The Douglas Company has built there, done that. The firm builds multifamily residential properties ranging from three to more than 300 units; retail properties including pharmacy, grocery, department, and apparel stores; and commercial locations - everything from hockey rinks and running tracks to car dealerships and a mushroom farm. It also constructs health care, rehabilitation, and living centers for seniors, and has an in-house design studio. Members of president Peter Douglas' family formed the company in 1976.

Bovis Homes builds and sells single-family houses, apartments, retirement facilities, and social housing units in England and Wales. The company also builds mixed-use projects which include residential properties in combination with retail and/or office properties. Bovis targets the middle market buyer; it completed some 1,800 homes in 2008 (down from 2,900 in 2007) with an average price of 150,800 (some $249,600). The company maintains a land bank portfolio of approximately 11,500 plots held for development.

Sidney Cubbage provides a variety of building engineering services, primarily air conditioning, heating, plumbing, refrigeration, and ventilation. Subsidiary Thames Ducting makes and installs ventilation ductwork. Sidney Cubbage's handiwork is most often found in hospitals, leisure centers, schools, and office buildings. Alfred McAlpine, Krispy Kreme, University of Reading, and various county councils are counted among the firm's clients. Sidney Cubbage founded his eponymous firm in 1927; semi-retired chairman Paul Remsbury bought the company along with Rod Harris in 1971.

Danze & Davis Architects provides residential design and architectural services. The firm specializes in custom designing detached and attached homes. It offers about a dozen different collections of architectural plans for its home designs in book and CD formats. Danze & Davis also provides architectural services for light commercial and industrial projects. Leo P. Danze and H. Ross Davis founded the firm in 1960.

Uralita makes building materials including insulation, gypsum, roof tiles, and pipes. Product lines include Pladur plasterboard for building partitions, Cobert roofing tiles and bricks, and Adequa plastic pipes for commercial and infrastructure use. Insulation accounts for about half of the group's business. The company has about 45 production plants in operation or under development throughout Europe. Uralita is the market leader in Spain (where it makes about half of its revenues) and Portugal. The wealthy Serratosa family owns 79% of the firm through investment vehicle Nefinsa. Uralita was founded in 1907 as a fiber cement company.

Leo A Daly takes great pride in its work. The group provides architecture, engineering, design, and program management services for commercial, industrial, and public projects around the world. Its portfolio includes the award-winning First National Tower in its hometown of Nebraska and expanded facilities for The Institute of Genomic Research in Maryland. Leo A Daly also owns engineering group Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, which specializes in infrastructure management. The group has some 30 offices around the world. Established in 1915 by Leo A. Daly Sr., the company is now led by his grandson, Leo A. Daly III.

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.

B. L. Harbert International Group provides highway and heavy construction services for commercial, industrial, and public projects throughout the world, primarily in the Southeast US. The design/build company's portfolio includes commercial and institutional buildings, research facilities, hotels and condominiums, water and wastewater treatment plants, dams and highways, and pipelines. B. L. Harbert International has offices in the US and Dubai. CEO Billy Harbert, Jr., leads the family-owned company, which traces its roots to the 1949 founding of Harbert Construction by brothers Bill and John Harbert.

PYI Corporation invests in infrastructure and cargo port operations on China's Yangtze River. The company also provides commercial development related to its port facilities and owns a majority stake in Paul Y. Engineering Group. PYI's projects, including joint ventures, include the maritime rescue, bridge decking, railway, and surrounding development at Yangkou Port, located at the north end of the Yangtze River Delta. Paul Y. Engineering invests in, develops, and manages the construction of commercial, residential, hospitality, and institutional properties, primarily in Hong Kong.

Turbonics' Toester has nothing to do with warming your bread. The company manufactures compact hydronic fan coil heating units for hot water heaters and other HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) applications under the Toester brand name. Other product names include Kickster, Turbo-Toest, and Chill Chaser.

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