Polkinghorn Group Architects provides architectural services for commercial, educational, and institutional projects. In addition to its work on high schools, colleges, churches, and libraries, Polkinghorn has a particular focus on health care facility design. The firm has worked on more than 350 projects mainly in Texas and Louisiana totaling nearly $1 billion. Completed projects include Austin Community College, Texas Orthopedics Surgery Center, Sunset Canyon Veterinary Clinic, and Holy Spirit Episcopal Church. Polkinghorn Group Architects was established in 1972.

Handex Consulting and Remediation (HCR) offers a range of the environmental consulting and remediation services including regulatory support, risk management, site assessment, soil and groundwater sampling and remediation, and waste minimization. The company does much of its work for gasoline retailers; customers include the retail arms of Exxon Mobil, and Sunoco. HCR also contracts with government environmental agencies. The company operates primarily in the northeastern and southeastern US. Over the next decade HCR plans to double its revenues, in part by diversifying into other markets.

Orascom Construction Industries (OCI),the Egyption company offers construction services and fertilizer products primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. OCI performs large-scale commercial, industrial, and infrastructure engineering and building services; principal operating units include the Besix Group in Belgium and Contrack International in the US. Its fertilizer operations include Egyptian Fertilizer Company and Gavilon. The company sold its cement operations to building materials behemoth Lafarge in 2008.

Zone Mechanical is in the HVAC zone. The company offers heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and other services to customers in the Chicago area and in northwestern Indiana on a 24-hour-a-day basis. The company, which was formed in 2001, distributes, installs, and services products manufactured by Tyler Refrigeration Corporation and other companies. In 2004 Zone Mechanical ranked 57th in Entrepreneur magazine's "Hot 100" list of the fastest-growing new entrepreneurial businesses in America. The firm is owned by co-presidents Dan Palubiak and Frank Petrosino.

C.W. Matthews Contracting during Sherman's march to the sea. The company provides highway and bridge construction and commercial site work. It also provides asphalt paving and is one of the largest plant-mixed asphalt producers in the Southeast. The group operates about 30 asphalt plants in Georgia and manufactures nearly 6 million tons of hot mix each year. Its projects include the transformation of an old steel plant into Atlantic Station -- a 138-acre mixed-use development in Atlanta. In 1946 C.W. Matthews and several partners founded Marietta Construction Company, which became C.W. Matthews Contracting Company in 1954; today it is led by C.W.'s son, CEO Robert Matthews.

Loebl Schlossman & Hackl provides architecture, planning, and interior design services for commercial and institutional projects. The company operates throughout the world, with clients in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Architects Jerry Loebl and Norm Schlossman founded the firm, which became known for its high-rises, headquarters, and shopping centers, in 1925.

ADCO Electrical to keep their currents live and running. The company is an electrical and telecommunications contractor that specializes in installing electrical components and wiring, cabling infrastructure, computer networking, and security systems. Other services include conducting electrical equipment testing to ensure operational safety; procuring hardware and software; and providing project management and technical consulting. ADCO Electrical, with its fleet of 20 trucks, serves commercial, institutional, and public sector clients primarily around the New York metropolitan area. It has completed projects for American Express, Citigroup, Grubb & Ellis, Time Warner, and Bloomingdale's.

Enka focuses on building airports, bridges, industrial plants, hospitals, petrochemical plants, power plants, shopping malls, and other large structures and complexes. Enka also rents and manages office and retail buildings. The company operated hypermart shopping centers in Russia, but handed over operations of the markets by renting the spaces to Auchan in 2007. The transaction signals Enka's move away from retail management. Other operations include machinery distribution and management of natural-gas power plants. Tracing its roots back to 1957, Enka was formally established in 1967.

Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) digs deep for business. One of the largest privately held concrete suppliers, Irving Materials, Inc. produces stone, sand, gravel, and concrete materials for customers in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It operates four regional operations centers and more than 150 ready-mix plants, about 15 asphalt plants, and 10 stone quarries. IMI also sells used equipment ranging from haul trucks and fleet cars to portable crushing equipment and other heavy equipment. C. C. "Skunk" Irving founded Irving Materials, Inc. in 1946. It is employee owned.

Ivey Mechanical Company gets an "A" for its slate of mechanical services. The specialty contractor designs, fabricates, and manufactures sheet metal work, as well as air conditioning/heating, and medical gas and plumbing/piping systems. It also provides system repairs, maintenance, and emergency services. With projects covering 30 states, Ivey Mechanical drives preconstruction and construction, and prefabrication work for commercial and industrial facilities, correctional, health care, and government contracts. The company operates through service offices dotting the Southeast US. It is owned by CEO Larry Terrell along with members of Ivey Mechanical's management team.

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