NAICS 541310 architectural services contract obligations

Design fees, not construction put in place

NAICS 541310 is architectural services. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is architecture — plans, design, and related professional work as the Census class groups it. Industrial building construction (236210) and water-and-sewer construction (237110) measure building and civil works, not this design tag. The $6,589,444,473.84 on this hub is the architecture-services slice.

Six thousand four hundred sixty-three awards produced a mean of about $1.0 million. That average can mix small renovation design orders with large multi-building A/E vehicles. The packet does not count drawings, square feet designed, or projects completed.

A design-build contract will carry one principal NAICS. If that code is 541310, construction line items on the same action sit in this total. If the officer chose a construction code, design line items on that action would not.

Design and construction NAICS codes are a frequent mix-up. Architectural services (541310) measure design at $6,589,444,473.84 on 6,463 awards, about $1.0 million per award. Industrial building construction (236210) and water-and-sewer construction (237110) measure the build. A design-build job carries one principal NAICS. This $6.6 billion is the architecture tag only when that was the officer’s choice.

A/E vehicles and payment timing

Architectural contracts often obligate estimated design fees and pay on deliverable milestones. Outlays trail obligations on unfinished design. Treating $6.6 billion as drawings already delivered would overstate cash on open vehicles.

The 6,463-award count is not a building count. Multiple facilities can sit inside one A/E award. Dividing dollars by awards is not a fee per building.

Nearby professional and construction codes

Environmental consulting (541620) and other management consulting (541618) are different 541 codes. Construction NAICS measure the build. Those hubs are not subsets of $6,589,444,473.84.

Planning grants to localities often lack NAICS and do not enter this industry total even when an architect is involved.

Environmental consulting (541620) and other management consulting (541618) are different 541 codes. Planning grants to localities often lack NAICS and do not enter this industry total even when an architect is involved. This hub is tagged architectural-services contracts.

How to use the 541310 hub

Read $6.6 billion and 6,463 awards as the architectural-services tag, then open the architectural services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 design-related codes on the all-industries index separately from 236/237 construction codes.

This guide does not add project names because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

Engineering-heavy A/E work can be tagged 541310 or an engineering NAICS. SpendingVault reports the tagged architecture sum, not a reconstructed design budget for every federal building.

Extract updates will move $6,589,444,473.84 and 6,463 with USAspending.

How to keep construction put-in-place out of the design total

If the question is “how much did the government spend building industrial facilities,” use construction hubs. If the question is “how much did USAspending tag to NAICS 541310,” the answer is $6.6 billion across 6,463 awards.

Open the architectural services industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 design-related codes separately from 236/237 construction codes. Cite USAspending.gov. No square footage or project name appears in the packet. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on unfinished design vehicles.

Architectural services at $6,589,444,473.84 on 6,463 awards are a design-fee tag. The mean of about $1.0 million is not a fee per building. Square footage designed is not in the packet. Industrial building construction and water-and-sewer construction measure the build.

A design-build job carries one principal NAICS. This $6.6 billion includes mixed actions only when the officer chose 541310. Open the architectural services industry page for award-level fields. Cite USAspending.gov. Planning grants to localities often lack NAICS. Unfinished design vehicles can show obligations ahead of outlays.

Six thousand four hundred sixty-three architecture awards at $6,589,444,473.84 are design-service contracts. Construction put in place lives on 236 and 237 hubs. A design-build action follows one principal NAICS. Square footage is not in the packet. Open the architectural services industry page. Cite USAspending.gov. Planning grants to localities often omit NAICS. Unfinished drawings can leave obligations ahead of fees billed.

The 6,463-award count next to $6,589,444,473.84 is design-service thickness. Rank 541310 separately from 236 and 237 construction codes so fees and put-in-place dollars stay on their own hubs.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541310?

Architectural services contracts in USAspending show $6,589,444,473.84 in obligations across 6,463 awards. That is a design-services tag, not industrial building construction. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Award rows are on the industry page. Open the industry page for award rows behind $6,589,444,473.84 and the count of 6,463.

What is the average architecture award?

Dividing $6,589,444,473.84 by 6,463 awards yields about $1.0 million. That mean is not a fee per drawing or per building. Small design orders and large A/E vehicles share the average. The packet does not publish a median or a square-footage field.

Does this include construction of the buildings?

Only incidental construction on actions whose principal NAICS is 541310. Industrial building construction is NAICS 236210. Water and sewer construction is NAICS 237110. This $6.6 billion is the architectural-services tag. Use construction hubs for build totals. Use the 236210 and 237110 hubs for construction totals and this hub for the architectural-services tag.

Are planning grants in this total?

Usually no. Assistance awards often omit NAICS and therefore do not enter $6.6 billion. This aggregate is built from contract awards tagged 541310. Program pages are the better surface for grant-funded planning. Program pages remain the better surface for grant-funded planning that never received NAICS 541310.