Niedermeyer Intertrade exports wood products from North America. The company specializes in power line construction materials such as pressure treated poles, crossarms and crossbraces, pole line hardware, and glulam (glue laminated) power poles. It also provides treated and untreated lumber, Eastern red cedar logs and veneer quality logs, and other building materials.

Founded in 1952, ITL Corp. is owned by former president Michael Drusinsky. ITL Corp. has a soft spot in its heart when it comes to hardwood. The company, doing business as Industrial Timber and Lumber, produces Northern and Appalachian hardwood logs and lumber products from species that include black cherry, black walnut, maple, white ash, white oak, and poplar. The company sells to manufacturers of such wood products as cabinets, furniture, flooring, and veneer. ITL owns more than 50,000 acres of timberlands in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and it operates about 10 sawmill and dry kiln manufacturing facilities along the East Coast.

Corna Kokosing provides general contracting services for commercial, industrial, institutional, and health care construction projects, primarily in central Ohio. Services include construction management, design/build, and finance services for new construction and renovations. The company also performs construction services ranging from carpentry and drywall installation to metal building erection and demolition. Stonemason Al Corna and carpenter Joe DiCesare co-founded the company in 1956. Midwest heavy construction group Kokosing Construction acquired Corna Kokosing 40 years later.

Perkins Eastman Architects stands tall as one of New York City's top architecture firms. It offers urban, interior, and sustainable design and planning services not only in the Big Apple, but other parts of the US and internationally in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Perkins Eastman specializes in buildings and facilities that serve the cultural, education, government, health care, technology, hospitality, office, retail, and senior living sectors. Notable projects include the TKTS Booth -- one of the world's most complex all-glass structures -- in New York's Times Square. The privately held firm was co-founded in 1981 by chairman Bradford Perkins and principal Mary-Jean Eastman.

Bergelectric provides design/build and design/assist services on projects that include office buildings, educational and other public-sector facilities, bioscience labs, entertainment complexes, hotels, data centers, hospitals, parking garages, water treatment plants, residential towers, and state-of-the-art prisons. Established in 1946, Bergelectric operates mainly in the western and southeastern US from about a dozen offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Oregon.

Bennett Environmental Inc., which operates in Canada and the US, uses a high-temperature process (thermal oxidizer) to treat contaminated soil. The group operates treatment facilities for companies requiring offsite removal and treatment of construction debris and contaminated soil before recycling or disposal. It treats such toxins as PCBs, pesticides, dioxins, creosote, and PCPs. Most of its revenues are generated from its waste remediation plant at Saint Ambroise, Quebec. The company began as a unit of oil spill equipment group Aqua-Guard Technologies, which was also founded by former chairman John Bennett.

Component Assembly Systems (CAS) has assembled the components of its success as a specialty contractor. Founded in 1964, the company works on such commercial and institutional projects as hotels, offices, government facilities, apartments, hospitals, airports, and entertainment venues. It specializes in drywall construction, millwork, and carpentry, as well as niche areas such as architectural detailing, acoustical contracting, and specialty ceilings. The company primarily serves Eastern seaboard clients, but also offers its services throughout the US and internationally; in the western US, it operates as Component West. CAS operates from offices in Boston, Las Vegas, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC.

SNC-Lavalin believes that if you build it, they will come. The group is an international engineering and construction services provider, with operations in some 100 countries around the world. It designs and builds structures such as chemical and petroleum plants, power generation and transmission systems, bridges, highways, mass transit systems, and water treatment plants. Projects include Canada's first liquefied natural gas regassification terminal as well as agricultural land and water improvements in developing countries. It also provides operations and maintenance services, oversees management and financing, and invests in infrastructure facilities. Formed in 1911, SNC acquired rival Lavalin in 1991.

EA Engineering, Science, and Technology wants to stop pollution before it starts by offering environmental consulting services. The company's specialties include brownfields and urban redevelopment, environmental compliance management, and natural resources management. Its more than 450 professionals have completed more than 100,000 environmental projects worldwide (more than $1 billion of services). Customers include government agencies and industrial manufacturers. EA Engineering operates from more than 24 offices -- 21 in the US (including facilities in Alaska and Hawaii) and one in Guam.

GS Engineering & Construction (GS E&C) is aiming to take a larger piece of the global construction pie. Founded in 1969, the company provides engineering and construction services to a variety of industries around the world. GS E&C's civil division builds roads, bridges, railroads, underground subways, and harbors. Its plant division undertakes work on oil and gas and petrochemical facilities. Projects include sewage system maintenance and wastewater treatment and commissioning of nuclear power plants. GS E&C also builds housing across Korea and in Vietnam. In addition to offices in South Korea, the firm has offices in China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Italy, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

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