AEC firms that do government work say their public-sector clients have been going smaller to save money on construction projects. Last December, the GSA issued an RFP for the FBI’s new headquarters, which, at 2.1 million sf, would be 300,000 sf smaller than the FBI’s current digs at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which opened in 1974.
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
2014 Government Revenue ($)
1. Stantec $138,393,026
2. HOK $132,198,000
3. Heery International $112,431,869
4. Gensler $79,310,000
5. SmithGroupJJR $71,861,575SEE FULL LIST BELOW
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS
2014 Government Revenue ($)
1. Fluor $2,295,107,907
2. Jacobs $409,363,216
3. AECOM $321,279,200
4. STV $186,018,000
5. WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff $65,402,544SEE FULL LIST BELOW
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
2014 Government Revenue ($)
1. Turner Construction $2,569,497,015
2. Clark Group $1,872,239,481
3. Hensel Phelps $1,796,260,000
4. PCL Construction $1,506,934,355
5. Walsh Group, The $1,162,921,373SEE FULL LIST BELOW
It took Mobile, Ala., a decade to get Congress to approve the funds for what will be a five-story, 155,000-sf federal courthouse, scheduled to open in 2018. Early designs had called for a much larger, far more ornate $181.5 million building.
By scaling back on such flourishes as a glazed portico and grand staircase, the Building Team—URS and Hartman-Cox (architects) and W.G Yates & Sons (CM)—reduced the tab to $89.3 million, some of which also has to cover the conversion of the John Archibald Campbell Courthouse into a U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Last November, voters in Santa Rosa County, Fla., rejected a 1% sales tax to fund a proposed $50 million, 156,000-sf courthouse in downtown Milton. HOK, the design firm on the job, went back to the drawing boards and recently presented new designs for the courthouse, which would replace an 88-year-old building.
One plan calls for a building that would be 21,000 sf smaller and cost $17 million less than the original concept. No word yet on how the new design is being viewed by county voters.
Dean Palumbo, SVP/U.S. West with Stantec Consulting Services, says budget shortfalls and higher costs of maintenance and upgrades are pushing firms to be even more efficient stewards of government dollars for building projects.
That would be wise: Census data estimates indicate that federal government spending on nonresidential building construction was down 2.5% in March, to an annualized $21.3 billion. State and local government construction, at $237.1 billion, was off 0.4% in March.
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR ARCHITECTURE FIRMS
| Company | 2014 Government Revenue ($) | |
| 1 | Stantec | $138,393,026 |
| 2 | HOK | $132,198,000 |
| 3 | Heery International | $112,431,869 |
| 4 | Gensler | $79,310,000 |
| 5 | SmithGroupJJR | $71,861,575 |
| 6 | HDR | $55,965,100 |
| 7 | EYP | $41,922,172 |
| 8 | Page | $41,793,348 |
| 9 | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | $39,311,637 |
| 10 | RS&H | $37,520,000 |
| 11 | ZGF Architects | $31,300,832 |
| 12 | DLR Group | $30,000,000 |
| 13 | Perkins+Will | $29,590,000 |
| 14 | Leo A Daly | $26,901,886 |
| 15 | Clark Nexsen | $23,987,900 |
| 16 | CannonDesign | $23,700,000 |
| 17 | HGA Architects and Engineers | $22,717,705 |
