Conlon Construction performs commercial, institutional, and residential construction and development services for clients in the public and private sectors. The company also offers refurbishment services and operates its own joinery manufacturing facility. Conlon's clients include BAE Systems, Myerscough College, Torotrak, and Netto & Halfords. Five Conlon brothers founded the company in 1961 after working on what would eventually become the country's first motorway, the M6. Conlon has offices in Manchester and Preston in the UK.

A modular construction and construction management services company, Warrior Group builds permanent modular buildings--including military dormitories, student housing, and office buildings--from prefabricated wood and metal components. Its construction management services consist of planning, design, purchasing, engineering, and post-construction services. In recent years, the company has worked on projects for the Veterans Administration in Marion, Illinois; built barracks at Fort Bliss and other military installations; and managed a construction project at the University of North Texas. Warrior Group was founded in 1997 by CEO Gail Warrior-Lawrence.

Flatiron Construction Corp. company, which has regional offices throughout the US and western Canada, provides transportation construction and civil engineering services for major bridge, highway and rail projects. Flatiron splits its work among divisons: Canadian, Intermountain, Western, and Heavy Civil. Its E.E. Cruz subsidiary provides heavy civil construction in the Northeast. Flatiron has worked on such projects as California's Carquinez Suspension Bridge, the John James Audubon Bridge in Louisiana, and the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge. Founded in 1947, the company is a part Germany's HOCHTIEF.

GWV and its subsidiaries produce veneers, hardwood logs, and other wood products for customers all over the world. It utilizes approximately 100 different species of wood to produce its veneers. The company's General Woods & Veneers Consultants International subsidiary provides forest management consultation to governments, para-governmental entities, and private organizations to aid in maintaining healthy forest resources globally. GWV has offices and plants in Canada, China, Gabon, Hungary, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Switzerland, the US, and Vietnam.

Bechtel National, the government services arm of engineering giant Bechtel Group, helps the US destroy stockpiles of nuclear and chemical weapons and treat contaminated wastes. It has worked toward developing a national repository for nuclear waste in Nevada and it also helped the US defense program by managing the awarding of certain subcontracts in Iraq. Bechtel and the University of California manage and operate two to institutions for nuclear and scientific research labs -- Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Among the other governmental agencies it works with are NASA, the EPA, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Civil and environmental engineering firm Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates (BAS) specializes in municipal solid waste and hazardous waste management. The company helps customers with landfill siting and design; it also works on permitting and planning of landfill expansions and provides construction and operations support. Hazardous waste projects have included assessment and remediation on sites throughout the western US. The company operates from offices in California and Arizona. Leading consulting engineering firm Tetra Tech acquired BAS in 2009.

MasterBrand Cabinets stands tall in the kitchen. One of the world's largest cabinetry manufacturers (as well as one of the largest in the US, after Masco), MasterBrand makes several lines of kitchen cabinets, including custom and semi-custom products, for the remodeling and new construction markets. Its brands include Aristokraft,Diamond, Kemper, and Schrock. MasterBrand makes wooden cabinetry (including maple and oak) as well as laminate-finished products. Its cabinets are sold through home centers, lumber outlets, and specialty retailers. MasterBrand is being spun off from parent Fortune Brands, which is separating its family of home, golf, and liquor businesses.

Alion creates alliances between science and big government. Alion Science and Technology is a development and research company that provides consulting and technology services, primarily to federal agencies. Most of its revenues come from contracts with the US Department of Defense (DOD), especially the Navy. Alion specializes in areas including naval architecture and marine engineering, manufacturing engineering services, wargaming, lab support and chemical decontamination, military transformation analysis, and wireless communications engineering. The employee-owned firm has offices and facilities throughout the US, generally near government military bases and other installations. Alion was founded in 2002.

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.

Danze & Davis Architects provides residential design and architectural services. The firm specializes in custom designing detached and attached homes. It offers about a dozen different collections of architectural plans for its home designs in book and CD formats. Danze & Davis also provides architectural services for light commercial and industrial projects. Leo P. Danze and H. Ross Davis founded the firm in 1960.

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