The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List

Every year since 2000, The Zweig Letter has recognized the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting firms on the basis of percentage growth and dollar growth. Over the years, the “Hot Firm” designation has become synonymous with success in the industry.

This year, The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List is again recognizing the 200 fastest-growing firms and will also recognize the top growing firms by size and by type of work. The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. The full rankings will be announced at the The Zweig Letter Hot Firm 2009 Conference, October 28-30, 2009 in Las Vegas. The complete rankings will also be announced in a special issue of The Zweig Letter.

The top 10 firms on The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List in alphabetical order are:

Hargrove and Associates, Inc. (Mobile, AL)

Hill International, Inc. (Marlton, NJ)

Natural Resource Group, LLC (Minneapolis, MN)

RW Armstrong & Associates (Indianapolis, IN)

Stantec Consulting Inc. (Irvine, CA)

Trow Global Inc (Brampton, ON )

URS Corporation (San Francisco, CA)

Woodward Design+Build (New Orleans, LA)

WSP Group (USA) (New York, NY)

X-nth (Maitland, FL)

The remainder of the top 200 firms on The Zweig Letter 2009 Hot Firm List in alphabetical order are:

ACAI Associates, Inc (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

AK Environmental, LLC (West Trenton, NJ)

Allana Buick & Bers, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
Anshen & Allen, Architects, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)

Apex Companies, LLC (Rockville, MD)

Aquaterra Environmental Solutions, Inc. (Overland Park, KS)
ARCADIS (Highlands Ranch, CO)
Arora Engineers, Inc. (Chadds Ford, PA)
Array Healthcare Facilities Solutions, Inc. (King of Prussia, PA)

Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc. (Honolulu, HI)
Barton & Loguidice, P.C. (Syracuse, NY)
Baseline Engineering (Golden, CO)
Berger Devine Yaeger, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
Bergmann Associates (Rochester, NY)
Birdsall Services Group, Inc. (Sea Girt, NJ)
BJAC pa (Raleigh, NC)
BKF Engineers (Redwood City, CA)
BLRB Architects, p.s. (Tacoma, WA)
Brandow & Johnston, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA)
BrightFields, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)

Callison (Seattle, WA)
Calvin, Giordano & Associates, Inc. (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Caruana & Associates (Long Beach, CA)
CB Engineers (San Francisco, CA)
CHA (Albany, NY)
Chen and Associates (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Cherokee Enterprises, Inc. (Miami Lakes, FL)
CirclePoint (San Francisco, CA)
Clark Nexsen (Norfolk, VA)
CMX Inc (Manalapan, NJ)
Cobb Engineering Company (Oklahoma City, OK )
Coler & Colantonio, Inc. (Norwell, MA)
Collins Engineers, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
Converse Consultants (Monrovia, CA)
Core States Group (Atlanta, GA)
Corgan Associates, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
CPH Engineers, Inc. (Sanford, FL)
Crafton Tull Sparks (Rogers, AR)
Cubellis (Boston, MA)
Cuningham Group Architecture, P.A. (Minneapolis, MN)

Dagher Engineering (New York, NY)
Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM)
DCI Engineers (Bellevue, WA)
Degenkolb Engineers (San Francisco, CA)
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini (Albuquerque, NM)
DLR Group (Omaha, NE)
DLT&V Systems Engineering (Phoenix, AZ)
DOWL HKM (Anchorage, AK)
Dudek (Encinitas, CA)
Dvirka And Bartilucci Consulting Engineers (Long Island, NY)

E M C Engineers, Inc. (Lakewood, CO)
EAPC (Grand Forks, ND)
ECOM Engineering, Inc. (Sacramento, CA)
EDSA, Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
EM-Assist, Inc. (Folsom, CA)
EMR Inc. (Lawrence, KS)
EN Engineering, LLC (Woodridge, IL)
Enermodal Engineering (Kitchener, ON)
ENGlobal Corporation (Houston, TX)
ENVIRON Holdings Inc. (Arlington, VA)
Environmental Resolutions, Inc. (Lake Forest, CA)
ERRG (Martinez, CA)
ESI Consultants, Ltd (Naperville, IL)

Farnsworth Group, Inc. (Bloomington, IL)
Fehr-Graham & Associates LLC (Freeport, IL)
Fentress Architects (Denver, CO)
Finley Engineering Company, Inc. (Lamar, MO)
Foss Architecture & Interiors, Inc. (Fargo, ND)
Francis Cauffman (Philadelphia, PA)
FXFOWLE Architects (New York, NY)

G. E. Walker & Associates, L.L.C. (Waco, TX)
Gafcon, Inc. (San Diego, CA)
GARY GUY WILSON, AIA, PC (Las Vegas, NV)
GATE, LLC (Houston, TX)
GEI Consultants Inc. (Woburn, MA)
GH2 Architects, LLC (Tulsa, OK )
Ghafari Associates, L.L.C. (Dearborn, MI)
Gilsanz Murray Steficek (New York, NY)
gkkworks (Irvine, CA)
Golder Associates (Mississauga, ON)
Groundwater & Environmental Services Inc. (Neptune, NJ)
Group2 Architecture Engineering Ltd. (Red Deer, AB)
GUNDA CORPORATION, INC. (Houston, TX)

