The Zweig Letter Announces the 2009 Hot Firm List of Fastest-growing Architecture, Engineering, and Environmental Firms
WAYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS— Management consulting and research firm ZweigWhite has identified the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms in the U.S. and Canada for its annual ranking, The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List. This annual list features the design and environmental firms that have outperformed the economy and competitors to become industry leaders.
This year’s Hot Firm winners will be honored at a special awards reception and banquet at The Zweig Letter Hot Firm Conference, to be held October 28-30, at Green Valley Resort in Las Vegas.
Mark Zweig, founder and director of ZweigWhite, says, “Don't confuse us with imitators! The Zweig Letter Hot Firm list was the first and only list of high growth design and environmental firms and has a 10+ year tradition. Over the years, the "Hot Firm" designation has become synonymous with success in the industry. Firms on The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List are recognized the world over as well-managed companies that outperform their peers because they do a better job for their clients!”
The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List is based solely on gross revenue for both fiscal year 2005 and fiscal year 2008, as verified by financial statements or income tax returns reviewed by third parties. The list is limited to firms based in the United States and Canada deriving the majority of their revenue from the practice of architecture, engineering, planning, environmental consulting, or allied disciplines. Design/build firms are also eligible. Only firms that were in business as of January 1, 2005, and had 2005 revenue of $1 million or greater, were eligible. Firms were ranked from first to last based on percentage growth and dollar growth. Dollar growth and percentage growth were weighted equally to give both small and large firms an opportunity to make the list. Each firm’s two rankings were added together, and the 200 firms with the lowest combined rankings comprise the list.
The top 10 firms on The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List in alphabetical order are:
Hargrove and Associates, Inc. (Mobile, AL)
Hill International, Inc. (Marlton, NJ)
Natural Resource Group, LLC (Minneapolis, MN)
RW Armstrong & Associates (Indianapolis, IN)
Stantec Consulting Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Trow Global Inc (Brampton, ON )
URS Corporation (San Francisco, CA)
Woodward Design+Build (New Orleans, LA)
WSP Group (USA) (New York, NY)
X-nth (Maitland, FL)
The remainder of the top 200 firms on The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List in
alphabetical order are:
ACAI Associates, Inc (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
AK Environmental, LLC (West Trenton, NJ)
Allana Buick & Bers, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Anshen & Allen, Architects, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Apex Companies, LLC (Rockville, MD)
Aquaterra Environmental Solutions, Inc. (Overland Park, KS)
ARCADIS (Highlands Ranch, CO)
Arora Engineers, Inc. (Chadds Ford, PA)
Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions, Inc. (King of Prussia, PA)
Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc. (Honolulu, HI)
Barton & Loguidice, P.C. (Syracuse, NY)
Baseline Engineering (Golden, CO)
Berger Devine Yaeger, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
Bergmann Associates (Rochester, NY)
Birdsall Services Group, Inc. (Sea Girt, NJ)
BJAC pa (Raleigh, NC)
BKF Engineers (Redwood City, CA)
BLRB Architects, p.s. (Tacoma, WA)
Brandow & Johnston, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
BrightFields, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Callison (Seattle, WA)
Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Caruana & Associates (Long Beach, CA)
CB Engineers (San Francisco, CA)
CHA (Albany, NY)
Chen and Associates (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Cherokee Enterprises, Inc. (Miami Lakes, FL)
CirclePoint (San Francisco, CA)
Clark Nexsen (Norfolk, VA)
CMX Inc (Manalapan, NJ)
Cobb Engineering Company (Oklahoma City, OK )
Coler & Colantonio, Inc. (Norwell, MA)
Collins Engineers, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Converse Consultants (Monrovia, CA)
Core States Group (Atlanta, GA)
Corgan Associates, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
CPH Engineers, Inc. (Sanford, FL)
Crafton Tull Sparks (Rogers, AR)
Cubellis (Boston, MA)
Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN)
Dagher Engineering (New York, NY)
Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM)
DCI Engineers (Bellevue, WA)
Degenkolb Engineers (San Francisco, CA)
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini (Albuquerque, NM)
DLR Group (Omaha, NE)
DLT&V Systems Engineering (Phoenix, AZ)
DOWL HKM (Anchorage, AK)
Dudek (Encinitas, CA)
Dvirka And Bartilucci Consulting Engineers (Long Island, NY)
E M C Engineers, Inc. (Lakewood, CO)
EAPC (Grand Forks, ND)
ECOM Engineering, Inc. (Sacramento, CA)
EDSA, Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
EM-Assist, Inc. (Folsom, CA)
EMR Inc. (Lawrence, KS)
EN Engineering, LLC (Woodridge, IL)
Enermodal Engineering (Kitchener, ON)
ENGlobal Corporation (Houston, TX)
ENVIRON Holdings Inc. (Arlington, VA)
Environmental Resolutions, Inc. (Lake Forest, CA)
ERRG (Martinez, CA)
ESI Consultants, Ltd (Naperville, IL)
Farnsworth Group, Inc. (Bloomington, IL)
Fehr-Graham & Associates LLC (Freeport, IL)
Fentress Architects (Denver, CO)
Finley Engineering Company, Inc. (Lamar, MO)
Foss Architecture & Interiors, Inc. (Fargo, ND)
Francis Cauffman (Philadelphia, PA)
FXFOWLE Architects (New York, NY)
G. E. Walker & Associates, L.L.C. (Waco, TX)
Gafcon, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
GARY GUY WILSON, AIA, PC (Las Vegas, NV)
GATE, LLC (Houston, TX)
GEI Consultants Inc. (Woburn, MA)
GH2 Architects, LLC (Tulsa, OK )
Ghafari Associates, L.L.C. (Dearborn, MI)
Gilsanz Murray Steficek (New York, NY)
gkkworks (Irvine, CA)
Golder Associates (Mississauga, ON)
Groundwater & Environmental Services Inc. (Neptune, NJ)
Van Boerum & Frank Associates, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
Vanderweil Engineers (Boston, MA)
Vector Engineering, Inc. (Grass Valley, CA)
Watermark (Lowell, MA)
Weaver Boos Consultants (Chicago, IL)
Wier & Associates, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Wight & Company (Darien, IL)
Wiser Company (Murfreesboro, TN)
Woodard & Curran (Portland, ME)
Woolpert (Dayton, OH)
YU & Associates, Inc. (Elmwood Park, NJ)
A complete ranking of the 200 fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms will be published in an upcoming special issue of The Zweig Letter, the voice of reason for architecture, engineering and environmental consulting firms.
About ZweigWhite: ZweigWhite is the nation’s leader in enhancing business performance for architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms. The ZweigWhite team consists of experts in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, ownership transition, human resources management, finance, marketing, market research, project management and project delivery methods who collectively produce a comprehensive suite of products and services, including advisory, consulting, newsletters, industry reports, executive training, business conferences, and more covering virtually every aspect of firm management. The firm is headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with additional offices in, Chicago, IL, Durham, NC, Natick, MA, and Washington, DC. The ownership of ZweigWhite are investors Eli Global and BIA Digital Partners, with management including Mark Zweig and Ed Friedrichs. For more information contact Sonya Stout at 479.582.5700, or sstout@zweigwhite.com.
