Gordon

What Gordon does

Gordon (legal name William H. Gordon Associates, Inc.) is a privately held civil engineering and landscape architecture firm founded in 1976 by Hank Gordon in Reston, Virginia, now headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia with 101–250 employees. The firm delivers an integrated suite of design services spanning civil engineering (site, utility, and transportation design), landscape architecture, sports and recreation facility design, programming and planning (including zoning, entitlements, and Silver Line Metro corridor consulting), survey and mapping with advanced geospatial technologies, physical security consulting, and water resources (stormwater design, NPDES/MS4 permitting, dam permitting, floodplain management). Its work is grounded in sustainability frameworks including LEED, SITES, and Envision, and it combines licensed PE, PLA, and LS professionals under a single multi-discipline delivery model.

Gordon makes money by providing professional services on a project-scope basis to federal, state, and local government agencies and to private developers. The firm operates through established contract vehicles, including IDIQ and on-call arrangements with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (multiple districts), FBI, GSA, NIH, National Park Service, NAVFAC, Smithsonian, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and multiple Northern Virginia counties and municipalities, supplemented by direct engagement with private commercial and data-center clients. Go-to-market is dominated by enterprise field sales and government procurement rather than traditional marketing, supported by a dedicated Business Development Manager. Notable recent strategic signals include a 2021 leadership succession, expansion of a dedicated Mission Critical / Data Centers market vertical with clients such as CloudHQ and H5 Data Center, and acquisition of SWaM, MWAA SLBE, and DPOR certifications to broaden set-aside procurement access.

Name

Gordon

Legal name

William H. Gordon Associates, Inc.

Website

https://gordon.us.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Gordon is a privately held, Chantilly, Virginia-based civil engineering and landscape architecture firm (founded 1976, 101–250 employees) providing integrated site design, planning, survey, water resources, and security services to federal, state, and local government agencies and to private developers in the Mid-Atlantic.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering & Landscape Architecture Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (541370), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainable/Green Building & LEED Consulting (BPAHAKAG)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Landscape architecture
• Site design planning
• Survey and mapping
• Water resources management

Headquarters

HQ city

Chantilly

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Government Contracts: Engineering, landscape architecture, survey, and related professional services provided to federal, state, and local government agencies through contract vehicles including IDIQ/on-call arrangements.
2. Professional Services - Private Development: Civil engineering, landscape architecture, master planning, zoning entitlements, and site suitability services for private sector developers and commercial clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Gordon is a civil engineering and landscape architecture firm delivering integrated site design services for federal, state, municipal, and private clients. Core offerings include civil engineering (site, utility, transportation design), landscape architecture, programming and planning, survey and mapping, water resources, sports and recreation design, and physical security consulting across Northern Virginia and the mid-Atlantic region.

Product overview

Gordon is a civil engineering and landscape architecture firm offering integrated design services. The core portfolio includes Civil Engineering (site design, utility design, transportation design) and Landscape Architecture, which are offered as unified services. The company provides specialized Sports + Recreation Services (including synthetic/natural turf, sport courts, play areas, trails), Programming & Planning services (site programming, suitability studies, master planning, zoning & entitlements, Silver Line development), Survey & Mapping services (boundary/topographic surveys, construction services, advanced technologies), Physical Security consulting, and Water Resources management (stormwater design, sustainable design, NPDES permitting, dam permitting, floodplain management). These services are offered as an integrated suite supporting mixed-use, residential, commercial, federal, and municipal development projects throughout Northern Virginia and the greater mid-Atlantic region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Engineering

Quantifiable outcome

• Sustainable project delivery per LEED, SITES, and Envision criteria

Named customers23 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• US Army Corps of EngineerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGordon holds multiple contract positions with various USACE districts (Baltimore, Norfolk, Huntsville, Louisville, Little Rock, Kansas City, Tulsa, Omaha, Mobile, Seattle) providing civil engineering, master planning, and construction management services.
• General Services AdministrationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGSA contract holder providing civil engineering and landscape architecture services to federal agencies through multiple GSA contract vehicles.
• Commonwealth of VirginiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStatewide engineering, landscape architecture, and survey services contract (Category B) with the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services. Any Virginia public agency can leverage this contract for projects under $50,000.
• Loudoun County, VAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrime contractor for on-call site/civil design services with Loudoun County, Virginia.
• City of Fairfax Parks and RecreationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrime contractor for Parks and Recreation IDIQ contract providing on-call landscape architecture, civil, survey, and security services.
• National Institutes of HealthmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIH contract holder providing engineering and related professional services to NIH facilities.
• Smithsonian InstitutionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple contract positions with Smithsonian Institution for civil engineering and landscape architecture services at cultural institution facilities.
• National Park ServicemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerContract holder providing civil engineering and related services to National Park Service facilities and projects.
• Fairfax County, VAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDepartment of Transportation survey services subconsultant and DPWES engagements with Fairfax County, Virginia.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• WSP USA: One of the largest global engineering consultancies with significant civil engineering, planning, and landscape architecture capabilities that compete with Gordon on federal and commercial projects, especially in the mid-Atlantic.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture, and environmental services firm with civil engineering, landscape architecture, and water resources practices that directly overlap with Gordon's services, though at much larger scale and broader geographic footprint.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with federal services, civil engineering, and landscape architecture practices competing for the same federal (USACE, GSA, NPS) and large private-sector clients as Gordon.

Regional players

• Clark Nexsen: Mid-Atlantic architecture and engineering firm with comparable civil engineering and federal/military market presence, particularly for NAVFAC, USACE, and federal campus projects in the DC/Virginia region.
• Urban Engineers: Mid-Atlantic-focused engineering firm with civil, structural, and construction management services that competes with Gordon on transportation, federal, and public-sector projects in the same NOVA/Mid-Atlantic corridor.

Direct peers

• VHB (Vanasse Hangen Brustlin): East Coast-based engineering, planning, and design firm with strong civil engineering, transportation, and land development practices serving federal, state, and private clients — closely comparable in service mix and regional concentration.
• Kimley-Horn: One of the largest privately held U.S. engineering, planning, and design consulting firms; shares Gordon's multi-discipline (civil engineering, landscape architecture, planning, water resources) private-firm model and project-based revenue approach across similar client types including public-sector and private developers.
• Bohler Engineering: National site/civil engineering and land development consulting firm of similar size and focus to Gordon, with deep private developer relationships and an integrated approach spanning entitlement, surveying, and landscape architecture.
• Bowman Consulting Group: Headquartered in Reston, VA — same founding geography as Gordon — Bowman provides civil engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, and planning services with comparable mid-Atlantic market focus and mixed public/private client base.
• Langan Engineering & Environmental Services: Privately held site/civil and geotechnical engineering firm of comparable size to Gordon, with integrated services for land development projects and similar private-developer and institutional client mix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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