Colas paves the way for drivers worldwide. The global road construction group was founded on and named after the creation of a revolutionary technical process -- cold asphalt. Colas provides construction and maintenance services for infrastructure projects (roads, airports, ports, railroads), urban redevelopment projects, and recreation facilities around the world. In addition to its work on roads and related projects, the company produces construction materials including concrete and aggregates from an international network of quarries, gravel pits, and asphalt plants. Colas also provides complementary services including design and engineering, concessions, and soil treatment. Bouygues owns 97% of Colas.

Planning, design, and management services are the fruits of The Dewberry Companies' labor. The company provides architectural and engineering services, planning, program management, and surveying services, as well as environmental compliance, and security and homeland defense services. Dewberry serves private and public-sector clients. However, government customers such as FEMA, the Pentagon, and the US Department of Labor make up a big portion of business. Dewberry also serves departments of transportation, as well as universities, real estate developers and other commercial and institutional groups. Dewberry, which was founded in 1956, operates from more than 40 offices in nearly 20 states.

Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

North Wood Turnings has bedknobs and broomsticks on the brain, but not in a witchy way. The company manufactures a variety of wood turnings and custom wood pieces. Products include drawer pulls, finials, wooden spindles, dowels, knobs, handles, fishing lures, and commercial pieces such as game parts, candle holders, buttons, and napkin rings. The company saws and kiln-dries its own lumber. North Wood Turnings was established in 1944.

Geberit's products allow clean water in and take waste water out. Through its global subsidiaries, the company makes two primary product lines for residential, commercial, and industrial applications: sanitary systems (which include pneumatic and electrical faucets, flush actuators, water-saving cisterns, and installation mounting fixtures) and interior and exterior piping systems (which include plastic pipes and fittings for drainage and supply). Geberit also makes bidet-style shower toilets.

Oltmans Construction Co. offers preconstruction, general contracting and design/build project delivery, construction management, tenant improvements, and seismic retrofits among its services for commercial and industrial buildings throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona. The company also completes its own concrete work. Oltmans is one of the top general contractors in its home state, as well as one of the top builders of distribution facilities in the US. The company was founded in 1932 and has been led by three generations of the Oltmans family.

The Grupe Company considers it a group effort to have its hands in all kinds of real estate operations in California. The company builds single-family homes in master-planned communities, primarily in Northern California; it also develops and manages apartment and condominium projects. Other operations include Grupe Commercial Company, which builds and manages retail and office properties; Greenhorn Creek Resort, a resort development complete with golf course and lodging in the Sierra foothills; and Grupe Real Estate, a real estate agency in San Joaquin County. CEO Greenlaw "Fritz" Grupe Jr. founded the company in 1966. It has since created 10 communities in 35 cities.

Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction (STECON) touches an array of construction projects across Thailand. Established in 1962, the engineering and construction firm primarily engages in governmental infrastructure projects, including highways, mass transit, power generation, water systems, telecommunications, and bridges. Recent projects include the Foreign Affairs Ministry headquarters, a Thai Airways aircraft maintenance center, and a thermal power plant for EGAT. STECON also builds oil refineries, petrochemical facilities, chemical plants, and residential housing. Thailand Securities Depository Company owns almost half of STECON shares.

Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (GPI) offers engineering and design work for building, infrastructure, power, transportation, and telecommunications projects throughout the eastern US. Its technical capabilities include civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as surveying, fire protection, building design, land planning, and environmental permitting. The firm and its group of five subsidiaries has worked for government agencies, institutions, industrial firms, and corporations. The company was founded in 1966 by A. Beecher Greenman and Herbert M. Pedersen and has more than 20 offices in 10 states.

Hirschfeld Industries is into heavy metal. The company, operating through subsidiaries (Carolina Steel Group, Consteel Technical Services, and Hirschfeld Steel), fabricates and provides structural steel for transportation, infrastructure, industrial, commercial construction, and power projects. The group produces more than 10,000 tons of the alloy each year and its products include girders, trusses, beams, mill-rolled shapes, and other structural steel. Hirschfeld has provided steel for projects such as Reliant Stadium in Houston, the Anaheim Convention Center in California, McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, and the J. C. Penney corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas. Hirschfeld filed an IPO in 2009.

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