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2012
GIANTS 300
SPECIAL REPORT
Ranking the Leading Firms

in Architecture, Engineering
and Construction
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36th Annual
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Our annual ranking of the Top 300 rms in architecture, engineering, and
construction. How does your rm stack up against the competition?
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with Datum Engineering (SE) and Turner Construction (GC).
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Barbara Horwitz-Bennett
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Heres what Rich Tilghman, SVP at Pepper Construction, told

me recently: What surprises me more than anything is that
more subcontractors havent gone out of business. I would have
thought half of those rms would be gone by now, but theyre
still struggling through. The same could be said about our Giants 300 rms. Surprisingly, most of them are hanging in there.
hats kind of the good news about this

years Giants 300 rankings (which area
based on 2011 revenues) of the top AEC
rms. The great majority are still in business;
in fact, quite a fewespecially those that have
been able to tap into rapidly expanding overseas
economies, notably China and the Mideastare
doing quite well.
True, there have been casualties. Who would
have predicted four or ve years ago that Karlsberger, one of the great names in healthcare
design, would call it quits after more than eight
decades in the business? Or that KlingStubbins, itself a recently merged entity, would be
acquired by Jacobs?
In fact, Jacobs, along with mega-Giants Stantec and AECOM, has been on the lookout for
good buys, to tap into or strengthen specialty
areas or to gain geographical market presence.
I think its a fair bet well be seeing more such
activity by the very largest rms into 2013.
If you take the time to scrutinize this years
Giants 300, you may also notice that a number
of rms that would normally make their respective tables are not listed. Usually this happens
for one of two reasons: rst, because, try as we
mightwith repeated emails, personal phone
calls, and postings on our websitewe miss
some rms, or they miss us.
We hate when this happens, but given the
size of the task of gathering all the data, its
inevitable: every year, well get a few calls from
understandably upset marketing directors asking why their rms were not on the list.
The second reason is that some rms simply
choose not to supply us with their numbers,

chiey because they had a bad year and dont
want to publicize the fact. I cant blame them.
Overall, we get remarkable cooperation from our
Giants 300 rms, for which we are very grateful.
Thank you, Giants 300 rms!
Now, some news about this years rankings.
Thanks to a new online survey tool, we
captured a lot more data this year. In these
pages and in much greater detail online (at
www.BDCnetwork.com/giants300/2012), youll
nd information that weve never been able to
supplyfor example, the top AEC suppliers to
the Veterans Administration and the military. We
also expanded our green coverage to capture
the numbers on Certied Energy Managers and
other green professionals, not just LEED APs.
We also separated construction rms by
whether they worked on a fee basis (CM agency,
program management) or on a gross revenue
basis (GCs, design-build, CM at risk). We did
this because a contractor that takes in $100
million in fees to manage projects is probably
managing 20 times that gure in the value of the
construction being put in place. We hope this is
system is more equitable and realistic.
Finally, you may note that we have added
considerable editorial coverage to this years
Giants 300, to round out the data with perspective from C-suite executives at the top rms. We
hope you nd their comments enlightening.
One last point: to gain two pages of editorial
content, we put the greatly expanded and much
more detailed Giants 300 Index online at www.
BDCnetwork.com/giants300/2012/index.
For advertising contacts, see page 73.
JULY 2012
news
BY TIM GREGORSKI, SENIOR EDITOR
USGBC DELAYS LEED 2012, RENAMES IT LEED V4
n response to mounting concerns

expressed by LEED users and USGBC
members, the U.S. Green Building
Council will delay the ballot on LEED 2012
until as late as June 1, 2013. Building
product manufacturers visited Members

of Congress to complain about an early
version of LEED 2012 that prescribed what
some called a red list of chemicals and
substances in the Materials & Resources
category that would have made it impossible to manufacture 90% of currently used
building products. As a result of the ballot
postponement, LEED 2012 has been renamed LEED v4.
A new safety initiative from New York City Department of Buildings

encourages contractors working on large projects to submit 3D/BIM
site safety plans. The initiative makes the Citys Building Department
one of the rst in the country to accept and review safety plans in
this manner.
New York-based Turner Construction recently had a set of 3D/BIMbased plans approved by the New York City Department of Buildings
for the Energy Building at NYU Langone Medical Center and a new
building for NYUs College of Nursing. Turners virtual models and
walkthroughs helped the Building Team identify potential safety risks
earlier in the review process, before the start of construction.
The approved 2D documents and 3D models were stored in
a secure online site from which building inspectors could access them in the field on mobile computing devices. The digital
submission of 3D, BIM-based site safety plans reduced the approval times from weeks to days so that we could mobilize on site
TURNER CONSTRUCTION
3D/BIM IDENTIFIES RISK BEFORE CONSTRUCTION
Turner Construction is the rst company to have its three-dimensional,

BIM-based plans approved by the New York City Department of Buildings.
that much faster, said Pat Di Filippo, executive vice president for
Turner Construction.
RSMEANS COSTS COMPARISONS: Ofces, day care, convenience stores, fast food restaurants
OFFICE, 1-STORY
12
11
% chg.
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
Houston
Kansas City, Mo.
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York City
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, Ore.
St. Louis
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, D.C.
Winston-Salem, N.C.
157.62
166.17
209.27
207.66
175.78
151.39
167.77
183.44
153.52
184.51
190.39
159.58
198.23
157.26
235.45
202.32
157.62
180.77
177.21
182.55
183.44
219.78
185.58
174.89
135.18
151.89
160.73
203.03
201.50
170.41
146.28
161.24
176.19
148.83
177.04
184.51
154.61
192.67
150.19
227.33
197.08
151.72
173.81
172.79
176.53
178.06
211.02
179.75
168.71
130.48
3.8
3.4
3.1
3.1
3.2
3.5
4.1
4.1
3.2
4.2
3.2
3.2
2.9
4.7
3.6
2.7
3.9
4.0
2.6
3.4
3.0
4.2
3.2
3.7
3.6
DAY CARE CENTER

12
11
% chg.
148.95
157.02
197.75
196.24
166.11
143.06
158.54
173.35
145.07
174.36
179.91
150.80
187.32
148.61
222.49
191.19
148.95
170.82
167.46
172.51
173.35
207.68
175.37
165.27
127.74
COSTS IN DOLLARS PER SQUARE FOOT
10
JULY 2012
144.11
152.50
192.63
191.18
161.68
138.79
152.98
167.16
141.21
167.97
175.06
146.69
182.80
142.50
215.69
186.99
143.95
164.91
163.94
167.49
168.94
200.21
170.55
160.07
123.80
3.4
3.0
2.7
2.6
2.7
3.1
3.6
3.7
2.7
3.8
2.8
2.8
2.5
4.3
3.2
2.2
3.5
3.6
2.1
3.0
2.6
3.7
2.8
3.2
3.2
CONVENIENCE STORE
12
11
% chg.
99.21
104.59
131.72
130.71
110.64
95.29
105.60
115.46
96.63
116.14
119.83
100.44
124.77
98.98
148.20
127.35
99.21
113.78
111.54
114.90
115.46
138.33
116.81
110.08
85.08
98.07
103.78
131.09
130.10
110.03
94.45
104.11
113.76
96.10
114.31
119.13
99.83
124.40
96.97
146.78
127.25
97.96
112.22
111.56
113.98
114.97
136.25
116.06
108.93
84.25
1.2
0.8
0.5
0.5
0.6
0.9
1.4
1.5
0.6
1.6
0.6
0.6
0.3
2.1
1.0
0.1
1.3
1.4
0.0
0.8
0.4
1.5
0.6
1.1
1.0
12
FAST FOOD
11
% chg.
189.61
199.90
251.74
249.82
211.46
182.11
201.82
220.68
184.68
221.96
229.03
191.97
238.46
189.18
283.24
243.39
189.61
217.46
213.18
219.61
220.68
264.38
223.25
210.39
162.62
183.18
193.84
244.86
243.01
205.51
176.42
194.45
212.48
179.49
213.51
222.52
186.46
232.36
181.13
274.16
237.68
182.98
209.61
208.38
212.89
214.74
254.49
216.78
203.47
157.36
3.5
3.1
2.8
2.8
2.9
3.2
3.8
3.9
2.9
4.0
2.9
3.0
2.6
4.4
3.3
2.4
3.6
3.7
2.3
3.2
2.8
3.9
3.0
3.4
3.3
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ANSI APPROVES GBIS
GREEN DESIGN STANDARD
The Green Building Initiative (GBI), a Portland, Ore. nonprot organization, had its new
consensus-based standard for the design, construction, and operations of environmentally
friendly buildings approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ANSI/
GBI 01-2010: Green Building Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings identies seven
areas for green building assessment: project management, site, water, energy, emissions,
indoor environment, and resources.
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Investigate cost savings of energy
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NEWS BRIEFS
The WINDOW AND DOOR
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION and
the FENESTRATION MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION will formally afliate and
integrate operations.
www.bdcnetwork.com/wdma/fma/afliation
ALLSTEEL appointed KRIS YATES to vice
president of architectural products.
www.bdcnetwork.comallsteel/yates
SKYLINE CONSTRUCTION recently named
RICK MILLITELLO as president.
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KLMK GROUP won a contract for Phase I

of Hospital Move Planning Services for the
2.5-million-sf, 862-bed PARKLAND HEALTH
& HOSPITAL, the county hospital serving
Dallas.
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The LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE has
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JOHN SHREVE ARBUCKLE, Assoc. AIA,

New York business development manager
for HOFFMANN ARCHITECTS INC., was
elected president of the New York/Tri-State
Chapter of Docomomo U.S., a private organization dedicated to conserving buildings of
the Modern period.
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arbuckle/docomomo
PERKINS+WILL is slated to merge with
London-based architecture and design rm
PRINGLE BRANDON. The London ofce
would be known as PRINGLE BRANDON
PERKINS+WILL.
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pringlebrandon/perkinswill
SUN CONTROLS
THE PROJECT
First Federal Financial Center
Myrtle Beach, SC
ARCHITECT
ESD Architecture, Charlotte, NC
THE LOOK...
2012 RECONSTRUCTION
AWARDS
Call for Entries now open
The 2012 Reconstruction Awards recognize
projects involving reconstruction, renovation,
adaptive reuse, or historic preservation, based
on overall design, engineering, and project
quality, as well as the collaboration of the
Building Team to meet the needs of the building owner, its occupants, and the community.
Deadline for the 2012 Reconstruction
Awards: August 3, 2012. Winners will be
profiled in October 2012 issue of Building
Design+Construction.
For more informationincluding how to
submit an Early Bird Entry, where the BD+C
editorial staff will review your entry and make
suggestions for improvementvisit: www.
BDCnetwork.com/reconstructionawards/2012/
news/callforentries.
CLARIFICATION
Right name for plumbing code
Our AIA/CES course High-Efciency
Plumbing Systems (June) incorrectly
referred to a Universal Plumbing Code.
There is no such code. It is correctly
called the Uniform Plumbing Code.
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Building Teams looking for maximum
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manufacturers recommendations.
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Also new this year: separate charts
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architecture giants spreading their wings

BRANCHING OUT GLOBALLY, MERGING, ADDING SERVICES
aybe it was too good to be true.

For ve consecutive months starting last December, the AIAs Architectural Billings Index, a leading indicator of
construction activity, was showing hopeful
numbers about future architectural billings.
Thenwham!the May ABI score came
in at a measly 45.8, reecting a sharp
decrease in demand for design services, as
the AIA put it. (Any score above 50 indicates
an increase in billings.) And while the new
projects inquiry index registered a promising 54.0, that was not enough to dispel the
notion that architecture rms are going to
have to keep scratching for every dollar.
We see another global slowdown, with
great downward pressure on fees, said
Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, LEED AP, Chair/CEO
of HKS Architecture. We are continuing
to adapt to the economy with both our
geographic and market sectors. To that
end, the rm recently opened ofces in
New Delhi and Singapore, having already
expanded into Europe, China, the Middle
East, North Africa, and India.
Adapting is what many Giants 300 architecture rms are being forced to do. With
domestic billings down, Giants are setting
up shop overseas, merging and forming
joint ventures to make one plus one equal
three, and creating new services.
NEXT STOP,
SOMEPLACE EXOTIC
For Goettsch Partners, work outside the
U.S. and Canada accounts for 80% of our
business, says James Goettsch, FAIA,
President. The rm just opened a new ofce
in Abu Dhabis Sowwah Square and is active in more than 20 cities in China.
Weve been winning work internationally for the last 10 years, says Guy Geier,
giants 300
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 Total Revenue ($)
Rank Company
Gensler
731,360,500
42
Cuningham Group Architecture
22,134,253
Perkins+Will
365,781,000
43
H+L Architecture
22,034,014
NBBJ
181,636,000
44
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
143,880,000
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart,

Stewart & Associates
21,642,757
Gould Evans
20,135,000
Perkins Eastman
130,000,000
45
Callison
128,480,000
46
Niles Bolton Associates
19,830,000
ZGF Architects
120,248,889
47
Good Fulton & Farrell
19,581,000
87,973,699
48
Morris Architects
19,454,000
GBBN Architects
18,000,000
HMC Architects
Populous
86,000,000
49
10
Corgan Associates
79,500,000
50
Mithun
17,686,000
11
Fentress Architects
61,920,000
51
LMN Architects
17,281,900
60,839,000
52
Lee, Burkhart, Liu
17,200,000
Ziegler Cooper Architects
17,054,105
12
WATG
13
Ennead Architects
52,200,000
53
14
RSP Architects
52,190,000
54
FGM Architects
16,226,488
15
SHW Group
50,588,390
55
Kirksey Architecture
16,216,783
50,172,283
56
BBG-BBGM
15,978,000
Hnedak Bobo Group
15,889,341
16
MulvannyG2 Architecture
17
FKP Architects
42,434,000
57
18
LS3P Associates
42,168,717
58
SRG Partnership
15,757,000
19
Perkowitz+Ruth Architects
39,000,000
59
BLT Architects
14,900,000
38,005,433
60
Nadel Architects
14,200,000
Wight & Company
13,370,900
20
Cooper Carry
21
tvsdesign
35,720,659
61
22
KMD Architects
35,143,453
62
Lord, Aeck & Sargent
12,150,916
23
Payette
33,582,508
63
Carrier Johnson + CULTURE
11,699,266
24
MBH Architects
32,279,000
64
Anderson Mikos Architects
11,393,000
Harvard Jolly
11,175,348
25
VOA Associates
31,337,853
65
26
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
30,500,000
66
Legat Architects
10,420,000
27
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott 29,800,000
67
ARCHITEKTON
9,827,002
Beyer Blinder Belle

