Hanson Pipe & Precast is a division of Hanson Building Products North America, which is part of HeidelbergCement. Not to be confused with the kind smoked by Sherlock Holmes, Hanson Pipe & Precast makes pipes of the concrete variety. The company is the top manufacturer of concrete pipes and structural precast products in North America, with more than 150 plants in the US and Canada. Products include drainage structures, bridge arches, protective linings, ceilings and foundations, road noise barriers, and precast manholes, all of which are routinely used in the construction industry. Clients include state transportation departments, public authorities, the US Army Corps of Engineers, and private entities.

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.

MCG Architects (which does business as MCG Architecture) specializes in designing and planning shopping centers and other retail buildings, as well as urban renewal projects and hotels. The firm provides consulting, surveying, site analysis, cost control, computer-aided design, and project management services; it also offers interior and graphic design services. Projects include the Centennial Centre in Las Vegas; Independence Corporate Center in Cleveland; and Natomas Town Center in Sacramento, California.

GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., provides environmental consulting and remediation, geotechnical engineering, construction management, and regulatory compliance services through a network of 25 US locations. It also offers air quality monitoring services through its Airlogics partnership, and operates a soil and rock instrumentation division. The company operates Baystate Environmental Consultants which provides civil engineering, natural resource management, environmental permitting, and environmental land planning services across the US.

Therma Corporation is a mechanical contractor that specializes in the design, installation, and service of piping systems for the transmission of fluids and gasses. The company also designs and manufactures air-conditioning systems, duct systems, and clean rooms. It serves commercial, industrial, and biomedical concerns in Northern California. President Joe Parisi and CFO Nicki Parisi co-founded the company in 1967 to serve the burgeoning semiconductor and biomedical industries in the San Francisco Bay area. Its clients have included Intel, Varian, Texas Instruments, and Hewlett-Packard.

The construction operations of The Pepper Companies provide general contractor and construction management services for sectors including health care, retail, entertainment, hotels, industrial, and education. Projects include the 29,000-sq.-ft ape habitat at the Lincoln Park Zoo, 900,000 sq. ft. of new or renovated space at Central DuPage Hospital, and more than a dozen Galyan's outdoor stores throughout the Midwest. Pepper Environmental Technologies provides environmental services. Stanley F. Pepper founded the company in Chicago in 1927; the group is owned by his family and employees of the firm.

The Ryland Group founded by James Ryan and Bob Gaw in 1967, constructs single-family detached homes, as well as attached condominiums for entry-level, first- and second-time move-up, and retired buyers. Ryland has constructed more than 285,000 homes in hundreds of communities around the US. The average price for a Ryland Home is around $240,000. The company offers services that span the homeownership process. Homebuyers can select custom home finishes at a My Style Design Center. The group also provides mortgage financing, including title, settlement, escrow, and insurance services, through Ryland Mortgage.

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.

Dyckerhoff is cementing relations throughout Europe and the US. The construction materials company makes and sells cement (accounting for more than 85% of sales) mainly in Western and Central Europe. It also sells ready-mixed concrete and concrete products. Dyckerhoff has operations in about a dozen European countries as well as in the US, including subsidiaries such as Dyckerhoff Beton in Poland, Duena and Beton Union in Germany, and Ciments Luxembourgeois in Luxembourg. Germany and Western Europe account for about half of Dyckerhoff's sales. In addition to the founding Dyckerhoff family, the company's shareholders include Buzzi Unicem, which controls about 98% voting shares.

HHP produces hardwood lumber, custom wood pallets, and pulp wood chips for use in specialty wood products. The company owns tree farms in three counties in New Hampshire and uses native hardwood timber species for its products. These include red oak (two-thirds of its production), hard maple (more than 20%), soft maple, ash, white birch, and yellow birch. HHP operates a sawmill in Henniker, New Hampshire, which annually produces 8 million board ft. of green hardwood lumber. The company was founded in 1966 and is owned by company president Ross D'Elia and VP Richard Carrier.

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