Rex Lumber is a king of the wholesale hardwood and softwood products distribution business. It sells mahogany, cypress, oak, pine, and a dozen other hardwood and softwood lumber types. Rex Lumber sells its products (mouldings, millwork, and cut lumber) to woodworkers, retailers, store fixture manufacturers, and others for use in manufacturing applications. The company's largest mill is located in South Windsor, Connecticut, and it has other facilities in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia. Rex delivers lumber by truck all along the eastern seaboard and ships lumber to the Midwest and West Coast regions of the US via contract carriers; it also exports lumber overseas.

Saint-Gobain Corporation will probably be involved. The holding company oversees the North American operations of French materials group Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. Its subsidiaries produce and distribute a wide range of consumer, construction, and industrial products including building materials, flat glass, abrasives, ceramics, containers, crystal-based technology, cabinets and countertops, high-performance plastics, and technical fabrics. Holdings include CertainTeed (insulation, vinyl siding, shingles), Saint-Gobain Container (glass jars and bottles), and Norandex (building materials distribution). Saint-Gobain Corporation has more than 350 locations throughout North America.

Rosboro Lumber is deeply rooted in building supplies. The company produces a wide variety of products, including studs and plywood for the homebuilding market, laminated beams and frames for heavy construction, and hardwood door and window frames through subsidiary Washington Hardwoods. The company owns timberlands in western Oregon; it also buys timber from other public and private land owners. Rosboro operates about a half-dozen production facilities. It sells its products to customers in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. A group of about 60 investors owns Rosboro. T. W. "Whit" Rosborough founded the company as a small lumber mill in the 1930s.

Standard Pacific's foundation is built on single-family homes. The company, one of the US's top 20 builders, constructs homes in California and Florida (which combined generate more than half of its sales), as well as Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas. Its homes typically range in size from 1,500 sq. ft. to more than 3,500 sq. ft. The average cost of a Standard Pacific home in 2009 was more than $300,000, from an average low of $190,000 in Florida to $434,000 in California. The company also builds condominiums, buys and develops land tracts (both alone and through joint ventures), and offers mortgage loans in all of its markets and title services in Texas.

Abengoa has an environmental interest in engineering. The company develops environmentally sustainable projects by focusing its business on five main areas: solar energy; bioenergy; waste recycling and management; information technology; and engineering and industrial construction. It provides engineering and infrastructure services to the energy, telecommunications, transportation, water, and environmental industries in more than 70 countries worldwide. It also controls Spanish aluminum and steel-dust recycling company Befesa Medio Ambiente and US-based ethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy Corp. The Benjumea family controls about 56% of Abengoa.

Eleco is a group focused on key components of a modern construction project. Building Products used in the fabric of the building, Software tools used to manage the construction project and Sustainable Construction to enhance environmental performance. Eleco serves a number of different construction markets in the UK, parts of Europe and South Africa. Eleco is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM:ELCO).

Portage Environmental helps carry the load for customers needing environmental engineering services. The firm's offerings include environmental remediation, process and project engineering, and decontamination and decommissioning services. Portage Environmental counts US government agencies (such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy) and Native American tribes among its clients, and has conducted projects in 20 US states, as well as in Afghanistan, Guam, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Qatar, and South Korea. The firm operates from some two dozen offices throughout the US. President and CEO Michael Spry helped found Portage Environmental in 1992.

Messer Construction Company, the company provides commercial construction services including design/build and construction management for projects in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. It completes some $700 million in construction each year. Projects have included one of the only LEED-certified research buildings in the US (at the University of Louisville) and the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky. The company boasts a return-customer rate of about 80%. Frank Messer founded the employee-owned firm in 1932.

Sierra Pacific Industries company owns and manages about 2 million acres of timberland in California and Washington. With a network of sawmills, it is among the top lumber producers in the US. SPI's manufacturing plants also produce mouldings and millwork, windows and doors, fencing, and wood fiber by-products, such as chips, bark, and shavings. Several of its sawmills also house cogeneration facilities that recycle wood waste into power for its plants; excess electricity is sold to local public utilities. Additionally, SPI is involved in residential and commercial real estate. The company traces its roots to the 1920s when it was founded by R. H. "Curly" Emmerson.

Haselden Construction eliminates some of the hassle for companies and institutions looking for full turnkey construction services. The company provides finance, design, engineering, construction, renovation, management, and maintenance services for the development of facilities, including schools, hospitals, resorts, hospitality facilities, and office buildings. The company primarily serves clients in Colorado, Wyoming, and other western states. Clients have included Isle of Capri Casinos and the University of Colorado. Family-owned Haselden Construction was founded in Denver in 1973.

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