Top 50 Architects 2018

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Top 50 architects 2018
Rank		Firm	UK architectural staff		Total UK chartered staff		Total UK staff		Offices
2018	2017		Chartered architects	Non-chartered / technical	2017	2018	2017	2018	UK	Worldwide
1	1	Foster + Partners	362	192	402	395	1,058	1,064	1	11
2	2	BDP	315	120	468	529	807	878	6	6
3		Allford Hall Monaghan Morris	247	76	244	247	370	395	1	1
4	3	Allies and Morrison	179	128	189	179	337	344	4	1
5	4	Sheppard Robson	165	0	174	165	345	359	3	0
6	6=	Scott Brownrigg	119	73	124	127	241	244	5	3
7	8	Stride Treglown	114	117	149	154	323	334	9	0
8=		Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios	111	-	154	149	203	195	4	0
8=	5	TP Bennett	111	60	119	111	312	303	2	54
10=	12	AHR	92	61	120	123	327	308	8	3
10=	13	EPR Architects	92	44	84	92	160	157	1	0
12	9	PRP	90	74	108	94	257	248	3	1
13	10	Broadway Malyan	89	82	100	89	270	256	5	10
14	11	Aecom	85	157	3,003	2,767	6,962	6,054	42	630
15	15	Levitt Bernstein	81	35	81	81	137	137	2	0
16	14	Pollard Thomas Edwards	80	59	82	80	149	161	1	0
17	16	HTA Design	74	59	79	74	187	199	4	0
18	19=	JMArchitects	69	35	63	70	106	111	4	0
19	17	ADP	66	21	75	66	113	101	7	1
20		Donald Insall Associates	65	-	72	82	118	131	8	1
21	19=	Fletcher Priest Architects	63	38	64	63	112	120	1	2
22	18	3DReid	61	40	51	61	138	117	5	0
23		Mace	57	-	1,387	1,556	3,760	3,952	15	45
24=	26	Arup	55	78	1,802	1,901	5,308	5,599	14	73
24=	24=	HLM AD	55	73	49	55	161	167	7	2
26	21	Jestico + Whiles	52	18	61	52	107	97	1	1
27	24=	Stockwool	49	15	49	49	73	73	1	0
28=	22	NPS Group	45	49	224	194	784	719	18	0
28=	30	AWW	45	-	54	61	70	77	3	3
30=	28	Pick Everard	42	16	319	326	401	474	11	0
30=	39=	ECE Architecture	42	27	39	47	66	85	3	0
30=	23	Aukett Swanke	42	29	53	47	106	94	1	8
33	35=	Bryden Wood Technology	41	20	54	62	178	188	2	2
34	32	Holder Mathias Architects	38	-	38	38	55	61	2	1
35=	33=	Lewis & Hickey	37	24	49	47	100	79	5	1
35=		DarntonB3 Architecture	37	53	43	40	116	115	7	0
37	38	P+HS Architects	35	20	35	36	56	63	3	0
38	41	R H Partnership Architects	33	16	32	33	62	61	3	0
39	37	Stephen George + Partners	32	35	35	32	85	85	5	0
40	42=	Kendall Kingscott	31	28	64	70	134	147	4	0
41	27	Child Graddon Lewis	30	-	44	53	51	61	2	0
42	42=	Pozzoni Architecture	29	27	31	36	53	73	2	0
43=	44	Mott MacDonald	27	14	3,692	3,697	7,107	7,115	38	134
43=	45	Grid architects	27	25	25	27	48	52	1	0
45=	46	Penoyre & Prasad	25	7	28	25	40	39	1	0
45=		Ridge & Partners	25	32	197	231	486	632	10	1
45=	33=	LSI Architects	25	13	36	37	62	66	2	0
48	49	Bailey Partnership	24	13	50	61	99	108	4	0
49		IDP Group	23	58	26	29	91	95	3	3
50=		Clague	22	15	28	31	54	57	3	0
50=	39=	Whittam Cox Architects	22	48	55	50	138	125	3	0

Methodology

Close to 250 firms were contacted for this year’s Building Top Consultants survey. They were sent a survey form asking them to provide details on the number of chartered staff, non-chartered and technical staff, and on their domestic and worldwide fee incomes.

Practices were also asked questions relating to: staff recruitment, wage patterns, margins, areas of work, and work expectations. All data in the attached tables are taken directly from firms’ replies.

The survey does not claim to list all the top consultants, as it relies upon firms completing and returning the annual survey form. For a variety of reasons firms sometimes decide not to take part.

Only those firms completing and returning the survey form are included in the survey.

Firms having any questions about the survey, or wishing to be included in the 2019 survey, should contact Martin Hewes at Hewes & Associates: www.hewes-associates.com.

Notes

WSP UK: Chartered total includes 1,193 other chartered, not identified in any questions
Arup: Income data for 2018 are unaudited and provisional
Mace: Income data refers to the total group, and thus includes construction
RPS: 2017 employment data are non-comparable and have thus been excluded
BDP: Totals include other chartered staff
Tuffin Ferraby Taylor: 2017 data are taken from 2017 survey results
Levitt Bernstein: Income figures are estimates
Price & Myers: Fee income for 2018 is estimated
Artelia: Worldwide income is converted from euros
Stride Treglown: Other engineers include town planner, landscape architects, and architectural technologist staff

Additional note: Due to an administrative error, HTA Design LLP (ranked 17), R H Partnership Architects Ltd (38) and Penoyre & Prasad (45=) were not originally included in the Top 50 Architects table. This table was updated on Tuesday 2 October to reflect their rank. As a result of this change, the table now includes 51 organisations due to Clague and Whittam Cox Architects being ranked 50=. RPS and Ingleton Wood (both ranked 52=) now no longer appear on the table.