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2011 top 100-green_design_firms
1. the top 100 GReeN DeSIGN FIRMS / top 500 DeSIGN FIRMS SoURCeBooK 2011
The Top 100 Green
Design Firms
HKS designed the 30,000-seat
#10 stadium for North Texas University’s
“Mean Green” football team. It has
three wind turbines to supply power.
Owners Are Reaching Out to Green Designers
For Money-Saving Sustainable Solutions By Gary J. Tulacz
The construction market may be in the doldrums, but what is being built increasingly is requiring some
sort of sustainable design. More and more, owners are not looking at green design as a simple bolt-on to
the overall project to be discarded when budgetary pressures ramp up but rather as a valuable asset to the
facility and, in the long run, a money saver. Thus, to succeed, designers working in sustainable design must
have the ability to provide innovative and verifiable means of saving energy and operating expenses.
THE TOP 100 GREEN DESIGN FIRMS THE TOP 500 DESIGN FIRMS SOURCEBOOK
38 Overview 44 General Building 57 Telecommunications
38 Green Design Firms Market Analysis 46 Transportation 61 Environment
39 The Top 5 Green Design Firms by Sector 48 Power 64 The Top 500 Design
PHOTO COURTESY OF HKS
40 How To Use the Tables 50 Petroleum Firms Overview
41 The Top 100 List 54 Manufacturing 65 The Top 500 List
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2. THE TOP 100 GREEN FIRMS
How Green Are the Markets?
Commercial Education
Offices (15.2%) (17.6%) Government
Offices (19.3%)
Healthcare
(15.4%)
Other Buildings
(8.0%)
Retail
(1.1%) Multiunit
Residential (1.6%) Sports / Civic
Entertainment (5.6%)
Hotels Airports Non-Building
(2.0%) (4.1%) Misc. (8.2%)
Industrial /
Manufacturing (1.9%)
(Total 2010 Revenue = $3.74 billion)
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction
Reasearch & Analytics/ENR.
For anyone curious about sustainable design’s impact ter, SSOE Group architectural department manager.
on the market, one need only look at the results of Further, many owners are willing to pay up front
ENR’s Top 100 Green Design firms list. As a group, for savings down the road. “The marketplace has be-
the Top 100 generated $3.74 billion in design revenue come progressively receptive to a larger up-front in-
in 2010 from projects registered with and actively seek- vestment in intelligent, high-performing building
ing certification from third-party ratings groups under design,” says Ronald W. Krentz, assistant vice presi-
objective sustainable-design standards, such as the U.S. “If green dent of the Michael Baker Group.
Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and design saves Thus, there has been a greater focus on the mea-
them money,
Environmental Design standards. This revenue is a surables in green design. “We are seeing clients pro-
clients love it.
12.3% increase over $3.33 billion in 2009 for the The cost of vide very specific and aggressive performance targets
group. Domestically, green design revenue rose 19.4%, utilities alone in their RFPs,” says Tom Hootman, director of sus-
to $3.30 billion in 2010 from $2.76 billion in 2009. has been a tainability for RNL. “[The design profession] is be-
The Top 100 had $442.9 million in revenue from green compelling coming better at measuring and quantifying building
reason for both
projects outside the U.S. in 2010, down a surprising performance during design. The real game-changer
industrial and
15.4% from $523.7 million in 2009. institutional is the continual improvement in how we are monitor-
This revenue increase shows that interest in green clients to take ing and operating our buildings,” he says.
design remains strong, despite the industry recession. notice.” Some designers say this bottom-line approach may
“Sustainable design is finally going mainstream,” says Louise Schlatter, cause some owners to ignore other elements of sus-
Kirsten Ritchie, principal at Gensler. She says many Architectural tainable design. “We’ve seen some pushback from
state and local building codes are adopting sustainable Department going through formal certification using the LEED
design requirements, which is requiring the industry Manager, system due to the added costs for documentation,”
SSOE Group
to pay attention to green design. says Roger Chang, director of sustainability for West-
lake Reed Leskosky. He says facility managers, in par-
Sustainable Savings ticular, prefer to invest in tangible improvements to
In a tough economy, more owners are focusing on fa- infrastructure rather than focusing too much on issues
cility life-cycle costs in addition to initial costs. This like recycled content or certified wood.
trend has sparked new interest in the efficiency of op- The drive toward performance-based design is in-
erating green. “If green design saves them money, cli- fluencing both owners and designers. When the mar-
ents love it. In recent years, the cost of utilities alone ket turns around, “we will see an increased focus on
has been a compelling reason for both industrial and hard, meaningful sustainability metrics that require
institutional clients to take notice,” says Louise Schlat- some level of scientific/administrative rigor to estab-
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3. NAC|ARChiteCtuRe works mostly
#42 in the public sector which must be
green, giving the firm one of the
highest percentages of green projects.
