ENR Top Lists Rankings
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Engineering News-Record ranked Jacobs the No. 1 Pure Designer in 2025. Widely considered the industry benchmark, the annual ENR list ranks both publicly and privately held U.S. companies, based on revenue for design-specific services performed in the previous year. Jacobs has also been ranked No. 2 in ENR's latest 2025 list of Top 500 Design Firms, and No. 1 in markets including aviation, healthcare, wastewater treatment and manufacturing.
Rankings will be updated as Engineering News-Record publishes.
Rankings
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- No. 1 – Top 100 Pure Designers (2025)
- No. 1 – Top 20 Firms in Combined Design and CM-PM Professional Services Revenue (2025)
- No. 1 – Aerospace (2025)
- No. 1 – Government Offices (2025)
- No. 1 – Healthcare (2025)
- No. 2 – Top 50 Program Management Firms (2025)
- No. 2 – Electronic Assembly (2025)
- No. 3 – Data Centers (2025)
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- No. 1 – Airports (2025)
- No. 1 – Manufacturing (2025)
- No. 1 – Nuclear Plants (2024)
- No. 1 – Nuclear Waste (2024)
- No. 1 – Operation & Maintenance - Power (2024)
- No. 1 – Pharmaceuticals (2025)
- No. 1 – Pulp & Paper (2025)
- No. 1 – Sanitary & Storm Sewers (2025)
- No. 1 – Semiconductors (2025)
- No. 1 – Sewer & Waste (2025)
- No. 1 – Towers & Antennae (2024)
- No. 1 – Wastewater Treatment (2025)
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- No. 2 – Top 500 Design Firms (2025)
- No. 2 – Top 50 Designers in International Markets (2025)
- No. 2 – Construction Management/PM-for-Fee Firms (2024)
- No. 2 – Auto Plants (2025)
- No. 2 – Bridges (2024)
- No. 2 – Clean Air Compliance (2024)
- No. 2 – Co-Generation (2024)
- No. 2 – Chemical & Soil Remediation (2024)
- No. 2 – Entertainment (2025)
- No. 2 – Industrial Process/Oil & Gas (2025)
- No. 2 – Mass Transit & Rail (2025)
- No. 2 – Marine & Port Facilities (2025)
- No. 2 – Site Assessment & Compliance (2024)
- No. 2 – Solar Power (2025)
- No. 2 – Transmission Lines & Cabling (2024)
- No. 2 – Transportation (2025)
- No. 2 – Top 200 Environmental Firms - Wastewater Treatment (2024)
- No. 2 – Water Transmission Lines & Aqueducts (2025)
- No. 2 – Water Treatment, Desalination Plants (2025)
- No. 2 – Wind Power (2025)
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- No. 3 – Chemical Plants (2024)
- No. 3 – General Building (2025)
- No. 3 – Highways (2025)
- No. 3 – Water (2025)
- No. 3 – Water Supply (2025)
- No. 3 – Top 200 Environmental Firms - Top 20 Firms Working in Non-U.S. Locations (2024)
- No. 3 – Telecommunications (2025)
A look at our projects
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Houston Waterworks
The Northeast Water Purification Plant by Houston Waterworks Team (a joint venture of Jacobs and CDM Smith) is currently the largest design-build water project in the United States – 320 million gallons of water per day and 1,300 workers on a 90-acre site working eight million hours without a lost time incident – and is helping bolster and future-proof water resources for the rapidly growing Houston metro area. Photo credit: Houston Waterworks Team
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South Brooklyn Marine Terminal
Jacobs is designing the redevelopment of the 72-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, which will serve as the staging and assembly port for wind turbine installation, and an operations and maintenance base. The port will be one of the largest offshore wind ports in the nation, enabling the construction of several offshore wind farms, which will provide clean energy to more than two million homes in New York. Photo credit: Equinor
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NatureWorks
Jacobs designed a new biopolymer production plant in Thailand for NatureWorks, the world’s first commercial-scale supplier of polylactic acid (PLA), a low-carbon bioplastic derived from renewable, agricultural resources. The plant is the world's first designed to be fully integrated with full cycle operations from sugar through to the production of the Ingeo™ biopolymer product. Photo credit: NatureWorks
“Together with our clients, we continue to conceptualize and implement renewable energy, decarbonized transit, EV ecosystems, water optimization, lifesaving vaccines and therapies and technology-advanced electronics, bringing social value to underserved communities. We are committed to confronting this global challenge and creating a more connected, sustainable world.”
Bob Pragada
