Loebl Schlossman & Hackl provides architecture, planning, and interior design services for commercial and institutional projects. The company operates throughout the world, with clients in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Architects Jerry Loebl and Norm Schlossman founded the firm, which became known for its high-rises, headquarters, and shopping centers, in 1925.

CentiMark hit the nail right on the head when it got into the roofing business. The company is one of the largest commercial and industrial roofing contractors in the US and Canada, providing roof inspection, repair, and emergency leak service. CentiMark typically works on flat roofs using EPDM rubber, thermoplastics, bitumen, metal, and coatings. Top customers include NASA and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its QuestMark division offers commercial, industrial, and retail flooring, do-it-yourself products, and floor maintenance and cleaning products. Chairman and CEO Edward Dunlap founded CentiMark as an industrial cleaning business in 1967. The company, which has 65 offices, is owned by its employees.

One of the largest lime companies in the world, Lhoist Group of Belgium, owns Lhoist North America, which was founded in 1966. Lhoist North America (formerly Chemical Lime Company) produces lime and lime-based products derived from calcium-rich limestone. The company's primary product, quicklime (or calcium oxide) is used for steelmaking, ore processing, industrial manufacturing, and construction. The company's products also serve environmental purposes such as wastewater treatment and softening drinking water, as well as roadbed stabilization. Lhoist North America provides lime slurry (hot liquid lime) to its customers from its mobile PORTA BATCH concentrated production units.

Herbeau Creations of America, cleanliness is next to elegance and luxury. The company specializes in decorative plumbing fixtures, tiles, and furniture for kitchens and bathrooms. Products include faucets, washbasins, tubs, and sinks. Formed in 1991, the company operates as the US and Canada distributor of items handcrafted from copper, brass, vitreous china, wood, and ceramics. Hearbeau Creations of America also offers select items painted by hand.

H.J. Russell & Company, one of the US's largest minority-owned enterprises, helps shape southeastern cities. The firm is a general contractor, construction manager, property manager, and developer that specializes in affordable multifamily housing and mixed-use communities. It also has expertise in building airports, hospitals, office towers, retail stores, and schools. Its development arm, Russell New Urban Development, offers such services as feasibility analysis, land development, and asset management; it has more than $500 million in development under way. H.J. Russell also manages more than 6,000 apartment and public housing units. The family-owned company was founded by chairman Herman J. Russell in 1952.

HDR has left its mark on the US. HDR is an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that specializes in projects including bridges, water- and wastewater-treatment plants, and hospitals. HDR also provides mechanical and plumbing services, construction and project management, and utilities planning. The group has completed projects throughout the US and in some 60 countries abroad and has more than 185 locations around the world. The employee-owned company was founded as Henningson Engineering in 1917 to build municipal plants in the rural Midwest.

Evapco keeps its cool especially under pressure. The company is a manufacturer of evaporative cooling and heat transfer equipment for both the commercial and industrial refrigeration markets. Its products include condensers, coolers, cooling towers, pressure vessels, recirculator packages, thermal ice coils, and water treatment systems. Evapco's products are used by customers engaged in food and beverage and industrial processing. It has sales offices, research and development centers, and manufacturing facilities in the US, Africa, Asia/Pacific, and Europe. Evapco is an employee-owned firm founded in 1976 by William Kahlert, Wilson Bradley, and John Luetkemeyer.

Orascom Construction Industries (OCI),the Egyption company offers construction services and fertilizer products primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. OCI performs large-scale commercial, industrial, and infrastructure engineering and building services; principal operating units include the Besix Group in Belgium and Contrack International in the US. Its fertilizer operations include Egyptian Fertilizer Company and Gavilon. The company sold its cement operations to building materials behemoth Lafarge in 2008.

Ferguson is a diverse wholesale distributor with operations spanning multiple business groups. The company is ranked as the largest plumbing wholesaler in North America. Ferguson is also the industry's second largest distributor of pipes, valves and fittings, waterworks, and heating and cooling equipment in North America.In 1953, Ferguson was founded with $150,000 starting capital and two locations. The next five decades saw phenomenal growth, with the company doubling in size every five years. In 1982, Wolseley plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange and based in the United Kingdom, acquired Ferguson, supplying the financial strength for Ferguson's rapid growth and aggressive expansion into the industrial, heating and cooling (HVAC) and waterworks markets

Keepmoat Homes (formerly Haslam Homes) specializes in building houses for first- and second-time buyers throughout Yorkshire, The Midlands, North East, and North West England. Staying away from building luxury homes with fancy living rooms and chandeliers, the homebuilder's business strategy, instead, is to work with local councils, regeneration partners, and other local affiliates to build affordable homes that are in line with government policies. Keepmoat constructs about 1,000 houses each year with many developments located in older communities that have seen better days. The company is a part of the Keepmoat plc group of companies and operates from five offices throughout England.

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