Architects & Planners
68
Ashley McGraw Architects
9,500,000
29,700,000
69
SLATERPAULL Architects
9,321,914
29
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
29,610,000
70
SEI Design Group
7,986,000
30
RBB Architects
29,100,000
71
DesignGroup
7,397,440
31
FXFOWLE Architects
26,666,523
72
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
6,700,000
32
Ware Malcomb
26,400,000
73
Massa Montalto Architects
6,224,932
33
NTD Architecture
24,369,266
74
Omniplan Architects
5,776,000
34
NAC|Architecture
24,199,811
75
JRS Architect
5,575,000
35
FRCH Design Worldwide
24,100,000
76
Adache Group Architects
4,500,000
36
WHR Architects
23,581,538
77
api(+)
3,330,000
37
Francis Cauffman
23,205,403
78
PHX Architecture
1,750,000
38
WDG Architecture
23,080,297
79
RDH Interests
1,423,620
39
OZ Architecture
23,053,928
80
AXIS Architecture + Design
1,370,000
40
Goettsch Partners
22,748,000
81
Horn Design
1,145,000
41
Jerde Partnership, The
22,500,000
28
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ARCHITECTURAL
Sitting on the outskirts of Seoul, the Guri World Design Centre will be the focal point of the Nature
Culture and Design mixed-use development, one of the largest in the world, with an exhibition
center, hotels, retail, condominiums, single-family homes, a commercial zone, a design graduate
school, and cultural centers. The multibillion-dollar project, designed by RTKL, will open in 2015.
FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP, Managing Partner,

FXFOWLE. Currently, we have projects in
design or construction all over the world, including Montreal, Istanbul, Riyadh, Mumbai,
and Baku, Azerbaijan.
The new normal is likely

to look a lot like 2011very
competitive, with uneven
areas of improvement, but
steadily getting better.
Bradford Perkins, CEO, Perkins Eastman
Perkins Eastman recently converted its

small Mumbai shop into a full-service operation. Coming soon: a permanent ofce in
Hanoi. We do work in 25 countries at any
given time, and overseas revenues constitute
up to 30% of our net billings, says Chair/
CEO Bradford Perkins, FAIA, MRAIC, AICP.
International clients provide professional
opportunities that are rare in the U.S. and
Canada. The skills we have gained on large,
fast-paced, and complex international assignments have been invaluable in strengthening our North American practice, he says.
Nadel Architects, with many years of
experience in China and the Middle East,
recently expanded work in Southeast Asia
and parts of Africa, says Greg Lyon, Vice
President/Director of Business Development.

Global work is growing in importance
for our rm, said Phil Harrison, FAIA, LEED
AP, CEO of Perkins+Will. We signicantly
expanded our U.K. and Dubai operations
with the addition of Pringle Brandon. We
are likewise pursuing growth opportunities
in South America and Asia.
This year, LEO A DALY opened an ofce
in Riyadh; another is in the works in Doha,
Qatar. The rm has ofces in Beijing, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, and Hong Kong.
Populous, a creator of stadia and event
venues, has operated globally for nearly 30
years. As events like the FIFA World Cup
and the Olympic Games begin to inltrate
into atypical areas of the world like the Middle
East, we are seeing the potential for work,
says Earl Santee, AIA, Senior Principal.
MORE DOMESTIC OFFICES,

MERGERS, NEW HIRES
In the past 18 months Perkins+Will acquired
three practices, expanding its operations in
the province of Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa,
and Dundas), Seattle, London, and Dubai.
The Boston ofce hired Robert Brown, AIA,
IIDA, LEED AP, as Managing Director and
Brian Healy, AIA, as Design Director.
Early this year, FXFOWLE formed a joint
venture with CO Architects, combining
FXFOWLEs strength in urban planning,
infrastructure, commercial, cultural, and
education projects with CO Architects
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In late June, NELSON agreed to merge
its Chicago/Midwest region operations with
Torchia Associates, an architecture/interior
design rm.
This year, Shepley Bulnch opened an
ofce, its third, in San Francisco, with Peter
Schlosser, AIA, leading as Principal. Mario
Vieira, AIA, was also hired as Principal in
the Boston ofce.
Flad Architects unfurled its ag in New
York City, as did EwingCole. Mark Hebden,
AIA, LEED AP, EwingColes President, says
the rm is reevaluating and rening its
service offerings, process, and deliverables
to align with client business and leadership
challenges. The rm hired Steve McDaniel
as Director of Science and Technology.
HKS established beachheads in Chicago,
Indianapolis, San Diego, and New York.
The rm continues to expand into S&T and
urban design.
Cannon Design recently acquired Peter El-
lis New Cities, an urban planning and design

group based in Chicago and New Delhi.
Peter Ellis now leads Cannon Designs urban
planning and city design practice.
Other major hires in the last year:
Kenneth Drake, AIA, NCARB, to EYP
Architecture and Engineering as Senior S&T
Project Executive.
John Whitaker, AIA, DBIA, to HKS as
Principal of its federal market sector and
design-build practices, and Rick Bond, AIA,
FHFI, as Federal Healthcare Strategy Leader.
Dan Viscardi, to LEO A DALY as Corporate Director of the rms aviation program,
and Archie Aamoth as Corporate Director
of the healthcare program.
Mark Chen, to Heery International as
Director of Design.
NEW CLIENT SERVICES

Perkins+Will has formed a joint venture with
Construction Specialties for a building products labeling system. The rm is expanding
its sustainability advisory services and com-
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ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
bining many services into a single offering.

Speed of delivery, innovative technology,
advanced sustainable design practices,
integrated design services, and extreme
collaboration are all dening our work, says
P+Ws Harrison.
Populous introduced a new design
service, Populous Activate, to enhance the
in-stadium experience. The goal: optimize
sponsor partnerships while meeting visitor
needs and desires, says Populouss Santee.
Cannon Designs products group has
invented the eVap series of heat exchange/
cooling units, which separates water used
in laboratories from the poorer quality water
of the main buildings cooling system.
SmithGroupJJR developed WorkSIM
programming software that connects to Revit and produces 3D programmatic space
models and room databases.
In short, a frantic year for architecture
rms, with relief in sight. +
Tim Gregorski and Robert Cassidy
Rank Company
HOK
447,435,170
21
BSA LifeStructures
45,316,495
40
RNL
21,129,700
HDR Architecture
364,100,000
22
CTA Architects Engineers
44,316,300
41
Epstein
19,923,242
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
255,000,000
23
PGAL
42,513,800
42
LawKingdon Architecture
19,100,000
Cannon Design
231,000,000
24
Reynolds, Smith and Hills
42,000,000
43
Fletcher Thompson
18,450,000
HKS
213,212,437
25
NELSON
41,046,070
44
Sherlock, Smith & Adams
15,400,000
RTKL Associates
201,932,903
26
Little
40,700,000
45
CASCO Diversified Corp.
15,000,000
IBI Group
196,186,927
27
S/L/A/M Collaborative, The
39,475,964
46
Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber
14,900,000
SmithGroupJJR
177,100,000
28
Moseley Architects
38,069,206
47
Goodwyn|Mills|Cawood
14,136,833
13,868,700
LEO A DALY
132,483,964
29
PBK
37,700,000
48
Baskervill
10
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson
127,900,000
30
HLW International
36,000,000
49
Taylor
12,210,121
11
DLR Group
110,000,000
WD Partners
36,000,000
50
Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee
11,498,000
12
PageSoutherlandPage
91,950,000
32
Harley Ellis Devereaux
33,660,000
51
Integrated Design Group
11,436,000
13
EYP Architecture & Engineering
72,681,105
33
Fanning Howey Associates
29,880,000
52
Rosser International
10,700,000
14
HNTB Architecture
70,510,849
34
FreemanWhite
28,500,000
53
KZF Design
9,295,703
15
Flad Architects
65,100,000
35
Albert Kahn Family of Companies
27,200,000
54
TEG The Estopinal Group
9,081,012
16
EwingCole
63,500,000
36
55
17
Gresham, Smith and Partners
54,245,261
SMMA|Symmes Maini &

McKee Associates
25,335,391
BBS Architects, Landscape Architects

and Engineers
8,100,000
48,487,000
37
Westlake Reed Leskosky
25,000,000
56
DLA Architects
7,000,000
48,311,631
38
Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers
21,536,000
57
Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio
4,200,000
48,194,126
39
Sasaki Associates
21,237,056
18
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Heery International
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ngineering rms and engineering/

architecture rmsthose that earn
more than 50% of their revenues from
engineeringhave their sights set on foreign
shores. Many are jumping headrst into
international waters.
Instead of overseeing projects from
New York, our rm has established ofces
in Mumbai, Moscow, and other cities
outside North America, aiming to overcome the challenge of navigating the local
landscape or hiring practices, tax law,
and business practices, says Thomas Z.
Scarangello, PE, CEO and Chairman of EA
Giant Thornton Tomasetti.
Other rms are just dipping their toes into
foreign waters, still looking for international
business but choosing not to establish additional ofces. Brad Harmsen, AIA, Chairman/CEO of BRPH, says that although his
rm is actively working in locales across the
globe, theyre partnering with domestic rms
to do so, partly because of the learning
curve that comes when working with different currencies and legalities.
Shanghai and Dubai are hot spots for E
and EA Giants these days. Glumac, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, and Syska
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their ofces in Shanghai. KJWW and Syska
Hennessy opened new ofces in Dubai.
Thornton Tomasetti bucked the trend and
opened ofces in Beijing and Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, while Arup Americas opened new
ofces in So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, just
in time for soccers World Cup in 2014.
Establishing an ofce abroad is one
thing; getting the business is something
entirely different. Referring specically
to the Middle East, Paul VanDuyne, PE,
president of KJWW, says, It takes approximately two years to develop the appropriate relationships, name recognition, and
reputation to be successful in obtaining
projects in this region.
The Past Worlds Terrace at the Natural History Museum of Utah, a $103 million, 163,000-sf LEED Gold
research museum with 1.2 million artifacts at the Rio Tinto Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Building Team: Spectrum Engineers (electrical and acoustical engineer, technology system designer),
Ennead Architects in association with GSBS Architects (architect), and Big-D Construction (CM/GC).
giants 300
ENGINEERING/ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Jacobs
2,699,100,000
23
Walker Parking Consultants
34,422,898
AECOM Technology Corp.
1,487,000,000
24
BRPH
31,500,000
M+W U.S.
1,015,199,252
25
Bergmann Associates
30,700,000
Stantec
463,300,000
26
Shive-Hattery
28,192,943
Parsons Brinckerhoff
311,300,000
27
Atkins North America
23,620,537
URS Corp.
294,100,000
28
Ross & Baruzzini
20,377,769
exp
205,000,000
29
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon
20,100,000
Science Applications International Corp. 185,390,000
30
Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor
18,300,000
Merrick & Co.
111,000,000
31
Guernsey
18,293,701
10
Day & Zimmermann
109,909,604
32
L.R. Kimball
17,759,000
11
SSOE Group
107,819,740
33
GRAEF-USA
16,770,180
12
STV
104,876,000
34
Zak Companies
12,335,494
13
Thornton Tomasetti
98,017,214
35
CJL Engineering
12,228,000
14
Burns & McDonnell
94,711,826
36
Stanley Consultants
10,892,000
15
Dewberry
89,282,766
37
Spectrum Engineers
8,828,890
16
Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
80,730,000
38
GRW
6,290,216
17
Middough
75,750,000
39
Davis, Bowen & Friedel
4,680,714
18
Clark Nexsen
68,424,208
40
Vintage Archonics
1,972,220
19
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates
64,080,000
20
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
59,170,000
21
AKF Group
58,100,000
22
H&A Architects & Engineers
39,064,020
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ENGINEERING GIANTS
Despite the difculties, an increasingly
large share of engineering Giants yearly
revenue is coming from international projects. Magnusson Klemencic President Ron
Klemencic, PE, SE, says that 20-30% of
MKAs gross revenue comes from international business, while KJWW anticipates
that 10% of its 2013 revenue will come
from international projects. Syska Hennessy
Groups goal is to beef up its international
activity by 25% over the next ve years.
KEY ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY

Beyond establishing an international
presence, technology is also a crucial

differentiator for E and EA Giants rms.
Syska Hennessy Groups new Information
and Communications Technology group is
offering an expanded scope of services for
organizations looking to upgrade their IT
platforms with the latest technologies. Our
new offerings include tools and expertise to
apply virtualization of existing client environments, data center relocation management,
disaster recovery and IT security services,
and network and Internet/intranet design
and implementation, said Co-CEO/Copresident Cyrus J. Izzo, PE.
giants 300
ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Fluor Corp.
220,674,900
33 Sparling
20,589,847
Arup
140,324,134
34 ThermalTech Engineering
19,890,000
WSP USA
98,900,000
35 KCI Technologies
19,761,000
Syska Hennessy Group
98,744,701
36 Newcomb & Boyd
18,454,021
Affiliated Engineers
92,815,000
37 Henneman Engineering
18,000,000
KPFF Consulting Engineers
89,000,000
38 Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Eng.
17,650,492
Henderson Engineers
61,266,000
39 GHT Limited
17,363,705
AKF Group
58,100,000
40 Eaton Energy Solutions
16,694,769
TTG/TMAD Taylor & Gaines
56,820,300
41 Rutherford & Chekene
16,538,000
10 Smith Seckman Reid
53,497,000
42 Dunham Associates
15,500,000
11 R.G. Vanderweil Engineers
49,823,500
43 Joseph R. Loring & Associates
15,000,000
12 KJWW Engineering Consultants
43,784,892
44 Wallace Engineering
13,780,000
13 Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers 40,100,000
45 James Posey Associates
13,500,000
14 Coffman Engineers
37,200,000
46 KLH Engineers
12,559,382
15 TLC Engineering for Architecture
36,387,033
47 Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers 12,500,000
16 Degenkolb Engineers
35,398,917
48 Karpinski Engineering
12,343,996
17 Sebesta Blomberg
35,120,000
49 P2S Engineering
11,896,229
18 ESD/Environmental Systems Design
34,465,000
50 RMH Group, The
11,864,683
19 Rolf Jensen & Associates
34,300,000
51 Peter Basso Associates
10,400,000
20 Walter P Moore
34,231,775
52 Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
10,039,000
21 RMF Engineering
34,005,000
53 French & Parrello Associates
9,782,762
22 Glumac
33,010,927
54 Bala Consulting Engineers
9,360,000
23 Magnusson Klemencic Associates
32,306,973
55 Allen & Shariff
8,610,036
24 RDK Engineers
30,882,000
56 Wick Fisher White
7,821,928
25 Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch
28,836,967
57 Brinjac Engineering
7,342,166
26 Aon Fire Protection Engineering
28,200,000
58 CTLGroup
6,030,000
27 Birdsall Services Group
27,500,000
28 Interface Engineering
25,938,485
59 ODea, Lynch, Abbattista

