Texas Construction presents its annual Top Design feature of 95 participating firms ranked by instate revenue from the previous calendar or fiscal year for work performed in Texas. This year the Top Design firm is URS Corp., with more than $388.1 million in Texas billings.
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More detailed feature on Top Design Firms: Other breakout ranking: |
| Rank | Company/Location | Market Sector | Regional Revenue ($Mil) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2009 | |||
| 1 | 1 | URS Corp.
Dallas |
Petroleum: 29.35% Power: 21.72% Transportation: 18.7% |
388.19 |
| 2 | 2 | AECOM Technology Corp. *
Houston |
Transportation: 32.09% Water Supply: 21.38% Hazardous Waste: 17.1% |
171.34 |
| 3 | ** | Zachry Engineering Corp.
Amarillo |
Power: 97.79% Industrial Process: 1.6% Transportation: 0.57% |
124.47 |
| 4 | 4 | HDR
Dallas |
Transportation: 46.7% General Building: 21.08% Water Supply: 17.49% |
121.47 |
| 5 | 8 | HNTB Corp.
Plano |
Transportation: 64.02% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 15.49% Water Supply: 14.79% |
119.67 |
| 6 | 3 | Parsons Brinckerhoff *
Houston |
Transportation: 29.78% Power: 5.55% Water Supply: 1.71% |
117.20 |
| 7 | 6 | PBS&J *
Austin |
Other: 100% | 99.99 |
| 8 | 5 | CH2M HILL Houston |
Water Supply: 21.38% Hazardous Waste: 17.27% Transportation: 12.77% |
91.07 |
| 9 | 14 | Freese and Nichols Inc.
Fort Worth |
Water Supply: 55.62% Transportation: 17.06% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 12.49% |
77.48 |
| 10 | 15 | PBK
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 71.60 |
| 11 | 9 | Halff Associates Inc.
Richardson |
Water Supply: 26.62% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 23.38% Transportation: 21.33% |
70.99 |
| 12 | 7 | Gensler *
Houston |
General Building: 62.71% Transportation: 5.69% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 1.12% |
66.88 |
| 13 | 16 | Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. *
Houston |
Transportation: 33.71% Water Supply: 27.29% General Building: 9.53% |
64.50 |
| 14 | 10 | PageSoutherlandPage
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 57.99 |
| 15 | ** | Huitt-Zollars Inc. *
Dallas |
Transportation: 52% General Building: 20% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 16.8% |
56.23 |
| 16 | 20 | Fugro Consultants Inc.
Houston |
Other: 100% | 52.22 |
| 17 | 13 | SHW Group
Plano |
General Building: 100% | 51.67 |
| 18 | 24 | Parkhill, Smith & Cooper Inc. *
Lubbock |
General Building: 42.74% Water Supply: 25.05% Transportation: 16.1% |
50.30 |
| 19 | 21 | Dannenbaum Engineering
Houston |
Transportation: 59.72% Water Supply: 19.3% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 13.33% |
44.47 |
| 20 | 18 | Corgan Associates Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 61.34% Transportation: 21.75% Telecommunications: 14.03% |
44.08 |
| 21 | 17 | Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc.
San Antonio |
General Building: 42.04% Transportation: 23.52% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 12.59% |
42.10 |
| 22 | 19 | HKS Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 99.71% Transportation: 0.29% |
38.52 |
| 23 | 25 | Brown & Gay Engineers Inc.
Houston |
Sewerage/Solid Waste: 29.82% Transportation: 27.4% Water Supply: 24.76% |
37.56 |
| 24 | 12 | HOK LP
Houston |
General Building: 97.14% Transportation: 2.86% |
36.07 |
| 25 | 22 | LJA Engineering Inc.
Houston |
Transportation: 36.1% Water Supply: 19% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 18.05% |
33.55 |
| 26 | 23 | Walter P Moore
Houston |
General Building: 76.28% Transportation: 18.75% Water Supply: 2.76% |
33.23 |
| 27 | 28 | Perkins+Will
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 33.21 |
| 28 | 26 | Jones & Carter Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 28.24% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 18.32% Water Supply: 18.32% |
32.75 |
| 29 | 27 | Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc.
San Antonio |
General Building: 39% Other: 61% |
32.00 |
| 30 | ** | CP&Y Inc. *
Dallas |
Transportation: 52.62% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 28.17% Water Supply: 18.99% |
30.61 |
| 31 | 32 | FKP Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 28.28 |
| 32 | 31 | PGAL
Houston |
General Building: 68.38% Transportation: 28.34% Other: 3.28% |
28.09 |
| 33 | 30 | Kirksey
Houston |
General Building: 86% Other: 14% |
27.55 |
| 34 | 36 | Kleinfelder *
Austin |
General Building: 62.2% Petroleum: 25.99% Transportation: 6.16% |
26.48 |
| 35 | ** | Klotz Associates Inc.
Houston |
Transportation: 50% Water Supply: 20% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 15% |
25.32 |
| 36 | 37 | CobbFendley
Houston |
Transportation: 28% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 5.64% Telecommunications: 5.05% |
22.00 |
| 37 | 35 | Huckabee
Fort Worth |
General Building: 100% | 21.91 |
| 38 | 29 | WHR Architects Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 20.91 |
| 39 | 40 | Smith Seckman Reid Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 18.96 |
| 40 | 41 | Teague Nall and Perkins
Fort Worth |
Transportation: 30.18% General Building: 23.5% Petroleum: 14.2% |
16.90 |
| 41 | 49 | BOKA Powell LLC
Dallas |
General Building: 98% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 2% |
15.61 |
| 42 | 43 | JQ (Jaster-Quintanilla)
Austin |
General Building: 59.59% Water Supply: 12.87% Transportation: 7.96% |
14.73 |
| 43 | 45 | Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc.
