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| Project: Wachovia Corporate Tower, Charlotte, N.C.Photo: Courtesy Batson-Cook |
BD+C's annual Giants 300 list consists of U.S. firms that designed or constructed the largest volume of commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily residential buildings in 2008. Each spring, the editors survey the country's largest firms, ranking the top 300 across six categories: architects, architect/engineers, engineers, engineer/architects, contractors, and construction managers. Design firms are ranked on billings for work performed in-house. Contractors and construction managers are ranked on the value of construction put in place. For multi-year projects, only work from the survey year applies.
Please note: Civil engineering work (including roads and bridges), single-family homes, and certain building types (e.g., power plants, oil drilling rigs) are not included in BD+C's Giants 300 financial data.
| AECOM Technology Corp. | EA 2 |
| Affiliated Engineers | E 4 |
| Alberici Corp. | C 72 |
| Albert Kahn Associates | AE 30 |
| Allen & Shariff Corp. | E 51 |
| Anshen+Allen | A 17 |
| Arquitectonica | A 12 |
| Arup | EA 3 |
| Austin Industries | C 31 |
| B.L. Harbert International | C 59 |
| Baker and Associates | EA 25 |
| Bala Consulting Engineers | E 47 |
| Balfour Beatty Construction | C 16 |
| Ballinger | AE 40 |
| Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon | EA 31 |
| Barton Malow Co. | C 34, CM 8 |
| Baskervill | AE 51 |
| Batson-Cook Co. | C 65 |
| BBG-BBGM | A 25 |
| Beck Group | C 32 |
| BEI Associates | EA 38 |
| Benham Companies | EA 15 |
| Bergmann Associates, Architects | EA 34 |
| Engineers Planners Bernards | C 66 |
| Birdsall Services Group | E 27 |
| BLT Architects | A 27 |
| Boldt Company, The | C 48 |
| Bovis Lend Lease | C 2, CM 4 |
| Brasfield & Gorrie | C 18 |
| Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | E 39 |
| Brinjac Engineer | E 44 |
| BRPH Companies | EA 26 |
| BSA LifeStructures | AE 24 |
| Burns & McDonnell | EA 19 |
| Burt Hill | AE 6 |
| C. H. Guernsey & Co. | EA 39 |
| C.W. Driver | C 55 |
| Callison | A 3 |
| Cambridge Seven Associates | A 51 |
| Cannon Design | AE 8 |
| Carrier Johnson + Culture | A 49 |
| CASCO Diversified Corp. | AE 48 |
| CB Engineers | E 46 |
| CG Schmidt | CM 15 |
| CH2M HILL | EA 5 |
| Choate Construction Co. | C 47 |
| CJL Engineering | EA 40 |
| Clancy & Theys Construction Co. | C 56 |
| Clark Group | C 5 |
| Clark Nexsen | EA 22 |
| Clark, Richardson & Biskup Consulting Engineers | E 12 |
| Clayco | C 42 |
| Coakley & Williams Construction | C 78 |
| Coffman Engineers | E 28 |
| Cogdell Spencer Erdman | C 76 |
| Consigli Construction | C 75 |
| Cooper Carry | A 21 |
| CORE Construction Group | C 60 |
| Corgan Associates | A 16 |
| CTA Architects Engineers | AE 35 |
| Cubellis | AE 29 |
| Cuningham Group Architecture | A 46 |
| Davis, Bowen & Friedel | EA 37 |
| Day & Zimmermann International | EA 12 |
| Degenkolb Engineers | E 23 |
| Dewberry | EA 6 |
| DLR Group | AE 12 |
| DPR Construction | C 20 |
| Dunham Associates | E 41 |
| Durrant Group, The | AE 39 |
| E.W. Howell Co. | C 80 |
| Ellerbe Becket | AE 10 |
| EMJ Corp. | C 39 |
| Environmental Systems Design | E 17 |
| Epstein | AE 44 |
