.56
7 H.W. Lochner Inc 4.20
8 Stewart 3.89
9 Collins Engineers Inc. 3.88
10 O'Neal Inc. 3.80
11 Woolpert Inc. 3.69
12 Stantec 3.11
13 DRMP Inc. 3.02
14 Thornton Tomasetti 2.98
15 KCI Technologies Inc. 2.40
16 MWH Global 2.39
17 Gresham, Smith and Partners 2.07
18 Wetherill Engineering Inc 1.81
19 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 1.79
20 BRPH 1.78
Surveying & Mapping
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 McKim & Creed Inc. 26.47
2 ESP Associates P.A. 7.46
3 DRMP Inc. 6.24
4 Stantec 5.78
5 Woolpert Inc. 5.57
6 Dewberry 3.96
7 CPH Inc. 2.63
8 Atkins 2.15
9 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 2.08
10 Keith and Schnars P.A. 2.00
11 Stewart 1.46
12 MWH Global 1.19
13 KCI Technologies Inc. 0.77
14 GEL Engineering LLC 0.75
15 Merrick & Co. 0.70
16 exp 0.48
17 BRPH 0.46
18 Hatch Mott MacDonald 0.30
19 Weston & Sampson 0.30
20 Gresham, Smith and Partners 0.30
Transportation
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Atkins 147.25
2 HNTB Corp. 119.62
3 Parsons Brinckerhoff 90.65
4 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 79.30
5 AECOM 74.66
6 STV 39.17
7 ARCADIS U.S. 35.17
8 Kisinger Campo & Associates Corp. 32.49
9 Stantec 24.26
10 DRMP Inc. 17.84
11 Terracon Consultants Inc. 16.82
12 H.W. Lochner Inc 16.79
13 KCI Technologies Inc. 15.20
14 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 13.50
15 Gresham, Smith and Partners 11.85
16 Hatch Mott MacDonald 11.60
17 Gannett Fleming Inc. 11.30
18 Keith and Schnars P.A. 10.00
19 McKim & Creed Inc. 8.92
20 Ayres Associates 6.88
Architecture
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Perkins+Will 36.52
2 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 36.33
3 Gresham, Smith and Partners 26.28
4 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 18.60
5 BRPH 18.35
6 Schenkel & Shultz Inc. 17.42
7 Cooper Carry Inc. 15.35
8 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 13.35
9 HuntonBrady Architects 12.70
10 Little 11.70
11 Niles Bolton Associates 11.00
12 Zyscovich Architects 9.63
13 Gensler 9.32
14 AECOM 9.27
15 CDH Partners Inc. 8.67
16 VOA Associates Incorporated 7.30
17 SfL+a Architects 7.25
18 ACAI Associates Inc. 6.94
19 Lawson Group Architects Inc. 6.73
20 Stevens & Wilkinson 6.59
General Building
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Perkins+Will 43.56
2 Terracon Consultants Inc. 31.46
3 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 30.90
4 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 28.55
5 Gensler 27.88
6 Gresham, Smith and Partners 26.91
7 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 26.86
8 BRPH 20.05
9 Little 19.73
10 AECOM 19.21
11 Pond & Co. Inc. 16.99
12 Cooper Carry Inc. 16.63
13 Atkins 15.12
14 Stantec 14.95
15 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 14.49
16 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 14.05
17 Stevens & Wilkinson 13.90
18 HuntonBrady Architects 13.69
19 Schenkel & Shultz Inc. 13.15
20 Merrick & Co. 13.02
Civil Engineering
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Atkins 162.36
2 HNTB Corp. 121.53
3 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 80.80
4 AECOM 74.14
5 Stantec 25.39
6 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 23.48
7 Parsons Brinckerhoff 19.38
8 STV 19.36
9 Zachry Holdings Inc. 18.80
10 CPH Inc. 18.56
11 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 17.20
12 McKim & Creed Inc. 17.10
13 Kisinger Campo & Associates Corp. 16.29
14 Dewberry 15.00
15 Hatch Mott MacDonald 14.84
16 Gannett Fleming Inc. 14.14
17 H.W. Lochner Inc 12.59
