设计公司在南方程序er strong year and were able to ride that momentum into 2020. But as firms adjust to a new normal in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty lies ahead in terms of what the market will look like six months from now and beyond.

The top 100 companies on the ENR Texas & Louisiana Top Design Firms list reported $7.92 billion in regional revenue in 2019, compared with the $7.3 billion reported by the top 100 firms last year. ENR Texas & Louisiana’s regional coverage area also includes revenue from work in Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

根据美国建筑师研究所的说法，在去年，南部的建筑Billings指数急剧下降。该地区的分数为2020年3月的44.2，比去年同期10点下降，分数为54.2。低于50的分数表示帐单下降。就在2020年1月和2月，南方以56.7和58的得分领先。

“While the ABI was strong at the beginning of the year, it has certainly taken a hit with the onset of coronavirus and fell by 20 points last month,” says Kathleen Gordon, executive director of AIA Louisiana. “With architecture and construction being considered essential through all of this, many firms are still working, even through what has admittedly been a slowdown of about 20% in Louisiana. While we all face many challenges ahead, we can remain optimistic about opportunities that will come as reopenings begin.”

Even as the COVID-19 crisis put the nation on lockdown, designers remained busy, and many had booked enough work to carry them through the summer, says Mattia Flabiano III, senior principal at Page Southerland Page Inc., Dallas, and president-elect of the Architecture and Design Foundation for AIA Dallas.

“I was on an AIA panel discussion with four other firms. All of them were very bullish on this first half of the year. But I think a lot ... are concerned about the third and fourth quarters,” he says.

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关键的基础设施需求

The past year brought sizable gains for many design companies. Burns & McDonnell saw dramatic growth across the region, including at its locations in Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin and Oklahoma City. The Kansas City, Mo.-based firm led this year’s Top Design Firms list with $850.4 million in revenue, a 51% increase over $563.7 million last year.

关键基础设施一直是该公司的主要部门，该公司正在全国范围内开展近13,000个此类项目。新利18备用网址在其正在进行的项目之一中，该公司正在与未公开新利18备用网址的客户合作，为德克萨斯州的新输电线路提供环境，设计和建筑服务。

“我们将继续需要可靠的电力，水和其他基本服务。这些关键的基础设施项目将继续进行。新利18备用网址

Louisiana was the site of one of Burns & McDonnell’s most noteworthy recent projects, the $65-million Terrebonne to Bayou Vista Transmission Upgrade. The project involved upgrading a critical, 24-mile section of the Entergy-Louisiana transmission grid in south-central Louisiana. The firm completed the project in May 2018.

位于路易斯安那州的北部，总部位于鲁斯顿的亨特（Ruston），吉洛特（Guillot＆Associates）在市场领域经历了活跃的一年，地区收入为3,800万美元。HGA工程副总裁特罗特·亨特（Trotter Hunt）说：“在全年中，我们看到了经济的持续力量，并稳定增长。”

尽管区域收入从2018年的4630万美元下降，但HGA一直忙于几个方面的项目。新利18备用网址该公司最近获得了与墨西哥湾沿岸氨合作的合同，该公司在德克萨斯城的每年130万吨无水氨植物上。HGA还继续为几家大型管道传输公司设计天然气压缩机站，并正在帮助在路易斯安那州西姆斯伯勒（Simsboro）为家禽生产商Raeford Farms的工程和建造一个新的饲料工厂。

Meanwhile, both public and commercial projects fed the Arkansas market in 2019, and the commercial trend has continued into 2020, with Costco Wholesale and Amazon announcing plans to build in Little Rock. “The market’s been fairly strong,” says Brent Stevenson, executive director of AIA Arkansas.

Texas Firms Dominate Region

Robust growth continued for another year in Texas, with firms in the state accounting for more than half of the spots on this year’s Top Design Firms ranking. “The Texas region was extremely strong. The economy was one of the best in the country, or even the world,” Flabiano says.