| EwingCole | AE 19 |
| EYP Architecture & Engineering | AE 26 |
| Facility Group | EA 33 |
| Fanning/Howey Associates | AE 34 |
| Fentress Architects | A 33 |
| FKP Architects | A 32 |
| Flad Architects | AE 22 |
| Fletcher-Thompson | AE 47 |
| Flintco Cos., The | C 23 |
| Fluor Corp. | C 29, E 2 |
| FRCH Design Worldwide | A 28 |
| FreemanWhite | AE 43 |
| FXFOWLE Architects | A 20 |
| Gensler | A 1 |
| GHT Limited | E 35 |
| Gilbane Building Co. | C 9, CM 6 |
| Glumac | E 20 |
| Goodwyn Mills and Cawood | A 41 |
| Gould Evans Associates | A 50 |
| GRAEF | EA 32 |
| Granary Associates | CM 12 |
| Gray Construction | C 61 |
| Graycor | C 51 |
| GreenbergFarrow | AE 42 |
| Gresham, Smith and Partners | AE 15 |
| GRW | EA 44 |
| H&M Company | C 71 |
| H.F. Lenz Co. | E 32 |
| Hammel, Green and Abrahamson | AE 14 |
| Harley Ellis Devereaux | AE 28 |
| Harvard Jolly | A 47 |
| Haskell Co., The | C 52 |
| HBE Corp. | C 70 |
| HDR Architecture | AE 3 |
| Heapy Engineering | E 33 |
| Heery International | AE 21, C 41, CM 14 |
| Henderson Engineers | E 7 |
| Henneman Engineering | E 34 |
| Hensel Phelps Construction | C 8 |
| Hill International | CM 3 |
| HITT Contracting | C 33 |
| Hixson Architecture, Engineering, Interiors | EA 35 |
| HKS | AE 4 |
| HLW International | AE 40 |
| HMC Architects | A 11 |
| HNTB | AE 13 |
| Hoar Construction | C 53 |
| Hoffman Construction | C 30 |
| HOK | AE 1 |
| Holder Construction Co. | C 26 |
| Hunt Building Co. | C 37 |
| Hunt Construction Group | C 15 |
| Ingenium Group | EA 13 |
| Interface Engineering | E 26 |
| Jacobs | C 4, CM 1, EA 1 |
| James G. Davis Construction | C 50 |
| James McHugh Construction | C 45 |
| James Posey Associates | E 45 |
| JE Dunn Construction Group | C 13 |
| Jerde Partnership, The | A 35 |
| John A. Martin & Associates | E 11 |
| Joseph R. Loring & Associates | E 37 |
| KBE Building Corp. (formerly Konover Construction) | C 79 |
| KCI Technologies | E 24 |
| Kirksey | A 52 |
| Kitchell Contractors | C 58 |
| KJWW Engineering Consultants | E 8 |
| KKE Architects | A 30 |
| KLH Engineers | E 50 |
| KlingStubbins | AE 16 |
| Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates | A 4 |
| KPFF Consulting Engineers | E 3 |
| Kraus-Anderson Construction | C 44, CM 18 |
| KTA Group | E 43 |
| L. Robert Kimball & Associates | EA 18 |
| L.F. Driscoll Co. | CM 9 |
| Lease Crutcher Lewis | C 62 |
| Leo A Daly | AE 9 |
| Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers | E 38 |
| Linbeck | CM 10 |
| Little | AE 23 |
| LPA | AE 33 |
| M/E Engineering | E 30 |
| M+W Zander | EA 23 |
| Magnusson Klemencic Associates | E 19 |
| Manhattan Construction | C 24 |
| Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch | E 21 |
| MBH Architects | A 40 |
| McCarthy Holdings | C 10 |
| McGough Construction | C 68 |
| McShane Construction | C 28 |
| M-E Engineers | E 15 |
| Merrick & Co. | EA 21 |
| Messer Construction | C 49 |
| Middough | EA 27 |
| Miron Construction | C 69 |
| Mithun | A 45 |
| Morris Architects | A 37 |
| Mortenson Construction | C 12, CM 20 |
| Moseley Architects | AE 37 |
| MulvannyG2 Architecture | A 13 |
| NAC Architecture | A 34 |
| Nadel Architects | A 42 |
| NBBJ | A 5 |
| Nelson | AE 18 |
| Newcomb & Boyd | E 31 |
| Niles Bolton Associates | A 44 |