18 DRMP Inc. 12.22
19 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 11.55
20 KCI Technologies Inc. 11.23
MEP Engineering
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Zachry Holdings Inc. 57.47
2 AECOM 50.62
3 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 25.16
4 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 19.49
5 Pond & Co. Inc. 13.89
6 O'Neal Inc. 13.70
7 exp 10.80
8 yska Hennessy Group 8.07
9 Gresham, Smith and Partners 7.24
10 Dewberry 6.97
11 Morrison Hershfield 6.90
12 Burns & McDonnell 6.75
13 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 6.20
14 Merrick & Co. 5.70
15 BRPH 4.82
16 Stevens & Wilkinson 3.21
17 MWH Global 2.39
18 RLF 1.87
19 Atkins 1.59
20 Little 1.16
Health Care
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Gresham, Smith and Partners 24.38
2 Perkins+Will 18.23
3 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 11.56
4 CDH Partners Inc. 8.64
5 HuntonBrady Architects 7.70
6 Dewberry 5.65
7 RLF 5.47
8 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 3.67
9 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 3.57
10 Stantec 2.86
11 VOA Associates Incorporated 2.55
12 Perkins Eastman 2.46
13 Terracon Consultants Inc. 1.82
14 AECOM 1.54
15 Stevens & Wilkinson 1.31
16 ACAI Associates Inc. 1.04
17 Stewart 0.82
18 Mulkey Engineers & Consultants 0.65
19 Wakefield Beasley & Associates Architects 0.62
20 Morrison Hershfield 0.37
Sewerage/Solid Waste
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 MWH Global 12.47
2 AECOM 12.18
3 Geosyntec Consultants 12.17
4 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 11.08
5 McKim & Creed Inc. 10.42
6 Woolpert Inc. 9.19
7 ARCADIS U.S. 7.51
8 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 6.89
9 CPH Inc. 5.27
10 Atkins 5.09
11 Dewberry 4.90
12 Stantec 3.11
13 Hatch Mott MacDonald 3.85
14 Gresham, Smith and Partners 2.16
15 Terracon Consultants Inc. 2.10
16 Carollo Engineers Inc. 2.03
17 Greeley and Hansen 1.76
18 Keith and Schnars P.A. 1.00
19 Weston & Sampson 0.65
20 HNTB Corp. 0.45
Water Supply
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 AECOM 58.87
2 Atkins 19.81
3 ARCADIS U.S. 18.76
4 MWH Global 10.40
5 Dewberry 8.16
6 McKim & Creed Inc. 7.19
7 Carollo Engineers Inc. 6.44
8 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 5.55
9 CPH Inc. 5.27
10 Parsons Brinckerhoff 5.23
11 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 4.10
12 Stantec 3.88
13 Geosyntec Consultants 3.17
14 Gannett Fleming Inc. 3.13
15 Keith and Schnars P.A. 2.00
16 Terracon Consultants Inc. 1.52
17 HNTB Corp. 1.08
18 Hatch Mott MacDonald 0.89
19 Gresham, Smith and Partners 0.80
20 Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood Inc. 0.77
Hazardous Waste
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 ARCADIS U.S. 93.17
2 AECOM 58.77
3 Geosyntec Consultants 14.06
4 GLE Associates Inc. 4.57
5 Gannett Fleming Inc. 3.38
6 GEL Engineering LLC 1.20
7 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 0.46
8 Hatch Mott MacDonald 0.08
9 Ayres Associates 0.01
Commercial
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Gensler 16.63
2 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 9.70
3 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 8.60
4 BRPH 6.85
5 Perkins+Will 6.04
6 HuntonBrady Architects 3.20
7 Syska Hennessy Group 2.75
8 Terracon Consultants Inc. 2.60
9 Stevens & Wilkinson 2.58
10 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 2.46
11 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 2.20
12 Pond & Co. Inc. 2.00
13 Wakefield Beasley & Associates Architects 1.96