Flabiano将2019年描述为他公司Page Southerland Page的最佳年份之一，该公司的收入攀升至1.343亿美元，增长了22％。随着越来越多的人继续搬到德克萨斯州，该公司几乎在每个市场领域都有收益，包括能源，技术，高等教育，酒店和住房。

Halff Associates Inc. of Richardson, Texas, reported growth in revenue and in the size of its workforce. Halff saw a 23% rise in its number of employees after purchasing Florida-based Genesis and Genesis CEI, expanding the firm’s footprint into the Southeast and adding 100 employees. The firm reported $153.5 million in regional revenue, a 14% increase over last year.

One of Halff’s major projects is the $320-million Mill Creek/Peaks Branch/State-Thomas Drainage Relief Tunnel in the city of Dallas. The five-mile tunnel, consisting of two miles of 35-ft-dia pipe and three miles of 30-ft-dia pipe, is the largest tunnel under construction in the U.S. and will provide 100-year flood protection for nearly 2,200 commercial and residential properties in the east Dallas area. The firm is also providing analysis and environmental assessment for a $160-million project to improve 41 miles of U.S. 82 for the Texas Dept. of Transportation’s Paris District.

Education is a key sector in Texas and contributed to gains for Fort Worth-based Huckabee, which saw revenue reach $83.9 million in 2019, compared with $82.5 million the previous year. “Early education was a space of significant growth for our firm in 2019; it also became a priority for Texas public school districts following new mandates for prekindergarten during the most recent state legislative session,” says CEO Chris Huckabee, referencing a push by Texas lawmakers to offer all-day preschool programs.

Huckabee worked with Mansfield Independent School District to design the Dr. Sarah Jandruko Academy for Early Learners. The firm also completed the 563,000-sq-ft C.E. King High School campus for Sheldon ISD and the 12,000-seat Children’s Health Stadium for Prosper ISD.

在一个更小的市场,俄克拉何马州公司work harder to stay competitive with neighboring markets like Dallas. “Our projects aren’t as large, so we have to do more of them to keep up with the rest of the world,” says Mark Gandy, AIA Oklahoma president.

学校，高等教育和教堂一直是俄克拉荷马州设计公司的强大领域。该州还看到了其公共项目的份额，其中包括4.65亿美元的聚会场所，塔尔萨占地66.5英亩的新利18备用网址城市公园。俄克拉荷马城将建立一个耗资2.88亿美元的会议中心，并建立了1.32亿美元，占地70英亩的Scissortail公园。反过来，这些新利18备用网址项目刺激了市区商业开发附近。

A Post-Pandemic Market

As firms continue to ride the wave of the past year’s successes, they remain wary of what the COVID-19 crisis could mean for future billings. “There hasn’t been a big drop-off yet in our work. Most of the firms have stayed busy and had people working from home,” Gandy says.

But firms aren’t naïve as to what the future could hold. In Oklahoma, for example, a decline in the oil and gas royalties that usually build up the state’s budget could affect funding for projects like schools. “What we’re concerned about is what might happen in six months,” Gandy says.

The situation has been a mixed bag for Arkansas firms, Stevenson says. “There are some jobs that were halted and some that are still going, depending on what was in the queue,” he says.

达拉斯和沃思堡的Burns＆McDonnell副总裁兼总经理Scott Clark说，一些市场停止或放慢速度，而另一些市场正在增长。关键的基础设施项目可能会在联邦政府决定将利率降低新利18备用网址作为对Covid-19的紧急响应后的决定之后的需求增加。克拉克说：“我们可能会看到较低的费率开放，以推进基础设施项目，例如水，废水，道路，桥梁和其他选择利用优势的市政当局的关键项目。”新利18备用网址

Technology has provided a lifeline for firms throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Huckabee’s prior investment in virtual desktops, BIM 360 and other cloud-based technology and communication tools has paid off as employees continue to work remotely. “Firms that have made these investments are thriving; those who have not are struggling,” says CEO Chris Huckabee.

尽管目前遇到了危机，但特罗特·亨特（Trotter Hunt）认为，仍然有机会，他仍然有信心，路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州以及整个美国的公司在长期以来都可以表现良好。他说：“工程和建筑公司需要在这个充满挑战的时期内提出创新的解决方案，以使项目保持正轨和成本至少。”新利18备用网址新利18备用官网登录