EllisDon is hoping to some day build its way to the very top of Canada's construction industry. One of the country's largest construction companies, EllisDon is a design/build firm that offers a range of services, including preconstruction, engineering, general contracting, and project management. Other services include arranging project financing for clients and updating and designing IT and communication systems for building infrastructures. EllisDon's major projects have included airports, hospitals, office buildings, schools, and shopping centers. The firm does most of its business in Canada, but it has also completed major projects in the US, United Arab Emirates, West Indies, Greece, and other countries.

Bancroft Homes likes people who like custom homes, and you can take that to the bank. The company custom-builds new homes and luxury townhomes, develops communities, and provides renovation and addition work on existing homes, working primarily in Delaware and Pennsylvania's Delaware Valley. Sister company Bancroft Construction is active in construction management for commercial, academic, and government projects, including offices, retail spaces, health care facilities, and university buildings. Bancroft Homes entered the homebuilding industry in 1975.

Weaber manufactures rough and finished hardwood lumber, flooring, moulding, surfaced oak boards, and custom-cut wood products. Utilizing local species such as red oak, white oak, and poplar, the company also makes stair parts, logs, and secondary hardwood products such as wood chips, shredded bark mulch, dry planer shavings, and sawdust. Weaber processes some 50 million feet of hardwood logs annually. Walter H. Weaber established the plant in Pennsylvania's Appalachian forest in the 1950s. President and CEO Galen Weaber assumed ownership of the company in 1971 and has run it ever since.

American Gypsum has been manufacturing, selling, and distributing gypsum wallboard products for over 50 years. Serving the drywall industry with quality products that are sold throughout the United States. A unique, professional commitment to the highest level of customer service; a strong belief in teamwork; investment in employee training; and state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment create a consistent quality product and a company that surpasses the industry. American Gypsum's mines, located in close proximity to the production plants, contain some of the purest gypsum deposits in North America. This exceptional gypsum, sandwiched between 100% recycled front and back paper, is the key to the optimum workability, light weight, and strength of American Gypsum wallboard products. American Gypsum, a full-line producer of gypsum board products, is better able to serve the needs of all our customers. The most modern production facilities with advanced technology, control equipment, and in-house accredited laboratories enable American Gypsum to ensure quality products that are readily accepted across the country. The production plants located in Albuquerque and Bernalillo, NM; Duke, OK; Gypsum, CO; and Georgetown, SC ship their products via trucks and rail cars to American Gypsum's customer base. A fleet of American Gypsum rail cars and an ever-expanding system of rail-served distribution centers located throughout the country give American Gypsum a widely extended service area. American Gypsum's long term commitment to quality materials; low-cost,up-to-date production facilities; efficient operations; and strategic distribution insures a dynamic and financially strong corporation that excels on a national level. American Gypsum is the fifth largest producer of gypsum wallboard in North America operating five gypsum plants with six production lines with an annual capacity approaching four billion square feet of wallboard. In order to provide same-day service in certain strategic areas, American Gypsum also maintains four reload centers in Arizona, California and Illinois.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM ) manages, maintains, and meters the resources of Mother Earth. The environmental consulting firm offers site development and remediation services, as well as technical services, for water and wastewater management, air quality assessment, and pollution control. With 137 offices in 39 countries ERM also provides facility operations and merger consulting services, including strategic advice, impact studies, contaminated sites management, and permitting assistance. Clients include Alcoa, Bayer, Del Monte, and Mattel. Bridgepoint Capital controls the company.

Hammerstone (formerly Birch Mountain Resources) is trying to climb to the top of the heap in the industrial minerals business. The company was exploring and developing precious metal properties, but is now concentrating on industrial mineral properties (primarily lime and concrete aggregate) in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. Formed in 1994, the company has two major divisions: industrial minerals and mineral exploration and technology. In 2008, after defaulting on a loan with its primary banker, Birch Mountain Resources went into receivership. An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management acquired the assets of the company, including a limestone quarry in Alberta, in 2009.

company focuses on the construction and repair of highway, pedestrian, and railroad bridges, as well as dams, flood-control structures, and other heavy/civil, marine, and industrial structures throughout the US. Some of its notable bridge projects include the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, and approach bridges to the Hoover Dam crossing in Nevada. Kraemer also offers other complementary services including construction management, demolition, equipment installation, foundation, steel erection, and concrete work. The family-owned firm was founded in 1911 by the grandfather of chairman David Kraemer.

Colas paves the way for drivers worldwide. The global road construction group was founded on and named after the creation of a revolutionary technical process -- cold asphalt. Colas provides construction and maintenance services for infrastructure projects (roads, airports, ports, railroads), urban redevelopment projects, and recreation facilities around the world. In addition to its work on roads and related projects, the company produces construction materials including concrete and aggregates from an international network of quarries, gravel pits, and asphalt plants. Colas also provides complementary services including design and engineering, concessions, and soil treatment. Bouygues owns 97% of Colas.

All American Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute system-built homes for residential buildings in the United States. Its system-built products include single-family homes, multi-family dwellings, military housing, motels/hotels, group living facilities, and residential subdivisions. The company also offers apartments, condominiums, hotels, and specialized structures for military use; and townhouses, senior housing facilities, and dormitories. It provides its system-built modules under the All American Homes, Mod-U-Kraf, and All American Building Systems names. In addition, the company, through a joint venture with ARBOC Mobility, manufactures a line of low floor Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant buses, under the Spirit of Mobility brand name. The company markets its products directly to the end users, as well as to approximately 383 builders in 27 states, who sell, rent, or lease the buildings to the end-user. The company was formerly known as Coachmen Industries, Inc. and changed its name to All American Group, Inc. in May 2010. All American Group was founded in 1964 and is based in Elkhart, Indiana.

Kier Group focuses on construction (around 70% of revenues), building management, property development, home building, and private finance initiative (PFI) projects. Sectors served include government, health care, education, retail, energy, and transportation. Kier also builds and refurbishes schools through PFI contracts. The company's support services operations provide building and grounds maintenance for the public and private sectors. Its Partnership Homes arm builds private homes and social housing. In 2010 Kier formed a new unit to provide renewable energy installation services. Kier has more than 50 offices around the UK, and it also operates in the Middle East, Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

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