Hill & Smith Holdings. The company is a manufacturer of building and construction as well as industrial products and services. Hill & Smith, which operates through a variety of subsidiaries, makes products ranging from highway crash barriers and street lighting columns to industrial flooring and access systems. Other products include fencing, plastic pipe, and roofing. It also offers such services as perforating and component manufacturing (Ash & Lacy) and steel forging and rolling (Bromford Iron & Steel). Customers include airports, construction companies, and public works operators among others.

From apartment units to rails to office buildings, Royal Volker Wessels Stevin covers construction for home, transportation, and work. The group, which uses the trade name VolkerWessels, is made up of about 100 companies overseen by a board of management. The group works in all aspects of construction, mainly in five sectors including building and property development in the Netherlands, civil engineering, roads, and rail, infrastructure, technology and telecommunications, infrastructure and land development in North America, and supplies and services. The companies focus on the Dutch market but also operate in the UK, Canada, and the US. CVC Capital Partners owns about 43% of the company.

Urata & Sons is a solidly established provider of concrete contracting services including slab and curb and gutter work. The firm focuses on large scale tilt-up buildings, parking structures, schools, hospitals, public works projects, multi-family residences, and other commercial ventures, including malls, casinos and resorts, and industrial complexes. Most of its projects are in California and Nevada. Urata & Sons' customers include high-profile contractors DPR Construction, Turner Construction, and The Walsh Group. The company was started in 1974 by Sofio Urata and his sons, Charles and Frank, who began by paving residential patios and driveways.

Veneer Technologies produces a variety of veneer products from domestic woods and imported exotic species. Its veneer products include face veneer (decorative hardwood veneer faces), sheet veneer, and wood veneer and melamine edgebanding. The wood species range from ash, cedar, cherry, oak, and pine to rosewood, mahogany, koa, zebrawood, and more. The company has 10 continuous cross-feed splicers, which can produce about 72 million finished sq. ft. of face veneer annually. Veneer Technologies was formed in 1993; it upgraded its facilities, increasing production capacity by 20%, in 2007.

Chiyoda puts both brain and muscle power into the industrial plants that it designs and builds. Through a number of domestic and overseas subsidiaries and affiliates across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the contractor provides engineering, procurement, construction, and project and asset management services primarily to the oil, gas, and chemical industries. Internationally, it specializes in designing and building liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, including several in Qatar that are among the largest in the world and the first LNG plant in Russia. Chiyoda, established as part of Mitsubishi Oil in 1948, was spun off from its parent and went public in 1957. Mitsubishi owns about 33% of the company.

CDI Contractors means big buildings in Little Rock and beyond. The company has completed commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, including the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Other areas of specialty include health care facilities, parking decks, condos, hotels, and educational institutions. CDI Contractors provides a range of services including pre-construction, scheduling, general contracting, and construction and project management. The company was founded in 1987 as a partnership between the late Bill Clark and Dillard's head Bill Dillard II. CDI has built several Dillard's department stores. Dillard's bought the remaining 50% of CDI it did not already own in 2008.

BrassCraft Manufacturing Company is one of North America's largest makers of water and gas connectors for residential and commercial construction projects. A subsidiary of building products maker Masco, BrassCraft's product list includes flexible gas and water connectors, faucet and toilet repair parts, brass fittings, showerheads, and commercial water supply parts. BrassCraft Manufacturing company has four manufacturing facilities in the US. BrassCraft sells its products through a network of wholesale distributors and retailers in the US, Canada, and other countries. Robert Zell founded BrassCraft Manufacturing company, which lays claim to originating the idea of flexible plumbing components, in 1946. Plumbers take a shine to BrassCraft.

Satterfield & Pontikes Construction provides general contracting, consultation, and construction management services, primarily in the Gulf Coast region of Texas and Louisiana. The company often works on buildings for the commercial, retail, industrial, educational, entertainment, and recreational sectors. Recent projects include the Texas A&M University Health Science Center and the expansion of the World War II Museum in New Orleans. The company specializes in concrete work and early-stage site work, as well as 3-D modeling and virtual design. Satterfield & Pontikes Construction was founded in 1989 and is headed by majority owner and CEO George Pontikes, Jr.

Freese and Nichols (FNI) keeps water in the Lone Star State flowing in the right direction. The consulting firm specializes in water management engineering but offers other services including architecture, environmental science, and construction management to clients in the Southwest, primarily Texas. The company has designed more than 150 dams and reservoirs and also works on such projects as municipal waterworks, water treatment facilities, and highways. Freese and Nichols serves the private and public sectors including clients from all levels of government. The company has offices in about a dozen Texas cities and traces its roots to a Ft. Worth firm founded in 1894 by John B. Hawley.

Milestone Construction Services specializes in construction management, consulting, and general contracting. Founded in 1998 the company started out exclusively building facilities for the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority in the nation's capital, but has branched out into commercial projects such as office buildings, retail space, restaurants, industrial facilities, and high-end residential development. It maintains a staff of technical experts, including professional construction managers, superintendents, architects, engineers, cost estimators, inspectors, and construction scheduling professionals. Milestone Construction Services operates throughout the US from offices in Virginia and Maryland.

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