Dean Word Company, Ltd. company builds and maintains roads, bridges, parking lots, and related structures in and around San Antonio. It also produces crushed aggregates and hot-mix asphalt materials for paving applications, performs industrial sitework, and provides contract mining and bulk transport services. Dean Word handles highway construction, maintenance projects, and civil construction projects for such public agencies as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) as well as for private clients. The company was founded in 1890 and continues to be owned and run by the Word family.

The Monarch Cement Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of portland cement and ready-mixed concrete under the MONARCH brand name. Its products also include concrete products, and sundry building materials that are used in highway, bridge, and building construction. The company sells its products primarily to contractors, ready-mixed concrete plants, concrete products plants, building materials dealers, and governmental agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. The Monarch Cement Company was founded in 1908 and is based in Humboldt, Kansas.

Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is spreading its gospel around the world. A leading transportation engineering firm, the company provides planning, design, construction management, and consulting services for infrastructure projects in about 80 countries worldwide. Organized into three divisions (the Americas, international, and facilities), PB specializes in transportation projects but also works in the environmental, water, energy, urban development, and telecommunications sectors. Founded in 1885 by William Barclay Parsons, the firm designed New York City's first subway. It operates from about 150 offices globally. UK-based construction giant Balfour Beatty bought PB in 2009.

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.

The Imperial Bathroom Company hopes to conquer the world -- one lavatory at a time. The central England company's branded bathroom suites expand yearly and include Windsor (sweeping curves and fluted detailing), Oxford Bone (off-white), and Astoria (inspired by Art Deco). Imperial's offerings encompass bathroom furniture, tubs, taps and accessories, installation, and technical specifications. It offers a lifetime guarantee against manufacturing defects for its sanitary ware.

Reserve Industries mines and processes silica sand from its open pit mines outside Seattle, Washington. The company's wet sand products are marketed for construction materials and are used to make sand traps on golf courses. The company's dried silica sand is sold to manufacturers of glass containers. Reserve Industries also operates an all-weather dumpsite near Ravensdale, Washington, that accepts clean fill, paving materials such as concrete and ground asphalt, topsoil with strippings, and items with no petroleum or heavy-metal contaminates. Reserve Industries Corporation sold its Rossborough subsidiary in 2006 to Opta Minerals, a division of SunOpta Inc.

Glasgow, Inc. has been staking a reputation for its highway construction work throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, but it also helps build airports, dams, nuclear power plants, parking lots, and utilities. The firm's other two divisions focus on construction materials supply and reclamation. The company owns and operates more than a half dozen asphalt plants and crushed stone quarries, as well as two clean fill reclamation facilities that accept uncontaminated soil, unpainted brick, block, stone, concrete, and used asphalt. Glasgow is privately owned.

NBBJ spends a lot of time around hospitals, but don't worry -- there's nothing wrong. The architecture and design firm designs medical facilities as well as other structures including mixed-use commecial and office buildings, arenas, courthouses, colleges, and research facilities. In addition to architecture and design, the company provides consulting, branding, lighting, and landscaping services. NBBJ works on projects (clients have included Starbucks and Microsoft) around the world. It has offices in Washington, California, New York, and Ohio and international offices in China, the UK, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. NBBJ was founded in 1943 by four Seattle-based architects (Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson).

Layton Construction has managed to keep its foundation in the construction industry. The company mostly serves the western US and provides commercial and industrial construction, construction management, general contracting and design/build delivery systems, and drafting. The family-owned company, now a subsidiary of The Layton Companies, was founded in 1953 by Alan W. Layton. The firm has worked on airports, hospitals, factories, schools, laboratories, and sports facilities. Projects include the Brigham Young University Fine Arts Museum, a renovation of Boise State University's Bronco Stadium, and Salt Lake City's Olympic speed skating oval. Layton Construction has offices in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah.

Doka USA, part of Germany-based Doka Group, manufactures, sells, and rents frameworks for concrete construction projects. Its products include formwork beams, panels, floor props, and supporting frames for walls, floors, platforms, and load-bearing towers. They are used in major public structures, such as bridges, roadways, tunnels, airports, and dams. The company also offers tie rods and anchors, climbing cones, and suspension accessories, all used to ensure safety when installing formworks. Formerly known as Conesco Doka, Doka USA has sales and branch offices in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Texas.

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