Kimley-Horn

Kimley-Horn is an engineering, planning and design consultancy that has worked with public and private clients since 1967. It has more than 11,000 employees in 160+ offices across North America, and also takes international projects.

Its services are grouped as planning and due diligence, approvals, design and engineering, development services, landscape architecture, environmental and sustainability, construction phase services, operations and maintenance, program management, asset management and advisory. Markets include commercial real estate, residential, industrial and manufacturing, transportation, utility infrastructure, water, healthcare and life science, education, energy, hospitality and resorts, and sports and entertainment, so a development team can take a site from due diligence through entitlement, design and construction administration with one consultant.

The firm operates a "Practice Builder" model in which individual professionals run their own practices within the firm, which it credits for local autonomy backed by national resources. It says almost 90% of its business comes from repeat clients, and it publishes its own safety record, including interstate experience modification rates as reported by NCCI and annual OSHA total recordable incident and lost workday case rates.

Fees are project-based and are not published. Because offices operate as local practices, the right contact is the office covering the project's market rather than a central number.