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Top 25 Sustainable design firms based in Chicago, United States

Name: Sustainable design firms based in Chicago, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 100 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 100 sustainable design firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 5,478 professional contacts across them, including 2,834 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers sustainable design firms headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest sustainable design firms based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 100 sustainable design firms based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to sustainable design firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Perkins&will	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,958 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2	ESD NOW Stantec Consulting Services	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	208 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A global company, ESD is a leader in Improving Society Through the Built Environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3	SUMAC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	183 contacts →
	Partial evidence “SUMAC is an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that promotes sustainability as the key element to increasing the profitability of our clients and partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects, A Woolpert Company	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	148 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects is an award-winning firm with offices in Chicago and London offering architectural design, interior design, and pre-design services including site…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	DBHMS	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	123 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a collection of doers and thinkers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6	Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Architecture	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	85 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is dedicated to the design of high-performance, sustainable architecture on an international scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture is an award winning, full service architecture, interior and planning design firm that practices nationally from its Near North Chicago studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8	WRD Environmental	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	64 contacts →
	Partial evidence “WRD Environmental helps organizations committed to sustainability realize their vision.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	Partners By Design	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	63 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Whether you’re considering an office update, planning a corporate relocation, or envisioning a state-of-the-art facility built from the ground-up, Partners by Design can take your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	Fitzgerald	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	56 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With roots dating back more than 100 years, FitzGerald is a national architecture, interior design, and sustainability firm committed to the creation of exemplary environments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11	Valerio Dewalt Train	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	53 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Valerio Dewalt Train is a 40+ person national architectural and design practice with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Denver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Bailey Edward	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Good Design Created By Good People By listening to the needs of people, places, and the planet, Bailey Edward collaborates with communities to transform the built environment for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	Aeterra, LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Aeterra is a full-service environmental and sustainability consulting firm that provides operating businesses and their owners with meaningful, practical, business-focused advice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14	Houseal Lavigne	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Houseal Lavigne is a professional consulting firm specializing in all areas of Community Planning, Urban Design, and Economic Development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	Antero Group	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Civil Engineering \| Urban & Rural Planning \| Economic Development \| Grant Services \| Branding & Marketing \| Environmental Antero Group is an interdisciplinary firm that integrates…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16	National Retrofitting Group, LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “National Retrofitting Group provides sustainability consulting along with a variety of energy retrofitting services to help our customers save money on their energy bills while…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	PALMA	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PALMA is an award-winning international architectural design team that specializes in high performance design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Rada Architects	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Founded in 1994, RADA Architects Eco+Design © is an award winning Chicago firm for academic, commercial and institutional clients – private and public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	WMA Consulting Engineers	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	23 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At WMA Consulting Engineers, we believe that smart engineering leads to a better world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
20	The Lakota Group	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21	Callan Consulting Engineers, INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our Team, Your Building - It’s a Perfect Fit At Callan Consulting Engineers, we provide professional engineering guidance from project inception to post-occupancy, including…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	Urbanworks, LTD	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Partial evidence “UrbanWorks is an internationally recognized Chicago architectural firm committed to producing socially and environmentally responsible designs for civic, community-based, private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	Carlson Environmental, A Nova Group, GBC Company	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Carlson Environmental, a Nova Group, GBC Company, was originally founded in 1988 by Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Brook Architecture	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1-10	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Brook Architecture, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	ZPD A, LLC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ZPD+A, LLC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: sustainable design firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names sustainable design firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of sustainable design firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name sustainable design firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Sustainable design firms based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

51.7%Verified-email coverage

54.8Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

322.0%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50

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201-500

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 100 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among sustainable design firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “sustainable design firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names sustainable design firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among sustainable design firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,834 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Sustainable design firms by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names sustainable design firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many sustainable design firms are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 100 sustainable design firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Perkins&will, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most sustainable design firms?

New York leads with 322 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (146) and Seattle (121).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,834 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 100 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.