Consulting Engineers
5,900,000
60 FBA Engineering
4,000,000
61 Kamm Consulting
3,681,775
62 Apogee Consulting Group
2,485,000
63 G&W Engineering
2,058,000
29 M/E Engineering
32
25,915,000
30 ccrd partners
24,100,000
31 H.F. Lenz Co.
22,799,000
32 Heapy Engineering
21,402,816
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Thornton Tomasetti launched a new

Building Sustainability practice in January
and now offers LEED consulting and administration, energy and daylight modeling,
and sustainable business strategies. The
rm also has an advanced computational
modeling team; it leverages new technologies by developing custom digital tools that
utilize generative and parametric modeling,
which enables its engineers to collaborate
more effectively with architects in the early
phases of design.
HELPING CLIENTS FIND

THE MONEY FOR PROJECTS
New nancing solutions are also playing a
part in E/EA Giants business strategies.
With the U.S. construction market still in
recovery, alternative nancing methods are
being sought out to help clients put together
the dollars they need to complete projects.
At Syska Hennessy Group, public-private
partnerships are on the radar. We are
observing an increase in P3 projects across
geographies and market sectors, said
Syska Hennessy Groups Izzo. The rst
building being delivered as a true P3 is the
Long Beach courthouse in California, which
will top out this summer.
Others are bringing on experts to nd the
money. Graef hired an economic development specialist, Ronald Van Straten, who
has more than 25 years experience in helping mostly municipal clients seek grants,
low-cost loans, and other funding streams
for their capital projects, including tax increment nancing.
HEAVY CONCENTRATION
AT THE TOP 10 FIRMS
As is true of most of the categories in our
Giants 300 rankings, there is a great deal
of concentration at the highest level in the
E and EA markets. The top 10 engineering
rms generated 47% of total revenue for
the category, while the top 10 engineering/
architecture Giants generated a hefty 85%
of the dollars in their group. +
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CONSTRUCTION GIANTS
contractors nally moving off the bottom,

WHILE TAKING STEPS TO IMPROVE PROJECT EFFICIENCY
wo of the biggest players in nonresidential construction are predicting a

turnaround in the industry, despite
the malaise in the general economy. We
feel that the construction market is moving
off the bottom and nally showing signs of
improvement, says Nicholas Makes, Senior
Vice President at the Turner Corporation.
We have been preparing for an upturn.
Moreover, in its Spring 2012 edition
of Construction Economics Market
Conditions in Construction, Gilbane

Building Co. forecasts a 5.4% increase from
2011 in spending for all construction, a
6.2% increase for nonresidential buildings,
and a 9.8% growth for private-sector work.
However, spending also has a ways to go
before reaching pre-recession levels: The
predicted gure for private construction
(including single-family homes) in 2012
$555 billionis roughly 40% below the
$912 billion mark for 2006.
Giants 300 construction rms are reporting that predominantly private institutional
sectors, notably healthcare, are still seeing
activity. The intensity for jobs is great, as
construction activity declines in state and
local government work, notes Dale Connor, Managing Director, Project Management and Construction (Americas) with
Lend Lease. Capital availability remains
tight but is improving, and markets like
healthcare and life sciences remain active.
Rank Company
Rank Company
giants 300
CONTRACTORS
Rank Company
34
Turner Corporation, The
8,014,660,000
32
Austin Industries
776,534,824
63
HBE Corp.
279,200,000
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The 3,826,610,062
33
Ryan Companies US
697,549,225
64
E.W. Howell
266,485,000
PCL Construction Enterprises
3,611,192,729
34
CORE Construction
671,535,195
65
Hunt Companies
263,902,629
Balfour Beatty US
3,428,962,433
35
Shawmut Design and Construction
662,800,000
66
Clancy & Theys Construction
253,468,947
Clark Group
3,380,129,779
36
Power Construction
654,000,000
67
Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors 253,101,000
Skanska USA
3,286,508,000
37
Sundt Construction
644,029,962
68
Coakley & Williams Construction
236,521,534
Gilbane Building Co.
3,028,728,000
38
Boldt Co., The
632,115,183
69
Weis Builders
219,006,000
Mortenson
2,456,960,000
39
Robins & Morton
623,293,000
70
Alberici Corp.
218,453,766
Tutor Perini Corp.
2,360,916,000
40
BL Harbert International
617,300,000
71
Doster Construction
210,187,139
10
Structure Tone
2,347,400,000
41
James G. Davis Construction Corp.
603,020,000
72
Batson-Cook
208,907,584
11
Hensel Phelps Construction
2,229,390,000
42
Layton Construction
601,200,000
73
Harkins Builders
201,000,000
12
McCarthy Holdings
2,096,000,000
43
Haskell
577,518,226
74
KBE Building Corp.
187,822,953
13
DPR Construction
2,000,332,304
44
McShane Companies, The
562,442,191
75
Heery International
134,514,000
14
Lend Lease
1,841,990,112
45
Messer Construction
550,808,643
76
New South Construction
187,706,000
15
Holder Construction
1,766,000,000
46
Gray Construction
514,039,421
77
Consigli Construction
174,112,428
16
Hunt Construction Group
1,750,000,000
47
Hoar Construction
503,668,000
78
Bette Companies
144,000,000
17
JE Dunn Construction
1,716,858,016
48
Kraus-Anderson Construction
497,180,000
79
CG Schmidt
142,265,000
18
Jacobs
1,644,500,000
49
Choate Construction
482,410,138
80
Absher Construction
130,129,012
19
Walsh Group, The
1,612,052,187
50
Hardin Construction
477,879,091
81
115,430,980
20
Brasfield & Gorrie
1,492,346,677
51
McGough
477,000,000
82
James McHugh Construction
102,622,708
21
Suffolk Construction
1,425,000,000
52
EMJ Corp.
475,575,404
83
Bomel Construction
99,930,000
22
Barton Malow
1,256,757,360
53
ONeil Industries / W.E. ONeil
458,290,000
84
IMC Construction
93,500,000
23
Swinerton
1,079,236,051
54
Bernards
438,045,000
85
Wight & Co.
77,807,100
24
Pepper Construction Group
1,050,711,000
55
Manhattan Construction Group
423,285,000
86
URS Corp.
76,986,048
25
Flintco
1,003,400,000
56
Kitchell
407,469,000
87
Roche Constructors
75,272,999
26
HITT Contracting
976,397,916
57
C.W. Driver
401,952,720
88
Summit Contractors Group
64,000,000
27
Yates Companies, The
910,200,000
58
W. M. Jordan Co.
377,529,253
89
Stalco Construction
58,800,000
28
Weitz Company, The
881,339,956
59
Linbeck Group
324,000,000
90
Allen & Shariff Corp.
38,323,273
29
Walbridge
867,900,000
60
Rodgers Builders
313,392,000
91
Jones Lang LaSalle
20,000,000
30
Clayco
820,000,000
61
S. M. Wilson & Co.
300,581,922
92
Epstein
16,860,278
31
Webcor Builders
797,040,000
62
Paric Corp.
285,000,000
93
Eaton Energy Solutions
13,773,148
94
Zak Companies
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Contractors are also seeing opportunities

in markets outside the United States. Turner
recently opened ofces in Toronto and Vancouver and is partnering with Edmontonbased Clark Builders. In Mexico, the rm is
currently working on several data centers
as well as on a 51-story Latin America
headquarters tower for Spanish banking
group BBVA. Turner also opened new ofces in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Turkey.
RISING COSTS, FEWER

SKILLED LABORERS
One concern contractors are bracing for is
the rising cost of certain materials. Metals are up due to increased world demand, which is affecting the MEP trades,
says Lend Leases Connor. Shortages of
aluminum could affect the cost of building
envelope materials, and rising oil prices are
impacting the costs of building products
such as drywall and glass.
Gilbane reports that concrete and steel
are both experiencing cost increases ranging
between 1.5% and 2.5% over the year. The
overall Producer Price Index for February
2012 showed costs for construction materi-
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als up 4.4% in the previous 12 months.

Moreover, the Gilbane report says,
while construction unemployment has
dropped from 25% in February 2010 to
17% in March 2012, the actual number of
construction jobs gained has remained at,
due to laborers actually dropping out of
the workforce. The Gilbane study forecasts
that when work volume begins to increase,
labor costs will go up due to a lack of
skilled workers.
INCREASING EFFICIENCIES
Contractors and CM rms are reporting positive benets from the use of BIM and lean
building practices. At Barton Malow, use of
the integrated project delivery model continues to expand in an effort to improve project
performance. Our use of BIM and lean construction principles and our corporate culture
of collaboration have made IPD a natural
extension of our services, says Senior Vice
President Alex Ivanikiw, AIA, LEED AP.
Ivanikiw says that his rm has been
testing technologies for practical job site
applications at its new Envisioning Center,
in Southeld, Mich. The Envisioning Center
is connected to a full-scale gang box in our
atrium, simulating how the use of technologies would apply on the job site and
how these technologieshardware and
softwareneed to be adapted for use in
the eld, says Ivanikiw.
Turner says it is also focused on improving construction efciencies. With the
adoption and development of BIM tools and
processes, and with widespread implementation of lean construction practices
and IPD methods, Turner is performing the
same work it has always performed faster
and more efciently, says Makes.
While construction volume is expected
to pick up modestly in the coming year,
The cost of buildings still lags normal
labor and material ination cost indices,
notes the Gilbane report. It should continue to do so for some time to come, but
the gap is narrowing. +
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CM AGENT + PM FIRMS
Rank Company
Hoffman Corp.
1,880,463,527
1,350,248,000
723,987,000
459,028,178
Hill International
350,000,000
Jones Lang LaSalle
301,000,000
URS Corp.
279,147,870
207,481,662
Jacobs
182,820,000
10
Balfour Beatty US
125,078,599
11
Barton Malow
94,594,640
12
Structure Tone
80,000,000
13
Bernards
79,655,000
14
Robins & Morton
75,380,000
15
Lend Lease
72,824,093
16
Doster Construction
20,682,865
17
Flintco
18,100,000
18
Weitz Company, The
18,060,000
19
Allen & Shariff Corp.
17,663,909
20
Hoar Construction
14,472,000
21
McCarthy Holdings
12,000,000
22
Mortenson Construction
10,640,000
23
Swinerton
10,528,949
24
Power Construction
9,000,000
25
7,900,000
26
Stalco Construction
4,820,000
27
Ryan Companies US
4,587,011
28
Brasfield & Gorrie
4,248,485
29
4,120,000
30
Sundt Construction
3,634,695
31
S. M. Wilson & Co.
3,507,170
32
3,028,000
33
E.W. Howell Co.
2,450,000
34
Austin Industries
2,383,128
35
EMJ Corp.
2,114,155
36
Bette Companies, The
2,000,000
37
1,931,409
38
1,500,000
39
Haskell
1,249,381
40
Heery International
1,011,000
41
Epstein
898,431
42
Alberici Corp.
806,353
43
Gray Construction
535,116
44
IMC Construction
500,000
45
Rodgers Builders
321,000
46
Wight & Co.
318,400
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BIM REPORT
BIM nally starting to pay off for AEC rms,

BUT THERES STILL A LONG WAY TO GO
In surveying Giants 300 rms about BIM,
we went right for the jugular: Is BIM paying
offthrough cost savings, higher quality, or
client satisfaction? Heres what they told us.
IM has been paying off for AE rm

NELSON. Once a team becomes
procient in the BIM process, we see
better margins for projects completed in Revit, says John Ozzie Nelson, Jr., President/
CEO. We see more RFPs that require Revit.
Creating Revit models opens up doors in
analysis, data integration, facilities management, and advanced visualization, he says.
top 25
BIM ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
2011 BIM Revenue ($)
HOK
398,217,301
HDR Architecture
327,690,000
Perkins+Will
274,336,000
204,000,000
HKS
200,000,000
Cannon Design
173,000,000
SmithGroupJJR
150,540,000
RTKL Associates
140,000,000
10
72,681,105
11
Corgan Associates
67,575,000
12
Flad Architects
65,100,000
13
HNTB Architecture
63,244,852
14
Fentress Architects
58,824,000
15
DLR Group
49,500,000
16
BSA LifeStructures
45,316,495
17
PageSoutherlandPage
44,918,630
18
ZGF Architects
40,352,152
19
Ennead Architects
39,341,000
20
KMD Architects
35,143,453
21
Cooper Carry
34,000,000
22
Perkins Eastman
32,500,000
23
LS3P Associates
32,211,134
24
FKP Architects
30,000,000
25
28,740,000
room for improvement, says Co-president

Gary Brennen, PE, LEED AP. SHG was
committed and fully invested in the early
adoption of BIM, but the MEP software still
lags behind the architectural and structural
components. We were aware of that going
into the process, he says.
Structural engineering rm Magnusson
Klemencic Associates is producing 100%
of its projects as BIM models. After many
years of investment, we are nally turning the corner on implementing BIM in an
efcient and thoughtful manner, says MKA
President Ron Klemencic, PE, SE.
The key to successful BIM implementation: A project team with the experience
and knowledge of what to model and how
to model it, says Klemencic.
Allowing owners to better visualize the
project has become an inuencing factor during the presentation process, says
76,740,000
WALTER P MOORE
Rank Company
Perkins Eastman is starting to see results

from its investment in BIM. Our most recent
in-house analysis of project labor costs on
comparable CAD/BIM projects is showing an increase in BIM projects over CAD
projects, says Chair/CEO Bradford Perkins,
FAIA, MRAIC, AICP. Many of the other
benets of a BIM workow are not so easily
quantied, but they are real enough to give
us condence that BIM is paying off.
Alex Ivanikiw, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Vice
President at Barton Malow: The real benet
is how the use of BIM enables collaboration,
which in turn builds a real sense of trust
and teamwork. When subcontractors had
trouble using the BIM model for submittal
approval and materials fabrication, Barton
Malow created a BIM 101 seminar to educate them in these processes, says Ivanikiw.
BIM projects have been protable for
Syska Hennessy Group, but theres always
BIM model by the Walter P Moore rm showing the coordination of civil and structural elements
of a suspended bridge structure at Texas Childrens Hospital Maternity Center, Houston. The oval
structure, which spans a major transit way in the Texas Medical Center, was modeled in 4D to allow
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Revit model by Magnusson Klemencic Associates of the

primary superstructure and foundation of the Ann and Robert
H. Lurie Childrens Hospital, Chicago. The recently opened
1.1-million-sf facility, the tallest (22 stories) and one of the
largest childrens hospitals in the world, features a 245-bed
patient tower, clinical labs, operating suites, MRI and CT
scanning facilities, and a rooftop helipad.
top 25
BIM ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
Jacobs
355,021,036
URS Corp.
275,000,000
Stantec
181,300,000
SSOE Group
103,506,950
Thornton Tomasetti
83,314,632
60,000,000
Burns & McDonnell
50,000,000
KJWW Engineering Consultants
43,784,892
10
Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers 32,000,000
11
12
TLC Engineering for Architecture
27,290,274
13
STV
26,646,000
14
Glumac
26,408,740
15
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
25,845,578
16
Middough
25,000,000
17
R.G. Vanderweil Engineers
24,912,000
18
Michael Baker Jr., Inc
24,000,000
19
23,500,000
20
Smith Seckman Reid
21,360,000
21
Bergmann Associates
18,420,000
22
ccrd partners
16,700,000
23
Rutherford & Chekene
16,568,000
24
15,500,000
25
L.R. Kimball
14,200,000
29,883,975
Doug Davidson, President, New South

