HGA Architects and Engineers

What HGA Architects and Engineers does

HGA Architects and Engineers is a national, employee-owned, integrated architecture, engineering, and design firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded in 1954. The firm delivers interdisciplinary design services across 12 service disciplines (Architecture, Engineering, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design, Environmental Graphics, Sustainable Design, Commissioning, Digital Practice, Research & Innovation, Resilience, and Technology) and serves eight vertical markets: Arts + Culture, Community + Live, Workplace/Corporate, Education, Energy + Infrastructure, Government, Healthcare, and Science + Technology. With over 1,000 employees distributed across 12 offices nationwide, HGA pursues enterprise, institutional, and government clients through dedicated regional and sector-aligned business development teams, executing multi-year project-based contracts with custom-quoted fees.

The firm's technical platform rests on an award-winning Digital Practice Group (BIM, computational design using Dynamo/Grasshopper, VR/AR visualization, in-house 3D printing/CNC fabrication) and a research-led Design Insight Group that conducts ethnographic research, pre/post-occupancy evaluations, and evidence-based design studies. HGA generates revenue through professional services fees on architecture, engineering, interior design, and ancillary consulting engagements (commissioning, retro-commissioning, sustainable design, resilience planning), with marquee client relationships spanning MIT, Capital One, Cedars-Sinai, UCSF, GSA, FBI, General Mills, SAP, Walker Art Center, and the State of Minnesota. The firm maintains commitments to AIA 2030, SE 2050, and MEP 2040 decarbonization pledges, holds Just Label 2.0 certification, and operates with no outside parent or external equity sponsorship.

Name

HGA Architects and Engineers

Legal name

HGA Architects and Engineers

Website

https://hga.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1954

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

HGA Architects and Engineers is an employee-owned, integrated architecture and engineering firm serving enterprise, institutional, and government clients across 8 vertical markets through 12 U.S. offices and 12 service disciplines.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architecture and Engineering Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141), Engineering Services (541330), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Community Engagement & Participatory Planning (BPAHAKAO)

Keywords

• Architecture and engineering services
• Interior design services
• Sustainable design consulting
• Master planning services
• Building engineering design

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Engineering Services: Project-based professional services revenue from architecture, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, and related design services. Fees are structured around design contracts, consulting engagements, and project-specific deliverables for government, institutional, and corporate clients.
2. Sustainable Design & Commissioning: Additional services including sustainable design consulting, commissioning, retro-commissioning, and building optimization services that provide measurable cost-saving benefits to facility owners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

HGA Architects and Engineers is an integrated architecture, engineering, and master planning firm that delivers design services across 12 service disciplines including architecture, civil, electrical, mechanical, structural, and fire-protection engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, lighting design, environmental graphics, digital practice, commissioning, resilience, sustainable design, and research and innovation. The firm serves clients through 12 U.S. offices across 8 market sectors — Arts + Culture, Community + Live, Workplace, Energy + Infrastructure, Education, Government, Healthcare, and Science + Technology — with more than 1,000 employees collaborating as interdisciplinary teams.

