Saint-Gobain Corporation will probably be involved. The holding company oversees the North American operations of French materials group Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. Its subsidiaries produce and distribute a wide range of consumer, construction, and industrial products including building materials, flat glass, abrasives, ceramics, containers, crystal-based technology, cabinets and countertops, high-performance plastics, and technical fabrics. Holdings include CertainTeed (insulation, vinyl siding, shingles), Saint-Gobain Container (glass jars and bottles), and Norandex (building materials distribution). Saint-Gobain Corporation has more than 350 locations throughout North America.

Galliers Homes is attached to the detached family home market. Galliers Homes Limited constructs homes from single-story two-bedroom semi-detached bungalows with an average cost of 125,000 to two-story homes with three to five bedrooms that range in cost from about 235,000 to 500,000. The specialty builder develops sites within a 30-mile radius of Shrewsbury, Shropshire. CEO Graham Galliers, a third-generation builder, founded the company in 1987.

Dimeo Construction Company has built up its reputation in New England. The company provides general contracting, design/build, and construction management services from offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The builder focuses on commercial, education, health care, industrial, and retail projects such as schools, college residential halls, hospitals, and shopping centers. It also has worked on renovation projects, including The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Ocean House. Dimeo's green side has emerged and it has built eco-friendly projects for IKEA, and several public schools. The family-owned company was established in 1930 by Joseph Dimeo.

Everett J. Prescott helps ensure your pipes have integrity. Operating through a diverse family of companies (known collectively as The Prescott Companies), the firm manufactures, distributes, installs, maintains, and tests its lines of water, sewer, gas, and drain materials. Products include pipes, tubes, pipe fittings, valves, and fire hydrants. Red Hen Manufacturing makes brass meter adapters, compression fittings, couplings, and connectors. Meter and Backflow Services reconditions and modernizes water meters. PEP Transportation provides shipping to the continental US and part of Canada. Quality Water Products makes and distributes water, sewer, and drain utility products.

O'Neil Industries controls a family of construction companies, which includes W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. and T.L. Roof & Associates. With operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Illinois, the employee-owned company provides general contracting, construction management, design/build, and structural concrete services on primarily commercial projects throughout the US. It has worked on corporate offices, manufacturing and distribution facilities, and mixed-use centers for clients in the education, gaming, health care, hospitality, and retail industries. It has also done work in the residential and senior living sectors. Clients have included Boeing, DePaul University, and The Nature Conservancy.

Arup Group, a global design and business consulting firm. The company provides engineering, architectural, and planning services worldwide, focusing on building, infrastructure, and consulting projects. Arup Group's service offerings range from acoustics engineering (Arup worked on the Sydney Opera House) to wind engineering (Scotland's Whitlee Windfarm, the largest planned on-shore wind farm in Europe). The company also specializes in transportation infrastructure projects. Arup Group has about 90 offices in some 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Engineer Ove Arup founded the employee-owned Arup Group in 1946.

Founded in 1819 in Vienna and traded since 1869 on the Vienna Stock Exchange, Wienerberger can look back on a great tradition. Only in 1986 the company started its dynamic expansion, which has focused on building materials since the introduction of Value Management in 1997. This transformed Wienerberger from a local Austrian brick-maker into the world’s largest producer of bricks within a few years. During this time the number of production facilities rose from 11 to a level of 229 plants in 27 countries.The construction industry was hard hit by the worldwide recession in 2009, which triggered a sharp drop in the demand for building materials. On the one hand, new residential construction is heavily dependent on bank financing and, on the other hand, consumers tend to postpone investment decisions as a reaction to the weak economy and uncertain expectations for the future. Wienerberger implemented a wide-ranging action plan to adjust capacity to reflect these developments, which also included active working capital management to reduce inventories, a decrease in administrative and selling costs and a cutback in investments to the necessary minimum.

Charles Pankow Builders has some pretty concrete ideas on how to build high-rises. The design/build general contractor specializes in quake-resistant concrete frames for structures including department stores, hotels, condominiums, medical facilities, and office buildings. The firm is primarily active in California and Hawaii. Affiliate Pankow Special Projects focuses on small-scale projects including renovations, interior build-outs, and seismic upgrades. Unit Mid-State Precast provides structural and architectural precast concrete components for Pankow-managed projects. Employee-owned Charles Pankow Builders was founded in 1963 by the late Charles Pankow, who helped pioneer the design/build delivery system.

A nonprofit organization, Land Information Access Association is on a mission to promote better and sustainable communities through land use planning, resource management, emergency management planning, and environmental protection. The organization provides technical, scientific, educational, and information services to individuals, local interest groups, local governments, and other organizations. helps communities identify and preserve cultural and natural resources by providing mapping, project management, and training services. The Land Information Access Association primarily serves communities in Michigan.

A company that was in construction before Reconstruction, McCarthy Building Companies is one of the oldest privately held builders in the US. The general contractor and construction manager ranks among the top builders of health care and education facilities in the country. Contracts include heavy construction projects (bridges and water- and waste-treatment plants), commercial projects (retail and office buildings), and institutional projects (airports, schools, and prisons). Subsidiary MC Industrial handles energy, auto, and other manufacturing projects. Timothy McCarthy founded the firm in 1864. His great-grandson, Michael McCarthy, sold the firm to its employees in 2002.

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