Construction. In 2011, over 45% of New
Souths projects used BIM.
Theres no question that BIM has paid
off in our role as engineer of record producing construction drawings and as detailing
engineer, says Robert Otani, PE, LEED AP,
Vice President of Thornton Tomasetti. The
rms Construction Support Services practice uses BIM to produce digital fabrication
drawings, connection engineering, and
erection engineering for steel contractors.
The technology is constantly changing,
and the engineers need to stay ahead of
the curve, says Otani.
KJWW Engineering recently standardized on Revit BIM in all 11 ofces. President
Paul VanDuyne, PE, says it was much more
difcult to develop the MEP and technology components of the rms BIM platform
than it was for structural engineering and
medical equipment planning. Now we are
completing projects in close to the same
time frame as previously with 3D, and in
some cases faster, he says.
EwingCole now uses an internal cloud
for team members, who are now able to
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BIM CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
5,458,100,812
URS Corp.
4,150,000,000
2,230,890,000
Mortenson
2,220,000,000
Balfour Beatty US
2,070,776,637
McCarthy Holdings
1,897,000,000
Holder Construction
1,651,000,000
Lend Lease
1,264,115,151
10
Hoffman Corp.
1,165,887,387
11
Walsh Group, The
1,128,436,530
12
1,100,346,901
13
1,097,865,953
14
Clayco
820,000,000
15
DPR Construction
691,319,178
16
Swinerton
653,859,000
17
622,414,000
18
621,498,214
19
Structure Tone
606,850,000
20
566,300,000
21
Weitz Co., The
560,000,000
22
549,029,000
23
Austin Industries
547,065,203
24
Power Construction
530,000,000
25
Brasfield & Gorrie
504,676,926
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work on BIM through higher-end processors and central servers, says President
Mark Hebden, AIA, LEED AP.
EYP Architecture & Engineering adopted
BIM in 2006, and it has become a core
competency. One unexpected benet: BIM
integration has created more opportunities
for younger tech-savvy staff to collaborate
with senior technical team members, says
John Pocorobba, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP,
Chief Operations Ofcer.
It becomes apparent which market sectors are embracing BIM, said Greg Lyon,
Vice President and Director of Business
Development at Nadel Architects, whose
HKSs Virtual Theater, housed in its Dallas ofce, is equipped with HP workstation computers that
are loaded with the latest BIM design software, such as Revit and Navisworks. The Virtual Theater
allows for more efcient team collaboration on a shared BIM model to ensure quality assurance and
clash detection, says Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, LEED AP, the rms Chair and CEO.
BIM work focuses on hospitality

and retail clients.
BIM implementation has
been a long-term effort and a
considerable one, says Phil
Harrison, FAIA, LEED AP, CEO
of Perkins+Will. The rm has
overcome the technical and
training issues and is now
Dustin Tiemeyer, Design Technology Manager,
focusing on innovations and
Peter Basso Associates
efciencies, he says.
Shepley Bulnch has been
using BIM since 2009 and now
and Revit Structure.
uses it for all projects. President Carole
President Steven Straus says Glumac
Wedge, FAIA, LEED AP, says BIM implemade an enormous investment in BIM
mentation has led to a deeper exploration
training and software development. BIM is
about how we approach our work, includa new technology that is improving cooring how we draw and how we schedule
dination, he says, but the software is not
our projects.
ready for prime time.
According to Graef CEO John Kissinger,
Not all contractors we work with are
We were early adopters. It was more difleveraging BIM. This means we have to
cult than we thought, but it is ingrained in
spend more time preparing drawings in
all areas of our practice now.
BIM than we normally would, says BPRH
SmithGroupJJR began transitioning to
President/CEO Brad Harmsen, AIA.
Revit in 2005, and is now demonstrating
The chief conclusion from this survey:
a return on its BIM investment. On a daily
BIM is here to stay, but be prepared to
basis, the rm peaks at around 310 concurinvest staff time and money to perfect it. +
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rent users on Revit Architecture, Revit MEP,
There are many ways BIM affects

your business: training, project
management, IT support, client
comprehension. Its not simply a
software upgrade.
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AEC rms ready to dive into public projects,

BUT THE SIZE OF THE POOL KEEPS SHRINKING
top 25
GOVERNMENT SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 Government Revenue ($)
HOK
143,334,571
Heery International
103,832,000
SmithGroupJJR
77,652,837
IBI Group
57,347,163
Perkins+Will
48,059,661
HDR Architecture
46,000,000
40,892,580
33,907,000
HNTB Architecture
31,338,712
10
PageSoutherlandPage
27,263,377
11
NBBJ
24,958,000
12
LEO A DALY
24,141,694
13
24,028,000
14
PGAL
24,018,100
15
18,900,000
16
ZGF Architects
17,653,791
17
RTKL Associates
17,075,180
18
DLR Group
17,000,000
Gensler
17,000,000
20
Moseley Architects
13,700,000
21
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners 12,450,000
22
Sasaki Associates
12,356,441
23
Cannon Design
12,000,000
24
KMD Architects
11,913,372
25
Fentress Architects
11,830,262
Inside the Beltway, the GSA, the National

Institutes of Health, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers are still posting RFPs, but theres
a sense that spending has been put on hold
to wait and see the outcome of the election,
says Barry Perkins, LEED AP BD+C, Vice
President Government Construction, James
G. Davis Construction Corp.Certainly the
size and type of projects has changed, with
more smaller renovations and retrots than
larger new construction, he says.
Were showing up to prebids and
competing against rms that never used to
pursue city or county work, says Dennis
Thompson, Executive Vice President for
Business Development, Manhattan Construction Co. Competition has increased ve- or
six-fold, so you see an erosion of fees.
The result: You have the same rms
chasing a smaller pool of projects, says
Len Vetrone, Webcor Builders Senior Vice
President for Public and Federal Work.
MAKING THE ADJUSTMENT

TO GOVERNMENT WORK
For newbies to federal work, learning how
to work with the bureaucracy can be an
eye-opener. When the economy went into
the tank in 2008, Pepper Construction
Group took on its rst two GSA projectsthe renovation of the Mies van der
Rohe-designed John C. Kluczynski Federal
Building, in Chicago, and the John Weld
Peck Federal Building, in Cincinnati.
Theres just an enormous amount of
paperwork, forms, and protocols that are
required on government jobs compared
to our private work, says Senior Vice
President Rich Tilghman, PE. We have
high-quality teams with lots of experience
renovating large buildings in the private
sector, and GSA recognized that, he says,
adding that the $100 million in revenue for
the two projects was certainly welcome.
Even rms with decades of federal civilian and military experience have to keep
COURTESY LITTLE
overnment work is scattered

among dozens of federal civilian
agencies, the Pentagon and the
military branches, the 50 states, and tens
of thousands of municipalities. The only
thing these disparate entities have in common is a tight hold on their pocketbooks.
With the federal stimulus having faded into
the ether, and with state and municipal collections of sales and property taxes down,
government construction at all levels will be
slow to recover.Well be lucky to see 2007
numbers by 2017, says Margaret Bowker,
Vice President, JE Dunn Construction.
The 100,000-sf Robeson County Department of Social Services, Lumberton, N.C., designed by
architecture rm Little, with John S. Clark Co. as GC, provides departmental ofces as well as adult
and child welfare services, a juvenile courtroom, inmate holding, training rooms, and a large assembly space. Three two-story structures are linked by a bridge. LEED certication is anticipated.
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The Richard E. Arnason Justice Center, Pittsburg, Calif. The 73,500-sf building was designed by
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top 25
GOVERNMENT SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
2,485,000,000
Fluor Corp.
1,127,862,000
Jacobs
924,100,000
URS Corp.
309,987,000
STV
133,396,000
Stantec
117,000,000
Dewberry
57,006,253
43,330,846
35,515,523
10
31,641,856
11
30,830,000
12
13
Walter P Moore
12,531,123
14
Coffman Engineers
12,400,000
15
SSOE Group
12,321,198
16
WSP USA
10,900,000
17
Arup
10,580,870
18
8,528,328
19
Sebesta Blomberg
8,450,225
20
Interface Engineering
8,103,067
21
Walker Parking Consultants
7,887,763
22
7,800,000
23
7,000,000
24
RMF Engineering
7,000,000
25
6,936,000
constantly attuned to client needs. Reynolds Smith & Hills has been designing and
maintaining facilities for NASA for 50 years.
Recently, the rm replaced almost 10,000
square feet of windows in the Launch Control Center at the Kennedy Space Center,
a highly sensitive project. NASA is a wonderful client, always looking for innovative
solutions, but you have to create a low-risk
environment for them, says RS&H Vice
President Richard Hammett, AIA, LEED AP.
Public-private partnerships are starting to catch on at the state and local
level, says Webcor Builders Vetrone.
Were talking to some of the cities we work
for in California which have major public
projects with no funding, looking at how P3
could make those a reality, he says. A recently awarded P3 for a courthouse in Long
Beach has attracted a lot of interest from
the local AEC community, he says.
Manhattan Constructions Thompson says
privatization seems to be gaining traction
with some federal clients. His rm is serving
as contracting partner in such a developer
leaseback scheme for a VA clinic in Grand
Rapids, Mich., with U.S. Federal Properties.
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Even with budget cuts, there will still be

public-sector jobs for AEC rms. For example, Webcor Builders Vetrone reports a
fair amount of aviation projects in California.
The big work at LAX and Sacramento has
been awarded, but SFO still has a fairly aggressive program, he says.
Manhattan Constructions Thompson says
some state and local government agencies
may be rethinking their procurement policies
because service and delivery quality have
top 25
GOVERNMENT SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Jacobs
2,268,320,925
924,100,000
Clark Group
850,491,577
Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The 749,080,537
669,080,000
Walsh Group, The
552,751,904
Skanska USA
550,758,448
Webcor Builders
484,567,966
10
Tutor Perini
385,311,000
11
Balfour Beatty US
341,774,742
12
URS Corp.
309,987,000
13
274,683,334
14
Alberici Corp.
247,423,509
736,199,000
15
245,007,223
16
Mortenson
233,863,000
17
Flintco
223,200,000
18
McCarthy Holdings
218,000,000
19
James G. Davis Construction
208,000,000
20
187,800,000
21
Ryan Companies US
156,858,437
22
DPR Construction
146,889,203
23
135,637,557
24
Sundt Construction
100,393,850
25
CORE Construction
94,340,532
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been affected by their reliance on superlow bidders. The trend is back to technical
qualications plus low price, but at least its
not just low price, he says.
Vetrone says Webcor Builders is being
pretty selective as to which government
projects it bids on. Were looking for clients
who want to hire on a best-value basis,
whether design-build or CM at risk, where
your qualications, technical competence,
and people count as much as your price,
he says.
More commissioning of government
and military buildings could also be a
godsend for AEC rms. Weve done
enhanced commissioning for the Air Force,
and were nding that the buildings have
a marked increase in performance, says
RS&Hs Hammett. If anything was a nobrainer, commissioning would be it.
Portfolio optimization is becoming much
more important to governments at all levels,
as they seek to reduce overhead while
improving employee productivity. Theyre
looking for a trifectaasset preservation,
sustainability, and innovative workplace solutions, says Becky Greco, Principal, HGA
Architects and Engineers. Public-sector clients want to emulate the corporate model of
better, faster, more cost-efcient, she says.
The negative trend were

seeing in government work
is that price is becoming
a greater driver in decision
making than best value.
Thats disappointing.
- Len Vetrone, Senior Vice President,
Webcor Builders
Lisa Bottom, a Principal at Gensler,

agrees. Government workplaces are
moving away from a hierarchical structure
and embracing an open plan based on
actual space usage and employee mobility
patterns, she says. The goal: exible ofces
that will meet current and future needs of
the workforce at all levels of government. +
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Reynolds Smith & Hills replaced 9,960 sf of windows at the Kennedy Space Centers Launch Control
Center. The rm, which has been performing work for NASA for more than 50 years, also completed
a cladding project and interior renovations at KSCs Vehicle Assembly Building. RS&H is also building a net-zero energy school at Fort Knox and is taking part in a net-zero waste effort with the DoD.
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rental market pushing service, community,

EVEN FOR FOUR-LEGGED TENANTS
top 25
MULTIFAMILY SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 Multifamily Revenue ($)
IBI Group
38,489,114
Niles Bolton Associates
13,772,650
12,000,000
RTKL Associates
11,397,556
WDG Architecture
9,817,297
Perkins Eastman
9,100,000
HOK
8,715,422
Perkins+Will
7,193,120
ZGF Architects
6,225,112
10
Cooper Carry
5,708,482
11
5,280,000
12
Ziegler Cooper Architects
4,853,598
13
4,800,000
14
PGAL
4,607,900
15
OZ Architecture
4,104,475
16
GBBN Architects
3,700,000
17
Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart,

Stewart & Associates
3,605,928
18
VOA Associates
3,367,000
19
Carrier Johnson + CULTURE
3,324,072
20
3,074,000
21
Gensler
2,800,000
22
2,600,000
23
FXFOWLE Architects
2,399,900
24
HKS
2,398,926
25
Mithun
1,906,000
as a preferred asset class in todays environment, says Dale Connor, Lend Leases
Managing Director, Project Management &
Construction, Americas. He sees developers playing catch-up to meet the growing
demand for apartments, especially in the
top ve rental markets: New York City,
Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, and
Los Angeles.
Savvy market-rate developers are looking
for locations around universities, innovation
incubators, and teaching hospitals, says
Ray Kimsey, AIA, LEED AP, President of
Atlanta-based Niles Bolton Associates. Land
that was once set aside for retail or ofce
development is being looked at for multifamily, especially if served by urban transit.
If you look at the hottest neighborhoods
around Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, or
Baltimore, they all have an inux of Gen-Y
people graduating and wanting to stay in
that environment, he says. Kimsey says

theres even a movement toward walk-up,
garden-style apartments in some suburbs
and second- and third-tier cities.
The use of urban inll sites is adding to
the popularity of podium-style multifamily
construction, says Mathew Dougherty, PE,
Vice President with McShane Construction, Rosemont, Ill. The podium stacks
uses vertically within the existing oor plate,
thereby allowing a mixed format of groundoor retail, parking oors, and residential
oor plates, he says.
According to John Lahey, AIA, Managing Principal at Chicago-based Solomon
Cordwell Buenz Associates, the rental market is being shaped by two factors: service
and community.
Service refers to the heightened demand for amenities: party rooms, surroundsound movie theaters, fully equipped tness
COURTESY MCSHANE CONSTRUCTION CORP.
xcept for a few pockets of ultraluxury condo actionNew York,