| 18 | NORR | $21,194,779 |
| 19 | NBBJ | $18,000,000 |
| 20 | Goodwyn Mills and Cawood | $17,607,811 |
| 21 | EwingCole | $15,410,000 |
| 22 | Callison RTKL | $13,546,727 |
| 23 | Schenkel & Shultz | $12,831,000 |
| 24 | Architects Hawaii Ltd. | $12,752,000 |
| 25 | Fentress Architects | $12,281,349 |
| 26 | HMFH Architects | $11,911,364 |
| 27 | Flad Architects | $11,071,000 |
| 28 | CTA Architects Engineers | $10,126,214 |
| 29 | JLG Architects | $9,908,767 |
| 30 | Morris Architects | $9,780,000 |
| 31 | SRG Partnership | $9,545,906 |
| 32 | BWBR | $9,421,380 |
| 33 | Shive-Hattery | $9,374,286 |
| 34 | S/L/A/M Collaborative, The | $9,363,971 |
| 35 | Beyer Blinder Belle | $9,246,246 |
| 36 | HNTB | $8,625,860 |
| 37 | Sherlock, Smith & Adams | $7,796,000 |
| 38 | Davis Brody Bond | $7,767,388 |
| 39 | LS3P | $7,387,900 |
| 40 | Rosser International | $7,284,826 |
| 41 | Integrus Architecture | $6,618,982 |
| 42 | BRPH | $6,369,238 |
| 43 | Moseley Architects | $6,355,871 |
| 44 | Parkhill, Smith & Cooper | $6,121,000 |
| 45 | LMN Architects | $6,097,700 |
| 46 | Becker Morgan Group | $5,976,819 |
| 47 | Dattner Architects | $5,923,371 |
| 48 | DesignGroup | $5,767,409 |
| 49 | KZF Design | $5,197,229 |
| 50 | Carrier Johnson + Culture | $4,291,000 |
| 51 | RNL Design | $4,191,000 |
| 52 | VOA Associates | $4,053,531 |
| 53 | Westlake Reed Leskosky | $4,000,000 |
| 54 | LPA | $3,999,249 |
| 55 | GWWO | $3,891,761 |
| 56 | Wight & Company | $3,737,123 |
| 57 | HMC Architects | $3,733,709 |
| 58 | Emersion Design | $3,408,406 |
| 59 | Cooper Robertson | $3,330,000 |
| 60 | Luckett & Farley | $3,183,235 |
| 61 | Bergmann Associates | $3,121,433 |
| 62 | Cambridge Seven Associates | $3,087,000 |
| 63 | Little | $3,035,000 |
| 64 | Lord Aeck Sargent | $3,019,649 |
| 65 | Ballinger | $2,950,000 |
| 66 | Harley Ellis Devereaux | $2,896,000 |
| 67 | WDG Architecture | $2,835,000 |
| 68 | Perkins Eastman | $2,750,000 |
| 69 | HKS | $2,533,095 |
| 70 | Ennead Architects | $2,067,000 |
| 71 | Albert Kahn Associates | $2,000,000 |
| 72 | Glumac | $1,904,203 |
| 73 | Hoffmann Architects | $1,889,539 |
| 74 | Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc. |
$1,832,222 |
| 75 | Niles Bolton Associates | $1,720,000 |
| 76 | Legat Architects | $1,716,500 |
| 77 | Cuningham Group Architecture | $1,686,199 |
| 78 | OZ Architecture | $1,639,800 |
| 79 | Schrader Group Architecture | $1,524,131 |
| 80 | Good Fulton & Farrell | $1,500,100 |
| 81 | Gresham, Smith and Partners | $1,308,000 |
| 82 | Hastings+Chivetta Architects | $1,153,398 |
| 83 | CO Architects | $1,019,700 |
| 84 | Array Architects | $1,015,000 |
| 85 | Moody Nolan | $1,008,958 |
| 86 | Symmes Maini & McKee Associates | $880,278 |
| 87 | Kirksey Architecture | $828,813 |
| 88 | Cooper Carry | $822,463 |
| 89 | NAC|Architecture | $814,328 |
| 90 | BBS Architects and Engineers | $763,000 |
| 91 | GBBN Architects | $761,000 |
| 92 | Eppstein Uhen Architects | $704,814 |
| 93 | FreemanWhite | $679,359 |
| 94 | Mancini•Duffy | $660,000 |
| 95 | Zyscovich Architects | $648,160 |
| 96 | Shepley Bulfinch | $484,088 |
| 97 | Harvard Jolly | $415,568 |
| 98 | LK Architecture | $415,000 |
| 99 | TEG Architects | $414,414 |
| 100 | Corgan | $390,000 |
| 101 | Payette | $386,741 |
| 102 | FM Group | $382,000 |
| 103 | Nelson | $364,777 |
| 104 | Anderson Mikos Architects | $350,000 |
| 105 | Ware Malcomb | $300,000 |
| 106 | Hord Coplan Macht | $287,734 |
