Garver is again ranked on Engineering News-Record's list of the Top 500 Design Firms nationwide. Garver is listed #226. This is the 26th time Garver has been listed as a top design firm in ENR's annual rankings.
Based on Top 500 survey information, ENR reported a number of findings regarding industry markets and trends in 2011.
- The Top 500 had overall domestic and international design revenue of $85.06 billion in 2011. This is up 6.6% from 2010.
- The Top 500 experienced a 1.6% gain in revenue earned from domestic projects, which was 58.6 billion.
- The largest domestic public infrastructure market was transportation, which fell 0.1%, to $13.01 billion in 2011. Also down were water (down 3.7%), sewer and wastewater (down 8.3%), and hazardous waste (down 6.1%).
- There were 458 design firms on this year's Top 500 that also sent in surveys last year. Of that number, 62.9% experienced increasing revenues from 2010 to 2011, while 36.7% had declining revenues.
- Eleven design firms that made the 2011 list were acquired by other firms last year.