San Francisco, and parts of Florida,
Hawaii, and metro Washington, D.C.todays multifamily story is all about rentals.
The apartment sector has been a darling for
investors over the past two years, notes the
Urban Land Institute in its recent Real Estate
Consensus Forecast. Vacancy rates are at
an enticing 5.0%, and rental rates should be
up 5.0% this year, although ULI does forecast some slippage next year, to 4.0%.
Investors continue to view apartments
The Reserve at Evanston, a four-building, 193-unit luxury apartment community in Chicagos northern suburb. McShane Construction Corp. (GC) completed the 200,000-sf property for Atlantic Realty
Partners from a design by Yas/Fischel Architect and Pucciano + English (AOR). Amenities include
an outdoor pool, exercise room, cyber caf, private interior courtyards, and underground parking for
213 vehicles. Masonry/wood frame construction was employed to blend into the neighborhood.
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The Goodwynn at Town: Brookhaven, a ve-story, 372-unit luxury rental complex

near Atlanta with 54,300 sf of retail. Part of an Energy Star multifamily pilot project, it was designed by architect Niles Bolton Associates, with Jordan & Skala
Engineers (MEP) and Structural Consulting Group (SE), for developer/contractor
Lincoln Property Group.
People will like living closer

in, and units will get bigger,
something decent in size.
Theyll see a home as a place
in which to live, not necessarily as an investment.
John Lahey, AIA, Managing Principal,
Solomon Cordwell Buenz Associates
centers, mega-size video screens in common areas, computer golf games that let
you play any course in the world, I-GO car
rentalseven restaurant days, where a
local restaurant comes in and sells takeout
dinners one night a week.
There are even amenities for canine
occupants. People love their dogs, says
Lahey, so dog walks, dog parks, dog washing bays, and dog walking and grooming
services are becoming de rigueur in many

large (>400 units) complexes. People want
their lives to be easier, he says. They want
to be taken care of.
Tenants are demanding more green
amenities, says Kimsey. Expectations
about energy conservation and sustainable
features are now viewed as a basic right by
many tenants, he says. If they lived in a
LEED-certied residence hall in college they
want a LEED apartmentbut not if it costs
more than market rate.
Community refers to the renters need
for connection, says Lahey. In past decades, apartment dwellers put a premium
on privacy. Less so today. A lot of people
who move back into the city, theyre not
conrmed urban dwellers, and they want to
meet people, he says. The Starbucks in
your building becomes the meeting place to
get integrated into the larger community.
McShanes Dougherty says wi connectivity
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top 25
MULTIFAMILYSECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 25
MULTIFAMILY SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
STV
119,671,000
Lend Lease
734,160,150
36,000,000
Clark Group
612,803,196
32,800,000
Balfour Beatty US
441,602,518
URS Corp.
28,500,000
Walsh Group, The
342,877,063
23,620,000
WSP USA
17,200,000
Turner Corp., The
223,410,000
Jacobs
16,000,000
Swinerton
186,340,000
15,368,901
Harkins Builders
180,000,000
14,372,000
McShane Co., The
175,000,000
10
12,000,000
10
Yates Co., The
173,900,000
11
9,740,000
11
159,105,415
12
Thornton Tomasetti
7,610,000
12
Bernards
144,000,000
13
Stantec
6,345,000
13
Paric Corp.
138,000,000
14
Clark Nexsen
5,308,534
14
Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
137,700,000
15
Arup
4,600,161
15
Weis Builders
131,960,000
16
Coffman Engineers
4,000,000
16
CORE Construction
125,513,227
17
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
3,556,559
17
111,885,268
18
Rolf Jensen & Associates
2,600,000
18
Power Construction
106,000,000
19
Aon Fire Protection Engineering
2,250,000
19
Weitz Company., The
82,000,000
20
Smith Seckman Reid
2,227,000
20
Austin Industries
77,074,905
21
1,800,000
21
Brasfield & Gorrie
67,682,938
22
22
Absher Construction
61,807,647
23
Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers 1,500,000
23
James McHugh Construction
54,624,665
24
French & Parrello Associates
1,396,720
24
Bette Co., The
54,000,000
25
AKF Group
1,300,000
25
Choate Construction Co.
51,875,781
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has become a given in new and renovated

rental projects.
The design must be hot, says Kimsey.
The units themselves may be smaller,
tighter, but that means they must be more
elegant and efcient, with open layouts
and near-condo-like nishes. McShanes
Dougherty says granite countertops,
stainless steel appliances, upgraded
bathrooms, and high-quality ooring are
expected, even in suburban garden apartments. Developers are increasingly concerned about sound attenuation, he says,
so insulation choices, assembly details,
and materials selection are crucial.
Looking ahead, SCBs Lahey says that,
unlike the condo market, apartment development needs to be left to the prosrms
like AMLI, Avalon Bay, Equity Residential,
Forest City, The Habitat Company. They
have the track record, and they really do
know what theyre doing, he says.
The money is out there, says Kimsey,
but its split between smaller projects being
funded by S&Ls and smaller banks, and big
projects attracting institutional and privateequity investors. Holding back the pent-up
Oakwood 200 Squared, Chicago, a 43-story rental high-rise with 10,000 sf of retail space, a green
roof, and a two-story residential lobby, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz for Midwest Propety
Group, with ESD (MEP/FP), SpaceCo (CE), Sieben Energy Associates (LEED/Energy model), and
Lend Lease (GC). The 600,000-sf planned unit development is pursuing LEED certication.
demand: anemic job creation, which limits

new household formation.
Even with low mortgage rates, many potential buyers have become skittish about
purchasing a home, says Lend Leases
Connor. SCBs Lahey cites mobility as another factor in rentals favor, especially with
the younger generation.
People will like living closer in, and units
will get bigger, something decent in size,
and theyll be willing to pay for it, he says.
Theyll see a home as a place in which to
live, not necessarily as an investment. +
-Robert Cassidy
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renovation resurgence cuts across sectors,

PUMPING FRESH BLOOD INTO TIRED SPACES
have timed the market and are pulling the

trigger on deals. The strategy: repositioningreskinning exteriors to make them
pop, sprucing up lobbies and core bathrooms, upgrading the lighting, air-conditioning, and elevators.
Mary Miano-Sleeper, Vice President/
Director of Corporate Development in the
Dallas ofce of PageSoutherlandPage, says
the growth in the rehabilitation of tired
spaces in Class B and B+ buildings is due
to the availability of capital that was on the
sidelines waiting for distressed assets to be
vetted and put back into play.
Wight & Co. has been getting a good
share of our work out of renovations, notably for college and K-12 structures of the
60s and 70s, says Ken Osmun, PE, LEED
KEITH WILLIAMS, PHOTOGRAPHER / COURTESY STRUCTURE TONE
econstruction work is alive and

kicking for many AEC rms. Higher
education is huge for us, and
that sector just stopped spending when
the recession hit, recalls Mark DiNapoli,
President and General Manager (Northeast Region), Suffolk Construction. Now
were seeing projects starting to take off.
Healthcare, science and technology, and
commercial (ofce/retail/hospitality) are also
coming back in the Northeast, he says, as
clients think about how to transform their
existing buildings.
The reconstruction market has gotten
much busier, notes Karl Anoushian, Senior
Vice President and Director of Preconstruction Services at Structure Tone (00). The
smart landlords, the nancially stable ones,
New Yorks Marble Collegiate Church, designed by Samuel A. Warner (completed 1854). The church
was founded in 1628,. In the last century it was famous for sermons by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.
Structure Tone completed a major renovation last February. Construction teams had to remove (and
later reinstall) protective barriers every week so that Sunday services could be held.
BD+C, DBIA, Group President, Construction. The work often entails adding airconditioning, bringing buildings up to code,
and restoring their original appearance.
Most of the activity we are seeing is in
cities immediately adjacent to large cities,
says Mathew Dougherty, PE, Vice President, McShane Construction. High-density,
mixed-use urban inll developments with
substantial upgrading and direct access to
public transportation remain highly popular
with both tenants and developers, he says.
top 25
RECONSTRUCTION SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 Reconstruction Revenue ($)
HOK
Cannon Design
133,348,629
48,332,935
SmithGroupJJR
44,275,000
ZGF Architects
38,566,000
27,662,548
PageSoutherlandPage
27,585,000
26,910,000
RSP Architects
26,190,000
10
EwingCole
25,500,000
11
Corgan Associates
23,850,000
12
23,276,400
13
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners 22,700,000
14
21,690,000
15
RBB Architects
20,370,000
16
17,764,184
17
16,800,000
18
BSA LifeStructures
15,860,773
19
Albert Kahn Family of Companies
14,000,000
20
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
12,500,000
21
Fletcher Thompson
12,300,000
22
Baskervill
11,412,700
23
11,000,000
24
Wight & Co.
10,027,500
25
Ennead Architects
93,000,000
9,944,000
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Shawmut Design & Construction led the 70,000-sf expansion/renovation of Bostons

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, from a design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Four oating pavilions (with oxidized copper panel skin) house a new 300-seat performance hall, a 1,500-sf special exhibition gallery, a studio classroom, a caf, a retail
shop, a conservation laboratory, and a greenhouse. LEED certication is targeted.
MAKING THE DEALS WORK

AEC rms have to help clients capture available funds, such as historic tax credits, says
Suffolks DiNapoli. We provide detailed cost
information every month so that they can
collect their funds, he says. Were much
more involved at an early stage on these
projects, to help with nancing.
In older cities like Boston, infrastructure
usually has to be upgraded when a building is renovated. The utilities are requiring transformer vaults inside the buildings
instead of pad-mounted transformers,
says DiNapoli. Thats a hidden cost the client has to absorb, but its necessary to help
prevent brownouts.
AEC rms are making the business case
for reconstruction. Wight & Co. recently
completed the renovation of a 70-year-old

college residence hall that came in at onethird the cost of new construction. Our
clients have limited budgets, so renovation
can help them manage their resources,
says Osmun.
Structure Tones global procurement
process provides dollar savings and accelerated product delivery for clients. The
rm also uses its contractor-controlled
insurance program and subcontractor
qualication process to hold down costs.
Were big in cost segregation, which can
have real tax advantages for the owner,
says Anoushian, whose rm does 800-900
reconstruction projects a year. We try to
offer the client the best savings over the life
of the project.
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The second half of 2012 will continue to

show slow but steady growth in reconstruction, says PageSoutherlandPages
Miano-Sleeper.
After dropping their fees just to retain
their people, subcontractors are trying to
make a recovery, says Suffolks DiNapoli.
Were denitely seeing price escalation
from subs, 6-8%, and its been a little startling for our clientsand for us.
Wight & Co.s Osmun says, Our estimators are saying its a 2% increase overall in
the last year. We have to sharpen our pencils more than ever. We have to be smart,
and we cant make a mistake in the eld.
Firms need to develop ways to meet
client needs for remodels and expansions,
says D. Bruce Henley, AIA, LEED AP, DBIA,
Principal/Ofce Director with Dewberry. It
will mean survival for many. +
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top 25
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
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Rank Company
to articulate to clients what theyre actually

going to get, says Osmun. There may be
piping that will affect actual ceiling height,
or a column that cant be removed. This
helps establish client expectations more
realistically, before we start the work.
Structure Tone routinely uses geothermal
and ice-storage technology on ofce renovations. Major nancial institutions have
huge data demands, and you have to keep
their data centers at 60 degrees [Fahrenheit], says Anoushian.
For a 420-bed hostel in Boston, Suffolk

laser-scanned the interiors of all six oors of
a landmark building and created a Revitbased BIM model that informed the design.
In reconstruction, the unknown is more
important than the known, says DiNapoli.
We need to provide clients with as much
information as possible, set budgets with
appropriate contingencies for unknowns,
and plan, plan, plan.
Were doing animated ythroughs on
our renovation jobs, using Revit and 3D,
WARREN JAGGER PHOTOGRAPHY / COURTESY SUFFOLK CONSTRUCTION CO.
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SUBCONTRACTOR COSTS
Suffolk Construction managed the transformation of a four-story ofce building into the
$37 million, 137,000-sf Warren Alpert Medical
School at Brown University. Ellenzweig (architect), BR+A Consulting Engineers (MEP), Odeh
Engineers (SE), VHB/Vanasse Hangen Brustlin
(CE), and Hughes Associates rounded out the
design-build team. Target: LEED Gold.
GIANTS 300 INDEX

URS Corp.
1,945,200,000
2,149,930,000
Jacobs
1,810,600,000
URS Corp.
1,945,200,000
STV
275,000,000
Jacobs
1,810,600,000
Stantec
235,000,000
Structure Tone
1,699,180,000
64,080,000
1,476,646,000
Dewberry
63,384,145
465,000,000
Middough
51,750,000
Holder Construction
350,000,000
41,490,000
Swinerton
326,929,500
40,121,834
238,619,421
10
Thornton Tomasetti
31,708,579
10
Walbridge
216,975,000
11
Henderson Engineers
31,000,000
11
Ryan Companies US
210,943,550
12
30,374,875
12
Power Construction
207,000,000
13
Sebesta Blomberg
30,271,508
13
Weitz Co., The
179,880,756
14
14
Walsh Group, The
161,205,219
15
Clark Nexsen
20,407,051
15
W. M. Jordan Co.
137,277,920
16
RMF Engineering
20,403,000
16
ONeil Industries/W.E. ONeil
130,140,000
17
18,750,730
17
Bernards
113,894,000
18
16,000,000
18
KBE Building Corp.
102,083,867
19
15,184,500
19
EMJ Corp.
100,905,397
20
20
Robins & Morton
89,106,900
21
Dunham Associates
13,500,000
21
Clayco
82,000,000
22
13,463,203
22
Layton Construction
75,200,000
23
Degenkolb Engineers
11,920,636
23
75,000,000
24
Henneman Engineering
10,800,000
24
Kitchell
71,070,000
25
Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers 9,707,771
25
Doster Construction
66,202,115
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Gensler, Stantec, Turner lead green rms
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ith the green building movement now

in its second decade, Giants 300 rms
have made sustainability comparable to
breathing. They do it automatically.
New this year: charts showing the total
number of green accredited staffin addition to
LEED APs and LEED Green Associates, the total
includes Certied Energy Auditors and Managers, Certied Sustainable Building Advisors,
Green Advantage Certied Professionals, Green
Globes Assessors and Professionals, Green Roof
Professionals, and High-Performance Building
Design Professionals.
Note: An AEC professional who is, for example,
both a LEED AP and a CEM would be counted in
both categories.
At www.BDCnetwork.com/giants300/2012,
youll nd rankings of green accredited professionals as a percentage of total employees in the
rm. We did this to recognize smaller rms that
have a high percentage of green-certied staff.
The 180,000-sf LEED Gold Genzyme Corporation

