对于在纽约ENR纽约和新英格兰覆盖的各州工作的工程和建筑公司，今年顶级设计公司排名中的强劲收入也提供了乐观的态度，即使Covid-19乌云笼罩了新利18备用该行业的经济未来。在2019年的合并收入中，公司在任一部分或两个地区的名单上排名十亿。今年纽约 - 新泽西州名单上的95家公司报告的收入总计56.6亿美元。新英格兰的59家排名第59家公司报告2019年的收入为2400亿美元，纳入康涅狄格州，缅因州，马萨诸塞州，新罕布什尔州，罗德岛和佛蒙特州的收入。
The combined $1.30 billion posted by the top 10 firms in this year’s New England survey fell by 7.69% from $1.41 billion the year before. On the other hand, the 10 highest-ranking companies on the New York survey saw combined 2019 revenue jump 8% to $2.71 billion from $2.51 billion in 2018. The three top firms on the current New York list are repeats from last year: AECOM, which logged $611.84 million; WSP USA, reporting $488.40 million; and Parsons, whose revenue was $241.80 million.
新英格兰的highest-ran有更多变化king firms. AECOM reclaimed the top spot with $222.26 million. But Burns & McDonnell fell five slots from its top position last year, with revenue of $121.66 million. Stantec, ENR New England’s 2020 Design Firm of the Year (see p. NYNE34), was No. 2 with $194.21 million in revenue. ENR New York’s 2020 Design Firm of the Year, Jaros, Baum & Bolles (see p. NYN24), ranked 25th with $67.43 million in revenue.
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与一个或两个地区相关的ENR共享市场见解的高管由以下公司使用：VHB，新英格兰排名第新利18备用三，在纽约名单上排名第29；阿鲁普（Arup）在纽约地区排名第16，在新英格兰排名第29位；CRB，新英格兰名单上的第40位；以及Yu＆Associates，一家环境，岩土技术和土木工程公司，在纽约排名中排名第69。
Interviewees’ responses have been edited for space and clarity.
How is COVID-19 impacting your firm?
Tom Jackmin, New England region manager, VHB:在新英格兰，我们正在密切关注有关以运输为重点的刺激法案（在华盛顿特区）进行的讨论，并与客户合作以识别铲子就绪的项目。新利18备用网址创意客户正在利用低利率和资产使用量减少，以加速其原本停滞的项目的建设，以加强当地经济并减少项目积压。新利18备用网址我们看到，在大多数地方（认为是]基本活动的大多数地方，运输项目的建设都在继续。新利18备用网址我们确实期望与命令相对于劳动和物流问题造成的效率低下和潜在延迟。
Yu＆Associates的创始人Peter Yu：More than half of our ongoing projects have been shut, postponed or canceled. Proposal volume has come down by over 16%, comparing the monthly average in 2019 with March 2020. As we had employees returning from China in mid-January and early February, we were particularly … cognizant about the coronavirus. We put in place a self-quarantine policy for staff returning from overseas travel or exhibiting symptoms of sickness starting in January; issued our in-house COVID-19 plan and guidance in early March; began our work remotely from home practice in mid-March after setting up logistics and technology infrastructure; and, anticipating a slowdown on billable project work, developed potential in-house projects that would be beneficial to the firm’s long-term practice.
城市和可持续房地产总监兼波士顿办公室负责人Brian Swett：Arup：在纽约和新英格兰地区immediate impact was in rapidly shifting to a work from home environment while continuing to deliver our design and engineering services on our project schedules without missing a beat. In Massachusetts, the cities of Boston, Somerville and Cambridge shut down all construction projects for an undetermined amount of time … but the governor declared that construction was an essential business and continued major state-funded capital projects. New York state halted all nonessential construction, but it allowed infrastructure projects to continue. Many other construction sites were shuttered, although most recently, a number of projects that initially shut down have started to reopen.
What are major trends?
YU：In the New York region, they include bundled projects [that] are larger in scale and more alternative delivery projects such as design-build and P3 projects. Risk is being pushed down from the agencies to the smallest firms involved in larger critical infrastructure projects. One example is increased professional liability insurance limits, from $2 million a year ago to $5 million now as standard, with certain projects requiring up to $25 million and above. And as we come out of this COVID-19 pandemic, engineers are being tasked with identifying innovative ideas to meet challenges our industry faces.