The Top 5 Green Firms by Sector
cOMMercIal OFFIces edUcaTIOn GOverMenT OFFIces
$ MIL. $ MIL. $ MIL.
Rank FIRM REVEnUE Rank FIRM REVEnUE Rank FIRM REVEnUE
1 Gensler 211.8 1 Urs cOrP. 58.2 1 TeTra Tech Inc. 92.0
2 TeTra Tech Inc. 44.0 2 eyP archITecTUre & enGIneerInG 28.6 2 JacOBs 73.2
3 PerkIns+WIll 42.2 3 PerkIns+WIll 28.3 3 aecOM TechnOlOGy cOrP. 53.1
4 hOk 34.6 4 lPa Inc. 26.0 4 Urs cOrP. 46.5
5 aecOM TechnOlOGy cOrP. 30.4 5 ayers saInT GrOss 22.1 5 hOk 30.7
healTh care IndUsTrIal ManUFacTUrInG MUlTI-UnIT
$ MIL. $ MIL. $ MIL.
Rank FIRM REVEnUE Rank FIRM REVEnUE Rank FIRM REVEnUE
1 PerkIns+WIll 59.3 1 ssOe GrOUP 20.6 1 MIchael Baker cOrP.. 11.5
2 nBBJ 56.1 2 BrPh archITecTs-enGIneers Inc. 16.5 2 Urs cOrP. 11.0
3 aecOM TechnOlOGy cOrP. 52.5 3 Urs cOrP. 14.0 3 ZGF archITecTs llP 6.9
4 hOk 43.3 4 hdr 6.5 4 kaPlan MclaUGhlIn dIaZ (kMd) 3.6
5 hks Inc. 36.3 5 Gray cOnsTrUcTIOn 4.2 5 kIMley-hOrn and assOcIaTes Inc. 3.0
reTaIl Green MarkeT revenUe $ bIL. sPOrTs enTerTaInMenT & cIvIc
$ MIL. $ MIL.
Rank FIRM REVEnUE Rank FIRM REVEnUE
1 Urs cOrP. 11.2 1 hks Inc. 28.8
2 kIMley-hOrn and assOcIaTes Inc. 8.0 2 Gensler 27.5
3 Gensler 7.0 3 ch2M hIll 26.8
4 kPFF cOnsUlTInG enGIneers 4.2 4 aecOM TechnOlOGy cOrP. 20.3
5 BkF enGIneers 2.9 Source: McGraw-Hill Construction Reasearch & Analytics/ENR. 5 TvsdesIGn 12.8
lish,” says Wolfgang Werner, director of sustainability greater share of the market seeking certification,” says
for Thornton Tomasetti. He says the industry is mov- B. Kirk Teske, principal and chief sustainability officer
ing beyond the “check-list mind-set” of counting at HKS. “Clients have seen the value of the third-party
LEED points to a “performance mind-set” of measur- verification that LEED provides as a way to get what
ing, tracking and improving actual performance. they are paying for as well as to provide evidence of
Thornton Tomasetti is beginning to quantify and their sustainability efforts,” adds Kris Phillips, sustain-
track “energy/carbon values associated with our struc- “Fast-track able design coordinator of SSOE. “No one brags
tural projects,” Werner says. He says that while the projects tend about their building meeting fire or safety codes. The
to shortchange
load-bearing portion of a structure is the most massive same will be true for green codes.”
the critical
of a building’s elements, little attention has been paid early design “LEED is a brand name,” says Mary Ann Lazarus,
to the carbon footprint of structural design. The com- phases” that director of sustainable design for HOK. She says that
pany wants to identify the impact of structural design are crucial to when you get a third-party certifying a design, it shows
on the sustainable design process and how it can be good green the necessary rigor was applied to achieve an energy-
design.