Biologics Support Center in Framingham, Mass.
Thornton Tomasetti provided engineering services
for the project and Fore Solutions, the green building
consulting company acquired by Thornton Tomasetti
in 2012, provided LEED consulting services. The sixstory laboratory was completed in 2011 as part of the
master expansion plan for the corporate campus.
top 10
GREEN BUILDING
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 10
GREEN BUILDING
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 10
GREEN BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 Green Revenue ($)
Gensler
392,000,000
Stantec
189,400,000
4,540,280,000
165,750,000
URS Corp.
137,048,000
URS Corp.
3,875,000,000
HOK
164,680,868
118,000,000
Clark Group
2,324,000,000
HDR Architecture
137,120,000
Jacobs
102,496,836
Balfour Beatty US
2,137,850,000
Perkins+Will
131,350,000
Arup
60,960,000
2,085,018,000
HKS
119,325,668
50,000,000
NBBJ
106,167,000
Burns & McDonnell
43,747,479
1,730,300,000
ZGF Architects
75,600,000
43,150,000
1,476,940,000
HNTB Architecture
62,139,956
WSP USA
34,500,000
Holder Construction
1,061,000,000
10
RTKL Associates
60,000,000
10
34,400,000
10
Barton Malow Co.
1,005,440,388
top 10
GREEN ACCREDITED STAFF
AT ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 10
AT ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 10
AT CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Rank Company
Gensler
Total Green Accredited Staff
1211
914
1251
Perkins+Will
986
Stantec
664
Jones Lang LaSalle
1250
HOK
854
Jacobs
559
481
HDR Architecture
802
URS Corp.
501
Balfour Beatty US
446
Cannon Design
397
Burns & McDonnell
272
McCarthy Holdings
407
SmithGroupJJR
367
Arup
233
DPR Construction
399
HKS, Inc.
342
223
390
IBI Group
313
WSP USA
200
Clark Group
355
RTKL Associates
242
Clark Nexsen
191
336
10
235
10
Dewberry
178
10
325
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rms bracing for DoD cuts
COURTESY LEO A DALY
56
ith the funding for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) pretty
much dwindling away, Giants rms
that perform work for the Pentagon and the
military branches can expect fairly signicant
cuts in project spending in the next year or so.
The proposed military construction budget for FY2013 is $11.2 billion, down 24%
from the previous scal year. Election-year
politics could also have a chilling effect on
spending, adding to the uncertainty.
Nonetheless, the military remains a huge
LEO A DALY, in a design-build project with
Kiewit Construction, provided design and
engineering services for the 152,000-sf Soldier
Family Care Center for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers-Omaha District at Fort Carson, Colo.
consumer of design and construction services. DoDs portfolio of 300,000 buildings

totaling 2.2 billion sf is six times larger than
the General Services Administrations. With
energy costs running at $4 billion a year,
the Pentagon is taking aggressive steps to
cut operating costs for its facilities.
These efforts include pilot programs for
net-zero energy, water, and waste in military
facilities, as well as improved living facilities
for bachelor personnel and military families.
Construction of VA hospitals and long-term
care facilities likely will also be ramped up.
GIANTS 300 INDEX

top 25
MILITARY SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 25
MILITARY SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 25
MILITARY SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 Military Revenue ($)
HDR Architecture
99,700,000
Fluor Corp.
Heery International
43,475,000
URS Corp.
RTKL Associates
17,173,273
LEO A DALY
2,123,247,000
Clark Group
431,776,114
Balfour Beatty US
790,265,417
Gilbane Building
552,002,000
14,753,871
Jacobs
91,000,000
547,000,000
RSP Architects
11,000,000
69,450,000
Lend Lease
515,594,471
VOA Associates
9,590,331
Burns & McDonnell
54,856,212
URS Corp.
431,776,114
LS3P Associates
9,224,882
48,350,538
381,090,000
Sherlock, Smith & Adams
8,830,000
Clark Nexsen
41,000,000
Walsh Group, The
371,979,780
HOK
8,749,412
Allen & Shariff
38,323,273
10
Gensler
7,500,000
10
STV
15,475,000
10
Tutor Perini Corp.
292,764,000
11
EwingCole
7,000,000
11
12,169,598
11
Hunt Companies
263,617,817
12
6,300,000
12
Dewberry
11,401,250
12
Mortenson
262,560,000
13
HNTB Architecture
6,059,352
13
BRPH
10,500,000
13
245,661,074
14
Flad Architects
6,000,000
14
8,592,246
14
Weitz Co., The
227,710,000
15
ZGF Architects
5,137,746
15
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon
8,000,000
15
227,184,376
16
4,764,411
16
Guernsey
6,467,256
16
214,768,000
17
4,525,000
17
Smith Seckman Reid
6,400,000
17
Sundt Construction
172,519,845
18
KZF Design
3,913,026
18
KCI Technologies
5,795,000
18
Walbridge
134,300,000
19
PGAL
3,607,900
19
Newcomb & Boyd
4,696,144
19
Yates Co., Inc., The
133,900,000
20
3,003,900
20
4,000,000
20
CORE Construction
117,844,700
21
Fentress Architects
2,909,000
21
3,906,402
21
Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. 103,386,324
22
RNL
2,793,000
22
3,000,000
22
Haskell
94,752,188
23
Rosser International
2,592,113
23
Coffman Engineers
2,800,000
23
Jacobs
91,000,000
24
Cooper Carry
2,140,420
24
2,748,782
24
85,766,599
25
2,031,000
25
2,604,000
25
McCarthy Holdings
70,000,000
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COURTESY WATG
global boom for hotels; for retail, not so much
The 230-room InterContinental One Thousand

Island Lake Resort, in Qiandaohu Lake, China,
designed by WATG for the Wanxiang Group.
WATG, headquartered in Hawaii, did 96% of
its work outside the U.S. and Canada in 2011,
much of it in China. We are witnessing a
surge in demand for luxury hotel brands and
boutique offerings throughout Asia, says Raj
Chandnani, the rms Strategy Director.
igh-end hotels in the U.S. have been

having a good 2012 and can expect
to do even better next year, with
average daily room rates expected to be up
5.3% in 2013 compared to 4.7% this year
and the 2.8% long-term average, according
to PKF Hospitality Research. That bodes well
for rms doing hotel design and construction.
On the retail side, the ULI Center for
Capital Markets and Real Estate forecasts
vacancy rates to begin to turn around this
year, down to 12.5% in 2013. Retail rentals
should be up 2.0% next year, says the ULI.
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HOSPITALITY SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 10
RETAIL SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 Hospitality Revenue ($)
2011 Retail Revenue ($)
WATG
54,939,171
Gensler
84,700,000
Gensler
51,750,000
RTKL Associates
58,957,056
HKS
32,336,523
MulvannyG2 Architecture
42,033,036
HOK
18,287,163
WD Partners
35,294,000
Hnedak Bobo Group
14,580,025
32,686,910
tvsdesign
14,188,382
MBH Architects
30,541,000
RTKL Associates
13,970,968
RSP Architects
17,641,000
BLT Architects
12,200,000
16,630,000
BBG-BBGM
12,058,000
LawKingdon Architecture
15,600,000
10
Perkins Eastman
11,050,000
10
14,650,000
top 10
HOSPITALITY SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 10
RETAIL SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
296,000,000
17,600,000
Jacobs
60,550,000
9,000,000
Stantec
59,220,000
Arup
8,838,492
Henderson Engineers
47,600,000
Jacobs
6,310,000
URS Corp.
23,650,000
6,000,000
21,700,000
Thornton Tomasetti
5,850,000
18,562,000
WSP USA
5,300,000
Bergmann Associates
14,200,000
4,340,000
Science Applications Intl Corp.
11,860,000
10
Stantec
4,230,000
10
Wallace Engineering
top 25
HOSPITALITY SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
136,000,000
7,210,000
top 10
RETAIL SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Tutor Perini Corp.
839,703,000
Swinerton
243,415,560
276,700,000
Hardin Construction
239,457,598
188,344,721
Structure Tone
223,330,000
EMJ Corp.
164,437,662
Balfour Beatty US
170,785,709
Weitz Co., The
136,700,000
164,500,000
Structure Tone
97,500,000
Yates Co., The
137,600,000
ONeil Industries / W.E. ONeil
96,620,000
Weitz Co., The
118,200,000
Ryan Companies US
92,895,680
89,843,000
E.W. Howell
79,395,000
10
84,325,000
10
KBE Building Corp.
70,365,040
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M A R K ET
O P P O R T U NI T Y
SU M M A R Y
SOY-BASED ADHESIVES
Soy delivers lower costs, lower VOCs and higher profits
to the wood products industry.
THE PRODUCTS
STATE OF THE ART
Soy-protein-based wood adhesives have been used for centuries.

Since World War II, they have been largely replaced by petroleum-based
adhesives with superior performance and economics. Current research is
focused on developing and commercializing two soy products.
1. A soy/phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde (PRF) system for use in
oriented strand board (OSB) and plywood.
Most USB-sponsored research has concentrated on either reducing

formaldehyde emissions in UF-produced wood composites or
reducing the costs of using phenol in structural wood composites
such as OSB and softwood plywood.
RELATIVE ECONOMICS/SUPPLIES
2. A soy meal/flour formaldehyde-free adhesive to replace

UF adhesives.
EMERGING MARKETS
There appear to be emerging new markets for soy in heat-resistant
adhesives, biobased composites and enzymatic processing for new
soy hydrolyzates. Soy adhesives do perform very well in high-heat
testing of structural engineered wood products like finger joints and
I beams. These adhesives have been shown to have superior
heat resistance, prolonging the structural integrity of the wood
structure in a fire.
Soy proteins are being developed as a binder to provide a renewable,
plant-fibers-composite particleboard and medium density fiberboard.
These composites could be a cost-competitive, formaldehyde-free
solution to traditional wood composite particleboard and medium
density fiberboard.
The major adhesive resins used for wood-composite panels

contain phenol or urea, plus formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is made
from methanol, which is made from natural gas. Phenol is derived
from benzene and cumene, which are made from petroleum and
propylene, which is made from natural gas in most of the world.
Urea is a product of ammonia, which is primarily made from
natural gas and carbon dioxide.
Formaldehyde pricing is dependent on methanol, which has
fluctuated greatly in the last few years based on shortages
worldwide. Urea pricing rose due to increased costs of ammonia
then dropped significantly during the economic situation early in
2009. The costs of phenol are attributed to the cost of the base stock
petroleum, which has followed the same trends as urea.
Soy meal/flour costs have remained flat for many years, but they
recently increased due to increased demand for soy meal/flour. In
spite of these recent price increases, soy meal/flour remains an
inexpensive raw material for wood adhesives.
Iowa State University has developed an enzymatic approach to

making soy hydrolyzates that can be tailor-made to be used with
phenol formaldehyde resins in OSB and softwood plywood. The new
approach is more environmentally friendly and less expensive
than the traditional use of caustic and high-temperature and
high-pressure approaches.
New soy adhesives promise both improved performance and

economics to the wood products industry. They also have shown
to be excellent alternatives to urea-based products for interior
applications where legislation now restricts emissions of formaldehyde.
New applications have been found in the construction adhesives

and sealants markets. Bondaflex has introduced products that
were developed by replacing petrochemical polyols with soy-based
alternatives in urethane adhesives. The soy component has been
shown to offer improved adhesion on a wide variety of substrates.
USB supports research and testing to commercialize these products

and ensure they meet industry standards. Working with industry
partners, USB helps develop standard industry practices, an
infrastructure to supply the products and acceptance of the
resulting end products at all levels.
ADVANTAGES AND THE PATH FORWARD
For more information, visit: soynewuses.org

M A R K ET
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SU M M A R Y
HEALTHCARE REPORT
three important trends in hospital design

THAT HEALTHCARE GIANTS ARE WATCHING CLOSELY
he healthcare sector faces grave

nancial uncertainties, even with the
June 28 Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. To help us
sort out the factors impacting this lucrative
segment, we turned to Philip Tobey, a Fellow
of both the AIA and the American College
of Healthcare Architects and Senior Vice
President with SmithGroupJJR.
Health industry providers legitimately
expect signicant efciencies and lower
costs for design and construction services,
to go along with the economies that they
themselves face with tighter and value-
based reimbursement terms under health

reform, says Tobey, a member of Building
Design+Constructions Editorial Board.
In other words, AEC rms are going to
have to share some of their healthcare clients
pain. The drive for greater operational efciency and lower cost in healthcare will be unrelenting, with bundled payments and shared
savings models in lieu of traditional fee-forservice reimbursement forcing healthcare
providers to eliminate wasteful practices.
Tobey sees three major trends emerging:
1) growing emphasis on ambulatory care,
2) medical systems integration, and 3) the
bundling/unbundling of services.
top 25
HEALTHCARE SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
1. PUSHING AMBULATORY
CARE FACILITIES OUT
Rank Company
60
2011 Healthcare Revenue ($)
HDR Architecture
205,200,000
HKS
124,736,964
Perkins+Will
122,895,589
Cannon Design
121,000,000
NBBJ
116,401,000
HOK
102,695,248
SmithGroupJJR
74,600,000
RTKL Associates
68,421,405
Perkins Eastman
63,700,000
10
61,900,000
11
ZGF Architects
54,338,355
12
Heery International
48,583,000
13
HMC Architects
42,715,899
14
PageSoutherlandPage
38,670,000
15
IBI Group
37,349,554
16
33,950,000
17
FKP Architects
33,947,200
18
32,876,981
19
FreemanWhite
28,500,000
RBB Architects
28,500,000
21
LEO A DALY
26,900,325
22
BSA LifeStructures
26,323,759
23
EwingCole
24,000,000
24
KMD Architects
20,161,678
25
Ennead Architects
19,875,000
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The trend to push services out of the

hospital into ambulatory settings will only
intensify, says Tobey. He notes, however,
that there will be an overwhelming need
to expand the front end of deliveryprimary care, urgent care, and emergency
departmentsand to rationalize procedural
and imaging resource capacity. At the same
time, freestanding surgery and imaging
centers may not be as prevalent in the future, and may need to be consolidated into
larger hospital centers.
Hospitals are not going away, says

Tobey, even though inpatient volumes are
predicted to fall 5%, vs. 30% growth in outpatient volume. The sheer increased volume
of patients, especially as baby boomers age,
will inevitably drive up acute-care admissions.
In the face of these seemingly countervailing
trends, says Tobey, The need to renovate
outdated or obsolete facilities will be a strong
driver in the healthcare business.
2. INTEGRATING MEDICAL
SYSTEMS MORE TIGHTLY
Tobey says the need for greater efciency
and ever-higher quality of care are not new
goals for medical care or medical design,
but hospital systems are being encouraged
further by healthcare reform to streamline
processes, with more mergers, acquisitions, and hospital-physician staff integrations on the horizon. The industrys even
been talking about including services like
long-term care and home care into this integrated approach, he says.
Although there will always be a need for
acute-care hospitals, Tobey sees a possible shift toward more community-based
portals. As health systems continue to integrate, they will rely more and more on treatment venues outside the hospital to provide
ARE HOSPITALS READY for lean?

