Scandinavia's largest construction and property development group, Skanska provides building, financing, development, and management services for commercial, residential, and civic projects in Europe, the US, and Latin America. Its areas of expertise include office buildings, industrial plants, single- and multifamily residences, hospitals, bridges, and highways. Its US divisions include Skanska USA Civil and Skanska USA Building. The group has completed work for clients such as Boeing, IKEA, Volvo, and PETROBRAS. Skanska was founded in 1887.

Global construction and engineering firm BAUER Aktiengesellschaft (BAUER Group) works from the ground up. The company is involved in excavation -- civil engineering projects that require digging to form a foundation, such as the building of tunnels, bridges, wells, wastewater treatment plants, and mining facilities. BAUER Group operates in three divisions: equipment, construction, and resources. The equipment division manufactures the anchors, drilling rigs, and heavy machinery used in excavation and mining projects, while the resources division supplies the other two divisions with materials and services. BAUER Group has operations in 60 countries.

Trandes is right there in the trenches with the US government. The contractor provides engineering services for the Department of Defense (primarily the US Navy) and other federal agencies. Its offerings range from the repair of advanced communications equipment and systems engineering to acquisitions support and field services. Trandes also provides IT services including systems design, technical support, and training. The company has about a half-dozen offices strategically located near military locations in Florida, California, and near Washington, DC. CEO James Brusse founded Trandes in 1972 to provide the public transportation sector with software design and support services.

Kok's Woodgoods produces wood and vinyl trim for home interior and exterior applications. Its products include decorative brackets and shelving, door accents, moldings, and other millworked products. The company also makes board products, including hobby boards, from oak, poplar, aspen, and pine woods. Kok's Woodgoods fills custom orders and sells its products in national chain hardware stores. The company began operations in 1983.

Alumasc Group began operations in 1984. The company sells to customers in the automotive, brewery, and residential and non-residential construction industries. Alumasc Group has gone metallic green. The company still provides die casting and machining services, but most of its business comes from making environmentally sustainable products. Alumasc operates through two main divisions: Building Products (solar shades, green roofs, scaffolding, and homebuilding products) and Engineering Products (precision aluminum components, die casting, and drink dispensing systems). It operates from 12 plants located throughout the UK.

Anhui Conch Cement's products have been used in the construction of a number of large-scale infrastructure projects in Shanghai, including the Oriental Pearl Television Tower and Shanghai Pudong Airport. Outside of China, Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited distributes its products to Europe, the Americas, and Southeast Asia. Put this company to your ear and you can hear the money. Anhui Conch Cement is China's largest cement producer in terms of sales and production volume. Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited has more than 15 clinker plants and 20 cement grinding mills in China. Its products include various grades of portland cement, portland blast furnace slag cement, compound cement, and high-grade commodity clinker sold under the Conch brand.

Faulkner is only the din of nails being pounded into buildings. FaulknerUSA provides design-build, construction, program management, and development services nationwide but primarily focuses its efforts on Texas. The company builds military housing, correctional facilities, hotels and hospitals, and retail and manufacturing sites. Services include preconstruction, design, construction, and furnishings. The company has several high-profile projects to its name, including the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, Gucci on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown, Texas, and Navy housing at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Epwin Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary SBP Limited, operates over 30 businesses achieving a turnover of £188M in 2008, creating employment for a workforce in excess of 2200 and continuing to expand its market share. With over 1.2 million square feet of production and warehousing facilities at different locations across the UK, Epwin Group is the UK’s second largest extruder of PVC-U and PVC-UE products.

Baker Triangle is the contracting company specializes in installing drywall and acoustical ceilings. Its projects have included work on several of Texas' largest sports arenas (such as Ameriquest Field and Reliant Park), as well as dozens of educational, medical, commercial and other types of facilities. Baker Triangle operates from offices in the Texas cities of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, as well as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Phoenix, Arizona. B. R. Baker started the business in 1974. His son, CEO Steve Baker, now controls the company.

Joseph Vicat, whose father invented a method of creating artificial cement, founded Vicat in 1853. The Vicat family continues to lead the company. Vicat's objectives are set in stone. The company produces some 21 million tons of cement and aggregates and 10 million cubic meters of concrete per year. Vicat operates about a dozen cement plants and grinding plants, more than 200 concrete plants, and 70 quarries in Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. It also has operations in specialty chemicals and paper manufacturing, transportation, and precast concrete. More than half of Vicat's revenues come from outside of France. In 2010 Vicat expanded into India with plans to acquire 51% of Bharathi Cement.

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