H2Engineering Inc (Tallahassee, FL)
H2M Group (Melville, NY)
HAKS Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, P.C. (New York, NY)
Halcrow North America (New York, NY)
Hanson Professional Services Incorporated (Springfield, IL)
Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc. (Portland, OR)
Harrison French & Associates, LTD (Bentonville, AR )
HDR (Omaha, NE)
Hipp Engineering & Consulting, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)
HNTB Cos. (Kansas city, MO)
Hood-Patterson & Dewar, Inc. (Norcross, GA)
Horizon Engineering Associates, LLC (New York, NY)
Huckabee (Fort Worth, TX)

Interstates Engineering, Inc. (Sioux Center, IA)

Jacobs Associates (San Francisco, CA)
Jaster-Quintanilla (Austin, TX)
JBA Consulting Engineers (Las Vegas, NV)
JONES & CARTER, INC. (HOUSTON, TX)
JRS Architect, P.C. (Mineola, NY)

KCI Technologies Inc. (Sparks, MD)
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. (Raleigh, NC)
King & King, Architects LLP (Syracuse, NY)
Kirksey (Houston, TX)
KJWW Engineering Consultants (Rock Island, IL)
KSA Engineers, Inc. (Longview, TX)

Langan Engineering and Environmental Services (Elmwood Park, NJ)
Lochner (Chicago, IL)
Long Engineering, Inc. (Atlanta, GA)
Lowe Engineers LLC (Atlanta, GA)
LS3P Associates, Ltd. (Charleston, SC)
Luchs Consulting Engineers, LLC. (Meriden, CT)

M/E Engineering PC (Rochester, NY)
Mabbett & Associates, Inc (Bedford, MA)
Marstel-Day, LLC (Fredericksburg, VA)
McDonough Bolyard Peck, Inc. (Fairfax, VA)
McGill Associates, PA (Asheville, NC)
McKim & Creed (Raleigh, NC)
Mead & Hunt, Inc. (Madison, WI)
Merrick & Company (Aurora, CO)
Moody Nolan, Inc. (Columbus, OH)
MTE Consultants Inc. (Kitchener, ON)

NAC|Architecture (Spokane, WA)
NELSON (Philadelphia, PA)
Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates (San Francisco, CA)

P. W. Grosser Consulting, Inc. (Bohemia, NY)
Parametrix (Auburn, WA)
Passero Associates (Rochester, NY)
Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc. (Monroeville, PA)
Pennoni Associates Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
Perez & Perez Architects Planners (Miami, FL)
Perkins Eastman (New York, NY)
Perkins+Will (Chicago, IL)
Perkowitz+Ruth Architects (Long Beach, CA)
PE-Services (Lebanon, OH)
PGAL (Houston, TX)
Photo Science (Lexington, KY)
Pond & Company (Norcross, GA)
Potomac-Hudson Engineering, Inc. (Bethesda, MD)
Primera Engineers (Chicago, IL)
Process Plus, LLC (Cincinnati, OH)

R. W. Beck, Inc. (Seattle, WA)
RAND Engineering & Architecture, PC (New York, NY)
River Consulting (Columbus, OH)
Riverside Technology, inc. (Fort Collins, CO)
RJ O’Connell & Associates, Inc (Stoneham, MA)
RPA Associates Inc. (Wyomissing, PA)
Ruby+Associates, Inc. (Farmington Hills, MI)

Sam Schwartz Engineering (New York, NY)
SB Architects (San Francisco, CA)
Schnabel Engineering, Inc. (Glen Allen, VA)
SCS Engineers (Long Beach, CA)
Sherlock, Smith and Adams, Inc. (Montgomery, AL)
SHW Group (Plano, TX)
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (Waltham, MA)
Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (Nashville, TN)
Smolen Emr & Associates Architects, Inc (Rockville, MD)
Sovereign Consulting Inc. (Robbinsville, NJ)
Sparling (Seattle, WA)
SSOE, Inc. (Toledo, OH)
Stress Engineering Services Inc. (Houston, TX)
Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

T Baker Smith, Inc. (Houma, LA)
TEAM Integrated Engineering Inc. (San Antonio, TX)
TEC Inc. (Charlottesville, VA)
Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants P.C. (Mountainville, NY)
Terracon Consultants, Inc. (Olathe, KS)
Testengeer Inc. (Port Lavaca, TX)
Tetra Tech (Pasadena, CA)
TolTest, Inc. (Maumee, OH)
Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. (Pottstown, PA)
Treanor Architects (Lawrence, KS)
Trihydro Corporation (Laramie, WY)
Tsoi Kobus & Associates (Cambridge, MA)

Ulteig Engineers, Inc. (Fargo, ND)

V3 Companies Ltd (Woodridge, IL)
Van Boerum & Frank Associates, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (Watertown, MA)
Vanderweil Engineers (Boston, MA)
Vector Engineering, Inc. (Grass Valley, CA)

Watermark (Lowell, MA)
Weaver Boos Consultants (Chicago, IL)
Wier & Associates, Inc. (Arlington, TX)
Wight & Company (Darien, IL)
Wiser Company (Murfreesboro, TN)
Woodard & Curran (Portland, ME)
Woolpert (Dayton, OH)

YU & Associates, Inc. (Elmwood Park, NJ)