The Beechwood Organization is a residential developer in New York, primarily active on Long Island. The company has built more than 5,500 single- and multifamily residences in some 55 communities since it was founded in 1980. Among the developer's more notable projects is Nassau County's Meadowbrook Pointe Athletic Club & Spa, a $400 million gated, equestrian-themed, luxury community for residents aged 55 and up. The Beechwood Organization has built a number of homes in the Bronx and elsewhere in New York. Co-principals and founders Leslie Lerner and Michael Dubb own the company.

Ridgeons Group has high hopes for supplying timber and other building materials for customers in the East Anglia region of the UK. The company distributes such products as bathroom and kitchen supplies, flooring, paint, plumbing products, and power tools. Ridgeons also rents equipment, including cement mixers, garden machinery, and basic carpentry implements. Founded in 1911, the company serves the construction and home improvement markets from its some 20 branch locations.

Clopay knows something about doors. Subsidiary Clopay Building Products makes residential and commercial garage doors for the remodel and new-build markets. With brand names including Clopay, Ideal Door, and Holmes, its products are distributed nationwide by independent contractors, home improvement stores, and wholesalers. The Home Depot and Menard are among its largest customers. Another subsidiary, Clopay Plastic Products, makes specialty plastic films for hygenic, medical, and industrial applications.

Ensor Holdings, through its subsidiary companies, distributes industrial doors and a whole lot more: building supplies; roofing and drainage products; tools; access control equipment; packaging products; and electric motors. Ensor Holdings manufactures, installs, and maintains industrial doors, gates, and barriers through its Lowland Ensor Doors and OSA Doors subsidiaries; packaging and transportation products through Woods Packaging; and rubber crumb products for the sports, safety surfaces, and automotive industries through SRC Limited. Ensor's faltering timber and fencing unit Hawkins-Salmon went into administration in 2009. Chairman Ken Harrison owns 54% of Ensor.

Walrus Projects company takes you down to Leicestershire and the surrounding area, where its projects range from 50,000 apartments to 1,000,000 country houses. With a little help from its friends, Walrus Projects uses materials and processes that range from reclaimed timber and "distressed" finishes to underheated floors. Managing director Chris Freeman began Walrus Projects in 1994, while working out of a spare bedroom at his home -- no doubt with his headphones on. Many Walrus Projects developments, such as Pepper's Field, bear Beatles-influenced names.

APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials. The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson.

Project Enhancement offers a variety of environmental services, including hazardous waste management, nuclear plant decommissioning, and stabilization and disposition of nuclear materials. The company serves customers throughout the US from offices in Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington state. Clients have included several US Department of Energy nuclear sites, as well a range of industrial manufacturing companies and utilties including Bechtel, British Nuclear Fuels, Commonwealth Edison, Fluor, Lockheed Martin, Morrison Knudsen, and Science Applications International.

GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., provides environmental consulting and remediation, geotechnical engineering, construction management, and regulatory compliance services through a network of 25 US locations. It also offers air quality monitoring services through its Airlogics partnership, and operates a soil and rock instrumentation division. The company operates Baystate Environmental Consultants which provides civil engineering, natural resource management, environmental permitting, and environmental land planning services across the US.

Global construction and engineering firm BAUER Aktiengesellschaft (BAUER Group) works from the ground up. The company is involved in excavation -- civil engineering projects that require digging to form a foundation, such as the building of tunnels, bridges, wells, wastewater treatment plants, and mining facilities. BAUER Group operates in three divisions: equipment, construction, and resources. The equipment division manufactures the anchors, drilling rigs, and heavy machinery used in excavation and mining projects, while the resources division supplies the other two divisions with materials and services. BAUER Group has operations in 60 countries.

Italcementi is the colossus of roads. Italcementi S.p.A. produces cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and related construction materials through more than two dozen subsidiaries on four continents. European customers dominate sales, but Italcementi also does business in North America (through Essroc), and has seen sales in other markets coming on strong in recent years. Italcementi's cement division accounts for almost two-thirds of total sales and produces some 70 million tons annually; concrete and aggregates account for more than 30%. Its international operations include about 60 cement plants, 15 grinding centers, 130 quarries, and 600 concrete plants. Italmobiliare owns some 59% of Italcementi.

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