Consulting-Specifying Engineer - August 2008 - (Page 23) Piazza Engineering, Dallas; and ARCADIS-US, Highlands Ranch, Colo., acquired RTKL, Baltimore, as a wholly owned subsidiary. Carter & Burgess, which was ranked No. 6 on the Giants 100 list in 2007 with a total revenue of more than $498 million and an MEP revenue of $109 million, was acquired by Jacobs; the resulting firm name is Jacobs Carter Burgess, Ft. Worth, Texas. Jacobs Carter Burgess did not participate in the Giants 100 survey. Giant employers Giants 100 firms are significant for the number of engineers they employ: 39,364 in total, 16,118 of whom are MEP engineers. See Table 2 for top employers of MEP engineers. Historically, Consulting-Specifying Engineer has broken out structural engineers (3,942 reported in 2008), but not fire-protection engineers, which we’ll include in the 2009 survey. What giants do Table 3 shows where the bulk of project work occurred among Giants 100 firms. Consulting-Specifying Engineer asked each firm to allocate 100% of its revenues across new construction; renovation/retrofit; maintenance, repair, and operations; and commissioning projects. Twelve of the firms did not answer the question. Among those that did, 56% derive more than 50% of their revenue from new construction, and 24% derive more than 50% of their revenue from renovations/retrofits. Table 3 also shows that 59% of the participating firms provide some level of commissioning services. Two firms (EMC Engineers, Lakewood, Colo., and Sebesta Blomberg, Roseville, Minn.) are the most heavily committed to commissioning. Although they are large, Giants 100 firms do not do everything in-house. Figure 1 shows what work Giants 100 firms tend to have performed by subcontractors. Although there is little change from 2007 to 2008, note that acoustics Security systems design Plumbing Lighting controls LEED certification Fire/smoke systems design Energy modeling Electrical systems design Controls/BAS design and/or control sequences Construction management Commissioning Chilled-water systems design CFD modeling Boiler systems design Acoustics 0 10 20 30 40 ■ 2007 ■ 2008 50 60 Figure 1: Subcontracting trends among Giants 100 firms Table 2: Giants 100 firms — top MEP employers Giants 100 ranking 2 7 1 3 10 5 14 35 23 6 Name of firm URS Corporation Parsons Brinckerhoff AECOM Technology Corp. Burns & McDonnell Stantec Inc. Syska Hennessy Group Inc. AKF Engineers LP Middough Inc. EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a company of HP POWER Engineers Number of MEP engineers 2,986 1,841 1,647 695 616 402 340 323 255 245 Consulting-Specifying Engineer • AUGUST 2008 23
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