Devcon has constructed more than 35 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, and commercial space mainly in the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley. Founded in 1976, Devcon specializes in high-tech projects, including industrial research and development facilities. Devcon also provides engineering, design/build, and interior design services. In addition to building company facilities and offices, Devcon works on such projects as hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and schools.

Cox Industries is no splinter group; its wood products are pressure-treated to stay together. The company is a manufacturer of pressure-treated wood products for such applications as outdoor furniture, playground equipment, decking, fences, arbors, gazebos, and more. Its Utility Products Division makes treated wood products used in utility poles, cross arms and brace arms, guard rails and posts, retaining walls, and marine construction. Products are distributed through building supply dealers, distributors, and specialty stores in the eastern US and internationally in Belgium and the UK. The company, founded as Wood Preserving in 1954, is still run by the Cox family.

SNC-Lavalin believes that if you build it, they will come. The group is an international engineering and construction services provider, with operations in some 100 countries around the world. It designs and builds structures such as chemical and petroleum plants, power generation and transmission systems, bridges, highways, mass transit systems, and water treatment plants. Projects include Canada's first liquefied natural gas regassification terminal as well as agricultural land and water improvements in developing countries. It also provides operations and maintenance services, oversees management and financing, and invests in infrastructure facilities. Formed in 1911, SNC acquired rival Lavalin in 1991.

JC General Contractors is Jose Chavez, president and founder (along with his wife, VP Hortencia Chavez) of the construction contracting firm. The company provides commercial and residential general contracting services in Texas and New Mexico, building banks, hotels, warehouses, restaurants, and retail shops. Residential work includes single and multi-unit developments. It provides design-build (site location, zoning and permitting, project management) and engineering (schematics, site development, construction documents and administration) services. JC General Contractors evolved from the operations of JC Concrete, which the Chavezes founded in 1986.

From testing for toxic mold to cleaning up oil spills, GeoTek Engineering & Testing Services offers an array of environmental engineering services. Services include site assessment, environmental consulting, and laboratory testing. The South Dakota company, which operates primarily in the midwestern US, is not affiliated with Massachusetts-based GeoTek Engineering, Inc.

Shui On Construction and Materials Limited (SOCAM) manufactures construction materials and engages in property development in China and Hong Kong. SOCAM's Lafarge Shui On Cement joint venture produces high-grade cement in Southwest China. The company has operations in Chongqing, Guizhou, Nanjing, and Yunnan. It produces about 20 million tons of cement annually. SOCAM's construction division specializes in public housing and institutional buildings in Hong Kong. The division offers design-and-build services as well as services in heritage restoration.

Bennett Environmental Inc., which operates in Canada and the US, uses a high-temperature process (thermal oxidizer) to treat contaminated soil. The group operates treatment facilities for companies requiring offsite removal and treatment of construction debris and contaminated soil before recycling or disposal. It treats such toxins as PCBs, pesticides, dioxins, creosote, and PCPs. Most of its revenues are generated from its waste remediation plant at Saint Ambroise, Quebec. The company began as a unit of oil spill equipment group Aqua-Guard Technologies, which was also founded by former chairman John Bennett.

WCA Waste Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, processing, and disposal services in the United States. The company offers commercial collection services, such as the supply of waste containers of various types and sizes. It also provides various residential solid waste collection services, including contracts with municipalities and collection of waste from individual households or homeowners’ on subscription basis. In addition, the company rents waste containers and provides collection services to construction, demolition, and industrial sites. As of December 31, 2009, it served approximately 346,000 commercial, industrial, and residential collection customers; and 5,000 landfill and transfer station customers in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Vianini Industria is controlled by the Caltagirone family, primarily through diversified holding company Caltagirone. Vianini Industria's workers could proudly proclaim "We came, we saw, we concrete." The construction company operates primarily in Italy, creating cement products including pipes and pylons for such infrastructure and public projects as railroads, utilities, and university facilities. In addition to its core Italian business, it has operations in other Europen countries and in Africa, Asia/Pacific, and the US. The group's list of clients has included rail company Ferrovie dello Stato and electric utility Enel.

LondonWaste Ltd provides waste collection and disposal services for seven northern London boroughs and offers commercial and clinical waste management services to public and private businesses and institutions in the area. LondonWaste processes more than 1 million tons of solid waste per year, but the company doesn't just dump the trash: It recycles glass, metals, wood and other materials, then burns whatever else it can to produce energy via its waste-to-energy power plant. LondonWaste is jointly owned by the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) and SITA UK (part of SUEZ Environnement.)

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