Faith in technology is a basic commitment of Faith Technologies, one of the largest privately-held electrical and specialty systems contractors in the US. Its specialties include electrical contracting and service, automated controls, lighting, security, technology, and preconstruction. It primarily serves clients in the commercial, government, industrial, institutional, health care, manufacturing, power, residential, retail, transportation, and data center sectors. The company has worked on a range of projects, such as airports, bridges, correctional facilities, government agencies, hospitals, restaurants, and shopping centers.

Miron Construction Co., Inc.,the general contractor provides carpentry, design/build, and construction management services throughout the region from three offices in Wisconsin and Iowa. It also provides industrial building and maintenance services, which include constructing food processing, paper/pulp processing, and public utility facilities. Miron serves customers in the retail, environmental, healthcare, and industrial industries and religious, educational, and government institutions. It has completed projects for Anheuser-Busch, 3M, Kraft Foods, Ameritech, Weyerhaeuser, and Georgia-Pacific. Canadian immigrant Patrick Miron founded the company in 1918.

Columbia Forest Products is one of North America's largest manufacturers of hardwood plywood, veneer, and logs. The employee-owned company manufactures plywood used to make cabinets, architectural millwork, commercial fixtures, and other products. Its veneer is used in cabinetry, doors, furniture, decorative plywood, and other applications. Columbia specializes in Northern Appalachian hardwoods such as oak, ash, birch, maple, hickory, walnut, and pine. It also imports hardwood plywood and panels from Asia, Africa, Russia, and South America. The company sells its products to manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and mass merchandisers.

Central Concrete Supermix, Inc. began operations in the US in 1989. The Dias family continues to operate more than 70 plants in South America. Florida builders know better than to build on shifting sand. Instead, they build on solid concrete. Central Concrete Supermix, also known as Supermix, provides some of that material. The company operates 10 plants and more than 130 cement trucks in South Florida. Supermix's products include various forms of concrete, grouts, and concrete blocks. It supplies concrete for residential buildings, retail centers, and hotels. Central Concrete Supermix, Inc. also supplies ready mix concrete to the Florida Department of Transportation.

Integrated Management Services, which operates as IMS Engineers, provides engineering, consulting, and construction management services. IMS offers its services to a variety of industries; projects include aviation, environmental, transportation, water, and wastewater facilities. It has offices in Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis; New Orleans (where it participates in Hurricane Katrina recovery work); and Detroit, Michigan. The city of Jackson, Mississippi and Nissan Motor are among the company's customers. The minority-owned IMS was formed in 1996 by CEO John Calhoun and President Rod Hill. It is a mainstay on Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

Antonio Ruiz has left his blood, sweat, and tears. Ruiz owns and operates A. Ruiz Construction Company & Associates (ARCCO), a firm which he founded in 1978. A general engineering and building contractor, ARCCO has expertise in civil engineering, as well as residential construction and remodeling. It has worked on everything from reservoir repair and street improvements to utilities installation and demolition in both the public and private sectors. Clients include the City of San Francisco, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Bombardier Transportation. ARCCO primarily serves the Bay Area.

ROEL Construction builds large commercial projects,the general contractor provides commercial building preconstruction, construction, and management services to private-sector customers in the western US. It offers services including construction forensics, design, and management, focusing on new construction, tenant improvements, structural concrete work, and consulting. ROEL Construction has California offices in Palm Desert, Irvine, and San Diego, and another office in Las Vegas. The family-owned company was founded in 1917 by Tom Roel, great-grandfather of president and COO Kevin Elliott. Suffolk Construction is buying ROEL to boost its presence in Southern California.

Recycled from the former Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Ventures oversees recycling and solid waste investments. The company's holdings include an 83.1% stake in Mine Reclamation Corporation (MRC) and a 50% stake in West Valley Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station, which separates waste materials for recycling or storage. Through MRC, the company has turned Kaiser Steel's iron-ore mining pits into a rail-accessible solid waste landfill at Eagle Mountain in the California desert; it has agreed to sell the landfill to County District No. 2 of Los Angeles County. However, lawsuits from local residents have blocked the deal. Kaiser Ventures is owned mainly by former creditors of Kaiser Steel.

Athena Engineering specializes in the installation and design of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, building automation, and other systems services for the commercial, food processing, health, and telecommunications industries. Athena also offers general construction, energy management, and environmental systems services. The company mostly works for both public and private entities in Southern California. In addition to being privately owned, Athena Engineering is one of the top women/minority-owned companies in the region. Athena Engineering was founded in 1984.

Dallas Contracting Co. is demolition. The specialty contractor provides demolition of industrial and commercial facilities (including structures such as water towers, concrete silos, and steel tanks), onsite concrete crushing, and salvage and scrap metal removal and recycling. The company also provides equipment removal, interior dismantling, plant decommissioning, environmental remediation, and brownfield redevelopment. In addition, it sells used and surplus equipment, from air conditioning units to generators. Dallas Contracting Co. began operating in 1979. It serves clients throughout the US; they have included Exxon Mobil, Honeywell, and K. Hovnanian.

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