Callanan Industries is a leading supplier of paving materials and construction services in New York State, providing a complete range of high quality aggregates, asphalt paving, and readymix concrete products to state, federal, municipal, commercial, and private customers. One of the most experienced paving materials suppliers in the country, Callanan Industries was founded by Peter Callanan in 1883 in South Bethlehem, New York, as an aggregate mining company. A forward thinking farmer and entrepreneur, Callanan pioneered the concept of a state highway system, and in 1895 won the first road building contract let by New York State. Over a century later, Callanan Industries continues to be a major supplier of construction materials and services to the New York State Department of Transportation as well as a long list of other customers, both large and small. Callanan Industries was purchased by Oldcastle, Inc. in 1985. Oldcastle, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multi-national Dublin, Ireland based CRH-PLC (ticker symbol CRH).

Cajun Industries builds oil refineries, power plants, process plants, water-treatment plants, and other industrial and infrastructure projects, primarily in Louisiana and Texas. Subsidiary Cajun Constructors provides a full range of services from design/build to maintenance; Cajun Deep Foundations offers drilling, piles installation, and related services. Cajun Maritime focuses on marine, coastal, and oilfield services including construction, repair, and power distribution. Cajun Equipment Services manages a fleet of trucks and trailers that transport heavy and specialized loads. Chairman and owner Lane Grigsby founded the company as Cajun Contractors and Engineers in 1973.

Sheoga Hardwood Flooring and Paneling makes prefinished and unfinished flooring and paneling from hardwoods, including ash, beech, hard maple, walnut, hickory, and red and white oak harvested from the Appalachian region of the US. The company also offers dense Brazilian cherry prefinished hardwood flooring and wood paneling. Sheoga air-dries its lumber for several months and then kiln-dries it before milling it into hardwood products. The company began operations in 1982.

The Beechwood Organization is a residential developer in New York, primarily active on Long Island. The company has built more than 5,500 single- and multifamily residences in some 55 communities since it was founded in 1980. Among the developer's more notable projects is Nassau County's Meadowbrook Pointe Athletic Club & Spa, a $400 million gated, equestrian-themed, luxury community for residents aged 55 and up. The Beechwood Organization has built a number of homes in the Bronx and elsewhere in New York. Co-principals and founders Leslie Lerner and Michael Dubb own the company.

ESTec Systems is on the job. Through its Allan R. Nelson Engineering subsidiary, the company provides mechanical engineering (including fire investigations) and forensic engineering services (failure analysis and reporting for criminal and civil investigations and court cases) to the petrochemical, manufacturing, and drilling industries. It provides mechanical design, repair, construction, measurement, and certification services to oil, gas, mining, and construction companies from North and South America to Russia. ESTec also performs billing analysis for insurance companies investigating industrial accidents. The company was formed in 1989.

DooleyMack Constructors does the heavy lifting on big construction projects. The company provides design and planning, construction management and general contracting services for commercial, industrial, multifamily residential, and institutional projects. DooleyMack has built and renovated everything public schools, condos, and performance arts centers to waste disposal facilities and laboratories. The company mainly operates in the central and southeastern regions of the US and has several offices in Florida, as well as locations in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. The privately-owned company was founded in 1977 by executives Bill Dooley and Ken Smith. CFO Wendy Mack later joined the firm.

Brock White Company was founded in 1954 by George White and Wayne Brock, two former chemical engineering classmates at the University of Minnesota. Contractors in the Upper Midwest and Prairie regions of Canada can go to Brock White Company if they need specialty construction products including brick, stone, specialty chemicals, waterproofing materials, and masonry accessories. Its Canadian locations also supply mechanical insulation and roofing products. The distribution company operates from some 20 locations in the US and Canada, as well as through catalogs and the Internet. Customers include commercial, residential, road and bridge, and erosion control construction companies.

Holloman isn't the stuff of poetry, but rather the Texas oil patch. Employee-owned Holloman installs, repairs, and upgrades pipelines for the oil and gas industry, public and private utilities that handle water and wastewater, and sports facilities. Holloman also builds or upgrades gas compressor stations, petroleum processing plants, and utility pump stations. The company's in-house engineering staff designs and constructs process plants for its oil and gas clients; it also seeks out civil, mechanical, or process jobs. Subsidiary Holloman Minerals explores for minerals including uranium in Australia. Sam Holloman founded the company in 1967.

NTD Architects (also known as NTD Architecture) provides architectural, engineering, and interior design services in the western US. It specializes in health care, educational facilities, and public sector projects, though it has also managed industrial, recreational, and corporate projects. Services offered include facility planning and programming, digital graphics, master planning, design/build, and construction management. The firm also provides support services such as strategic consultation and funding assistance. NTD Architecture has seven offices in California and Arizona. The company was founded as Neptune Thomas Associates in 1953.

GBO is all about controlling Northern exposure. The Canadian company makes windows and doors at manufacturing plants in Quebec. The company sells its wares under the Bonneville and Polar brand names. Customers are in the home improvement, construction, and renovation markets in eastern Canada (Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes) and the eastern US. GBO sold its Multiver division (tempered, beveled, and sealed-glass units) to a group of former executives of the division.

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