What Harriman does

Harriman is a private, integrated architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Auburn, Maine, founded in 1870 and operating across four offices in Auburn, Portland, Portsmouth, and Boston. The firm delivers a unified suite of professional services spanning architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, mechanical engineering, and structural engineering, plus an Urban Design and Planning Studio. It serves state and municipal governments, K-12 and higher education institutions, healthcare systems, federal and military clients, science and research institutions, and commercial developers across Northern New England. Differentiated technical capabilities include ISO 8 cleanroom design, net-positive energy retrofits of historic buildings, advanced HVAC and refrigeration systems (including FlexCube deployment), and LEED-certified work (multiple LEED Gold certifications cited). The business model is project-based professional services: fees are billed against phased design contracts (schematic design, design development, construction documents, construction administration), secured through competitive bidding, RFPs, and direct consultant appointments, with a sales cycle involving stakeholder engagement and public approval processes for government work. Notable projects include the $126M Edward Little High School, the $7.9M Sargent Family Community Center, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Building 29 fire station, and research facilities for Jackson Laboratory and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Leadership comprises CEO Mark Lee and principals James Fortin, Lisa Sawin, David Story, Mark Burnes, and Daniel Backman (as of September 2025), with no external investment or private equity backing disclosed.

Name

Harriman

Legal name

Harriman

Website

https://harriman.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1870

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Harriman is a multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering firm founded in 1870, headquartered in Auburn, Maine, with offices in Portland, Portsmouth, and Boston. It serves state, municipal, federal, K-12, higher education, healthcare, research, and commercial clients across Northern New England through integrated design, engineering, and urban planning services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Auburn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Engineering Professional Services: Harriman generates revenue through fees for architectural design, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, structural engineering, interior design, and landscape architecture services. Projects are typically structured as design contracts with milestones, often involving schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration phases. Revenue is project-based and varies by scope, complexity, and market sector.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Harriman is an integrated architecture, engineering, and planning firm that delivers full-service design solutions to institutional, governmental, and commercial clients. The firm combines architecture, civil, electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning under one practice, and operates its own mechanical and electrical engineering groups in-house to support integrated project delivery across healthcare, education, federal, state, and municipal markets.

Product overview

Harriman is an integrated architecture and engineering firm offering a unified suite of professional services. The core offerings span seven disciplines: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Structural Engineering. The firm also operates an Urban Design and Planning Studio. These services are delivered as an integrated practice, with the firm's philosophy emphasizing collaborative teamwork across disciplines to support and achieve client goals. Rather than standalone software products, Harriman's offerings are professional services that apply these disciplines across diverse markets including commercial, community/cultural, federal, state/municipal, healthcare, higher education, K-12 education, science/technology, and workplace sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Interior Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Urban Design and Planning

Quantifiable outcome

• 66% electric bill reduction at Hunter's Shop 'n Save
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Cecil GroupminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015The Cecil Group, an award-winning multidisciplinary design and planning firm founded by Steve Cecil, merged with Harriman in 2015. The merger brought added dimension to Harriman's architecture and engineering studios, particularly in urban design and planning services. Steve Cecil retired in 2019.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DiMella Shaffer: Northeast architecture and planning firm of similar scale focused on higher education, healthcare, and civic clients—comparable multidisciplinary offerings and regional positioning.
• WBRC Architects: Maine-headquartered multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering firm serving education, healthcare, municipal, and commercial clients in Northern New England—directly overlapping Harriman's geographic and vertical footprint.
• SMRT Architects: Integrated architecture and engineering firm of similar size serving higher education, healthcare, science, and government clients across the Northeast—directly comparable in scope and multidisciplinary model.
• Payette: Boston-based architecture firm specializing in healthcare, higher education, and science/research facility design—directly comparable in regional base and healthcare/science vertical overlap.
• Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype: Architecture and engineering firm of similar size serving educational, institutional, healthcare, and commercial clients across the Northeast—comparable integrated practice model.
• Margulies Perruzzi: Architecture and engineering firm of comparable size serving healthcare, higher education, and corporate/workplace clients in New England—direct overlap in vertical and regional focus.

Broad incumbents

• HOK: Global architecture and engineering giant with major practices in healthcare, higher education, science, and government—competes with Harriman at the upper end of the institutional market.
• CannonDesign: Large national architecture and engineering firm with strong portfolios in healthcare, higher education, and science markets—competitor for the same institutional clients, but at much larger scale.
• SmithGroup: Large integrated architecture and engineering firm with major practices in higher education, healthcare, science/technology, and workplace—competes for many of the same institutional projects Harriman pursues.
• Perkins&Will: Global architecture practice with deeply established healthcare, higher education, and science portfolios—competes on large institutional commissions across New England.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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