| 107 | Environetics | $212,500 |
| 108 | Solomon Cordwell Buenz | $212,208 |
| 109 | DLA Architects | $186,983 |
| 110 | FXFOWLE Architects | $159,877 |
| 111 | KSQ Architects | $133,544 |
| 112 | Baskervill | $126,437 |
| 113 | Nadel | $100,000 |
| 114 | RBB Architects | $63,000 |
| 115 | Hnedak Bobo Group | $48,046 |
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR ENGINEERING FIRMS
| Company | 2014 Government Revenue ($) | |
| 1 | Fluor | $2,295,107,907 |
| 2 | Jacobs | $409,363,216 |
| 3 | AECOM | $321,279,200 |
| 4 | STV | $186,018,000 |
| 5 | WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff | $65,402,544 |
| 6 | Wendel | $60,501,914 |
| 7 | Burns & McDonnell | $40,317,420 |
| 8 | Leidos | $33,823,000 |
| 9 | Arup | $32,388,030 |
| 10 | Hankins & Anderson | $25,149,142 |
| 11 | Allen & Shariff | $24,197,017 |
| 12 | Dewberry | $23,136,765 |
| 13 | Jensen Hughes | $20,563,136 |
| 14 | Guernsey | $15,820,348 |
| 15 | Woolpert | $15,502,933 |
| 16 | Thornton Tomasetti | $14,615,183 |
| 17 | Smith Seckman Reid | $14,528,271 |
| 18 | Affiliated Engineers | $13,865,000 |
| 19 | KPFF Consulting Engineers | $12,227,000 |
| 20 | Coffman Engineers | $11,991,000 |
| 21 | Syska Hennessy Group | $11,096,606 |
| 22 | Vanderweil Engineers | $10,042,700 |
| 23 | Walker Parking Consultants | $9,379,588 |
| 24 | Bridgers & Paxton Consulting Engineers | $9,238,007 |
| 25 | RMF Engineering | $8,900,000 |
| 26 | TLC Engineering for Architecture | $8,369,822 |
| 27 | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger | $8,179,000 |
| 28 | Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates | $7,550,000 |
| 29 | RDK Engineers | $7,047,000 |
| 30 | KCI Technologies | $6,700,000 |
| 31 | TTG | $6,284,980 |
| 32 | Apogee Consulting Group | $5,929,396 |
| 33 | KJWW Engineering Consultants | $5,474,017 |
| 34 | Heapy Engineering | $4,775,325 |
| 35 | GRAEF | $3,940,000 |
| 36 | Ross & Baruzzini | $3,659,894 |
| 37 | LaBella Associates | $3,639,283 |
| 38 | Aon Fire Protection Engineering | $3,565,500 |
| 39 | Primera Engineers | $3,436,500 |
| 40 | M/E Engineering | $3,238,258 |
| 41 | H.F. Lenz Company | $2,995,101 |
| 42 | BR+A Consulting Engineers | $2,520,000 |
| 43 | I. C. Thomasson Associates | $2,500,000 |
| 44 | GRW | $2,433,148 |
| 45 | GHT Ltd. | $2,270,000 |
| 46 | Henderson Engineers | $2,204,907 |
| 47 | Newcomb & Boyd | $1,984,834 |
| 48 | Spectrum Engineers | $1,912,923 |
| 49 | Epstein | $1,558,300 |
| 50 | KLH Engineers | $1,487,563 |
| 51 | Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering | $1,350,000 |
| 52 | ME Engineers | $1,330,000 |
| 53 | Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon | $1,225,000 |
| 54 | Dunham Associates | $1,200,000 |
| 55 | Cardno Haynes Whaley | $1,175,601 |
| 56 | Degenkolb Engineers | $1,111,909 |
| 57 | Davis, Bowen & Friedel | $1,058,354 |
| 58 | Zak Companies | $957,880 |
| 59 | Mazzetti | $833,971 |
| 60 | Highland Associates | $750,000 |
| 61 | SSOE Group | $571,824 |
| 62 | CJL Engineering | $463,650 |
| 63 | OLA Consulting Engineers | $428,000 |
| 64 | CTLGroup | $400,000 |
| 65 | Environmental Systems Design | $398,827 |
| 66 | ThermalTech Engineering | $375,000 |
| 67 | Peter Basso Associates | $351,000 |
| 68 | P2S Engineering | $296,138 |
| 69 | DeSimone Consulting Engineers | $240,616 |
| 70 | Walter P Moore | $189,605 |
| 71 | G&W Engineering | $147,000 |
| 72 | TBC | $133,410 |
