Giants 300 Sports Facilities Report

The new Marlins Ballpark, located in Little Havana, Miami’s largest and most diverse neighborhood, opened in this past April. Situated atop the former location of the Orange Bowl, the $515 million, 928,000-sf LEED Gold ballpark pays tribute to Miami’s art deco heritage and grand majestic architecture, as well as its Caribbean influence and proximity to the Atlantic Ocean.

TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITIES SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS

Rank	Company	2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($)
1	Populous	81,200,000
2	HKS	15,181,855
3	Gensler	11,500,000
4	Heery International	9,080,000
5	HNTB Architecture	7,626,938
6	DLR Group	7,500,000
7	Perkins+Will	5,897,764
8	Solomon Cordwell Buenz	5,000,000
9	Wight & Company	4,932,700
10	EwingCole	4,000,000
11	PBK	3,140,000
12	NBBJ	2,681,000
13	Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Assoc.	2,612,714
14	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill	2,044,000
15	IBI Group	1,848,450
16	Sasaki Associates	1,812,490
17	ZGF Architects	1,698,520
18	Good Fulton & Farrell	1,369,740
19	Gould Evans	1,246,000
20	Tetra Tech Architects & Engineers	1,200,000
21	HDR Architecture	1,000,000
22	BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers	930,000
23	LPA	926,812
24	Rosser International	803,000
25	KZF Design	780,871

TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITIES SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS

Rank	Company	2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($)
1	Aecom Technology Corp.	217,000,000
2	Thornton Tomasetti	14,880,000
3	URS Corp.	14,000,000
4	Jacobs	8,310,000
5	WSP USA	6,500,000
6	Stantec	6,345,000
7	Magnusson Klemencic Associates	5,299,453
8	Walter P Moore	4,664,444
9	Smith Seckman Reid	4,100,000
10	Henderson Engineers	3,000,000
11	Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor	2,300,000
12	Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates	2,204,000
13	Dewberry	1,893,804
14	L.R. Kimball, a CDI Company	1,482,000
15	Simpson Gumpertz & Heger	1,380,000
16	TLC Engineering for Architecture	1,337,385
17	French & Parrello Associates	1,269,167
18	Guernsey	1,045,269
19	Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering	1,004,000
20	KPFF Consulting Engineers	1,000,000
21	TTG\|TMAD Taylor & Gaines	925,200
22	Clark Nexsen	856,991
23	Birdsall Services Group	850,000
24	Environmental Systems Design	830,000
25	RMH Group, Inc., The	816,401

TOP 25 SPORTS FACILITES SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS

Rank	Company	2011 Sports Facilities Revenue ($)
1	Turner Corporation, The	560,933,000
2	Hunt Construction Group	537,500,000
3	Mortenson Construction	293,720,000
4	PCL Construction Enterprises	284,986,506
5	Manhattan Construction Group	150,698,000
6	Barton Malow	121,621,680
7	Tutor Perini	119,151,000
8	Bernards	85,000,000
9	Flintco	65,400,000
10	Webcor Builders	63,165,105
11	Austin Industries	63,059,963
12	Suffolk Construction	44,306,488
13	Balfour Beatty US	42,992,640
14	Robins & Morton	38,500,000
15	Hoar Construction	36,854,000
16	CORE Construction	34,828,992
17	C.W. Driver	33,024,000
18	S. M. Wilson & Co.	24,642,795
19	Weitz Company, The	20,300,000
20	Skanska USA	19,147,583
21	Choate Construction	17,944,119
22	EMJ Corp.	17,735,406
23	Yates Companies, Inc., The	17,100,000
24	Hoffman Corp.	15,748,494
25	Linbeck Group	15,000,000

Learning objectives After reading this article, you should be able to: Understand issues of thermal performance and energy efficiency in relation to window and door systems; describe optimal detailing of the window-wall interface and how it contributes to building performance, sustainability, and occupant well-being; understand how durability contributes to sustainable windows/doors; and list sustainable O&M requirements for window and door systems.

| Jul 21, 2011

Falling Architecture Billings Index reflects decrease in design demands

This months Architecture Billings Index (ABI), provided by the American Institute of Architects, is almost a full point lower than last month’s reported score. June’s reading of 47.2 was short of the required 50 to achieve billings increases, making July’s reading of 46.3 an unwelcome sign of market tidings.