Swett:In Boston, we have seen some clients who were very early in building development projects push pause and others moving forward more quickly in anticipation of being ready for possible stimulus money. In New York, we are seeing a continued volume of RFPs but a change in scale and a shift in focus.
Paul Skinner, Northeast design regional leader and senior associate, CRB:与前几年相比，我们看到对设计建设项目执行的接受程度增加。
Which sectors have offered the biggest opportunities?
VHB首席执行官Mike Carragher：尽管Covid-19在我们的市场，服务和地区都有不同的影响，但我们……正在与客户积极合作，以确定可能源于这一大流行的机会。交通量很低，但是有些客户正在使用此机会来提高维护和“良好维修”项目，这些项目在道路，机场和运输设施全部运行时难以实现。新利18备用网址公共和私人[客户]花了这段时间来清除维护积压。
YU：我们已经成功地参与了传统的设计竞标项目以及跨市场领域的替代交付项目：运输，关键基础设施，教育和医疗保健。新利18备用网址作为一家较小的公司，我们可以更敏捷地反应改变和维护流线型过程。
Swett:高等教育继续提供许多机会，我们正在积极发展我们的医疗保健业务。这两个部门的资本支出仍然很大。近期近期机会的另一个领域是海上风。沿着东海岸，我们看到了大型离岸开发地点，并且项目开始前进，这在很大程度上是由监管任务驱动的。新利18备用网址在纽约地区，基本项目继续进行，具有数据中心投资组合的技术客户需要增加新利18备用网址能力，以帮助解决在线工作的新焦点。高等教育项目的增长……特别是在拥有捐赠基金的学校中。新利18备用网址
哪些部门冷却了？
YU：在纽约地区，住宅和商业发展方面的私营部门以及酒店和娱乐业务可能会遭受社会疏远一段时间的影响。
Swett:多年来增加了巨大的供应，豪华住宅一直持续冷却。
Steve McElligott, transportation market leader, VHB:Hospitality, restaurants, entertainment and retail have been deemed nonessential and therefore hit especially hard.
What key innovations helped you boost productivity or other metrics?
麦克利戈特：VHB开始在[纽约州运输部]道路库存数据MART项目上工作。我们还为机构客户提供了一个试点项目，该项目将提供一组强大的地图导航和地理工具，以更好地理解和管理校园和设施。从战略上将此基于Web的映射应用程序与相关服务集成在一起，将为[这些]客户提供更好地管理其所有属性资产和基础架构的方法。
Skinner:我们已经将设计模型迁移到云中，当我们不得不将设计团队转换为远程工作时，这是一个巨大的好处。创新的虚拟设计和施工过程提高了整个公司的生产力和沟通。在过去的一年中，该公司将我们的整个VDC建模平台迁移到云，以允许从办公室，项目站点，最重要的是在这些时期内从家里进行协作访问。
为了协助满足激进的项目计划，我们能够使用虚拟/增强现实，4D构造序列建模和5D模型成本估算等高级技术做出更快，更智能的决策。
YU：Last year, we implemented cloud storage to enhance project communication and allow real-time transmission of technical data between the field and the office. We also implemented Newforma software to facilitate project management and client communication. The use of Bluebeam, Revit, BIM and 3D modeling programs has provided us with the ability to seamlessly transfer documents … and maintain quality standards.
Swett:我们将参数建模用于越来越多的项目进行结构和能源建模。新利18备用网址实时评估建筑师或所有者驱动的设计方向的能力为设计过程增加了巨大的效率，并允许采用透明，知情的方法来优化设计和材料选择。我们使用数据科学技能和概率技术来预测业务连续性风险或为高性能建筑物开发能源建模。
Where do you see the industry headed in the next year?
YU：We foresee that the critical infrastructure market will return quickly with an influx of stimulus money for projects in the New York region. Lower ridership across modes of transportation affords the industry an opportunity to be innovative and to move forward with difficult projects now that were too disruptive before. This means faster project completion times and reduced costs.
麦克利戈特：历史表现，加上区域影响的深度，表明航空的恢复将是不平衡的和社区的。
Swett:We may be experiencing a change to our entire economic system and in our industry unlike anything we have seen in generations. There will still be tremendous needs for engineers to design a more resilient and sustainable built environment and infrastructure systems … but how we do that work is set to change significantly. Our advanced analytics allow us to model how air flows or to configure social distancing in spaces.