improved. efficient facility, she says. Gensler’s Ritchie gives a
Joanna Yaghooti, good example of the value of LEED compliance. Not-
LEED’s Continued Acceptance Director of ing that California’s Green Building Standards Code
Sustainable
There is some concern whether new laws and codes Design,
became mandatory in that state this year, she says,
will supplant LEED. For example, the Washington, Houston office, “Getting certified by LEED makes it easier to dem-
D.C.-based International Code Council has completed PageSouther- onstrate compliance with CalGreen.”
its public comment period on a proposed International landPage The next version of LEED is eagerly anticipated
Green Construction Code. ICC is expected to publish by many sustainable designers. “You can expect a
the final IGCC in 2012. Designers expect many juris- strong emphasis on monitoring water and energy use
dictions across the U.S. to adopt the IGCC. and on increasing performance across the board for
“Some predict that, once municipalities begin to both energy systems and architectural assemblies. The
adopt green building codes, certifications will tail off. inclusion of envelope commissioning is welcomed and
However, I believe that this will likely lead to an even overdue,” says Joanna Yaghooti, director of sustainable
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4. NBBJ designed the Bill & Melinda
THE TOP 100 GREEN FIRMS #07 Gates Foundation campus to include
living roofs, rainwater storage and
reuse, and an energy-saving chiller.
voltaic arrays on the roofs,” says Matt
Rumbaugh, principal with
NAC|Architecture. “You would not ex-
pect that in the cloudy Pacific Northwest.
Solar power is not just for California and
Arizona anymore.”
Rumbaugh says many designers are
leaving room in their plans for more solar
panels. “A client may not have enough
money for a full array, so we set up the
design [so panels can be added]through-
out the life of the facility,” he says.
Ritchie says the move toward solar and
other local power sources means empha-
sis should be put on moving systems from
alternating current to direct current when
feasible. Converting from A/C to D/C
Green commitment the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus is seeking LeeD Gold certification. causes major energy inefficiencies.
Chang says EMerge Alliance, a San
design for the Houston office of Page- all parties to contribute their sustainable Ramon, Calif.-based industry association,
SoutherlandPage. design ideas. “Fast-track projects tend to has developed a promising concept of us-
However, Yaghooti expects the most shortchange the critical early design ing D/C microgrids to power D/C-native
interest to be in LEED 2012’s greater em- phases, which runs contrary to the prin- devices—LED lighting, variable air vol-
phasis on certified products. She says dis- ciples of IPD,” she says. ume boxes, computers—directly, without
agreements over this pilot LEED credit Chang worries that design-build puts the loss of efficiency associated with D/C-
show that design professionals are wary of pressure on effective green design. “These to-A/C power conversion. “The small
prescriptive green building standards. projects require a team to produce a sub- power adapters we use to power portable
Ritchie says that bringing in engineers stantially developed concept prior to proj- electronic devices are incredibly ineffi-
and contractors early in the design phase ect award, which forces sustainable design cient,” he says.
is critical to the success of sustainable de- decisions based on more limited analyses One means of saving energy is to get a
sign. Green strategies have become “foun- of cost and performance,” he says. De- building’s occupants actively involved in
dational elements” that have to be ad- sign-build has increased the need for ro- monitoring and conserving power.
dressed early in design development, says bust front-end simulation tools, he says. NAC|Architecture has used school design
Ian Hadden, energy and sustainable ser- to address the issue of occupant energy use.
vices manager, Fanning Howey. New Tools and Techniques “We are working on a couple of elementary
Owner emphasis on fast-track projects Interest in solar power continues to grow schools where we have a submetering sys-
may hurt designers’ ability to incorporate around the country, with some projects tem along with usage displays in each
needed elements of sustainable design. showing up in surprising areas. “We have wing,” says Rumbaugh. “This allows the
Yaghooti says integrated project delivery two school projects in Snohomish, Wash., students in each wing to compete against
is a major help to green design as it allows where we are installing 100-KV photo- each other to conserve energy.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF bILL & MELInda GaTES FOUndaTIOn / bEnjaMIn bEnSCHnEIdER
How to Read the Tables revenue in the ENR Top 400/500 survey or
did not send in a Top 400/500 survey.
Hotel includes hotels, motels, resorts and
convention centers.
Education comprises public and private Multi-Residential includes co-ops,
Companies are ranked according to Accredited Staff This figure is the educational facilities, including both K-12 condominiums and apartment buildings.
revenue for design services generated in number of people employed by the firm and higher education.