Houston |
Transportation: 60.14% General Building: 39.86% |
14.65 |
| 44 | ** | Pfluger Associates LP
Austin |
General Building: 100% | 14.64 |
| 45 | 38 | Good Fulton & Farrell
Dallas |
General Building: 92% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 8% |
13.63 |
| 46 | 47 | Ascension Group Architects
Arlington |
General Building: 100% | 12.90 |
| 47 | 42 | Bay Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 12.18 |
| 48 | 44 | O’Connell Robertson Inc.
Austin |
General Building: 100% | 11.60 |
| 49 | 39 | Ziegler Cooper Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 10.00 |
| 50 | 33 | Haynes Whaley Associates Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 9.83 |
| 51 | 67 | Aguirre Roden Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 9.63 |
| 52 | ** | Binkley & Barfield Inc.
Houston |
Transportation: 45% Power: 20% Water Supply: 13% |
9.56 |
| 53 | 54 | Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
Austin |
General Building: 88.78% Transportation: 5% Water Supply: 1.5% |
9.45 |
| 54 | 56 | SmithGroup|FS
FS 214-559-4851 | Dallas |
General Building: 90.44% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 9.5% Other: 0.05% |
9.11 |
| 55 | 48 | Marmon Mok Architecture
San Antonio |
General Building: 100% | 8.91 |
| 56 | 55 | Goetting & Associates Inc.
San Antonio |
General Building: 87.87% Other: 12.13% |
7.86 |
| 57 | ** | Baird, Hampton, & Brown Inc.
Fort Worth |
General Building: 47.5% Manufacturing: 3.29% Water Supply: 3.29% |
7.60 |
| 58 | 62 | Wier & Associates Inc.
Arlington |
Petroleum: 46.9% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 32.52% Transportation: 11.48% |
7.48 |
| 59 | 64 | OTHON Inc., Consulting Engineers
Houston |
Transportation: 40.54% Water Supply: 20.27% General Building: 5.41% |
7.40 |
| 60 | 69 | Structural Engineering Associates Inc.
San Antonio |
Transportation: 73.24% General Building: 13.38% Sewerage/Solid Waste: 4.93% |
7.10 |
| 61 | 61 | Stanley Consultants *
Austin |
Master-Planned Development/Site Infrastructure: 14.67% | 6.76 |
| 62 | 72 | CMA
Fort Worth |
General Building: 100% | 6.73 |
| 63 | 53 | The Beck Group
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 6.64 |
| 64 | 73 | NELSON
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 6.63 |
| 65 | ** | Rees Associates Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 6.54 |
| 66 | 50 | ccrd partners *
Houston |
General Building: 95% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 2% Telecommunications: 2% |
6.50 |
| 66 | 74 | Studio RED Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 6.50 |
| 68 | 52 | L.A. Fuess Partners Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 82% Transportation: 15% Telecommunications: 3% |
6.10 |
| 69 | 68 | GSR Andrade Architects Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 6.00 |
| 70 | ** | Johnson & Pace Inc.
Longview |
General Building: 60% Water Supply: 20% Transportation: 10% |
5.90 |
| 71 | 58 | Merriman Associates/Architects Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 96.43% Manufacturing: 3.57% |
5.60 |
| 72 | 46 | STG Design
Austin |
General Building: 59% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 1% Other: 40% |
5.50 |
| 73 | ** | Commonwealth Engineering and Construction LLC
Houston |
Petroleum: 57.74% Power: 25.35% Industrial Process: 16.91% |
5.01 |
| 74 | ** | Redding Linden Burr
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 4.59 |
| 75 | 70 | Datum Engineers
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 4.50 |
| 76 | ** | Llewelyn-Davies Sahni Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 85.8% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 9.26% Transportation: 2.47% |
4.05 |
| 77 | 60 | WYLIE Consulting Engineers
Houston |
General Building: 96% Other: 4% |
4.00 |
| 78 | 64 | Powers Brown Architecture
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 3.60 |
| 79 | 75 | Durand-Hollis Rupe Inc.
San Antonio |
General Building: 100% | 3.59 |
| 80 | 76 | CJG Engineering Group
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 3.31 |
| 81 | 51 | Callison *
Dallas |
General Building: 79.69% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 20.31% |
3.20 |
| 82 | ** | Matrix Structural Engineers
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 2.70 |
| 83 | ** | Mayse & Associates Inc.
Dallas |
General Building: 100% | 2.59 |
| 84 | 81 | EDI Architecture Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 2.41 |
| 85 | 78 | Turner Duran Architects LP
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 2.28 |
| 86 | ** | Architectural Alliance Inc.
Beaumont |
General Building: 86.31% Industrial Process: 12.66% Other: 1.03% |
2.24 |
| 87 | 71 | Nelsen Partners Inc.
Austin |
General Building: 53% Master-Planned Development/ Site Infrastructure: 47% |
2.00 |
| 88 | 85 | NATEX Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 1.99 |
| 89 | 86 | Garver LLC
Frisco |
Transportation: 100% | 1.61 |
| 90 | ** | Dekker/Perich/Sabatini LLC
Amarillo |
General Building: 100% | 1.51 |
| 91 | 87 | Fehr Grossman Cox Architects Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 1.30 |
| 92 | 79 | Browne Penland McGregor
Architects Inc.
Houston |
General Building: 83.6% Transportation: 13.6% Petroleum: 2.65% |
1.26 |
| 93 | 80 | CASCO Diversified Corp.
St. Louis, MO |
General Building: 100% | 1.20 |
| 93 | 84 | Fromberg Associates Ltd.
Austin |
General Building: 100% | 1.20 |
| 95 | 81 | Prozign Architects
Houston |
General Building: 100% | 1.13 |


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