2004 Top 40

The Top 40 Electrical Design Firms

EC&M's Exclusive Online Report on the 2004 Top 40

While the nation’s largest electrical design firms endured a severe downturn in the market, they’re now starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Construction economists don’t forecast a recovery until 2005, but electrical design firms are already starting to see signs that the market may finally be turning around. To give our readers an overview of the major players in the electrical design market, EC&M surveyed the nation's largest electrical design firms for its 2004 listing. This annual report includes detailed capsule summaries for each company, informative sidebars, and photos of their recent electrical construction projects. The summaries include:

The firms’ headquarters and branch office locations
Number of employees
Total revenue for design services in 2003
Percentage of revenue that was related to electrical design
Forecast for 2004 sales
Percentage of design work in certain market segments
Areas of expertise
Percentage of design work that is design/build or design/assist
Hot and cool markets
Challenges for 2004
Recent electrical design projects

The report also includes a copy of the survey and cover letter sent to the design firms and complete contact information for each firm. The report will soon be available on EC&M's Research page.

2004 Listing of the Top 40 Electrical Design Firms

Note: 2003 sales figures were supplied by each design firm. While they are not listed in the table above, they will be available in our online report, which will be for sale on the Research page of our Web site.

The revenue figure for Sear-Brown Group was acquired from a corporate news release issued by Stantec, which acquired the Sear-Brown Group in April 2004.

DP-Declined to participate in survey. This company’s ranking is estimated based on information from Dun and Bradstreet’s Million Dollar Database.

NL-Not listed. This company didn’t appear in last year’s Top 40 listing.

(1) Bechtel Corp., which is based in San Francisco, ranked second on our listing last year. This year we are listing Frederick, Md.-based Bechtel Power due to the division’s focus on the electrical power market.

(2) CH2M Hill (#6) acquired Lockwood Greene (#18) in December 2003.

(3) Aker Kvaerner Oil, Gas, Process, and Energy (OGPE) was created during the restructuring of Aker Kvaerner in 2003.

(4) Stone and Webster and Energy Delivery Services, which ranked 14th and 29th on our 2003 listing, are now part of the Shaw Group, Inc.

(5) Atkins Benham, which ranked 32nd on our 2003 listing, changed its name to the Benham Companies after buying the company back from London-based Atkins in 2003.