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.

Bethell Group, through its subsidiaries, provides construction and rail services across the UK. The company's civil engineering offerings include earthwork, wastewater infrastructure, and highway work. Bethell's rail division specializes in electrification, station refurbishments, and civil engineering and design. Bethell Group is headquartered in the north west of England, but operates throughout the UK. Bethell sold its power services arm to Enterprise in 2009 as a way to focus on its rail and construction business. CEO Tim Kilroe owns Bethell Group.

General contracting firm S. M. Wilson & Co. is right on Target as one of the giant retailer's preferred providers of construction services. The firm provides construction, construction management, and design/build services, mainly for retail, education, industrial, senior care, commercial, and health care projects. It operates from offices in Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana. Shouse McGarvey Wilson founded S. M. Wilson & Co. in Granite City, Illinois in 1921. The company is owned by the Wilson family and is headed by Scott Wilson (president), grandson of the founder. The company expanded geographically in 2007 with the acquisition of Rollins Construction in Indianapolis.

United Electric Company makes air conditioning and heating components bearing the Magic Aire brand. A subsidiary of Carrier Corporation (itself a division of United Technologies), its product list includes chilled water and direct expansion blower coil units, modular blower coil units, roof top air handlers, floor and ceiling fan coil units, direct drive chilled water air units, direct drive direct expansion units, water coils and direct expansion coils, and ventilators. Magic Aire has product lines designed for commercial buildings, apartments, and residential usage; unit capacities range from 1 to 20 tons.

Skanska UK, the British subsidiary of Sweden-based global contractor Skanska AB, provides a wide range of engineering and construction services. The group specializes in private finance initiative (PFI) projects, and offers services in the building, civil engineering, mechanical and electrical, engineering design, and residential sectors. Skanska UK also offers specialty contracting services such as telecom network installations, piling and foundation work, and steel decking. The division has participated in such notable United Kingdom projects as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the remodeling of the Ministry of Defence headquarters in London, and new facilities for the Scottish Prison Service.

Maguire Group is an architectural, engineering, planning, and construction management firm that services clients from its 12 offices throughout the northeastern US and in the US Virgin Islands. The company, which was founded in 1938, was the first to ever receive the Presidential Award for Design Excellence. However, the firm, which was part of the team that designed Boston's ill-fated Big Dig project, developed serious financial problems from the fallout from that debacle. In 2009, Carlos Duart became the new president and CEO of Maguire Group after buying a controlling interest from retiring owner and CEO Richard Repeta. Maguire Group now operates as a subsidiary of Duart's Miami-based Metric Engineering.

Kleinknecht Electric Company (KEC) offers electrical construction and electrical, data, and telecommunications installation and maintenance services in the metropolitan New York City area. The company has two divisions (maintenance and datacom) and specializes in high-rise data infrastructure and landmark building renovation projects. KEC has completed projects in office buildings, broadcast facilities, museums, concert halls, and manufacturing facilities. The family-owned company, which was founded by George Kleinknecht in 1916, is one of the largest electrical contractors in the US.

Brandl Anderson can handle building you a home in Minnesota or Wisconsin. The homebuilder's products range from two- and three-bedroom entry-level homes all the way to custom luxury homes; Brandl Anderson builds about 100 homes each year. Floor plans include two-story homes and townhomes, multi-level residences, and split-entry homes, as well as classic ranch-style homes. Home sizes range from about 1,000 sq. ft. to more than 3,300 sq. ft. Brandl Anderson Homes also buys land for development in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

CEMEX de Puerto Rico makes cement in Puerto Rico. Shocking, but true. Formerly Puerto Rican Cement Company (PRCC), the company operates a cement plant and about 20 ready-mix facilities, an aggregates quarry, and two land distribution centers in Puerto Rico. CEMEX de Puerto Rico serves cement customers throughout the island, but its ready-mix operations are concentrated in the eastern part of the island; it has an installed capacity of about 1.2 million tons a year. Its parent company, Mexico-based giant CEMEX, operates primarily in North America and Europe, but has customers throughout the world.

Integrated Management Services, which operates as IMS Engineers, provides engineering, consulting, and construction management services. IMS offers its services to a variety of industries; projects include aviation, environmental, transportation, water, and wastewater facilities. It has offices in Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis; New Orleans (where it participates in Hurricane Katrina recovery work); and Detroit, Michigan. The city of Jackson, Mississippi and Nissan Motor are among the company's customers. The minority-owned IMS was formed in 1996 by CEO John Calhoun and President Rod Hill. It is a mainstay on Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

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