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

Investigators from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say they have found no evidence of underground voids on the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse, according to a new NIST report. The team of investigators have studied the site’s subsurface conditions to determine if sinkholes or excessive settling of the pile foundations might have caused the collapse.

Office Buildings | Sep 14, 2023

New York office revamp by Kohn Pedersen Fox features new façade raising occupant comfort, reducing energy use

The modernization of a mid-century Midtown Manhattan office tower features a new façade intended to improve occupant comfort and reduce energy consumption. The building, at 666 Fifth Avenue, was originally designed by Carson & Lundin. First opened in November 1957 when it was considered cutting-edge, the original façade of the 500-foot-tall modernist skyscraper was highly inefficient by today’s energy efficiency standards.

The Tampa General Health Behavioral Health Hospital, JE Dunn, Stengel Hill Architecture

Healthcare Facilities | Sep 13, 2023

Florida’s first freestanding academic medical behavioral health hospital breaks ground in Tampa Bay

Construction kicked off recently on TGH Behavioral Health Hospital, Florida’s first freestanding academic medical behavioral health hospital. The joint venture partnership between Tampa General (a 1,040-bed facility) and Lifepoint Behavioral Health will provide a full range of inpatient and outpatient care in specialized units for pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics, and fills a glaring medical need in the area.

Adaptive Reuse | Sep 13, 2023

Houston's first innovation district is established using adaptive reuse

Gensler's Vince Flickinger shares the firm's adaptive reuse of a Houston, Texas, department store-turned innovation hub.

Giants 400 | Sep 12, 2023

Top 75 Retail Sector Engineering and Engineering Architecture (EA) Firms for 2023

Kimley-Horn, Henderson Engineers, Jacobs, and EXP head BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest retail building engineering and engineering/architecture (EA) firms for 2023, as reported in the 2023 Giants 400 Report. Note: This ranking factors revenue for all retail buildings work, including big box stores, cineplexes, entertainment centers, malls, restaurants, strip centers, and theme parks.

Giants 400 | Sep 11, 2023

Top 140 Retail Sector Architecture and Architecture Engineering (AE) Firms for 2023

Gensler, Arcadis, Core States Group, WD Partners, and NORR top BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest retail sector architecture and architecture engineering (AE) firms for 2023, as reported in the 2023 Giants 400 Report. Note: This ranking factors revenue for all retail buildings work, including big box stores, cineplexes, entertainment centers, malls, restaurants, strip centers, and theme parks.

Resiliency | Sep 11, 2023

FEMA names first communities for targeted assistance on hazards resilience

FEMA recently unveiled the initial designation of 483 census tracts that will be eligible for increased federal support to boost resilience to natural hazards and extreme weather. The action was the result of bipartisan legislation, the Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022. The law aims to help localities most at risk from the impacts of climate change to build resilience to natural hazards.

MFPRO+ Research | Sep 11, 2023

Conversions of multifamily dwellings to ‘mansions’ leading to dwindling affordable stock

Small multifamily homes have historically provided inexpensive housing for renters and buyers, but developers have converted many of them in recent decades into larger, single-family units. This has worsened the affordable housing crisis, say researchers.