General Engineering lays the groundwork for a customer's business. The company manufactures prefabricated concrete building materials and distributes construction goods made by other manufacturers. Products include precast concrete forms, bridge bearings, and expansion joints. The company's core products are its prestressed concrete pilings. Designed for the moist climate and soft soil of Thailand, its pilings are used in the foundations of highways, factories, power plants, and other structures. General Engineering also produces industrial grout and rapid hardening concrete under a license from Japan-based Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Customers include the Thailand Department of Highways.

Lafarge North America is at the foundation of buildings, roads, and bridges across US and Canada. One of North America's largest building materials manufacturers, the company operates around 600 concrete plants, aggregate plants, and cement plants in the US and Canada (through Lafarge Canada). Its products include asphalt, aggregates, gypsum wallboard, ready-mixed concrete, and concrete pipes and blocks. The products are used to build commercial, residential, transportation, public, and utilities projects. Lafarge North America is part of global building conglomerate Lafarge Group, based in France. It accounts for about 20% of its parent's sales.

Vent Products directs its energy into manufacturing air-control products and accessories for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The company's offerings, which it creates with energy-saving purposes in mind, include standard and custom-designed dampers, shutters, louvers, and roof ventilators. Accessories include actuators, adapters, access doors, fan blades, jackshafts, roof curbs, and equipment supports.

Chapco is a group of four privately-owned companies that provide mechanical and electrical installation, facilities management, brownfield redevelopment, and pre-fabricated heating and ventilation installation. Markets include leisure facilities, offices, stores, and warehouses. It has worked on sites with a total developed building area of more than 10 million sq. ft. during the last five years. Completed projects have included a 16-screen multiplex in Romford, a Toys "R" Us in Leeds, and MFI Furniture Centres throughout the UK. The company has also taken on projects for Nissan and ProLogis. Chapco was founded in 1976.

Robert Keller, the inventor of Kalwall®, was named a Fellow of ASES (American Solar Energy Society) during the Solar 2000 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. For the first time in its history, the Society created this new class of membership. This was the second time in as many years that Keller had been honored by the solar industry; in 1999, he was awarded the Passive Pioneer Solar Award by the Society.Keller noted that once again he was pleased to receive recognition for the long effort he and his family have made, while achieving commercial success in the companies he founded to put his solar ideas into practice. He reiterated his pledge to the solar community that he will continue to strive to develop more ways to use solar energy to benefit humanity. He added that he "plans to continue his efforts to urge others to seek more innovative and practical ways to use the free energy from the sun to liberate our society from the bondage of fossil fuels to satisfy our energy needs."

Calvert manufactures and supplies glulams, or pre-shaped glued-laminated lumber products, for use in decorative construction work, including arches, beams, bridges, domes, trusses, s-curves, columns, and even playground equipment. It uses species such as Douglas fir, Alaska yellow cedar, redwood, western red cedar, spruce pine fir, and more. The company manufactures glulams for export to Asia, Canada, and the Middle East, and provides container loading at its plants in Vancouver and Washougal, Washington. Calvert Company was founded by Ray Calvert and others in 1947.

U.S. Concrete produces ready-mixed concrete, precast concrete, and other related materials and services used for commercial, residential, and infrastructure construction projects. U.S. Concrete has a fleet of 1,000 mixer trucks and about 450 ready-mixed concrete, concrete block, and aggregate plants. The company produces more than 6 million cubic yards of ready-mix and 3 million tons of aggregate each year, with ready-mixed concrete accounting for about 90% of the company's sales. It concentrates on serving major markets, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. U.S. Concrete filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2010.

Tradewinds International, Inc., produces lumber for use in making windows, doors, flooring, staircases, moldings, and trim for the international market. The company produces lumber from species that include southern yellow pine, red and white oak, cherry, ash, and poplar. Tradewinds ships out of all major Gulf Coast and South Atlantic ports, supplying needs from chartered vessels to single containers.

The buzz on BUZZI UNICEM is that it is big in the cement and concrete industry. One of Italy's largest cement and concrete groups, BUZZI UNICEM produces expanded clay, ready-mix concrete, cement, aggregates, and other building materials in about a dozen countries; the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Slovakia, and the US are its largest markets. The group operates some 40 cement plants, 530 ready-mix concrete plants, and 35 aggregate quarries in North America and Europe, as well as Algeria and Russia. BUZZI UNICEM controls Dyckerhoff, a leading cement group and construction materials company in Germany. The Buzzi family owns a majority of BUZZI UNICEM's stock.

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.

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