Servidyne turns a dime by helping its clients keep their energy costs down. The company provides commercial and industrial energy engineering and management products and services to lower energy consumption and increase environmentally sustainable practices. Offerings include energy design, energy audit, and retrofitting of mechanical and electrical systems. Servidyne's Fifth Fuel Management demand response product tracks and optimizes energy usage to prevent brownouts and blackouts that occur during peak periods. The company also owns a handful of third-party-managed commercial property and land holdings. Members of the founding Abrams family, including CEO Alan Abrams, control Servidyne.

John Portman & Associates (Portman) casts a long shadow, and some of its buildings do, too. The company is the architectural arm of major private developer Portman Holdings; Portman specializes in the construction of such commercial and public projects as hotels, office buildings, mixed-use properties, and universities. Clients include Bank of China, City of Atlanta, and Daewoo. Support services include master planning, programming, and structural engineering. The company is active throughout the US and in China; it has also undertaken projects in other parts of Asia and in Europe and Africa. Portman was founded by John Portman in 1953. He and his family continue to lead the company.

Steeplejack isn't afraid of heights. Traditionally a scaffolding contractor, the company also offers asbestos abatement, insulation, general plant-maintenance services, and project management to industrial customers. Its customers hail primarily from the oil and gas, pulp and paper, power generation, mining, and chemical industries. Steeplejack operates predominantly in Western Canada through eight branch locations. Vancouver-based affiliate Westcor offers fireproofing and environmental services. Steeplejack is part of Texas-based The Brock Group.

Arkansas Face Veneer, a subsidiary of Hartzell Industries, produces backed veneer, spliced veneer faces, door and rail sketch faces, stock and plywood faces, wood veneer edgebanding, counter fronts, and custom and specialty veneer products. The company offers an inventory of more than 100 species of domestic and imported decorative veneer flitches from the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe, ranging from its most popular red oak, hard maple, cherry, and eastern red cedar products to more exotic mahogany, gaboon, and bubinga. Arkansas Face Veneer was established in 1956.

ROEL Construction builds large commercial projects,the general contractor provides commercial building preconstruction, construction, and management services to private-sector customers in the western US. It offers services including construction forensics, design, and management, focusing on new construction, tenant improvements, structural concrete work, and consulting. ROEL Construction has California offices in Palm Desert, Irvine, and San Diego, and another office in Las Vegas. The family-owned company was founded in 1917 by Tom Roel, great-grandfather of president and COO Kevin Elliott. Suffolk Construction is buying ROEL to boost its presence in Southern California.

Smith Consulting Architects (SCA) provides planning, architecture, and interior design for commercial projects, primarily in the San Diego area, and elsewhere in Southern California. Its specializes in projects for the biotechnology, corporate/industrial, retail, and sustainable design segments. SCA's projects have included automotive retail facilities, civic centers, industrial parks, and master planned communities. The firm has developed buildings and facilities for Dow, Gen-Probe, 24 Hour Fitness, Taylor Made, and other major companies. President Cheryl Smith started Smith Consulting Architects, which has offices in San Diego and Palm Springs, in 1988.

Kinetic Systems stays in motion. The company (known as Kinetics) provides process and mechanical systems primarily to the microelectronics, solar energy, and biopharmaceutical industries in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It provides installation of gas, chemical, water, and utility systems, as well as fabricated steel pipe, HVAC, and plumbing systems. While most of its work is done designing and constructing laboratories and manufacturing facilities, Kinetics also installs systems for data centers, condominiums, schools, and water treatment plants. Kinetics has served clients including AMD, Merck, and Pepsi. Founded in 1973, the firm is controlled by Ares Management.

Brice Building is braced for continued success as a general contracting and construction management firms in the Southeast. Its construction portfolio includes education, retail, hospitality, health care, office, and industrial projects. Notable projects include the Birmingham Museum of Art, a Honda manufacturing plant in Alabama, and expansions to the Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama. Ongoing jobs include numerous post Hurricane Katrina rebuilding projects and the $64 million Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium research center. Mississippi-based construction group Anderson Companies acquired Brice Building from the company's senior management in 2010.

Rodgers Builders provides design/build, preconstruction, and construction management services, primarily for clients in the southeastern US. It has expertise in a variety of sectors including health care, education, senior living, commercial/mixed-use, and cultural institutions. Subsidiary Mid-Atlantic Construction is a concrete-forming contractor. Rodgers Builders also performs historic renovation services. Notable projects have included the Billy Graham Library, the U.S. National Whitewater Center, and several buildings for the University of North Carolina system. Chairman B. D. Rodgers founded the family-owned firm in 1963.

U.S. Ecology, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides radioactive, hazardous, polychlorinated biphenyls, and non-hazardous industrial waste management and recycling services in the United States. The company accepts hazardous, polychlorinated biphenyls, industrial and low-level radioactive waste, naturally occurring and accelerator produced radioactive materials, and low-activity radioactive materials, as well as provides waste treatment and disposal facility services. It offers its services to commercial and government entities, such as refineries and chemical production facilities, electric utilities, manufacturers, steel mills, and medical and academic institutions. The company was formerly known as American Ecology Corporation and changed its name to U.S. Ecology, Inc. in February 2010. U.S. Ecology, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

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