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del.icio.usFor large architectural and engineering firms, 2008 was the last hurrah for the boom market and the beginning of recession. ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms generated design revenue of $90.58 billion in 2008, up 12.36% from 2007’s mark of $80.62 billion. But many of the Top 500 began to feel the recession’s chill early. Of the 474 firms on this year’s list that returned a survey last year, only 304 showed revenue gains over 2007, while 166 saw their revenue decline, with four firms unchanged. This compares with last year when there were 382 gainers and 77 firms with lower revenue.
The Top 500 Design Firms list, published annually in April, ranks the 500 largest U.S.-based designs firms, both publicly and privately held, based on design-specific revenue.
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| RANK | FIRM NAME & LOCATION | TYPE OF FIRM |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2008 | ||
| 301 | 216 | Little Diversified Architectural Consultants, Charlotte, N.C. | AE |
| 302 | 315 | Environmental Systems Design Inc., Chicago, Ill. | E |
| 303 | 337 | Fehr & Peers, Walnut Creek, Calif. | E |
| 304 | 280 | Brown & Gay Engineers Inc., Houston, Texas | E |
| 305 | 354 | Graef-USA Inc., Milwaukee, Wis. | EA |
| 306 | 342 | Fanning/Howey Associates Inc., Celina, Ohio | AE |
| 307 | 321 | Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood Inc., Montgomery, Ala. | AE |
| 308 | 312 | Lionakis, Sacramento, Calif. | AE |
| 309 | 213 | Steelman Partners, Las Vegas, Nev. | A |
| 310 | 331 | Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc., Springfield, Ill.† | E |
| 311 | 283 | Evans Mechwart Hambleton & Tilton, Columbus, Ohio | E |
| 312 | 186 | KTGY Group Inc., Irvine, Calif. | A |
| 313 | 317 | Froehling & Robertson Inc., Richmond, Va.† | E |
| 314 | 356 | Sebesta Blomberg, Roseville, Minn. | E |
| 315 | ** | Paul C. Rizzo Associates Inc., Monroeville, Pa.† | E |
| 316 | 397 | BLT Architects, Philadelphia, Pa.† | A |
| 317 | 150 | Brinderson, Costa Mesa, Calif. | EC |
| 318 | ** | WD Partners, Dublin, Ohio | AE |
| 319 | 358 | Farnsworth Group Inc., Bloomington, Ill. | EA |
| 320 | 369 | Shive-Hattery Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa | EA |
| 321 | 386 | J-U-B Engineers Inc., Boise, Idaho | E |
| 322 | 310 | Jones, Edmunds & Associates Inc., Gainesville, Fla.† | EA |
| 323 | 466 | T. Baker Smith Inc., Houma, La. | E |
| 324 | 339 | Engineering and Testing Services Corp., San Ramon, Calif.† | GE |
| 325 | 290 | FRCH Design Worldwide, Cincinnati, Ohio† | A |
| 326 | ** | Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc., San Antonio, Texas† | E |
| 327 | 352 | Gould Evans, Kansas City, Mo.† | A |
| 328 | 308 | Durrant, Dubuque, Iowa | AE |
| 329 | 379 | The S/L/A/M Collaborative, Glastonbury, Conn.† | A |
| 330 | 384 | Stearns & Wheler LLC, Cazenovia, N.Y. | E |
| 331 | 322 | Remington & Vernick Engineers Inc., Haddonfield, N.J.† | E |
| 332 | 408 | Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants, Mountainville, N.Y. | E |
| 333 | 393 | Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP, New York, N.Y. | A |
| 334 | 306 | Bolton & Menk Inc., Mankato, Minn. | E |
| 335 | 392 | Tighe & Bond Inc., Westfield, Mass. | E |
| 336 | 297 | Ballinger, Philadelphia, Pa. | AE |
| 337 | ** | Chester Engineers Inc., Moon Township, Pa. | E |
| 338 | 359 | Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, Boston, Mass.† | A |
| 339 | ** | DeMatteis Organizations, Elmont, N.Y. | EC |
| 340 | 442 | HAKS Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, New York, N.Y. | E |
| 341 | 336 | EnSafe Inc., Memphis, Tenn.† | ENV |