| 73 | William Tao & Associates | $102,638 |
| 74 | Wick Fisher White | $76,300 |
| 75 | Stanley Consultants | $24,665 |
TOP GOVERNMENT SECTOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS
| Company | 2014 Government Revenue ($) | |
| 1 | Turner Construction | $2,569,497,015 |
| 2 | Clark Group | $1,872,239,481 |
| 3 | Hensel Phelps | $1,796,260,000 |
| 4 | PCL Construction | $1,506,934,355 |
| 5 | Walsh Group, The | $1,162,921,373 |
| 6 | Balfour Beatty US | $806,174,319 |
| 7 | Mortenson Construction | $731,990,000 |
| 8 | B.L. Harbert International | $613,839,836 |
| 9 | McCarthy Holdings | $581,510,187 |
| 10 | Gilbane Building Co. | $553,410,634 |
| 11 | Whiting-Turner Contracting, The | $493,515,175 |
| 12 | Lend Lease | $432,321,000 |
| 13 | JE Dunn Construction | $366,633,261 |
| 14 | Brasfield & Gorrie | $280,052,772 |
| 15 | Skanska USA | $235,636,558 |
| 16 | Sundt Construction | $175,455,150 |
| 17 | Manhattan Construction | $174,649,000 |
| 18 | O'Neil Industries | $130,613,469 |
| 19 | HITT Contracting | $128,300,000 |
| 20 | James G Davis Construction | $101,741,397 |
| 21 | Structure Tone | $90,813,000 |
| 22 | Flintco | $78,967,000 |
| 23 | CORE Construction | $76,094,234 |
| 24 | Coakley & Williams Construction | $74,130,951 |
| 25 | W. M. Jordan | $72,452,023 |
| 26 | Consigli Building Group | $68,717,345 |
| 27 | C.W. Driver | $66,000,000 |
| 28 | Yates Companies, The | $66,000,000 |
| 29 | Layton Construction | $64,800,000 |
| 30 | Adolfson & Peterson Construction | $64,499,913 |
| 31 | Haskell | $63,671,546 |
| 32 | Messer Construction | $63,461,698 |
| 33 | Holder Construction | $61,000,000 |
| 34 | Hill International | $61,000,000 |
| 35 | Hoffman Construction | $54,903,519 |
| 36 | Shawmut Design and Construction | $52,000,000 |
| 37 | Beck Group, The | $43,037,029 |
| 38 | S. M. Wilson & Co. | $42,315,847 |
| 39 | LeChase Construction Services | $35,000,000 |
| 40 | Bernards | $32,000,000 |
| 41 | Swinerton Builders | $30,965,000 |
| 42 | KBE Building Corp. | $30,656,171 |
| 43 | Wight & Company | $25,423,002 |
| 44 | DPR Construction | $23,070,330 |
| 45 | Suffolk Construction | $22,948,572 |
| 46 | Choate Construction | $22,269,975 |
| 47 | Barton Malow | $21,924,000 |
| 48 | Kraus-Anderson Construction | $20,000,000 |
| 49 | Hoar Construction | $19,663,000 |
| 50 | Kitchell Corporation | $19,191,919 |
| 51 | Paric | $18,000,000 |
| 52 | Ryan Companies | $13,193,413 |
| 53 | Haselden Construction | $12,731,278 |
| 54 | Alberici Constructors | $12,321,543 |
| 55 | Walbridge | $12,076,000 |
| 56 | Robins & Morton | $11,986,969 |
| 57 | Leopardo Companies | $11,894,706 |
| 58 | BlueScope Construction | $11,520,000 |
| 59 | McShane Companies, The | $11,472,164 |
| 60 | Bette Companies, The | $10,419,866 |
| 61 | Juneau Construction | $10,100,090 |
| 62 | Hill & Wilkinson | $9,580,444 |
| 63 | Weitz Company, The | $9,209,000 |
| 64 | IMC Construction | $6,000,000 |
| 65 | Stalco Construction | $5,900,000 |
| 66 | Pepper Construction Group | $5,882,000 |
| 67 | Power Construction | $5,000,000 |
| 68 | Harkins Builders | $5,000,000 |
| 69 | Rodgers Builders | $4,009,404 |
| 70 | Batson-Cook | $3,751,562 |
| 71 | LPCiminelli | $2,903,445 |
| 72 | James McHugh Construction | $2,722,228 |
| 73 | Linbeck Group | $2,000,000 |
| 74 | Graycor | $1,725,762 |
| 75 | Fortis Construction | $879,000 |
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