Founded in 1909 by Robert Brett, the company is lead by chairman Bill Brett and privately-owned by the Brett family. Robert Brett & Sons' business is in the pits and it likes it that way. The company, known as Brett Group, is a leading aggregates producer in the UK with a total production capacity of 5 million tons of sand and gravel a year. It also holds businesses involved in concrete, earth moving, landscaping, and building products. Its Provian Construction unit offers building, civil engineering, and earthwork services. The company's clients have included Skanska and the Port of London Authority, and it to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the Ipswich Town Football Club facilities, among other projects.

Granite Construction is building its way from coast to coast. The holding company operates through its main subsidiary, Granite Construction Company, a transportation and heavy construction contractor that works on public infrastructure projects ranging from airports, bridges, and dams to highways, mass transit systems, and tunnels. For private-sector firms, it performs site preparation for residential and commercial development. The company is aligned geographically into two divisions: Granite West and Granite East. One of its biggest customers is the California Department of Transportation, which accounts for around 12% of revenues. Granite also is involved in real estate development and services.

The company is a leading supplier of housing and building materials in Japan. Through half a dozen subsidiaries, it provides such products as doors, housing sashes, storm shutters, ceramic siding, bathroom units and tile, and insulated panels, as well as security systems. It also supplies storefronts for commercial buildings, as well as skylights, steel doors, and customized store facades and shutters. JS Group works with distributors and has sales offices throughout Japan. Other operations include a real estate brokerage franchise, a chain of do-it-yourself stores, and home services including inspections and warranties.

The Lawrence Group is an architecture and interior design firm that offers more than just architecture and interior design services. While it undertakes traditional design development and space planning projects on multifamily residences, hospitals, museums, parks, retail stores, and schools, the group also boasts expertise in town planning and graphic design. It has master-planned neighborhood and downtown developments, while its STUDIO369 in-house graphics department provides marketing and branding for property developments through print and Web. The firm also owns a retail furniture and home accessories showroom called Niche. The Lawrence Group operates a half-dozen offices in the US and one in Beijing.

George Dubya has built a reputation in the construction industry. George W. Auch, a top contractor in the US, offers general contracting, design/build, and construction management services, primarily in Southeast Michigan. The commercial and institutional builder targets the medical/health care and educational markets. George W. Auch founded the company in 1908 as a family partnership, building homes and churches in the Detroit area.

Pavestone Company has manufactured segmental concrete products for the commercial, residential, contractor, industrial, and retail consumer markets since 1980. Dedicated to the production of concrete pave stone and retaining wall units, our business principle is to be driven not only by technology in manufacturing, but also in the development of segmental paving and retaining wall systems. Now with 20 regional manufacturing locations, distributing to over 40 states, Pavestone Company continues to set the standards for service to the buyer, specifier, and contractor. With over 250 million dollars in state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, Pavestone Company provides the quality that sets the standard for its competitors and industry. The depth of selection in shape, color, and texture continue to place Pavestone as the leader of the industry!

The RDI Group operates three business units specializing in the design and manufacture of highly engineered equipment for the asphalt roofing, construction and metal coil processing industries. These machinery and manufacturing solutions designed, built and commissioned by Reichel & Drews and Chicago Slitter have been helping customers improve productivity and profits since the early 1900s. Hundreds of patented designs and thousands of installations attest to the leadership role the RDI Group business units hold in the continuing quest for innovative technology.

HNTB knows the ABCs of A/E. The company ranks among the pack of pure designers, or firms that derive most of their revenues from architecture, engineering, or environmental design operations. It specializes in transportation infrastructure projects and government contracts. HNTB is best-known for its highway and transit system design (its portfolio includes the New Jersey Turnpike) as well as airports (Chicago's Midway) and sports arenas (Invesco Field in Denver). The company operates some 60 locations across the US. The employee-owned HNTB (its name once stood for Howard Needles Tammen & Berendoff) traces its roots to 1914.

Baillie Lumber Co. company produces and distributes nearly 200 million board ft. of American hardwood products annually. Baillie Lumber offers species that include cherry, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, poplar, beech, and ash, in addition to exotic species such as mahogany and teak. It operates five production facilities, three sawmills, and warehouses in the US and overseas and exports its products to more than 60 countries. Baillie's customers include window manufactures and furniture and molding makers. James Baillie founded the company as a lumber brokerage firm in Hamburg, New York in 1923.

Landscapes Unlimited is best known for its design and construction of resort, private, and municipal golf courses. But it also goes beyond the fairways to work on other types of recreational landscape projects such as sports complexes, baseball fields, football fields, and city parks and playgrounds. Services include golf course renovation, irrigation, and project management services. Through its Landscapes Golf Group subsidiary, Landscapes Unlimited has ownership interests in more than 25 golf courses across the US. The company was founded in 1976 by CEO and landscape architect Bill Kubly.

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