The ENR Top 400 Contractors: Despite Growth, Firms Worry

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May 15, 2013

Gary J. Tulacz

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建筑市场正在取得恢复的进步。但是，许多大型承包商仍然不确定市场的去向。他们看到在美国市场上持续柔软，在公共部门工作的人发现，客户之间的资金短缺是增长的障碍。

The modest turnaround in the construction market can be seen in this year's ENR Top 400 Contractors list. As a group, the Top 400 generated $309.45 billion in contracting revenue in 2012, an increase of 9.7% from 2011's $282.14 billion. The figure is still some 8.5% below the record $338.38 billion in 2008 contracting revenue reported in our 2009 Top 400.

Domestic contracting revenue for the Top 400 rose 6.1% in 2012, to $233.99 billion, while international contracting revenue jumped 22.4%, to $75.46 billion. While the domestic market clearly is beginning to make progress toward prosperity, it still has far to go to match the record $281.36 billion in domestic contracting revenue by the Top 400 in 2008.

国内私营部门市场与公共部门主导的市场之间存在明显的对比。制造业在2011年上涨了82.7％，再次是2012年的最高收益者，这次增长了22.9％，显示出最强的国内周转。工业过程的市场近在咫尺，增长了21.9％。电力市场上涨了15.3％，石油增长了13.1％，电信攀升10.4％。

The domestic infrastructure markets continued to struggle. Contracting revenue in the U.S. transportation market rose 3.9%, while hazardous-waste contracting was up only 0.8%. Water-supply work, on the other hand, was the big loser in the 2012 market: Contracting revenue from projects in the water-supply market fell 25.8%. The sewer-and-wastewater market also fell, with revenue down 0.7%, the fifth straight year for declining contracting revenue in the sector.

The largest domestic market is general building, which rose 3.6%, to $113.33 billion, in 2012 over 2011. However, this is a far cry from 2008, when contractors from the Top 400 generated $135.47 billion from the general-building market.

最大的承包商继续赢得大型项目。新利18备用网址Bechtel在2012年的新合同工作中赢得了超过190亿美元的新合同工作，这是2011年创下创纪录的470亿美元的合同销售额。总统。Bechtel于1月在莫桑比克的一家新的液化液化 - 天然气加工工厂和758 mw的天然加速器燃料，在德克萨斯州的Temple，在莫桑比克的新液化 - 天然气加工厂赢得了1 Ltd. AnadarkoMoçambique1 Ltd.的前端工程设计合同。，在四月份。

Fluor also is having a big year. On April 30, Fluor and its partners received a notice to proceed on the $3.14-billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project in New York, and on May 2, Fluor won an ethylene cracker project for Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas. "New awards for the quarter were strong [at] $6.5 billion, including $3.1 billion in oil and gas and $2.2 billion in industrial and infrastructure," said Fluor CEO David Seaton at a May 2 earnings conference. The firm's consolidated backlog is $37.5 billion, he says, "which is down from a year ago primarily due to the downturn in the mining-and-metals market." But Seaton is encouraged by improving margins on Fluor's backlog.

Kiewit Corp. also has reason to celebrate, having won—with Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, Weeks Marine and Massman Construction—the $1.5-billion Goethals Bridge replacement job in New Jersey, and, with partner Skanska Koch, a $743.3-million contract to raise the deck of the Bayonne Bridge. Both contracts were awarded in late April.

Gary J. Tulaczhas been, since 1993, senior editor in charge of ENR'sTop Lists,which bring structure to the huge global construction industry through annual surveys and market analysis of its key segments and major players. The array of surveys rank companies, based both in the U.S. and outside, which perform general contracting, specialty contracting, engineering, architecture and environmental services, among other specialties.

根据国内外工作的年收入，这些排名进一步分为特定的市场类别。Click herefor descriptions and schedules of ENR Top List surveys and access to information on current and past listed firms.

Gary also created the ENR Top 100 Green Contractors and Design Firms rankings and the ENR quarterly Construction Industry Confidence Index that measures firm executives' market outlook.

该调查数据由行业公司和其他企业，政府机构和学者使用，还可以评估全球建筑市场的健康状况。

A graduate of Fordham College in New York City and the Fordham University School of Law, Gary previously wrote extensively on employee relations in such areas as labor and immigration law and employee drug testing.