High Industries is at the top of its game, and that game is steel and construction. The company's largest division, High Steel Structures, is one of the largest steel bridge fabricators in North America. Other members of the High Industries' stable of companies include High Steel Service Center (metal processing and distribution), High Concrete Group (precast concrete components), and High Safety Consulting Services (air quality and safety). Affiliates of High Industries, such as High Hotels, are active in the real estate business. High Industries, which mostly does business along the East Coast, traces its roots to a welding shop founded by Sanford High in 1931. The company is controlled by the High family.

Consulting engineering firm Pennoni Associates has expertise in building systems, civil and municipal, environmental, geotechnical, inspection and testing, land surveying, site design and architecture, structural and transportation engineering, and other industry specialties. Its clients include local, state, and federal governments, as well as private commercial, construction, and industrial companies. Affiliate Pennoni Engineering and Surveying of New York offers engineering consulting and design services. It specializes in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering.

Lee (LBL) makes going to the hospital a little less painful. LBL is an architectural, planning, and interior design firm that specializes in health care (hospitals, care centers, and medical centers), academic, institutional, and corporate projects. LBL's clients include universities, city and county governments, federal agencies, public and private real estate developers, nonprofit organizations, and investor-owned firms across California. The firm has designed buildings for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, the University of California, Davis, and most recently, renovated Stanford University Medical Center. Principals Ken Lee, Erich Burkhart, and Ken Liu founded the firm in 1986.

International Barrier Technology Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary fire resistant building materials designed to protect people and property from the destruction of fire in the United States. It provides Pyrotite, a fire-barrier material designed to prevent ignition and inhibit the spread of flames; and Blazeguard, a composite fire-rated panel for various markets, including multifamily roof deck applications, structural insulated panels, commercial roof deck applications, and roof assemblies in commercial modular buildings.

JURONG International has building and construction covered from beginning to end and beyond. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides engineering and facilities management services in nearly 40 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East. The company provides expert design and build project management services, in addition to consulting services that include master planning, architectural design, and structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering. The company also offers facilities management and serves clients in commercial, industrial, residential, and institutional markets. JURONG International is owned by JTC Corporation, a Singapore-based industrial development company.

M/I has its eye on the homebuilding prize in 10 markets throughout the midwest, mid-Atlantic, and Florida regions. M/I Homes sells single-family detached homes to first-time, move-up, empty-nest, and luxury buyers under the M/I Homes and Showcase Homes names. It delivers more than 2,000 homes a year, at prices ranging from about $90,000 to $1.3 million (averaging $231,000) and sizes ranging from 1,200 to 4,400 sq. ft. The company has an exclusive arrangement with retailer Sherwin-Williams to supply paint, stain, and other coatings for its homes. M/I Homes also builds attached townhomes and condominiums in select markets. Its M/I Financial mortgage banking subsidiary provides title and mortgage services.

Guarantee Electrical has been powering up St. Louis since it "guaranteed" to electrify the World's Fair in 1904. (It delivered on the guarantee). Now a major US electrical contractor, the company offers commercial, institutional, and industrial services including construction, design/build, communications/data, and maintenance. Guarantee Electrical operates throughout the country and has worked on such varied projects as the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and several post office and prison facilities. Its GECO Systems division installs and services intercom, closed-circuit television, and other audio-visual systems. The Oertli family owns and operates the firm.

Hirsch/Bedner International (doing business as Hirsch Bedner Associates, or HBA) are right at home in a hotel room. HBA provides interior and graphic design services to customers worldwide, specializing in designs for hotels. Portfolio projects have included Le Saint G�ran, Mauritius; St. Regis Grand, Rome; Pan Pacific Yokohama; Ritz-Carlton New Orleans; Mandarin Oriental Miami; and Movenpick Aqaba, Jordan. Design division Graphis International develops corporate identities, sign systems, and packaging programs for the hospitality, entertainment, and retail industries. HBA, founded in 1964 and credited with pioneering hospitality design as a specialty, has about a dozen offices worldwide.

T. Clarke provides electrical engineering and contracting services in the UK. Its vast menu of services includes building management systems, data cabling, instrumentation, street lighting, and telephone systems. The firm and its 13 subsidiaries have taken on projects ranging from hospitals and sports arenas to railways and shopping centers for the likes of British Telecom, Financial Times, The British Land Company, the Metropolitan Police, and BUPA Hospitals, among a host of others. Tommy Clarke founded his namesake company in 1889. The company is known for its electrotechnical apprentice training program which supports hundreds of young electricians yearly.

The buzz on BUZZI UNICEM is that it is big in the cement and concrete industry. One of Italy's largest cement and concrete groups, BUZZI UNICEM produces expanded clay, ready-mix concrete, cement, aggregates, and other building materials in about a dozen countries; the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Slovakia, and the US are its largest markets. The group operates some 40 cement plants, 530 ready-mix concrete plants, and 35 aggregate quarries in North America and Europe, as well as Algeria and Russia. BUZZI UNICEM controls Dyckerhoff, a leading cement group and construction materials company in Germany. The Buzzi family owns a majority of BUZZI UNICEM's stock.

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