2010 from projects that have been who have been certified as knowledgeable Retail/Office includes commercial
registered with or certified by a third-party in green construction by a third-party Entertainment/Civic includes sports offices and retail facilities.
accreditation organization. facilities, entertainment facilities, casinos, Other Buildings comprises miscella-
organization—such as the U.S. Green
theme parks, and religious and cultural neous buildings.
Building Council, Green Building Initiative % of Total Revenue This percentage facilities.
and Green Advantage—that sets represents a firm’s total design revenue Other Markets comprises industrial
standards for measuring a facility’s derived from green design, based on its Government Office includes federal, process and pharmaceutical plants, food
environmental impact, energy efficiency or responses to ENR’s Top 500 Design Firms state and local government office facilities. processing plants, manufacturing facilities,
carbon footprint. Revenue is measured in survey and the Top Green Design Firms Health Care includes hospitals, clinics, telecommunications facilities, infrastruc-
$ millions. Some markets may not add up survey. “N/A” means the firm did not medical assistance facilities, nursing ture and cabling, towers and antennae,
to 100% due to rounding. differentiate its construction and design homes and assisted-living centers. data centers and web hotels, etc.
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![THE TOP 100 GREEN FIRMS
How Green Are the Markets?
Commercial Education
Offices (15.2%) (17.6%) Government
Offices (19.3%)
Healthcare
(15.4%)
Other Buildings
(8.0%)
Retail
(1.1%) Multiunit
Residential (1.6%) Sports / Civic
Entertainment (5.6%)
Hotels Airports Non-Building
(2.0%) (4.1%) Misc. (8.2%)
Industrial /
Manufacturing (1.9%)
(Total 2010 Revenue = $3.74 billion)
Source: McGraw-Hill Construction
Reasearch & Analytics/ENR.
For anyone curious about sustainable design’s impact ter, SSOE Group architectural department manager.
on the market, one need only look at the results of Further, many owners are willing to pay up front
ENR’s Top 100 Green Design firms list. As a group, for savings down the road. “The marketplace has be-
the Top 100 generated $3.74 billion in design revenue come progressively receptive to a larger up-front in-
in 2010 from projects registered with and actively seek- vestment in intelligent, high-performing building
ing certification from third-party ratings groups under design,” says Ronald W. Krentz, assistant vice presi-
objective sustainable-design standards, such as the U.S. “If green dent of the Michael Baker Group.
Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and design saves Thus, there has been a greater focus on the mea-
them money,
Environmental Design standards. This revenue is a surables in green design. “We are seeing clients pro-
clients love it.
12.3% increase over $3.33 billion in 2009 for the The cost of vide very specific and aggressive performance targets
group. Domestically, green design revenue rose 19.4%, utilities alone in their RFPs,” says Tom Hootman, director of sus-
to $3.30 billion in 2010 from $2.76 billion in 2009. has been a tainability for RNL. “[The design profession] is be-
The Top 100 had $442.9 million in revenue from green compelling coming better at measuring and quantifying building
reason for both
projects outside the U.S. in 2010, down a surprising performance during design. The real game-changer
industrial and
15.4% from $523.7 million in 2009. institutional is the continual improvement in how we are monitor-
This revenue increase shows that interest in green clients to take ing and operating our buildings,” he says.
design remains strong, despite the industry recession. notice.” Some designers say this bottom-line approach may
“Sustainable design is finally going mainstream,” says Louise Schlatter, cause some owners to ignore other elements of sus-
Kirsten Ritchie, principal at Gensler. She says many Architectural tainable design. “We’ve seen some pushback from
state and local building codes are adopting sustainable Department going through formal certification using the LEED
design requirements, which is requiring the industry Manager, system due to the added costs for documentation,”
SSOE Group
to pay attention to green design. says Roger Chang, director of sustainability for West-
lake Reed Leskosky. He says facility managers, in par-
Sustainable Savings ticular, prefer to invest in tangible improvements to
In a tough economy, more owners are focusing on fa- infrastructure rather than focusing too much on issues
cility life-cycle costs in addition to initial costs. This like recycled content or certified wood.
trend has sparked new interest in the efficiency of op- The drive toward performance-based design is in-
erating green. “If green design saves them money, cli- fluencing both owners and designers. When the mar-
ents love it. In recent years, the cost of utilities alone ket turns around, “we will see an increased focus on
has been a compelling reason for both industrial and hard, meaningful sustainability metrics that require
institutional clients to take notice,” says Louise Schlat- some level of scientific/administrative rigor to estab-
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