Everybodys talking about it, but many hospital owners are wary of taking on lean, says
SmithGroupJJRs Phil Tobey, FAIA, FACHA, whose firm is on the team for Sutter Healths California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, the largest lean project in the U.S. You have
Sutter, which is totally lean, then you have clients who tell us not even to mention the word,
he says. Others are applying the basic principles of lean construction without carrying the
heavy weight of all that lean entails.
Applying Lean/Six Sigma principles to healthcare, says Jeffrey C. Stouffer, AIA, a Principal with
HKS, would result in measurable outcomes and even risk sharing as part of the design and construction process by eliminating unnecessary waste in construction and operations and increasing staff efficiency and safety, while reducing energy and staff costs for the hospital.
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Charles D. Dalluge,
Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, EVP, LEO A DALY
patients with coordinated preventive care

and treatment for chronic conditions.
The IT component of hospital systems
is already a natural for systems integration.
Providing the right information where its
needed is essential for clinical care, says
Tobey, who foresees greater implementation of electronic medical records.
3. UNBUNDLING/BUNDLING
OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Healthcare providers are decanting
non-core functionsservices like pharmacy, lab support, materials handling, and
environmental managementfrom the
mother ship into cheaper B-occupancy
buildings. Anything soft, anything thats
not high-tech, is being taken out, says
Tobey. Thats the unbundling.
However, once the unbundling of less-intense services has been accomplished, says
Tobey, some hospital systems are opting
to bundle the remaining hospital space, by
placing beds back on top of the structures
base diagnostic and support block, instead
of having the traditional diagnostic/support
chassis with attached nursing wings.
You unbundle and decant the support
services, then take the remaining highintensity hospital base and put the beds
BENNY CHANG/FOTOWORKS
For existing facilities, there

will be an ongoing need to
modernize aging structures
to create efciencies in
patient care, accommodate
new medical technology,
and perform seismic upgrades for safety.
OR suite in the 465-bed Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Phase 2 is under construction. Building Team: SmithGroupJJR (architect, medical planner, programming, lighting, interior design, landscape architect), Rudolph and Sletten (GC, phase 1), Whiting-Turner (GC, phase 2),
Degenkolb Engineers (SE), Ted Jacobs Engineering Group (MEP), and Mollenhauer Group (CE).
top 25
HEALTHCARE SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 25
HEALTHCARE SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
314,000,000
1,807,050,000
Stantec
109,980,000
McCarthy Holdings
1,231,000,000
URS Corp.
41,298,918
1,091,777,000
Smith Seckman Reid
38,300,000
Clark Group
1,067,411,678
Jacobs
32,950,000
869,130,091
30,600,000
Brasfield & Gorrie
833,522,003
28,000,000
Skanska USA
724,418,042

TTG|TMAD TAYLOR & GAINES
27,677,900
636,206,095
Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch
24,988,296
Robins & Morton
599,073,000
10
Degenkolb Engineers
22,454,591
10
DPR Construction
588,199,172
11
Allen & Shariff
21,577,769
11
12
12
Mortenson
13
ccrd partners
17,100,000
13
Lend Lease
434,626,482
14
16,173,240
14
425,760,000
15
AKF Group
15,200,000
15
420,343,563
16
14,607,369
16
415,064,000
17
14,462,238
17
Tutor Perini Corp.
409,583,000
18
Zak Companies
13,882,705
18
Balfour Beatty US
389,253,907
19
13,874,283
19
369,500,000
20
Dewberry
10,613,564
20
Hoar Construction
313,937,000
21
Thornton Tomasetti
9,860,000
21
Flintco
291,400,000
22
Sparling
9,658,825
22
Layton Construction
287,300,000
23
Walter P Moore
7,718,326
23
HBE Corp.
279,200,000
24
M/E Engineering
7,700,000
24
Power Construction
275,000,000
25
Rutherford & Chekene
7,650,000
25
Swinerton
274,627,440
on top, says Tobey. A recent study for a

100-bed community hospital found that following such a scheme would result in 39%
savings in construction costs per bed. +
Robert Cassidy
455,620,000
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UNIVERSITY REPORT
higher education market holding steady,

BUT DONT LOOK FOR A FLOOD OF NEW WORK
KAT NANIA, SHEPLEY BULFINCH
igher education has historically

been a mainstay for many AEC
rms, but the economic downturn
forced many colleges and universities to
stretch out, stall, or even cancel capital
projects. One positive sign is the June 13
announcement by Harvard University that it
will resume development of its 500,000- to
600,000-sf Allston Health and Life Science
Center in 2014, after halting construction in
2009. The estimated $1 billion-plus in work
has AEC rms champing at the bit.
Is the Harvard announcement a sign of
good things to come? Maybe. Maybe not.
Carole Wedge, FAIA, LEED AP, President
of Shepley Bulnch Richardson & Abbott,
says university capital budgets look like
theyll be tight for some time to come.
The Learning Commons for Atlanta University Centers Robert W. Woodruff Library. The
renovated space was designed by Shepley
Bulnch and built by Turner Construction Special Projects. Silverman Construction Program
Management was also on the Building Team.
Shepley Bulnch won the Single Space category at the 2012 IIDA Library Interior Design
Competition for the project.
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JULY 2012
Were seeing higher-ed clients looking

for ways to be smart about their capital
investments, she says. More than simply
prioritizing their capital spending, they want
to determine the most impactful projects for
their campuses.
Chris Brasier, FAIA, LEED AP, Vice
President of Clark Nexsen Architecture
& Engineering, says he has seen greater
activity in master planning and advanced
planning for future projects, as well as more
deferred maintenance work. With endowments and state funding still recovering
from the great recession, existing facilities
are being repurposed with greater emphasis on exibility to accommodate a broad
range of instructional activity within a single
space, he says.
Flexibility is the catchword in collegiate facilities these days. Shepley Bulnchs Wedge cites interdisciplinary science
facilities like the future Harvards Allston
science center, which will house facilities
for stem cell science as well as engineering
and physical sciences, and the new College
of Design, Engineering, and Commerce at
Philadelphia University.
Brad Lukanic, AIA, LEED AP, Principal at
Cannon Design, has noticed a trend toward
exibility at community colleges. Space
is at a premium, and we need to design
buildings that offer learning everywhere,
he says. The focus must go beyond just
the classroom, even into the corridors and
collaboration spaces. Everything must be
exible and ready for learning all the time,
he says.
STRETCHING BEYOND LEED

Universities are seeking more bang for the
buck in terms of sustainability as well. Clark
Nexsens Brasier says collegiate clients are
demanding more than LEED certication:
top 25
UNIVERSITY SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 University Revenue ($)
Cannon Design
87,000,000
Perkins+Will
44,649,973
ZGF Architects
31,513,344
24,958,224
SmithGroupJJR
23,100,000
HOK
22,759,496
Shepley Bulfinch Richardson & Abbott 22,234,000
IBI Group
22,136,504
Gensler
19,250,500
10
17,783,000
11
Ballinger
17,460,661
12
SHW Group
16,273,552
13
16,200,000
14
HMC Architects
15,882,470
15
Sasaki Associates
14,861,566
16
Flad Architects
14,440,000
17
HNTB Architecture
13,220,652
18
DLR Group
13,140,000
19
Perkins Eastman
13,000,000
20
Ennead Architects
11,600,000
21
10,658,510
22
BSA LifeStructures
10,303,967
23
Heery International
9,536,000
24
LPA
9,469,765
25
Moseley Architects
9,140,000
Theyre expecting a bottom-line benet in

terms of reduced operating costs, especially
through improved energy performance.
ZGF Architects Partner Ted Hyman,
FAIA, agrees that clients are looking to
sustainable design as a means to trim O&M
costs, but says they dont necessarily want
to pay more for green buildings. Using an
integrated design approach and new analytical tools for performance modeling, we
are nding we can deliver high-performance
buildings at the same, or even lower, capital
costs, he says.
With some 677 institutions having
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TRACKING THE TRENDS

Specic academic building types are experiencing change, according to Clark Nexsens Brasier. For example, the demand on
campuses for more robust digital capacity
is resulting in larger, more complex data
centers. Libraries are lling up with team
rooms, not only to foster greater collaboration among students, but also to provide
advanced computer technology that most
students cant afford.
Gen Y students also have high expectations for residence halls, according to Clark
Nexsens Operations Director Peter Aranyi,
AIA, and Senior Architect Ken Gallaugher,
AIA, LEED AP BD+C. From personal bathrooms to high-speed Internet access and
at-screen TVs, they expect privacy and a
live-and-learn community atmosphere.
Security is also a top priority, so res hall
locks have gone wireless.
With jobs in short supply, more collegians are going to school year-round. This
presents an operations hurdle for university
facilities staff and construction rms that
would normally use the summer months to
repair and update facilities.
Interest in the use of building information modeling is also picking up,
especially in the design and construction of
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HENRY CABALA PHOTOGRAPHY/ COURTESY OF BERNARDS
signed the American College & University

Presidents Climate Commitment, achieving
carbon neutrality is the ultimate goal. Campuses are utilizing pilot projects to test implementation strategies on one building that
could then be rolled out across campus,
says Chris Flint Chatto, Assoc. AIA, LEED
AP. The ZGF Sustainable Design Associate
points to his rms design for the University
of Washingtons Molecular Engineering
& Sciences building, which uses natural
ventilation and phase change materials to
eliminate cooling needs for faculty ofces.
The Kravis Center at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. The 169,000-sf building was
designed by Rafael Violy Architects and built by Bernards. Other members of the Building Team
include Nabih Youssef & Associates, Andreasen Engineering, and IBE Consulting Engineers.
top 25
UNIVERSITY SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
top 25
UNIVERSITY SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
URS Corp.
85,600,000
M+W U.S.
908,412,342
Jacobs
75,100,000
847,038,000
Stantec
63,450,000
Turner Corp., The
748,000,000
63,000,000
682,884,910
29,899,688
Skanska USA
514,460,894
21,900,000
STV
19,765,000
Swinerton
302,950,000
Clark Nexsen
18,681,885
Balfour Beatty US
299,314,655
15,863,119
Structure Tone
275,420,000
10
13,707,500
10
Sundt Construction
254,698,897
11
Burns & McDonnell
13,430,931
11
247,500,000
12
11,117,473
12
236,307,786
13
11,000,000
13
McCarthy Holdings
217,000,000
14
Arup
10,604,123
14
W. M. Jordan Co.
191,930,824
15
15
179,900,000
16
8,690,000
16
Messer Construction
178,769,470
17
M/E Engineering
7,700,000
17
172,662,764
18
WSP USA
7,300,000
18
Flintco
171,600,000
19
Bergmann Associates
7,100,000
19
169,890,000
20
Dewberry
7,023,489
20
Tutor Perini Corp.
167,393,000
21
P2S Engineering
6,777,497
21
163,093,000
22
Sebesta Blomberg
6,695,924
22
Lend Lease
157,270,352
23
Stanley Consultants
6,100,000
23
156,030,000
24
RMF Engineering
6,000,000
24
Barton Malow
148,648,720
25
Heapy Engineering
5,869,055
25
Austin Industries
142,032,883
research facilities, says Angus Leary, Chief

Operating Ofcer, Northeast Region, Suffolk
Construction. For science and technology
projects, he says, BIM is basically a requirement, and his rm has begun utilizing
6D technology in this space.
Cautious optimism seems to be the
best way to describe the university market.
Suffolk Constructions Leary says his rm

is fairly bullish about work at institutions in
the Northeast. Allyn Stellmacher, Design
Partner at ZGF Architects, says the rm is
optimistic that this year is the last year of
the recession.
Fingers crossed. +
Nicole Bowling
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K-12 SCHOOLS REPORT
a lot of pent-up need, with optimism for 13
COURTESY BALFOUR BEATTY US
The $29 million Lady Bird Johnson Middle School, in Irving, Texas, isat 152,000 sfthe largest
net-zero energy public school in the U.S. and the rst in Texas. Designed by Corgan Associates and
constructed by Charter Builders, a Balfour Beatty company, it is expected to achieve LEED Gold
certication. The students use wireless laptops to reduce plug load and store their work on ash
drives to save paper. The geothermal system has 530 wells and 105 water-source heat pumps.
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top 25
K-12 SCHOOL SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 25
K-12 SCHOOL SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 K-12 Revenue ($)
2011 K-12 Revenue ($)
chool districts are demanding projectbased learning environments that use

a combination of extreme exibility
and the latest technology to support different
styles of learning, says Daniel R. Mader, AIA,
REFP, LEED AP, CEO of Fanning Howey.
Theres a lot of pent-up need out there,
but educational communities are waiting
for more proof of a recovery, says Mader.
There seems to be more optimism for being able to address capital needs in 2013.
High on school districts list: energyefcient design to lower O&M costs.
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top 25
K-12 SCHOOL SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
2011 K-12 Revenue ($)
DLR Group
38,000,000
URS Corp.
63,000,000
666,177,000
PBK
31,660,000
42,000,000
Balfour Beatty US
526,376,172
SHW Group
31,417,872
Jacobs
31,000,000
412,272,000
Fanning/Howey Associates
29,170,000
STV
24,338,000
McCarthy Holdings
383,000,000
HMC Architects
25,407,316
21,900,000
CORE Construction
232,866,651
LPA
20,630,363
BRPH
12,000,000
201,300,000
Heery International
20,499,000
TTG|TMAD Taylor & Gaines
11,521,550
181,349,159
IBI Group
20,154,278
Stantec
8,460,000
156,030,000
Perkins+Will
16,220,132
Dewberry
8,033,356
148,781,095
10
NAC|Architecture
15,340,409
10
Shive-Hattery
7,807,781
10
Skanska USA
141,153,171
11
Moseley Architects
15,230,000
11
5,289,070
11
Flintco
130,000,000
12
NTD Architecture
14,377,522
12
Birdsall Services Group
4,750,000
12
125,000,000
13
Perkins Eastman
14,300,000
13
James Posey Associates
4,700,000
13
Barton Malow
121,621,680
14
13,200,000
14
KCI Technologies
4,500,000
14
101,004,174
15
SMMA|Symmes Maini & McKee Associates 10,395,653
15
Aon Fire Protection Engineering
4,000,000
15
98,300,000
16
Corgan Associates
10,177,000
4,000,000
16
95,019,000
17
SEI Design Group
7,836,000
17
L.R. Kimball
3,962,000
17
C.W. Driver
93,913,000
18
FGM Architects
7,691,587
18
M/E Engineering
3,890,000
18
Sundt Construction
80,095,300
19
Fletcher-Thompson
7,500,000
19
Thornton Tomasetti
3,229,836
19
75,876,100
20
6,710,914
20
3,112,115
20
Doster Construction
75,831,418
21
Ashley McGraw Architects
6,460,000
21
Coffman Engineers
3,000,000
21
Tutor Perini Corp.
72,470,000
22
DLA Architects
5,240,000
22
AKF Group
2,800,000
22
Bernards
70,500,000
23
4,800,000
23
2,708,000
Walbridge
70,500,000
24
LS3P Associates
4,541,486
24
RDK Engineers
2,550,000
24
Clark Group
69,011,298
25
4,155,200
25
Middough
2,500,000
25
S. M. Wilson & Co.
63,746,990
JULY 2012
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OFFICE REPORT
s there life after death? Judging by the commercial ofce

