Alberici helped shape the St. Louis skyline; it now sets its sights -- or its construction sites -- across North America. Alberici Corporation, parent of Alberici Constructors, encompasses a group of enterprises with a presence in North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. Operations include construction services, building materials, and steel fabrication and erection units. Alberici offers general contracting, design/build, construction management, demolition, and specialty contracting services. It also offers facilities management. The Alberici family still holds the largest share of the employee-owned firm, founded in 1918 by John S. Alberici.

Family-owned Okland Construction Company is a regional general contracting, design/build, and construction management firm. The company works on projects in several construction markets: commercial, education, government, health care, infrastructure, high-tech, industrial, retail, and corporate. Okland Construction offers value engineering and phased or fast-track design and construction. It also provides pre-construction services, risk management, and partnering. Self-performed work includes concrete construction, wood framing, and carpentry. Okland has constructed projects in about 30 US states and throughout Mexico. It has offices in Salt Lake City; Durango, Colorado; Ketchum, Idaho; and Tempe, Arizona.

Skanska USA Building Inc., one of four US-based units of the Swedish construction giant Skanska AB, the company is one of the nation's top general contractors and construction groups. Offerings include pre-construction consultation, design-build, and construction management. It serves sectors ranging from infrastructure, sports and entertainment, education, and health care. The company also provides specialist validation services for pharmaceutical and biotech customers. Skanska's other US companies are Skanska USA Civil, Skanska Infrastructure Development, and Skanska Commercial Development.

Hanson Aggregates UK, a subsidiary of Hanson, itself a subsidiary of German aggregate leader HeidelbergCement, knows this well. As one of the UK's largest construction materials companies, Hanson Aggregates UK produces crushed rock, sand and gravel, dimension stone, ready-mix concrete, and mortar. The operating company's widespread UK facilities include more than 250 concrete plants, 100 quarries, 20 wharves, 10 recycling plants, and 10 distribution depots.

Psomas, the engineering firm offers construction management, land surveying, water resource planning, environmental, and civil engineering services mainly to the water, transportation, and land development markets in the Western US. The company has both public and private sector clients. Among the projects it has had a hand in developing are the Los Angeles International Airport, Port of Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Psomas has offices throughout California, as well as in Arizona an Utah. The family-owned firm was founded in 1946 by George Psomas.

Huggy Bear's Cupboards is all about creating that warm kitchen glow. The company custom handcrafts wood kitchen and bath cabinets from its 65,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Portland, Oregon. Its products include Hayden Bay cabinets with solid wood face frames and overlay or inset doors, Shoreline frameless cabinets, and such accessories as roll-out can racks to make narrow cabinets more functional, warming oven drawers, and recycling bins. Huggy Bear's wood is supplied by an on-site lumber broker. The company has been building cabinets for more than 25 years.

Phoenix Management, Inc. (PMI) contracts with the US government to perform various support services such as aircraft maintenance, air field management, air traffic control, vehicle operations and maintenance, base supply, and furnishings management. Most of PMI's contracts are with the US Army and US Air Force. The firm has worked at several US military bases including Andrews Air Force Base, Fort Rucker, and Vandenberg Air Force Base. PMI also has performed commercial airport passenger processing services at the Los Angeles International Airport. Chairman and president Marjorie Strickland founded the woman-owned company in 1992.

SGPA Planning and Architecture (SGPA) offers design, engineering, and planning services for retail shopping and mixed-use centers, senior housing facilities, municipal projects, and such specialty projects as laboratory improvements. The designing company serves clients throughout California through its offices in San Diego and San Francisco. SGPA was established in 1970.

Masco's ideal customer is a home improvement junkie with a thing for cabinets -- and a hand-washing fetish. The company is a leading manufacturer of a variety of home improvement and building products. Its cabinet and plumbing products businesses account for more than half its sales. Cabinet brands include KraftMaid, Quality Cabinets, and Merillat in the US and The Moores Group and Tvilum-Scanbirk in Europe. Faucets and bath and shower accessories are sold under the Delta and Peerless brands in the US and as Hansgrohe in Europe. Masco also makes BEHR paints and stains, windows, doors, staple guns, locksets, and HVAC products. If you're more comfortable on the couch, Masco also provides installation services.

Central Concrete Supermix, Inc. began operations in the US in 1989. The Dias family continues to operate more than 70 plants in South America. Florida builders know better than to build on shifting sand. Instead, they build on solid concrete. Central Concrete Supermix, also known as Supermix, provides some of that material. The company operates 10 plants and more than 130 cement trucks in South Florida. Supermix's products include various forms of concrete, grouts, and concrete blocks. It supplies concrete for residential buildings, retail centers, and hotels. Central Concrete Supermix, Inc. also supplies ready mix concrete to the Florida Department of Transportation.

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