Rougier has been stacking up wood-product holdings in Europe and Central Africa for more than 70 years. It subsidiaries in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Gabon cut and process tropical timber into logs, sawn timber and plywood, which is shipped worldwide. Two subsidiaries in France, Rougier Sylvaco and Rougier Panneaux, import tropical timber and plywood, respectively. Europe accounts for more than half the company's revenue and Asia covers about a third. The company sells African species, including Kosipo, Kotibe, Longhi, Niove, Ozigo, Pao Rosa exclusively.

The Ryland Group founded by James Ryan and Bob Gaw in 1967, constructs single-family detached homes, as well as attached condominiums for entry-level, first- and second-time move-up, and retired buyers. Ryland has constructed more than 285,000 homes in hundreds of communities around the US. The average price for a Ryland Home is around $240,000. The company offers services that span the homeownership process. Homebuyers can select custom home finishes at a My Style Design Center. The group also provides mortgage financing, including title, settlement, escrow, and insurance services, through Ryland Mortgage.

Shepherd Building Group Limited, also known as the Shepherd Group, operates through its construction, engineering, manufacturing, and property divisions. Shepherd Construction builds a variety of projects including office buildings, college facilities, and hospitals in the UK. The company's manufacturing division builds industrial storage and processing systems as well as the company's hallmark Portakabins brand of portable and modular buildings. The Shepherd Developments unit builds commercial properties for lease. Its homes divisions (including Shepherd Homes) develops residential properties. Founded in 1890, the Shepherd Group is owned by the Shepherd family.

C A Blackwell (Contracts) founded as an earthmoving contractor in 1956 to help carve out the UK motorway network, the group has expanded to include engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical, and remediation operations. The group wears many hats, including those of subcontractor, contractor, design-and-build contractor, and developer. The company also owns a fleet of motor scrapers, dump trucks, excavators, and more. Past projects include the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Middlehaven Docks remediation. C A Blackwell (Contracts) is a subsidiary of the C.A. Blackwell Group.

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.

Gross Veneer Sales wholesales and distributes hardwood veneer, hardwood plywood, and other related products. Its offerings include cabinet parts, drawer components, face veneer, cut stock, and cut-to-size blanks. The company uses a broad range of domestic and imported species for its products. These range from maple, oak, poplar, and ash to Brazilian rosewood, mahogany, butternut, and lauan. Company president Robert Gross owns the enterprise.

CIMPOR was created in 1976 as a state-owned entity, but the government of Portugal sold the last of its stake in 2001. CIMPOR - Cimentos de Portugal finds it easy to be hard. CIMPOR is Portugal's largest cement manufacturer and one of the largest on the Iberian Peninsula. The company produces and markets more than 31 million tons of cement around the world each year. CIMPOR also produces aggregate, concrete and precast concrete products, hydraulic lime, and dry mortars. The company operates in about a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America; about half of its cement is manufactured in Spain and Portugal.

Martinez + Cutri Corporation Architects, the firm specializes in designing environments. Besides educational facilities, its portfolio includes convention centers, mixed-use urban centers, luxury hotels, waterfront resorts, high-rise and multi-family residential developments, and industrial projects. Founded in 1980 by Joseph Martinez and Anthony Cutri, the firm offers architectural services, such as site analysis and selection, site planning and design development, cost estimation, interior design, community planning, and urban and regional design. Since its inception, Martinez + Cutri has designed more than 200 projects.

Comp-Utility Corporation provides engineering, design, procurement, and construction services for network operation centers, telecommunications facilities, and other IT systems. It specializes in creating reliable infrastructure systems, including uninterruptible power systems, voice and data cable installations, climate control, and room and storage design. The company has served corporate, government, and contractor customers primarily in Austin, Texas. President Randall Collier, who co-founded the company in 1992, owns Comp-Utility Corporation.

Ortiz Enterprises is a full-service construction company that provides services for a variety of freeway, flood control, and commercial projects. The company owns and operates specialty recycling equipment that crushes old cement from roads, bridges, air bases, and other sources to recycle into road-base materials for its own jobs and for those of others. President Patrick "Pat" Ortiz founded Ortiz Enterprises in 1984.

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