sector, maybe there is. After several years in an advanced
stage of morbidity, propped up largely by tenant touts and
renovations, the ofce sector may be starting to show signs of
life. The ULI Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate recently
stated (based on data from CBRE) that the sector is expected
to show steady and substantial three-year improvements,
with vacancy rates declining from 15.4% this year, to 14.4% in
2013 and 12.3% by year-end 2014. Rental rates should be up
3.7% in 13, says the ULI.
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COURTESY WARE MALCOMB
touts, renovations
keep sector moving
Headquarters of 9to5 Seating, Hawthorne, Calif., a manufacturer of ergonomic ofce seating. The 100,000-sf ofce, manufacturing, and warehouse
facility, designed by Ware Malcomb, is targeted for LEED Gold certication.
LEED points came from browneld redevelopment, renewable energy (solar
panels), stormwater runoff control, a white roof, water-efcient landscaping,
40% water reduction, and 22% energy savings over conventional design.
top 25
OFFICE SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 25
OFFICE SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 25
OFFICE SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 Ofce Revenue ($)
Gensler
432,000,000
HOK
144,865,720
Perkins+Will
103,737,646
HDR Architecture
1,291,000,000
1,489,944,482
Jacobs
261,100,000
Clark Group
1,148,992,603
127,900,000
Structure Tone
1,004,320,000
40,800,000
Balfour Beatty US
825,948,471
40,030,000
URS Corp.
58,000,000
619,660,000
39,600,000
Burns & McDonnell
43,493,660
617,058,000
NBBJ
38,830,000
42,890,000
594,444,509
RTKL Associates
38,055,565
Stantec
42,300,000
589,000,000
Nelson
36,223,716
Dewberry
41,215,530
James G. Davis Construction Corp.
450,000,000
10
SmithGroupJJR
30,700,000
10
Thornton Tomasetti
34,780,000
10
Clayco
426,000,000
11
Heery International
29,004,000
11
WSP USA
34,500,000
11
388,644,645
12
PageSoutherlandPage
28,130,000
12
ESD/Environmental Systems Design
22,900,000
12
13
HLW International
26,750,000
13
Arup
19,146,849
13
Holder Construction
327,000,000
14
HNTB Architecture
25,231,479
14
18,504,074
14
Tutor Perini Corp.
312,940,000
15
Cannon Design
23,000,000
15
AKF Group
15,500,000
15
Weitz Company, The
302,418,397
16
IBI Group
22,391,853
16
Sebesta Blomberg
14,590,000
16
Ryan Companies US
288,463,756
17
20,000,000
17
GHT Limited
13,891,000
17
DPR Construction
261,922,722
18
Little
19,739,500
18
Clark Nexsen
13,029,482
18
Jacobs
261,100,000
19
LEO A DALY
16,832,770
19
Glumac
11,736,618
19
Webcor Builders
229,121,806
20
Ware Malcomb
16,762,000
20
10,000,000
20
Mortenson
221,980,000
21
DLR Group
14,000,000
21
9,354,500
21
Walsh Group, The
211,738,006
22
ZGF Architects
13,227,504
22
8,967,000
22
203,050,158
23
RSP Architects
13,151,000
23
RDK Engineers
8,835,000
23
197,357,000
24
HKS
12,227,874
24
7,757,000
24
Jones Lang LaSalle
180,000,000
25
Corgan Associates
12,109,000
25
Interface Engineering
7,290,488
25
Lend Lease
173,228,092
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DATA CENTERS REPORT
demand exploding
COURTESY SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Worldwide data center hardware spending will total $106.4 billion this year, up
from $98.9 billion in 2011, and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015, according to Gartner Inc. The largest data centers (those with more than 500 racks of equipment)
will increase their share of spending from 20% in 2010 to 26% in 2015, driven by
the cloud and the shift from internal data center provision to external provision.
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emand for data centers is exploding, says Raj

Gupta, PE, LEED AP, CEO of Environmental Systems
Design and emeritus member of BD+Cs Editorial
Board. According to Gartner Inc., in 2010, 2% of data centers
contained 52% of total data center oor space and accounted
for 63% of data center hardware spending. In 2015, 2% of
data centers will contain 60% of data center oor space and
account for 71% of data center hardware spending.
Traditional in-house enterprise data centers are under
attack, says Jon Hardcastle, Gartners research director.
Virtualization technologies are helping companies to utilize
their infrastructure more effectively, and data centers are
getting more efcient. The move to consolidated third-party
data centers is trimming the total number of midsize facilities, while large data centers are benetting from the rise of
cloud computing.
top 25
DATA CENTER SECTOR
ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
top 25
DATA CENTER SECTOR
ENGINEERING FIRMS
top 25
DATA CENTER SECTOR
CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
Rank Company
Rank Company
Rank Company
2011 Data Center Revenue ($)
Corgan Associates
22,854,000
Fluor Corp.
212,484,600
Holder Construction
Gensler
20,100,000
Jacobs
119,930,000
DPR Construction
1,293,000,000
HDR Architecture
16,000,000
43,577,806
434,435,518
LEO A DALY
14,753,871
URS Corp.
34,475,000
Whiting-Turner Contracting, The
393,539,085
PageSoutherlandPage
12,890,000
Merrick & Co.
31,500,000
Skanska USA
369,889,632
Integrated Design Group
11,436,000
AKF Group
10,500,000
304,900,000
4,200,000
10,035,923
Balfour Beatty US
277,879,080
RTKL Associates
3,840,295
7,400,000
Structure Tone
259,250,000
3,787,800
6,169,598
Jacobs
119,930,000
10
EwingCole
3,000,000
10
5,000,000
10
Gilbane Building
104,166,000
11
SMMA|Symmes Maini & McKee Associates 2,123,426
11
H.F. Lenz Co.
4,741,000
11
89,426,706
12
HLW International
1,900,000
12
Burns & McDonnell
4,500,000
12
Weitz Co., The
71,442,860
13
Fentress Architects
1,456,103
13
Stantec
4,230,000
13
James G. Davis Construction
60,000,000
14
Kirksey Architecture
1,379,269
14
Glumac
4,196,563
14
50,360,000
15
PGAL
1,096,000
15
15
Messer Construction
49,404,845
16
Heery International
808,000
16
Zak Companies
3,043,228
16
Hoffman Corp.
46,541,098
17
Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber
600,000
17
2,970,000
17
44,196,000
18
600,000
18
2,830,900
18
Brasfield & Gorrie
34,612,782
666,292,020
IBI Group
563,474
19
RMF Engineering
2,500,000
19
URS Corp.
34,475,000
20
H+L Architecture
537,059
20
ESD|Environmental Systems Design
2,450,000
20
Sundt Construction
28,801,944
21
Ware Malcomb
515,000
21
2,300,000
21
Kitchell
24,310,000
22
500,000
22
RDK Engineers
2,245,000
22
Ryan Companies US
23,664,942
23
HOK
426,798
23
Guernsey
2,041,552
23
Harkins Builders
21,000,000
24
350,000
24
Middough
1,750,000
24
20,000,000
25
234,347
25
M+W U.S.
1,654,867
Yates Companies., The
20,000,000
JULY 2012
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Revel is a $2.4-billion beachfront resort in Atlantic City,
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nightclub, retail spaces and restaurants, more than 1,800
guest rooms with ocean views, a performance venue with
capacity for more than 5,000 fans, a 50,000-sf warehouse
with full loading dock access, and a 7,000-vehicle parking
garage. The Building Team: design architect Arquitectonica,
architect of record BLT Architects, and construction
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A new 23,000-sf community center in Upper Manhattan is providing
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spaces for recreational, educational, and social programs. Programs
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basketball court, a performance stage, and an arts and crafts studio.
The $13-million Polo Grounds Community Center was completed
by a Building Team that included New York-based architects
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Tony Mancini, 610.688.5553, tmancini@sgcmail.com
AGC of America ............................................................. 39, 41 ....................... 775, 776
DIGITAL SALES DIRECTOR

Adam Grubb, 317.219.7546, agrubb@sgcmail.com
ARCAT............................................................................... 55 .............................. 783
E-MARKETING MANAGER
Aziz Ali, 847.391.1028, aali@sgcmail.com
Airolite Company................................................................ 15 .............................. 760
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR
David Schwer, 847.391.1039, dschwer@sgcmail.com
ClarkDietrich Building Systems ........................................... 24 .............................. 768
INTEGRATED MEDIA CONSULTANTS

Paul DeGrandis, 847.920.9510, pauld@accelmediasolutions.com
States: IA, IN, OH, WI
Andersen Windows ......................................................... 47, 49 ....................... 779, 780

AT&T Wireless .................................................................... 11 .............................. 756
Bluebeam Software ............................................................ 13 .............................. 758
Crane Composites ............................................................. 22 .............................. 766
DELL ................................................................................. 19 .............................. 763
Delta Faucet Company........................................................ 7 ............................... 754
Duro-Last Roong Inc .................................................. 51, 53, 70 ................ 781, 782, 786
Jeff Elliott, 616.846.4633, jelliott@sgcmail.com

States: IL, MI, Eastern Canada
Easi-Set Industries ............................................................. 35 .............................. 773
Beth Emerich, 203.316.9390, bemerich@sgcmail.com

States: CT, DC, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WV
JMC Steel Group ................................................................ 8 ............................... 755
Tim Gillerlain, 847.954.7916, tgillerlain@sgcmail.com

States: KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, OK, SD, TN, TX
Kawneer Company Inc ....................................................... 23 .............................. 767
Robert Reed, 630.460.2585, reedmedi@sbcglobal.net

States: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NM, NV,
OR, UT, WA, WY, Western Canada
MBCI .............................................................................. 27, 29 ....................... 769, 770
Michael Stein, 610.918.1828, mstein@sgcmail.com

States: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA
NCFI Polyurethanes ........................................................... 16 .............................. 761
EDUCATION AND AWARDS COORDINATOR

Heidi Riedl, 920.397.7056, hriedl@sgcmail.com
NanaWall Systems ............................................................. C4.............................. 789
INSIDE SALES MANAGER

Pete Pirocanac, 847.954.7935, ppirocanac@sgcmail.com
PPG Industries Inc .......................................................... 31, 70 ....................... 771, 787
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Tyler Moore, 317.218.3246, tmoore@sgcmail.com
ADVERTISING COORDINATOR
Lyn Hennessey, 847.954.7968, lhennessey@sgcmail.com
Excel Dryer, Inc. ................................................................. 21 .............................. 765

Johnsonite Inc ................................................................... 12 .............................. 757
Lubrizol Advanced Materials............................................... 37 .............................. 774
Modular Building Institute ................................................... 57 .............................. 784
Metallic Building Company ................................................. 17 .............................. 762
New Millennium................................................................... 6 ............................... 753
Pella Corp ........................................................................... 4 ............................... 752
Rinnai America Corp ........................................................ C2-3 ............................ 751
SAFTIFIRST .................................................................... 43, 45 ....................... 777, 778
Samsung Electronics America ............................................ C3.............................. 788
Siemens Building Technologies .......................................... 33 .............................. 772
Simpson Strong-Tie Co Inc ................................................ 20 .............................. 764
Trimble ............................................................................... 14 .............................. 759
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2DEFINE Architecture .............................................18
Allsteel ...................................................................12
Alten Construction ..................................................69
ANSI ......................................................................12
Arquitectonica .......................................................68
BLT Architects.........................................................68
Building Resources .................................................70
BWWO Architects....................................................71
c|a ARCHITECTS .....................................................21
Dalian Urban Planning & Design Institute .................18
Datum Gojer Engineers ...........................................22
Deutsch Architecture Group .....................................18
Dewberry................................................................22
Fenestration Manufacturers Association ...................12
Freese and Nichols .................................................22
George Langer Associates .......................................68
Green Building Initiative ...........................................12
GTM Architects .......................................................70
Hensel Phelps Construction Co. ..............................69
Hoffman Architects..................................................13
Joseph Wong Design Associates ..............................69
KLMK Group ...........................................................12
Living Building Challenge ........................................12
MDSzerbaty+Associates..........................................68
MHP Structural ......................................................21
Nitti Graycor ...........................................................18
Omni Construction ..................................................68
Perkins+Will ...........................................................13
Pringle Brandon ......................................................13
Purdy-McGuire .......................................................22
RJC Architects ........................................................69
Sally Swanson Architects.........................................69
SGI Construction Management ...............................69
Skyline Construction................................................12
Tishman Construction .............................................68
Turner Construction.................................................10
Window and Door Manufacturers Association ...........12
USGBC ...................................................................10
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green roofs, plaza decks, and waterproong applicationsespecially where its
moisture-resistant properties can be a benet. ACH Foam provides Foam-Control
Plus+ in 2x8-foot and 4x8-foot sheets up to 36 inches thick.
ACH Foam Technologies

CEILING PANELS
INCREASE FIRE RATING
Class-A re-rated panels from WoodTrac are available in three nishes:
Abbey Oak, Bank Alder, and White/Paintable. Panels can be installed
in any 2x2-foot or 2x4-foot suspended ceiling. The manufacturer has
provided three proles of moldings: Tear Drop, Colonial, and Cove.
Moldings can be installed over any 15/16-inch or one-inch-wide ceiling
grid. Panels can be combined with any molding prole and molding nish
to match the desired look. Class-A panels are made of 3/8-inch-thick
re-rated board laminated on both sides with high-denition micropaper.
WOODTRAC
SUNSHADES REDUCE SOLAR HEAT,

IMPROVE ENERGY PERFORMANCE
Architectural sunshades from Gamco include pre-engineered louver
blades, outrigger supports, and mounting brackets. The sunshade blades
are offered in several standard and custom shapes, including tubular
proles. Fabricated from lightweight aluminum, the sunshade blades are
available in anodized or a wide variety of painted nishes. Outriggers
are available in standard depths of 24 and 30 inches, as well as custom
sizes, in either stainless or painted steel to assure strength and durability.
Gamcos adaptable mounting bracket systems are used to securely anchor
the sunshade outriggers to the building faade.
GAMCO CORP.
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