14 AECOM 1.79
15 Atkins 1.74
16 Gresham, Smith and Partners 1.67
17 Zyscovich Architects 1.42
18 Stewart 1.27
19 Stantec 0.76
20 VOA Associates Incorporated 0.68
Master-Planned Development/Site Infrastructure
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 CPH Inc. 10.53
2 Stantec 4.13
3 ESP Associates P.A. 2.85
4 DRMP Inc. 1.39
5 Stewart 1.18
6 Merrick & Co. 1.04
7 Keith and Schnars P.A. 1.00
8 Weston & Sampson 0.65
9 GRAEF 0.52
10 Atkins 0.45
11 GALLO HERBERT ARCHITECTS 0.20
12 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 0.13
13 Ayres Associates 0.13
14 WK Dickson & Co. Inc. 0.13
15 GLE Associates Inc. 0.10
16 Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood Inc. 0.09
17 Florida Engineering Group Inc. 0.09
18 Perkins+Will 0.09
19 The Beck Group 0.05
20 Cooper Carry Inc. 0.03
Industrial Process
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 O'Neal Inc. 18.70
2 Hargrove Engineers + Constructors 15.75
3 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 4.34
4 Geosyntec Consultants 3.59
5 Terracon Consultants Inc. 1.98
6 GEL Engineering LLC 1.50
7 Gresham, Smith and Partners 1.04
8 Atkins 0.64
9 Zachry Holdings Inc. 0.53
10 Stantec 0.49
Retail
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Gensler 10.33
2 Terracon Consultants Inc. 7.74
3 Atkins 2.59
4 Wakefield Beasley & Associates Architects 2.17
5 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 2.03
6 api(+) 1.69
7 CASCO Diversified Corporation 1.50
8 MulvannyG2 Architecture 1.23
9 CPH Inc. 1.05
10 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 1.02
11 Stantec 0.87
12 DRMP Inc. 0.63
13 Stewart 0.61
14 Zyscovich Architects 0.55
15 AECOM 0.49
16 Ramey Kemp & Associates Inc. 0.49
17 The Beck Group 0.46
18 ESP Associates P.A. 0.45
19 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 0.43
20 Florida Engineering Group Inc. 0.33
Government/Public Service
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. 22.30
2 Pond & Co. Inc. 13.99
3 Merrick & Co. 11.10
4 AECOM 10.56
5 BRPH 8.28
6 Atkins 7.03
7 VOA Associates Incorporated 4.61
8 HNTB Corp. 4.00
9 exp 2.80
10 Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. 2.73
11 The Beck Group 2.72
12 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 2.71
13 Perkins+Will 2.18
14 Terracon Consultants Inc. 2.12
15 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 2.11
16 KCI Technologies Inc. 2.00
17 Burns & McDonnell 1.89
18 ACAI Associates Inc. 1.75
19 DLR Group 1.50
20 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 1.25
R&D Facilities
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 6.89
2 Cooper Carry Inc. 5.12
3 Affiliated Engineers Inc. 4.43
4 O'Neal Inc. 2.00
5 Merrick & Co. 1.92
6 Gensler 0.62
7 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 0.25
8 Stantec 0.25
9 Terracon Consultants Inc. 0.17
10 Ramey Kemp & Associates Inc. 0.01
Multi-Unit Residential
Rank Firm ($ mil)
1 Niles Bolton Associates 8.51
2 Stantec 5.09
3 Terracon Consultants Inc. 2.86
4 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc. Inc. 1.67
5 Lord, Aeck & Sargent 1.55
6 Cooper Carry Inc. 1.33
7 Zyscovich Architects 1.32
8 TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. 1.19
9 Thornton Tomasetti 1.01
10 KCI Technologies Inc. 0.77
11 ESP Associates P.A. 0.68
12 LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD. 0.52
13 GLE Associates Inc. 0.48
14 Perkins Eastman 0.38
15 Morrison Hershfield 0.37
16 CDH Partners Inc. 0.25
17 Stevens & Wilkinson 0.21
18 Stewart 0.20
19 Florida Engineering Group Inc. 0.18
20 PFVS Architecture (dba Raintree Architecture Inc.) 0.15