公司参与2019 MidAtlanti痛新利luckc Top Design Firms survey continue to flourish. The 115 ranked firms saw their combined regional revenue from work performed and billed in 2018 hit $5.9 billion. That compares with $5.3 billion in work performed by 114 firms in 2017. Results reflect projects in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The top 10 firms on the list had a strong year. After seeing their combined 2017 regional revenue decline 25%, to $2.1 billion from the year-earlier level, revenue rebounded in 2018, posting a gain of $800 million, or 38%.

No. 1 AECOM, a mainstay atop the MidAtlantic rankings, outpaced its 2017 revenue by 8.4%, to $690.83 million. No. 2 Michael Baker reported a 4.8% revenue decrease, to $218.72 million. Third-ranked Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson Inc. posted a 7.7% gain, to $212.65 million.

随着收入增长13％，达到1.833亿美元，排名第4的Stantec从去年上升了一个位置。Stantec高级副总裁兼美国东地理领导人Brian Larson表示，该公司今年取得了良好的业绩。他说：“利用率很高，增长稳定，2019年的收入迄今为止的收入超过了我们去年的这个时候。”该公司的收入和积压增长了20％。拉森补充说：“我们在该地区的员工人数也有所增加，促进了我们7％的有机增长。”

Stantec’s largest project to break ground in 2018 was the $60-million University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pinnacle Ambulatory Care Building in York, Pa. The firm’s environmental services and transportation teams also “have been particularly busy in response to increased demands for infrastructure work and the ongoing growth of the renewable energy market, which remains strong across the U.S.,” Larson says.

惠特曼（Whitman），Requardt＆Associates LLP（WRA）在整体排名中滑到第10位，但其地区收入增加了约1％，达到1.4258亿美元。WRA在公共建筑工作中排名第二，为2592万美元。它最近在马里兰州伍德劳恩市社会保障局总​​部的国家计算中心完成了一个86,000平方英尺的翻新项目。

WRA的行政合作伙伴约瑟夫·马卡尔（Joseph Makar）将整个市场描述为“惊人”和“丰富”。他补充说：“目前有很多好的工作，我们在工作的所有领域都看到了它。”

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Transportation Matters

More than 30 firms on the 2019 survey listed transportation as one of their leading sectors, and 75 firms combined to record a total of $2.06 billion in transportation work in 2018.

WRA是区域运输收入的第7名，最近与WSP和RS＆H一起进入了一个计划管理团队，以进行和制定可能是美国最大的运输公私合作伙伴关系的招标文件。根据马里兰州运输州高速公路管理局的数据，拟议的495号州际公路和I-270 P3的成本可能达到110亿美元，包括收费车道和超过70英里的马里兰州州际公路的扩张。本月早些时候，马里兰州的公共工程委员会将该提案认证为P3，如州法律所要求，但决定推迟该项目的I-495部分。投票使MDOT可以开始审查公司进入P3。

Makar says transportation work is “booming” but is uncertain whether all of the funding for regional projects will stay in place. He says that some states seem to be well funded, but with other states, “We’ll see what happens.” The Virginia General Assembly, for example, recently approved funding for approximately $150 million in improvements to the 325-mile I-81 corridor. But it has been unsuccessful so far in securing additional federal funding. The Virginia Dept. of Transportation says the corridor needs $2 billion in upgrades.

The federal infrastructure picture is unclear after President Trump abruptly ended discussions with top congressional Democrats over a $2-trillion proposal. WRA’s Makar says, “Everybody in the political arena understands the importance of infrastructure, but I think they’re struggling in collaborating and negotiating to get a good bill through. I hope something does come through because there’s definitely a need for it.”

Stantec’s Larson—whose firm is providing engineering and design services on the $40-million Edmondson Avenue Bridge Replacement in Baltimore—says if the federal infrastructure measure “is not funded before the election cycle, we might expect a correction in the sector.”

Challenges Ahead

虽然MidAtlantic设计和施工arket is strong, labor costs and possible Trump administration-imposed tariffs on imported construction materials are creating uncertainty. Tim Burkett, director of operations at No. 54 Ayers Saint Gross says that some clients are considering renovations of their current buildings instead of new construction “to stand their ground and, in some cases, remain viable in an increasingly competitive landscape.”

尽管材料成本不确定，但伯克特说，越来越多的中大西洋所有者18luck.cub投资于弹性计划，例如生活建筑挑战。“We’re starting to see clients look beyond sustainability for their campuses and look toward resilience and regenerative and or restorative designs and practices,” says Burkett, whose firm designed the nearly completed Semans Griswold Environmental Hall at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. “Buildings are increasingly appreciated for their actual performance metrics in lieu of predicted or potential savings.”

Burkett预计未来几年对提案和资本项目计划的要求会有所放缓。但是他是“市场波动和长期人口变化的兴趣，影响了两年以上的市场。因此，我们的业务计划因素净收入增长，但依靠保守的模型来建立我们的间接费用结构。”