Weston Homes builds apartments and houses in the UK. The company focuses its efforts on brownfield development and urban regeneration projects throughout the country. It has about a dozen projects scattered throughout England, either currently in operation (with rented or sold units) or under development. Building industry expert Bob Weston formed Weston Homes' parent company, Weston Group Plc, in 1987. Its first development was a four-bedroom, detached house in Essex; today its building portfolio features large high-rise developments in London's Docklands region.

Hammerstone (formerly Birch Mountain Resources) is trying to climb to the top of the heap in the industrial minerals business. The company was exploring and developing precious metal properties, but is now concentrating on industrial mineral properties (primarily lime and concrete aggregate) in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. Formed in 1994, the company has two major divisions: industrial minerals and mineral exploration and technology. In 2008, after defaulting on a loan with its primary banker, Birch Mountain Resources went into receivership. An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management acquired the assets of the company, including a limestone quarry in Alberta, in 2009.

Avatar aspires to be the embodiment of retirement living. The company develops residential communities and builds homes in the popular retirement destinations of Central Florida and Arizona. Its master-planned communities are often located in picturesque settings and offer amenities such as golf courses, restaurants, and fitness centers. The company owns some 16,000 acres of developed and developable land as well as wetlands and other open space. Avatar also operates a title insurance agency and manages the day-to-day operations of its communities' amenities. The company's development activities have been minimal as it weathers the economic downturn.

Shaped by Messrs. Raub, Bein, and Frost, RBF Consulting has built a reputation for helping to build Southern California's infrastructure. The firm provides engineering, planning (it surveyed the initial site for Disneyland), and construction management services for public and private sector projects. RBF has expanded both its size and its breadth of services over the years by acquiring other firms, and now has more than a dozen offices in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Formerly known as Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates, RBF has been ranked among country's top 100 engineering design firms.

Joseph Wong Design Associates (JWDA) provides architectural, master planning, interior design, project management, and programming services for public and private sector clients in China and the western US. Its portfolio of completed and in-progress projects includes the mixed-use residential and corporate Deep Blue Plaza towers and the Lotus Creative Center industrial complex (in China) and the San Diego Convention Center and the San Diego Marriott Del Mar Hotel (in the US). China-born architect Joseph Wong established JWDA in San Diego in 1977.

Mercury Recycling Ltd, the company recycles mercury-containing waste materials, such as arc rectifiers, batteries, dental amalgam, elemental mercury, fluorescent light bulbs, hospital waste, thermometers, and tilt switches. Mercury Recycling provides storage containers for waste materials and offers collection, disposal, and documentation services. Customers include the UK government, for whom the company recycles 1 million lamps annually. Mercury Recycling annually recovers and recycles more than 3 million tons of mercury.

Bilfinger Berger is the #2 German general contractor after HOCHTIEF. The company has global operations in four business segments: civil engineering (bridge building, tunnelling, environmental, and foundation engineering); building and industrial; services (facility management and repair and maintenance of industrial facilities and power plants); and concessions (private-sector concessions operations). Farflung projects include the Abuja Stadium in Nigeria (constructed by subsidiary Julius Berger Nigeria) and the Puento Centenario, a bridge spanning the Panama Canal. Bilfinger Berger has operations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Europe accounts for more than half of the company's sales.

CertainTeed Corporation is a leading North American manufacturer of building materials including roofing, vinyl and fiber cement siding, trim, fence, railing, decking, foundations, insulation, gypsum, ceilings, and pipe products. Headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, CertainTeed has approximately 7,000 employees and 70 facilities throughout the United States and Canada. Through its Vision, Mission, Values and Objectives (VMVO) initiative, CertainTeed strives to be the preferred choice for innovative building products and systems by delivering a superior Customer experience to a broader market through the development of exceptional team performance and world-class processes.

Levine Builder offers general contracting and management services for ground-up construction and renovation projects. Since its founding in 1979, it has completed more than 60 projects, including hotels, high-rise residential, and retail space, as well as affordable housing, assisted-living facilities, and churches. Its affiliate Douglaston Development oversees Levine's real estate development, while another of its affiliates, Clinton Management, provides property management services for Levine-owned buildings. Chairman Jeffrey E. Levine founded the company and its affiliates.

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.

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