Description:The 2009 Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook
July 6, 2009
This annual edition ranks design firms and contractors participating in ENR's survey in almost fifty separate market sectors, giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their particular areas of expertise. The Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook provides market analysis and rankings of the largest U.S.-based architectural and engineering firms in the eight major industry sectors listed below. This sourcebook also ranks design firms in almost fifty specific project types such as healthcare, highways and pharmaceuticals. Dozens of tables are included.
Top 500:
Overview: Design firms hunker down to wait out recession with no end in sight
Top 500 List: Group reports 2008 revenue of $90.58 billion
Market Sectors:
General Building
Overview: Few firms are untouched by economic downturn
Data Tables: General Building, Education, Commercial Offices, Retail, Government Offices, Health Care, Multi-Unit Residential, Correctional Facilities, Distribution and Warehouses, Hotels, Motels and Convention Centers, Religious and Cultural, Sports, Entertainment
Transportation
Overview: Signs of optimism are seen as stimulus money begins to kick in
Data Tables: Transportation, Highways, Bridges, Airports, Marine and Port Facilities, Mass Transit and Rail
Manufacturing/Industrial Process/Telecommunications
Overview: Telecom sector rejuvenated while manufacuting flounders
Data Tables: Industrial Process, Food Processing, Chemical Plants, Pharmaceuticals, Steel and Nonferrous Plants, Pulp and Paper Mills, Telecommunications, Transmission Lines and Cables, Data Centers and Web Houses, Towers and Antennae, Manufacturing, Electronic Assembly, Semiconductors, Auto Plants, Aerospace
Petroleum
Overview: After four years of high-octane growth, petroleum sector hits the brakes
Data Tables: Petroleum, Refineries and Petrochemical Plants, Pipelines, Maintenance, Offshore and Underwater Facilities
Power
Overview: Firms look to renewables to prop up lagging market
Data Tables: Power, Nuclear Plants, Operations and Maintenance, Hydroplants, Cogeneration, Fossil Fuel
Environmental
Overview: Influx of stimulus funds allows firms to weather downturn
Data Tables: Sewerage and Solid Waste, Sanitary and Storm Sewers, Water Supply, Treatment and Desalination, Transmission Lines and Aqueducts, Dams and Reservoirs, Hazardous Waste, Chemical and Soil Remediation, Asbestos and Lead Abatement, Site Assessment and Compliance, Nuclear Waste, Clean-Air Compliance
