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Flooring InstallationArchitecture & Design (A&D)

Top Fifty Design-Build Firms

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July 16, 2019

In recent years, the use of design-build has grown significantly across market sectors. A method of project delivery where the design and construction phases are combined into a single contract—and the designer and contractor work together from the beginning—design-build helps streamline projects by eliminating the need for multiple contractors and promotes collaboration from conception to completion.

Design-build differs from the traditional design-bid-build approach, where project owners outsource the design work to an architectural/engineering firm on a negotiated-price basis and then contract out construction services on a low-bid basis. These and other project delivery systems may not only introduce inefficiencies during the contracting process, but also miss some of the opportunities to reduce design times and construction cycles, according to FMI, a leading management consulting and investment banking firm dedicated to engineering and construction, infrastructure, and the built environment. 

While design-build was once considered a novel approach to building, it now represents nearly half of America’s construction projects, and continues to grow, according to FMI. Here are the rankings of the top 50 design-build firms, as ranked by Engineering News Record, a sister publication to Floor Trends. For the complete report, visit enr.com.

RANK
2018
RANK
2017
FIRM LOCATION TOAL REV.
($ MIL)
1 2 FLUOR CORP. Irving, Texas 13,657.9
2 1 BECHTEL San Francisco 11,850.0
3 4 JACOBS Dallas 7,264.9
4 3 CB&I The Woodlands, Texas 6,673.3
5 5 KIEWIT CORP. Omaha 5,079.4
6 70 LENDLEASE New York 3,933.5
7 6 KBR INC. Houston 2,408.0
8 7 THE WALSH GROUP Chicago 2,272.6
9 53 SKANSKA New York 2,223.7
10 8 SWINERTON San Francisco 2,051.8
11 11 BLACK & VEATCH Overland Park, Kan. 1,938.3
12 12 CLAYCO INC. Chicago 1,920.7
13 31 AECOM Los Angeles 1,789.3
14 10 ZACHRY GROUP San Antonio 1,696.9
15 17 ARCO CONSTRUCTION COS. Downers Grove, Ill. 1,499.0
16 9 CLARK GROUP Bethesda, Md. 1,493.4
17 32 MCCARTHY HOLDINGS INC. St. Louis 1,338.0
18 16 THE TURNER CORP. New York 1,258.1
19 13 BURNS & MCDONNELL Kansas City 1,248.0
20 15 MORTENSON Minneapolis 1,222.4
21 22 DRAGADOS NORTH AMERICA New York 1,122.8
22 14 MATRIX SERVICE CO. Tulsa, Okla. 1,095.9
23 23 RYAN COS. US INC. Minneapolis 974.5
24 21 HENSEL PHELPS Greeley, Colo. 965.8
25 18 S&B ENGS. & CONSTRUCTORS Houston 852.0
26 26 DPR CONSTRUCTION Redwood City, Calif. 816.4
27 27 GRAY CONSTRUCTION Lexington, Ky. 792.7
28 40 GEMMA POWER SYSTEMS Glastonbury, Colo. 786.1
29 30 PCL CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES Denver 779.2
30 29 ALSTON CONSTRUCTION Atlanta 691.0
31 37 THE HANOVER CO. Houston 687.0
32 34 HASKELL Jacksonville 686.5
33 24 BARTON MALOW CO. Southfield, Mich. 675.4
34 20 BL HARBERT INTERNATIONAL Birmingham, Ala. 648.7
35 28 WHITING-TURNER CONTRACTING Baltimore, Md. 642.0
36 43 LANE INDUSTRIES INC. Cheshire, Conn. 635.1
37 36 PARSONS Pasadena, Calif. 635.0
38 38 GRANITE CONSTRUCTION INC. Watsonville, Calif. 622.2
39 ** HERZOG St. Joseph, Mo. 611.0
40 44 DEVCON CONSTRUCTION INC. Milpitas, Calif. 606.0
41 49 WALBRIDGE Detroit 586.8
42 33 WOOD PLC Houston 586.0
43 41 STELLAR Jacksonville 585.2
44 60 THE YATES COS. INC. Philadelphia 580.1
45 54 DUKE CONSTRUCTION Indianapolis 570.9
46 45 GILBANE BUILDING CO. Providence, R.I. 557.0
47 25 BALFOUR BEATTY US Dallas 543.7
48 35 JE DUNN CONSTR. GROUP Kansas City 509.8
49 84 WEBCOR San Francisco 504.4
50 42 FERROVIAL US CONSTR. CORP. Austin, Texas 499.8
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