Biffa, one of the UK's leading waste management companies, it offers collection (curbside, light commercial, hazardous/special waste), landfill, groundwater and soil treatment, and industrial cleaning services. Its operations include more than 1,500 collection and transportation vehicles to handle its curbside and manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical, petroleum, chemical, and electronics industry customers. Biffa has about 75,000 customers. It operates more than 30 landfills in the UK. It also is a provider of renewable energy with 109 MW of installed capacity. Biffa was taken private in 2008 by a group of private investors led by Global Infrastructure Partners.

Bouygues (U. K.), a subsidiary of Gallic giant Bouygues, provides full-service construction, engineering, and design contracing services throughout the UK. Bouygues (pronounced "bweeg") UK targets the health care, education, and housing sectors; it has also completed office, retail, industrial, and residential projects. The company was involved in the award-winning redevelopment of the Home Office headquarters, completed in 2005. Bouygues UK's sister company Ecovert provides facilities maintenance services. The firm is a key player in the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), in which private funds are used to build and maintain public buildings. Bouygues UK also pursues private-sector clients.

Consulting engineering firm Pennoni Associates has expertise in building systems, civil and municipal, environmental, geotechnical, inspection and testing, land surveying, site design and architecture, structural and transportation engineering, and other industry specialties. Its clients include local, state, and federal governments, as well as private commercial, construction, and industrial companies. Affiliate Pennoni Engineering and Surveying of New York offers engineering consulting and design services. It specializes in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection engineering.

Populous builds it, they will come. Formerly known as HOK Sport Venue Event, the global architecture firm specializes in sports and entertainment facility design and also offers graphic design, interior design, and facility assessment services, which are intended to help facility owners make operational changes and improvements. Clients include the Major League Baseball and National Football League franchises, colleges and universities, and soccer and rugby teams. Outside of the US, Populous has completed projects in Asia, Australia, and Europe. The company was spun off from HOK Group in a management buyout in early 2009.

Oran Group (formerly The Snowie Group) provides waste-treatment and a range of other disposal services in the UK, including sludge handling and transportation and spillage cleanup. Clients include Severn Trent, Scottish Water, and the UK Ministry of Defence. The company made about £40 million during the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001, disposing of millions of livestock carcasses. Other operations include logistics, industrial cleaning, recycling, and equipment leasing. In 2005 the Snowie Group (which began operations as a family farm in the late 1950s) was acquired by the Cork, Ireland-based Oran Group.

Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is spreading its gospel around the world. A leading transportation engineering firm, the company provides planning, design, construction management, and consulting services for infrastructure projects in about 80 countries worldwide. Organized into three divisions (the Americas, international, and facilities), PB specializes in transportation projects but also works in the environmental, water, energy, urban development, and telecommunications sectors. Founded in 1885 by William Barclay Parsons, the firm designed New York City's first subway. It operates from about 150 offices globally. UK-based construction giant Balfour Beatty bought PB in 2009.

Rocky Top Building Products produces pressure-treated lumber and engineered wood for residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, marine, and recreational applications. The company's products include dimension lumber, decking boards, railing, beams, lattice, and related fastening systems. The company operates facilities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and sells its products to professional builders and do-it-yourselfers through dealers in about a dozen northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Franklin Group, Rocky Top was established in 1977.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

American Walnut Company manufactures hardwood lumber, walnut gunstock blanks, and other wood products. The company gets its logs from species that include American black walnut, red oak, white oak, soft maple, hard maple, pecan, ash, and cottonwood from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Its plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, plant annually produces more than 3 million board ft. of lumber. Subsidiary Dyrnamic Research Technologies produces handgun and rifle ammunition for hunting and law enforcement. Other offerings include export packaging and in-house freight forwarding. The firm traces its roots to 1889. American Walnut Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

Cache Valley Electric (CVE) is one of the largest electrical contractors in the West. With operations in Utah, Oregon, and Idaho, CVE installs power and lighting systems in commercial, industrial, and government facilities. Other divisions provide design/build services; security and control systems, such as card access and closed-circuit TV monitoring; cable and fiber optic cabling installation for data and voice networks; cell tower construction for wireless communications; and industrial manufacturing facility construction and maintenance for the medical, mining, paper, and product container industries. Clients include American Express, Pepsi, Verizon, US Army, and Utah Department of Transportation.

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