Product overview

HGA Architects and Engineers is a national interdisciplinary design firm offering a comprehensive suite of architecture, engineering, and design services. The firm operates as a unified platform combining 12 core service disciplines—Architecture, Commissioning, Digital Practice, Engineering, Environmental Graphics, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design, Research & Innovation, Resilience, Sustainable Design, and Technology—served across 8 market sectors (Arts + Culture, Community + Live, Workplace, Education, Energy + Infrastructure, Government, Healthcare, and Science + Technology). With over 1,000 employees in 12 offices nationwide, HGA delivers integrated design solutions through interdisciplinary teams that combine traditional architecture and engineering expertise with digital practice capabilities including BIM, VR/AR visualization, computational design, and fabrication services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Full-scope architectural design services including ADA compliance, building code analysis, construction administration, cost estimating, life-cycle costing, master planning, programming, and space planning for clients across 8 market sectors.
• Engineering Comprehensive engineering services spanning civil, electrical, fire protection, industrial, mechanical, and structural engineering disciplines delivered as integrated practice with architecture under one roof.
• Interior Design Interior design services focused on creating spaces that reflect organizational brand, culture, and vision with a people-first perspective across healthcare, workplace, arts, science + technology, and other market sectors.
• Landscape Architecture Landscape design services including urban spaces, campus landscape design, gardens, parks and trails, and memorials and sacred spaces, with expertise in sustainable site development.
• Lighting Design Integrated lighting design services including specialty lighting, daylighting analysis, custom luminaires, lighting controls, computer modeling, and lighting calculations for interior and exterior environments.
• Environmental Graphics Environmental design services including branded spaces, signage and wayfinding, 2D and 3D graphics, digital solutions, interactive displays, art installations, immersive experiences, interpretive graphics, and ADA-compliant signage systems.
• Digital Practice Digital design services including building information modeling (BIM), computational design using Dynamo and Grasshopper, virtual and augmented reality visualization, real-time rendering, and in-house fabrication via 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, and engraving.
• Commissioning Building systems testing, validation, and adjustment services including new building commissioning, retro-commissioning, and building optimization for peak performance and cost savings.
• Research & Innovation (Design Insight Group) Evidence-based design research services including stakeholder engagement, pre- and post-occupancy evaluations, design anthropology, data analytics, and Lean process engineering through the in-house Design Insight Group of anthropologists, data scientists, and design thinkers.
• Resilience Risk management and resilience planning services including climate change adaptation, energy resilience, natural disaster mitigation, renewable energy planning, and vulnerability assessments for facility owners.
• Sustainable Design Sustainable design services including decarbonization planning, embodied carbon reduction, life cycle assessment, energy modeling, net zero energy design, LEED and WELL certification, and mass timber construction.
• Technology Building technology services including telecommunications design, audio and video design, security, fire and life safety systems, and intelligent building design.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40% reduction in global carbon emissions from buildings can be achieved through better design (referenced as context for sustainability commitment)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers24 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered notable and core.

• Miron ConstructionnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerConstruction partner on Wisconsin healthcare campus project implementing vacuum waste system. Miron Construction collaborated with HGA, Tweet/Garot Mechanical, and AcornVac to deliver the unconventional plumbing solution for contaminated soil site.
• Tweet/Garot MechanicalnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerMechanical engineering partner on Wisconsin healthcare campus vacuum waste system project. Collaborated with HGA, Miron Construction, and AcornVac to implement overhead sanitary waste transport system.
• AcornVacnotableTechnology or IntegrationVacuum waste system technology provider for Wisconsin healthcare campus project. Provided the vacuum pumps and system that enables sanitary waste to be transported overhead, eliminating underground piping in contaminated soil areas.
• Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcquired by HGA to broaden expertise in sustainable energy planning. The acquisition expanded HGA's capabilities in sustainable engineering and energy efficiency services for clients.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• HDR: HDR is a much larger employee-owned architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that competes with HGA in healthcare, government, and infrastructure, but operates at greater scale and offers broader engineering and program management services.
• WSP: WSP is a global professional services and engineering consultancy that competes with HGA on building projects (healthcare, education, government) as part of a much broader transportation, environment, and property portfolio.
• Stantec: Stantec is a large publicly traded professional services firm providing architecture, engineering, and environmental services that competes with HGA in healthcare, education, and infrastructure, though at significantly greater scale and with global reach.
• HOK: HOK is a large global design, architecture, and engineering firm with overlapping healthcare, higher education, and workplace practices; broader portfolio and international footprint position it as a larger competitor to HGA on major programs.

Direct peers

• DLR Group: DLR Group is an integrated architecture and engineering firm of similar size, offering comparable services across education, healthcare, government, and workplace sectors, with overlapping geographic presence in the Midwest and West Coast.
• ZGF Architects: ZGF is a national architecture firm with strong healthcare, science+tech, and higher education portfolios that closely mirror HGA's flagship market sectors, with comparable sustainability leadership and award-winning design reputation.
• CannonDesign: CannonDesign is an integrated architecture, engineering, and design firm that competes head-to-head with HGA in healthcare, higher education, and science+tech, with similar evidence-based design and research capabilities (Mind & Body, Blue Cottage).
• Perkins&Will: Perkins&Will is a large global architecture practice with a strong research and sustainability orientation directly comparable to HGA's Design Insight Group approach, competing in healthcare, higher education, and science+tech markets.
• SmithGroup: SmithGroup is a national integrated architecture and engineering firm of comparable size and structure to HGA, serving many of the same verticals including healthcare, higher education, science+tech, and government with similar interdisciplinary delivery.
• EwingCole: EwingCole is an integrated architecture, engineering, and interior design firm with strong healthcare, science+tech, and higher education practices, directly comparable to HGA in scale, multi-discipline integration, and client mix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hga
• Facebookfacebook.com/hga.archandeng
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hga

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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