I am a sales engineer for an HVAC equipment manufacturer that makes
equipment such as chillers, air handlers, rooftop units, etc. Given
that I am new at my job, I would like to obtain a list of the contact
information for the top 50 mechanical contractor companies and top 50
engineering companies by how much of this equipment they process each
year. My geographical limits are the Washington DC area ie. Northern
Virginia, Montgomery & Prince Georges county in maryland, everything
inside of Rt. 495...that general idea. I cannot use anything in the
Baltimore area as that is a different territory. My desire in this is
to find larger companies that do not have a dedicated salesman already
and to become their representative. I would like the company name,
address, and phone number so that I can compare them to our current
account lists and contact them if they are not already represented. To
remove some companies, I am not looking for general contractors such
as Clark or Skanska. I want companies that either directly purchase
HVAC equipment or design a building using it. For examply, two large
mechanical contractors are W.L. Gary Inc. and John J. Kirlin Inc. Two
large engineers are Tolk Inc. and HSMM. Please contact me with any
additional questions you may have to clarify. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
31 Aug 2005 18:36 PDT
chilldave-ga,
Funny you should ask, as I live in DC, am in the midst of some home
construction work, and just had my HVAC guy in today!
But even with knowing the territory a bit, it's still quite a
challenge to amass a list of the top 50 (or 5 or 10), since most of
these companies don't release data on their sales, purchasing, etc.
Instead, you might want to consider comparing your existing list
against some of the companies at this resource:
http://www.usarchitecture.com/By_the_State/DC/DC.htm
The link above is for the DC listings, but there are also listing for
VA and MD as well.
Note, also, that at the top of the page there are links to groups of
companies in DC, such as HVAC, Heavy Equipment, Mechanical, etc.
Poke around here, and let me know if this is the sort of resource you need.
Thanks,
pafalafa-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
10 Sep 2005 14:45 PDT
Dave,
Just checking in. Have you had a chance to look at the link I
provided (above)? Was it of use to you?
Let me know when you have a chance.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
chilldave-ga
on
12 Sep 2005 07:59 PDT
pafalafa,
I did check out the site. Unfortunately, it doesn't really have
the depth or accuracy that I'm looking for. Many of the companies
listed on that site have very little to do with HVAC being structural
contractors and the like and I saw some architects as well. There were
a few (4 or so) companies that do do HVAC work, but that's all. I
appreciate you finding the link, but it's not what I'm looking for.
Regarding your advice to click on the 'HVAC' link, that gives you
companies, but they're located all over the US with only one company
from the DC area. Did my original explanation give you enough details
to know what I'm looking for? Please contact me with any questions
you may have to help continue this project. Thank you,
Dave
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
12 Sep 2005 08:37 PDT
OK, Dave (which is my name too, by the way), let's try this link instead:
http://payments.acca.org/ContractorLocator/index.php?zip=20016&code=C&WP%5B%5D=AC&WP%5B%5D=HT&WP%5B%5D=VT&MK%5B%5D=INST&MK%5B%5D=GOVT&MK%5B%5D=COMM&MK%5B%5D=INDU
There's well over 100 firms listed here, all within a 50 mile radius
of DC. They're not ranked by size, but note that each company listing
includes an indication of the number of employees, which should
certainly give you a feel for how large the company is.
Have a look, and let me know how close (or not) this comes to what you need.
Thanks,
Dave
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Clarification of Question by
chilldave-ga
on
13 Sep 2005 06:52 PDT
Hey Dave,
This site looks good from the contracting side. I've looked
through the listing a bit and it definitely looks like we already do
business with some of the larger companies, so that means this is the
kind of list I was looking for. Thank you.
Have you been able to find anything on the Consulting/Mechanical
Engineering side? A couple of companies in the area are Tolk,
Vanderweil Engineers, US Army Corp of Engineers, Smith Group,
Affiliated Engineers, and Metropolitan Engineering. Many times they do
HVAC, Plumbing, and Ducting all combined. I hope this helps to narrow
the field down some.
Thank you,
Dave
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
13 Sep 2005 12:15 PDT
Getting closer!
Take a look at these links:
The first lists the largest contstruction projects in MD, along with
the engineering firms involved:
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/pdfs/topconsproj2004.pdf
Tolk is listed once, Vanderweil four times.
Again, this isn't a hard and fast ranking, but it certainly shows you
who's currently active on big projects in the area.
The second list is here:
http://stage.csemag.com/info/CA497690.html
and is just a handy-dandy list of ME firms around the country. You
can easily search it for firms in VA or MD (I didn't see any in DC),
although I see that Vanderweil is actually listed in far-off Boston,
MA.
Let me know if these are useful to you.
paf
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