Wolcott Architecture Interiors provides architectural planning and interior design services through its office in Culver City, California. The company's clients have included the Elton John Foundation, Saban Entertainment, Wyle Laboratories, the Annenberg Foundation, Volkswagen Group of America, and many more. Principal John Wolcott founded the company in 1975.

Nearly as old as the aggregate it mines, Granite Rock (founded on Valentine's Day, 1900) operates four quarries, a design center, and other facilities in Northern California. The company, often referred to as Graniterock, provides materials for construction and landscaping: rock, sand, gravel, stone, concrete, asphalt, road oils and asphalt coatings, and masonry and wall-system products. The company has a fleet of railroad cars to transport rock, sand, gravel, and concrete; it also operates a fleet of delivery trucks. Its Pavex Construction unit builds roads and airports, as well as commercial and residential projects. CEO Bruce Woolpert (the grandson of founder A. R. Wilson) and his family own Granite Rock.

E&M's business is set in stone (of sorts). E&M Concrete Construction produces ready-mix concrete and cement for commercial, infrastructure, and residential projects in California. Most of the company's business comes from the construction of concrete foundations for new buildings. E&M serves Ventura County and the Los Angeles area. Hispanic Business magazine has ranked the company as one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the US. President Edmundo Mendez owns the company, which he founded in 1984.

Founded in 1914, the fourth-generation family-owned company manufactures wall-mounted climate-control products and sells them through a global network of distributors. Its products include air conditioners, heat pumps, oil furnaces and electric heaters, and control and ventilation systems, including thermostats, energy monitors, and dehumidifiers. Bard's products are used in residential homes, mobile homes, offices, schools, and telecommunications facilities. With headquarters in Ohio, the company has manufacturing and production plants in Georgia and Mexico. All the world's a stage for Bard Manufacturing -- if that world revolved around heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Process Plus provides engineering services, such as facilities design, construction, and plant automation. It also provides information systems services and construction management. The employee-owned company targets such markets as the specialty chemicals, agribusiness, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and food industries. Clients have included Procter & Gamble, Cognis, and Roxane Laboratories. The late Bryan Speicher (who had served as president), Dan Prickel (current president and CEO), and investment firm Fink, Roberts & Petrie founded Process Plus in 1996.

From apartment units to rails to office buildings, Royal Volker Wessels Stevin covers construction for home, transportation, and work. The group, which uses the trade name VolkerWessels, is made up of about 100 companies overseen by a board of management. The group works in all aspects of construction, mainly in five sectors including building and property development in the Netherlands, civil engineering, roads, and rail, infrastructure, technology and telecommunications, infrastructure and land development in North America, and supplies and services. The companies focus on the Dutch market but also operate in the UK, Canada, and the US. CVC Capital Partners owns about 43% of the company.

Deltec Homes, Inc. company, which was founded in 1968, crafts circular houses to serve as primary or vacation homes. It offers 10 models of round homes that range in size from 300 sq. ft. to 2,500 sq. ft. per level. Each model can be built as a one-, two-, or three-story home, with added living space possible by adding wings or by connecting two or more homes. Deltec Homes designs its homes to be hurricane- and high wind-resistant. The dwellings have roofing systems built with a ring-and-collar system and there are no single, flat sections wider than 8 ft. Most Deltec circular homes are built at the company's plant and can be shipped for on-site assembly around the world.

Grunley gets it done, from the monumental to the mundane. Founded in 1955, Grunley Construction Company provides general contracting, engineering, architectural, and construction management services and specializes in the renovation, restoration, and modernization of historic buildings in the Washington, DC area. Its projects range from prestigious undertakings -- the Smithsonian Institution, the Washington Monument, and the US Treasury building -- to more pedestrian endeavors such as office buildings, apartment buildings, schools, and power plants. The company also has lent its services to the construction of embassies, airports, and military facilities.

Dynamic Homes makes and markets modular homes at its Midwest manufacturing facility. Founded in 1969, the company builds prefabricated single-family homes, which are sold primarily in the midwestern US through a network of about 60 authorized local builder/dealers. Dynamic Homes constructs about 500 homes a year that range in size from 560 sq. ft. cabins to 2,380 sq. ft. two-story custom homes and sell for up to $200,000. Custom options include appliances, floor coverings, lighting, roofing, and siding. The company also makes modular apartments, banks, and small office and light commercial buildings.

Holcim (Australia) produces aggregate, cement, asphalt, and concrete block and pipe. The company operates more than 240 concrete plants and about 80 hard rock, sand, and gravel quarries in Australia. Its Humes division manufactures steel-reinforced concrete pipes and other precast concrete products. Mexican cement giant CEMEX acquired Rinker Group in 2007 for more than $16 million and renamed it CEMEX Australia. The hefty price tag sent CEMEX into massive debt, though, and the parent began selling off assets. In 2009 CEMEX sold the unit to rival Holcim, which has targeted Australia as a growth market.

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