Childs Mascari Warner Architects has found a healthy way to build its architecture practice. The firm provides design and planning services for commercial construction projects, focusing on the health care sector. The firm's client roster includes Kaiser Permanente, the Palomar Pomerado Health system, Saint Mary's Health Network, Scripps, and UCSD Medical Center. Childs Mascari Warner Architects has offices in the San Francisco and San Diego metro areas. James Leary founded the firm, then named James Leary Architecture and Planning, in 1989. Following Leary's retirement from the company, the three senior principals acquired ownership and changed the name.

Walsh Brothers Incorporated, a construction management and contracting company, has worked on such iconic projects as Boston's Fenway Park and Faneuil Hall. The firm specializes in building cultural, educational, medical, and research facilities throughout New England. It also offers historic renovation services and has refurbished places such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and New England Conservatory of Music. Clients have included Harvard University, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Amgen, Novartis, and Proctor & Gamble. Founded in 1901 by brothers James and Thomas Walsh, the company is now owned and led by the Walsh family.

Recycled from the former Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Ventures oversees recycling and solid waste investments. The company's holdings include an 83.1% stake in Mine Reclamation Corporation (MRC) and a 50% stake in West Valley Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station, which separates waste materials for recycling or storage. Through MRC, the company has turned Kaiser Steel's iron-ore mining pits into a rail-accessible solid waste landfill at Eagle Mountain in the California desert; it has agreed to sell the landfill to County District No. 2 of Los Angeles County. However, lawsuits from local residents have blocked the deal. Kaiser Ventures is owned mainly by former creditors of Kaiser Steel.

Day & Zimmermann offers services as distinct as day and night. Its family of companies provides engineering and construction, design, plant maintenance, security, staffing, munitions decommissioning, validation, and asset management services worldwide. A top global contractor, Day & Zimmermann provides operations, contract support, and maintenance services to US and foreign governments, as well as commercial customers. Its Day & Zimmermann NPS unit maintains half of the US's nuclear plants. Staffing subsidiary Yoh Services specializes in filling IT, engineering, and health care positions. Founded in 1901, Day & Zimmermann is owned and managed by the Yoh family, which has headed the firm for three generations.

Time is money, but TIMEC is like money in the bank for the oil and gas industry. The company provides maintenance, turnaround, and construction services to oil and gas, industrial, and utility customers in the US. The company, which has 11 offices in the US, specializes in catalyst handling, outsourced training, safety support, small capital construction, specialized welding, supplemental maintenance, and turnkey turnaround services. TIMEC works at some 39 of the country's 150 refineries with clients such as Chevron, Shell, and Marathon Petroleum. J.G. Red" Meacham and R. Briggs Wood founded the company in 1971. Transfield Services bought TIMEC in 2007 for $100 million.

MODEC (Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co.) keeps sea vessels floating and oil and gas flowing. The company is a global general contractor that specializes in the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of floating production systems for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include storage vessels, offloading vessels, tension leg platforms, semi-submersibles, and mobile production units. It also offers vessel leasing and chartering; operation and maintenance services; and spare parts supply and aftersales support. Customers include Petrobras and BP. Founded in 1968, MODEC is controlled by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.

Baxall Construction looks outside the box for its building projects. The company is involved in all areas of high-end construction -- residential, industrial, commercial, historic renovation, and design-and-build. Baxall's projects are primarily around the London area and southeast England. Some of its notable jobs include a 7.6 million home renovation in Kensington, the 5.8 million Hampstead Town Hall, and the 1.9 million new construction of St. John's Church Centre in Tunbridge Wells. The company maintains an annual turnover of 12 million to 15 million.

Fisher Development is a big fish in the tenant improvement general contracting sector. The company provides core/shell and historic preservation construction services for retail stores, restaurants, and corporate offices throughout the US and Canada. It also provides construction management and design/build services for its clients. Fisher Development builds for some of the top names in retail, including Sephora, Gap, Tiffany & Co., Foot Locker, and Williams-Sonoma. The company was originally founded as a residential subdivision builder in 1971 by chairman and owner Robert Fisher, brother of Gap founder and chairman Donald Fisher. The firm shifted to retail construction after building for Gap.

The Drees Company is a leading homebuilder in Cincinnati and one of the top private builders in the US. First-time home buyers and move-up customers may choose from homes that range from about $100,000 to more than $1 million. Drees also builds condominiums, town homes, and patio homes. It sells luxury homes through its Zaring Premier Homes division and more modest houses under the Marquis Homes name. The company purchases land to develop as homesites in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and the Washington, DC, area. Drees also offers financing through its First Equity Mortgage subsidiary, which has closed more than $1 billion in loans over the years.

Permasteelisa Group is a worldwide leading Contractor in the engineering, project management, manufacturing and installation of architectural envelopes and interior systems. The Group brings its Know-How and expertise to all projects, in particular when dealing with Special Features Buildings, beginning with the design development phases all the way to the successful completion, achieving the customer's expectations.Present in four continents, the Group yearly generates a total turnover of around 1 billion euro.

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