McVicker Associates knows the value of a good strong wall. McVicker Associates is a structural engineering services firm for commercial, industrial, residential, and educational structures. The firm's projects include storefronts, interiors, mezzanines, and tenant remodels of a wide range of other structures serving clients across the western United States. Its services include structural investigations and inspections for architectural, builder, and homeowner clients. Commercial clients have included Gap Inc. and Mervyn's stores. McVicker Associates was established in 1962.

Thomas Armstrong has muscled its way into being one of the leading aggregates producers in the UK. Thomas Armstrong Holdings Ltd. also makes custom joinery, concrete blocks, and prestressed concrete (flooring, stairs, and panels) and operates a general construction business (residential, commercial, and industrial) and a timber division. Thomas Armstrong, a joiner, cabinetmaker, and wheelwright, founded the business in 1830. A century later the firm converted to a limited company. It has grown through acquisitions of companies such as ACP (Concrete) Ltd., William Rainford Holdings, Barnett's, Robinson's Concrete, and Tayban Developments. Thomas Armstrong has about 15 locations across the UK.

MWH Americas knows the ABCs of industrial design. The company, the Americas arm of employee-owned consulting firm MWH Global, provides engineering design and remediation, construction, procurement, program management, and technology services for the environmental, land, water, wastewater, energy, and power markets. Like its parent, it specializes in water, wastewater, and hydropower ("wet infrastructure") projects. Subsidiary MWH Laboratories performs analysis on potable and recycled water. MWH Americas has some 90 offices in the US, Canada, and Central and South America.MWH Global traces its back to the 1850s.

Sekisui Chemical (named for a concept of power taken from Sun-Tsu's Art of War) is a central corporation of the Sekisui "keiretsu --" companies affiliated through cross-ownership. Its main segments include housing, urban infrastructure and environmental products, and high performance plastics. Prefabricated housing (detached steel-framed and wooden-framed construction), accounts for about half of its sales. Other products include plastic pipes and fittings (used in water and sewage systems), medical multifrequency body fat meters, pipe valves, foams for automotive and construction applications, and rain gutters.

Pacific Building Group, the general contractor provides services including pre-construction evaluation, facility design/build, tenant improvements, and facilities maintenance. It is known for its work on health care facilities, including laboratories and medical office buildings; the company also provides services for corporate, hospitality, and industrial clients. Pacific Building Group has handled major projects for such customers as IBM, Sharp HealthCare, Sony, and United Airlines. The company operates mainly in Southern California, primarily in San Diego County. CEO and owner Greg Rogers founded the group in 1984.

Bernards Brothers (aka Bernards Brothers Construction), is a general contracting and construction management company focusing on educational, entertainment, sports, commercial, industrial, institutional, medical, and public works facilities. Clients have included UPS, Six Flags, and Cal State L.A. The company operates throughout the western US from its four California offices. Brothers Doug and Greg Bernards established Bernards Brothers Construction in 1974, and the company continues to be owned and operated by the Bernards family.

Highway engineering and bridge builder C.C. Myers is the master of the spaghetti bowl. Known for its work on elevated highway structures, the firm primarily serves California and Nevada, but also works in seven other western states. The company often is called to rebuild roadways that have been damaged. One of C.C. Myer's most notable projects was the 17-day reconstruction of a portion of San Francisco's I-5 known as the MacArthur Maze, which had collapsed after a fire. The company also rebuilt the Santa Monica freeway after an earthquake in 1994. In addition to its highway and bridge work, it also builds retaining walls and other public infrastructure. CEO and owner Clint C. Myers founded the firm in 1977.

Carl E. Woodward LLC (dba Woodward Design+Build) has an eye for southern style. Serving retail, hospitality, and other clients in Louisiana and the Gulf States region, Woodward Design+Build offers a range of construction services, including pre-construction, general contracting, engineering, and architectural design. Projects include everything from transforming historic buildings into retail space to ground-up construction of sports facilities. The firm, founded in 1924 by New Orleans architect Carl Woodward, boasts an in-house staff of architects and engineers whose work is generally geared toward emulating southern architectural style. CEO Paul Flower has owned Woodward since the 1990s.

EcoStar's roof is the first recycled one I've seen tonight. EcoStar, a division of Carlisle SynTec, manufactures roofing tiles that are composed of up to 80% recycled post-industrial plastic and rubber. The materials are remnants of such products as car bumpers and baby diapers. Its products are meant to be wind, rain, fire, and hail resistant; they offer a durable alternative to traditional tile, slate, and shake. EcoStar also makes polypropylene underlayments (Aqua Guard), sheet membranes to protect against moisture (Glacier Guard), copper snow retention brackets (Snow Guards), fasteners, tapes, and walkway pads (NOVA). Its products are sold in the US and Canada.

Fiberesin Industries designs and manufactures custom engineered products for original equipment manufacturers. Using wood composites, paper, specialty plastics, resins, and laminates, the company produces a variety of components and subassemblies that clients use to make office furniture, cabinetry, medical products, doors, windows, and squash and racquetball courts. Fiberesin Industries' materials are meant to help enhance the durability, impact resistance, vapor resistance, structural integrity, performance, and appearance of clients' finished products. The company closed its Rodman Industries affiliate, which made particleboard, in 2006. Fiberesin Industries was founded in 1946.

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