| NTD Architecture | A 15 |
| O'Neil Industries | C 54 |
| Oltmans Consturction | C 77 |
| OWP/P | AE 27 |
| OZ Architecture | A 18 |
| PageSoutherlandPage | AE 11 |
| Paric Corp. | C 73 |
| Parsons Brinckerhoff | CM 5, EA 4 |
| Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor | EA 24 |
| PBK | AE 25 |
| PBS&J | EA 29 |
| PCL Construction Enterprises | C 6 |
| Pepper Construction Group | C 27 |
| Perkins Eastman | A 8 |
| Perkins+Will | A 2 |
| Perkowitz+Ruth Architects | A 19 |
| Peter Basso Associates | E 42 |
| PGAL | AE 32 |
| Polshek Partnership Architects | A 43 |
| Power Construction Company | CM 16 |
| Power Engineers | EA 41 |
| R.G. Vanderweil Engineers | E 9 |
| RBB Architects | A 38 |
| RDK Engineers | E 22 |
| Reynolds, Smith and Hills | AE 17 |
| RMH Group, The | E 49 |
| RMJM | A 6 |
| RNL Design | AE 52 |
| Robins & Morton | C 38 |
| Rolf Jensen & Associates | E 16 |
| Ross & Baruzzini | EA 36 |
| Rosser International | AE 49 |
| RSP Architects | A 26 |
| RTKL Associates | AE 5 |
| Rutherford & Chekene | E 36 |
| Ryan Companies US | C 40 |
| S. M. Wilson & Co. | C 64 |
| S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | AE 31 |
| Sasaki Associates | AE 20 |
| SBLM Architecture PC | AE 45 |
| SchenkelShultz | A 29 |
| Schirmer Engineering Corp. | E 14 |
| Shawmut Design and Construction | C 35 |
| Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott | A 23 |
| Shive-Hattery | EA 28 |
| SHW Group | A 36 |
| Simpson Gumpertz & Heger | EA 16 |
| Skanska USA Building | C 3 |
| Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | AE 2 |
| Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates | A 22 |
| Smith Seckman Reid | E 5 |
| SmithGroup | AE 7 |
| Solomon Cordwell Buenz | A 48 |
| Sparling | E 29 |
| Spectrum Engineers | EA 42 |
| SSOE | EA 11 |
| Stanley Consultants | EA 30 |
| Stantec | EA 7 |
| Stellar | C 63 |
| Structure Tone | C 11 |
| STV Group | CM 11, EA 9 |
| Suffolk Construction | C 21 |
| Sundt Construction | C 43 |
| Swinerton Inc. | C 19, CM 7 |
| Syska Hennessy Group | E 1 |
| Taylor | AE 50 |
| Teng & Associates | EA 20 |
| Thornton Tomasetti | EA 10 |
| Tishman Construction | CM 2 |
| TLC Engineering for Architecture | E 10 |
| TMAD Taylor & Gaines | E 13 |
| TRO Jung/Brannen | AE 38 |
| Turner | C 1, CM 17 |
| tvsdesign | A 10 |
| URS Corp. | CM 19, EA 8 |
| Vintage Archonics | EA 45 |
| VOA Associates | A 14 |
| W. M. Jordan Co. | C 67 |
| Walbridge | C 36, CM 13 |
| Walker Parking Consultants | EA 17 |
| Wallace Engineering | E 40 |
| Walsh Group, The | C 17 |
| Walter P Moore | E 6 |
| Walton Construction | C 46 |
| Ware Malcomb | A 24 |
| WATG | A 7 |
| WD Partners | AE 36 |
| Webcor Builders | C 14 |
| Weidlinger Associates | E 18 |
| Weis Builders | C 74 |
| Weitz Co., The | C 22 |
| Westlake Reed Leskosky | AE 46 |
| Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., The | C 7 |
| WHR Architects | A 39 |
| Wick Fisher White Engineers | E 48 |
| William A. Berry & Son | C 57 |
| Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates | EA 14 |
| WWCOT | A 31 |
| X-nth | E 25 |
| Yates Cos., The | C 25 |
| Zak Cos. | EA 43 |
| Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects | A 9 |
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