Founded in 1914, Boston Sand & Gravel has supplied concrete for major projects such as Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel, known as The Big Dig. Boston Sand & Gravel's shovel is full of aggregates and concrete. The company operates concrete and ready-mix cement plants in eastern Massachusetts; it also has a sand and gravel facility in New Hampshire. The construction materials business operates a fleet of more than 250 mixer trucks that deliver concrete to its customers (including home builders, developers, and contractors in the New England region) and it operates a short-line railroad that transports aggregate products from the New Hampshire facility to the greater Boston area.

S.D. Deacon provides commercial construction services for primarily retail projects in California and the northwestern US. It handles general contracting duties for new and renovated shopping centers and malls, grocery stores, and outlet malls for clients including Target, Ikea, and Wal-Mart. Although the contractor focuses on retail projects, it also renovates and repairs office, residential, and other properties. The company's joint venture, Savoy/Deacon, specializes in theme projects such as casinos and restaurants. S.D. Deacon operates from four offices in Irvine and Sacramento, California; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle. President and CEO Steve Deacon owns the company, which he founded in 1981.

Honshy Electric Company is plugged into being a top Hispanic-owned business in Florida. The enterprise provides a full range of general electrical contracting services that includes organizing, installing, and repairing wiring and electricity systems, computer cabling and networking systems, and lighting. Honshy Electri specializes in high-rise buildings, but also works on education, government, hotel, commercial, institutional, and residential facilities. The firm also provides upgrades, troubleshooting, and inspection services. Company president Manuel Diaz owns the company, which was founded in 1973.

Cementos Portland Valderrivas is 67%-owned by construction firm Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. Cementos Portland Valderrivas has built a business on a strong foundation. The company, founded in 1903, produces some 18 million tons of cement and clinker (an intermediate product used to make portland cement) annually at 15 plants in Spain, the US, South America, Africa, and Europe. Its acquisition of 64% of Corporacion Uniland cemented its position as the #1 cement producer in Spain. In the eastern US, the company makes and distributes cement, gravel, and sand through Giant Cement Holding. It also produces concrete, operates lime factories, and has transportation companies.

Chiyoda puts both brain and muscle power into the industrial plants that it designs and builds. Through a number of domestic and overseas subsidiaries and affiliates across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the contractor provides engineering, procurement, construction, and project and asset management services primarily to the oil, gas, and chemical industries. Internationally, it specializes in designing and building liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, including several in Qatar that are among the largest in the world and the first LNG plant in Russia. Chiyoda, established as part of Mitsubishi Oil in 1948, was spun off from its parent and went public in 1957. Mitsubishi owns about 33% of the company.

Leucadia National owns stakes in firms involved in manufacturing, auto finance, medical products, gaming, oil and gas drilling, and real estate. The investment firm typically seeks out troubled companies that it believes are undervalued; its largest segment is telecommunications, represented by portfolio company STi Prepaid, a provider of international calling cards that accounts for nearly 40% of sales. Other holdings include Idaho Timber, Conwed Plastics, Keen Energy Services (formerly Goober Drilling), and ResortQuest International, a resort property management firm, which manages US beach and mountain resorts.

MARCOR Remediation provides industrial, environmental, and construction site remediation. Its services include asbestos abatement, wastewater treatment, emergency spill response, disaster recovery, and storage tank management. It also provides decommissioning and demolition, duct cleaning services, and geotechnical and environmental drilling and sampling. Projects have ranged from mold remediation in a California hotel to clean-up operations in hurricane-battered Florida and Louisiana, to the decommissioning of contaminated gun ranges for the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. In 2009 the company became a subsidiary of demolition and remediation firm Nuprecon/CST.

Fiberesin Industries designs and manufactures custom engineered products for original equipment manufacturers. Using wood composites, paper, specialty plastics, resins, and laminates, the company produces a variety of components and subassemblies that clients use to make office furniture, cabinetry, medical products, doors, windows, and squash and racquetball courts. Fiberesin Industries' materials are meant to help enhance the durability, impact resistance, vapor resistance, structural integrity, performance, and appearance of clients' finished products. The company closed its Rodman Industries affiliate, which made particleboard, in 2006. Fiberesin Industries was founded in 1946.

Roche Constructors relies on building schools, stores, retail centers, office buildings, and industrial facilities. The company builds primarily in the western US and operates from three offices in Nevada and Colorado. Roche offers feasibility studies, site acquisition, project planning, financing, and other development, preconstruction and construction services. Its projects include the Aurora Processing Center, which is a federal inmate detention facility and Freedom Park, a 68-acre ball field complex in Las Vegas. Roche also has built several stores and distribution centers for clients including Target, Safeway, and Wal-Mart. President and CEO Thomas Roche controls the company.

Anhui Conch Cement's products have been used in the construction of a number of large-scale infrastructure projects in Shanghai, including the Oriental Pearl Television Tower and Shanghai Pudong Airport. Outside of China, Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited distributes its products to Europe, the Americas, and Southeast Asia. Put this company to your ear and you can hear the money. Anhui Conch Cement is China's largest cement producer in terms of sales and production volume. Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited has more than 15 clinker plants and 20 cement grinding mills in China. Its products include various grades of portland cement, portland blast furnace slag cement, compound cement, and high-grade commodity clinker sold under the Conch brand.

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