The Drees Company is a leading homebuilder in Cincinnati and one of the top private builders in the US. First-time home buyers and move-up customers may choose from homes that range from about $100,000 to more than $1 million. Drees also builds condominiums, town homes, and patio homes. It sells luxury homes through its Zaring Premier Homes division and more modest houses under the Marquis Homes name. The company purchases land to develop as homesites in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and the Washington, DC, area. Drees also offers financing through its First Equity Mortgage subsidiary, which has closed more than $1 billion in loans over the years.

Columbia Pipe & Supply. Columbia is a leading distributor of industrial pipe, plumbing supplies, and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) equipment. Based in Chicago, the company also has sales offices covering the rest of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and an agreement with Affiliated Distributors that expands its distribution network to a national level. The company's target markets are construction, maintenance and repair, and OEMs. CEO William Arenberg and family own the company, which was founded in 1935.

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.

Luddon Construction provides civil engineering and construction services primarily in Scotland, but also throughout the rest of the UK. Founded in 1975, the company works as both a main contractor and sub-contractor, having completed office developments, industrial units, pharmaceutical facilities, and warehouse distribution centers. Luddon also undertakes major roadwork projects, with experience in repairing sewers and paving sidewalks. Clients include Scottish Enterprise and the Network Rail in Scotland. Luddon is a private family-owned business and carries out as many as 90 projects per year.

C.F. Jordan is a top building contractor that offers preconstruction, design/build, development, and project management services. The company has traditionally built hotels and resorts, but has diversified into military, residential, highway, and school construction. Its contracts include projects for the Immigration and Naturalization Service for border patrol stations, health care centers, and detention centers. Other works have included Sea World in San Antonio, the Insights Science Museum in El Paso, and the Pearl Harbor Commissary and Exchange in Hawaii. Chairman Charles "Paco" Jordan started the Texas-based firm in 1988.

Nearly as old as the aggregate it mines, Granite Rock (founded on Valentine's Day, 1900) operates four quarries, a design center, and other facilities in Northern California. The company, often referred to as Graniterock, provides materials for construction and landscaping: rock, sand, gravel, stone, concrete, asphalt, road oils and asphalt coatings, and masonry and wall-system products. The company has a fleet of railroad cars to transport rock, sand, gravel, and concrete; it also operates a fleet of delivery trucks. Its Pavex Construction unit builds roads and airports, as well as commercial and residential projects. CEO Bruce Woolpert (the grandson of founder A. R. Wilson) and his family own Granite Rock.

Uralita makes building materials including insulation, gypsum, roof tiles, and pipes. Product lines include Pladur plasterboard for building partitions, Cobert roofing tiles and bricks, and Adequa plastic pipes for commercial and infrastructure use. Insulation accounts for about half of the group's business. The company has about 45 production plants in operation or under development throughout Europe. Uralita is the market leader in Spain (where it makes about half of its revenues) and Portugal. The wealthy Serratosa family owns 79% of the firm through investment vehicle Nefinsa. Uralita was founded in 1907 as a fiber cement company.

Matrix Service Company provides construction, and repair and maintenance services primarily to the energy and energy related industries in the United States and Canada. The company operates in two segments, Construction Services, and Repair and Maintenance Services. The Construction Services segment offers aboveground storage tanks for the bulk storage/terminal industry, capital construction for the downstream petroleum industry, and specialty construction, as well as electrical/instrumentation services, such as civil/structural, mechanical, piping, electrical and instrumentation, millwrighting, and fabrication for various industries. This segment focuses on renovations, retrofits, modifications, and expansions to existing facilities, as well as construction of new facilities. The Repair and Maintenance Services segment provides aboveground storage tank repair and maintenance services, including tank inspection, cleaning, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers code repairs; planned major and routine maintenance for the downstream petroleum industry; specialty repair and maintenance services; and electrical and instrumentation repair and maintenance. Matrix Service Company was founded in 1989 is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Berlin Steel Construction Company had nothing to do with a falling wall, but it does know how to erect metal. The specialty contractor fabricates and erects structural steel for all types of buildings, as well as staircases, handrails, and grating. It also erects precast concrete, precast garages, metal roofs and floor decks, and steel joists and girders. In addition to fabrication and site erection, Berlin Steel offers project management services. Key projects include a new terminal addition at the Bradley International Airport and structural steel work for a University of Connecticut stadium and a Rhode Island convention center. Berlin Steel serves the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions of the US.

Shui On Construction and Materials Limited (SOCAM) manufactures construction materials and engages in property development in China and Hong Kong. SOCAM's Lafarge Shui On Cement joint venture produces high-grade cement in Southwest China. The company has operations in Chongqing, Guizhou, Nanjing, and Yunnan. It produces about 20 million tons of cement annually. SOCAM's construction division specializes in public housing and institutional buildings in Hong Kong. The division offers design-and-build services as well as services in heritage restoration.

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