Pioneer General Contractors has been blazing trails for more than 75 years. The company provides design/build, general contracting, construction management, and competitive bid services for commercial, retail, hospitality, multi-unit residential, industrial, and institutional construction and renovation projects. No projects are too big or too small -- it renovated the Kent County Humane Society, for example, and also built the $32 million GVSU Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences in Grand Rapids. The company operates through offices in Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Michigan. Earl Beckering Sr. established Pioneer General Contractors in 1933.

FAFCO runs hot and cold. The company makes solar swimming pool-heating systems, solar hot water heaters, and thermal energy storage systems. FAFCO's heating systems utilize solar panels to control the temperature of water. Its solar domestic hot water system, Hot2o, was developed as a result of a 10-year partnership with the Department of Energy. The company also manufactures IceStor -- a product that controls commercial cooling costs by storing energy at night during off-peak times, and then releasing it to cool buildings during the day. Customers include schools, hotels, and offices. Its solar water heaters are marketed to homeowners. FAFCO was founded in 1969 by chairman Freeman Ford and Richard Rhodes.

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.

Dyckerhoff is cementing relations throughout Europe and the US. The construction materials company makes and sells cement (accounting for more than 85% of sales) mainly in Western and Central Europe. It also sells ready-mixed concrete and concrete products. Dyckerhoff has operations in about a dozen European countries as well as in the US, including subsidiaries such as Dyckerhoff Beton in Poland, Duena and Beton Union in Germany, and Ciments Luxembourgeois in Luxembourg. Germany and Western Europe account for about half of Dyckerhoff's sales. In addition to the founding Dyckerhoff family, the company's shareholders include Buzzi Unicem, which controls about 98% voting shares.

Straight Line Industries (SLI) is bound to leave a mark ... with traffic paints, epoxy, preformed tapes, and raised markers. The contractor installs pavement markings on asphalt and concrete surfaces, including highways, parking lots, airports, running tracks, and playgrounds. SLI can replicate mascots and logos for schools and businesses, and strip special items such as helicopter landing pads for hospitals and safety markings for warehouses and fire houses. It also distributes solar-powered signs. SLI mainly operates in New York, but also in New Jersey and Massachusetts, providing services to heavy/highway construction contractors and paving companies. President Pilar Dexter founded SLI in 1993.

KSW may have a need to vent on occasion, but the company still knows how to keep its cool. Its KSW Mechanical Services subsidiary installs HVAC and process piping systems for large-scale industrial, commercial, institutional public, and residential projects. The company also provides mechanical trade management services and engineering assistance. KSW primarily works in the New York metropolitan area but hopes to expand in the Northeast. Much of KSW's business comes from repeat customers; the company is an authorized bidder for agencies including the New York City Transit Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Costain constructs some of the UK's major infrastructure and environmental projects. But Costain's reach goes beyond its home country. Since its founding in 1865 by Richard Costain, the civil engineering and building group has worked on a number of significant projects at home and abroad, including the Channel Tunnel and Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Bridge. Costain focuses on building projects in the highway, water, waste, energy, health, and education markets. Its residential property operations are based in southern Spain. Malaysian construction company UEM Builders Berhad and Kuwaiti builder Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Karafi & Sons each own 22% of Costain.

Controlled Demolition knows how to bring the house down. It is a global leader in controlled demolition, explosive demolition, and implosion of buildings and other structures. Controlled Demolition has brought down thousands of structures worldwide, including Seattle's Kingdome, Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, and Atlanta's Omni Arena. It also provides structural effects and demolished buildings for the film industry. In addition, Controlled Demolition provides mass concrete, rock, and debris removal and assists architects and engineers with blast-resistant design services. Founded in 1949 by Jack Loizeaux, Controlled Demolition is owned by the Loizeaux family and part of the Loizeaux Group of companies.

Hambro Forest Products, Inc. company reprocesses 100% recycled wood fiber (sawdust, planer shavings, lumber ends, and plywood trim) from lumber and plywood manufacturers to produce particleboard panels that it uses to make home flooring and decking products under the Cresdek and Cres-X brand names. The company sells mainly to manufactured home builders in the US and Canada. Established in 1965 Hambro Forest Products has affiliates that warehouse and distribute construction materials and provide trucking and transportation services.

MI Windows and Doors is one of the nation's largest suppliers of vinyl, aluminum and composite windows and doors. With plants across the country, MI offers a broad spectrum of windows and patio doors-backed by exemplary customer service.The company that now manufactures on a nationwide level began with J.T. Walker and Robert J. Word in 1947 at a Florida airplane hangar making screens. These hardworking, visionary founders never forgot the value of good people as the company continued to expand.

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