Hill International Named to Zweig's 2015 Hot Firm List of the Fastest-Growing Companies in the Construction Industry

PHILADELPHIA, June 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has been recognized by The Zweig Letter as the 66th fastest-growing company among architecture, engineering, planning and environmental consulting firms in the United States and Canada. The 2015 Hot Firm List ranks the top 100 firms measured by their increase in revenue over the past three years in terms of both dollar and percentage change. Hill has now been named to the list 13 times over the past 14 years.

The winning firms will be honored at an awards ceremony during The Zweig Letter's 2015 Hot Firm and A/E Industry Awards Conference which will be held on September 3-4, 2015, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

"It is a great honor to be included on the 2015 Hot Firm List," said David L. Richter, Hill's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are very proud to have been ranked on this prestigious list 13 out of the past 14 years," added Richter.

The Zweig Letter is a weekly newsletter providing management advice for consulting firms in the engineering and construction industry. It is published by ZweigWhite, Inc., a leading source of management consulting, information and education for the design and construction industry. For more information on ZweigWhite, please visit their website at www.zweigwhite.com.

Hill International, with 4,800 professionals in 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, construction claims and other consulting services primarily to the buildings, transportation, environmental, energy and industrial markets. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the seventh largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com

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