| 342 | 374 | Alfred Benesch & Co., Chicago, Ill. | E |
| 343 | 377 | On-Board Engineering Corp., East Windsor, N.J.† | EC |
| 344 | 320 | Leighton Group Inc., Irvine, Calif.† | GE |
| 345 | 347 | BL Cos. Inc., Meriden, Conn. | AE |
| 346 | 404 | SRF Consulting Group Inc., Plymouth, Minn. | E |
| 347 | 239 | Wood Rodgers Inc., Sacramento, Calif. | E |
| 348 | 402 | H2M/Holzmacher McLendon & Murrell, Melville, N.Y.† | EA |
| 349 | 348 | CO Architects, Los Angeles, Calif. | A |
| 350 | 355 | Wallace Roberts & Todd LLC, Philadelphia, Pa. | ALP |
| 351 | 390 | Fay Spofford & Thorndike, Burlington, Mass.† | E |
| 352 | 332 | Ammann & Whitney, New York, N.Y. | EA |
| 353 | 443 | GPD Group, Akron, Ohio | AE |
| 354 | 248 | Opus Group, Minnetonka, Minn.† | EA |
| 355 | 340 | Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Chicago, Ill. | A |
| 356 | 381 | DeSimone Consulting Engineers, New York, N.Y. | E |
| 357 | 288 | Morrison-Maierle Inc., Helena, Mont.† | E |
| 358 | 325 | Bowman Consulting, Chantilly, Va.† | E |
| 359 | 363 | Urban Engineers Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.† | E |
| 360 | 343 | Bermello Ajamil & Partners Inc., Miami, Fla. | A |
| 361 | 416 | BRPH Co. Inc., Melbourne, Fla.† | AEC |
| 362 | 349 | Orbital Engineering Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. | E |
| 363 | 299 | Niles Bolton Associates Inc., Atlanta, Ga.† | A |
| 364 | ** | Kahler Slater Inc., Milwaukee, Wis.† | A |
| 365 | 420 | RDK Engineers, Andover, Mass. | EA |
| 366 | 461 | Garver Engineers LLC, Little Rock, Ark. | E |
| 367 | 405 | GRW Engineers Inc., Lexington, Ky.† | EA |
| 368 | 457 | Collins Engineers Inc., Chicago, Ill. | E |
| 369 | 361 | Howard R. Green Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa | EA |
| 370 | ** | S E A Consultants Inc., Cambridge, Mass. | EA |
| 371 | 303 | V3 Cos. Ltd., Woodridge, Ill.† | E |
| 372 | 431 | Bartlett & West Inc., Topeka, Kan. | E |
| 373 | 417 | Kirksey, Houston, Texas | A |
| 374 | 371 | Karlsberger, Columbus, Ohio† | A |
| 375 | 378 | WWCOT, Santa Monica, Calif. | A |
| 376 | 367 | TKDA, St. Paul, Minn. | EA |
| 377 | 459 | A. Morton Thomas and Associates Inc., Rockville, Md. | E |
| 378 | 456 | Shalom Baranes Associates PC, Washington, D.C. | A |
| 379 | 436 | gkkworks, Irvine, Calif. | A |
| 380 | 472 | Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani LLC, Baltimore, Md. | EA |
| 381 | 428 | Crafton Tull Sparks, Rogers, Ark. | AE |
| 382 | 323 | Loiederman Soltesz Associates Inc., Rockville, Md. | E |
| 383 | ** | Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch, San Francisco, Calif. | E |
| 384 | ** | NOVA Engineering and Environmental LLC, Kennesaw, Ga.† | E |
| 385 | 423 | RBB Architects Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. | A |
| 386 | 495 | EN Engineering LLC, Woodridge, Ill. | E |
| 387 | 328 | SB Architects, San Francisco, Calif. | A |
| 388 | 497 | Marshall Miller and Associates Inc., Bluefield, Va. | E |
| 389 | 432 | Professional Engineering Consultants PA, Wichita, Kan. | E |
| 390 | 471 | Lord Aeck & Sargent, Atlanta, Ga. | A |
| 391 | 391 | NAC|Architecture, Seattle, Wash. | AE |
| 392 | ** | PND Engineers Inc., Anchorage, Alaska | E |
| 393 | 403 | MS Consultants Inc., Columbus, Ohio | EA |
| 394 | 410 | The RBA Group, Parsippany, N.J. | EA |
| 395 | ** | Hankins and Anderson, Glen Allen, Va. | E |
| 396 | 307 | RNL, Denver, Colo. | A |
| 397 | 401 | TRC World Engineering Inc., Brentwood, Tenn.† | E |
| 398 | ** | Mancini Duffy, New York, N.Y. | A |
| 399 | 357 | Bohannan Huston Inc., Albuquerque, N.M. | E |
| 400 | 418 | SLCE Architects LLP, New York, N.Y. | A |
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