Brock White Company was founded in 1954 by George White and Wayne Brock, two former chemical engineering classmates at the University of Minnesota. Contractors in the Upper Midwest and Prairie regions of Canada can go to Brock White Company if they need specialty construction products including brick, stone, specialty chemicals, waterproofing materials, and masonry accessories. Its Canadian locations also supply mechanical insulation and roofing products. The distribution company operates from some 20 locations in the US and Canada, as well as through catalogs and the Internet. Customers include commercial, residential, road and bridge, and erosion control construction companies.

J.L. Patterson & Associates has been working on the railroads. Serving public and private sector clients, transportation engineering firm J.L. Patterson & Associates specializes in rail transportation projects. The company provides engineering design, construction management, and staff augmentation services, primarily for transit authorities, commuter rail systems, and freight railroad clients throughout the US. Hispanic-owned and woman-owned J.L. Patterson & Associates was founded by president Jaqueline L. Patterson in Orange, California.

Milestone Contractors, L.P.,the company is a heavy construction firm, which provides road paving, bridge construction, hot mix asphalt production, utility and excavation work, and industrial, commercial, and residential site development services in Indiana. The company operates from offices in Columbus, Indianapolis, Lafayette, and Richmond, Indiana, and has more than a dozen hot mix plants. Milestone is part of the privately held Heritage Group, which is a group of companies with interests in construction, environmental and industrial services, petroleum refining, aggregate production, asphalt marketing, and safety.

McGough Construction Company has built its reputation from the North Star State all the way down to the home of the Grand Canyon. The company provides construction services ranging from site acquisition to post-construction facility management. McGough Construction concentrates on commercial, residential, and civic projects through its four primary units: construction; corporate services (layout, planning, financial estimates); development (logistics, project management, zoning); and facility management. Peter McGough and his six sons incorporated the family-owned and operated company in 1956. McGough Construction Company operates from offices in St. Paul and Rochester, Minnesota and in Phoenix.

Barr & Barr takes a bite out of the Big Apple and US Northeast construction market. It provides contracting, construction management, and renovation services for commercial and institutional projects, with its focus on educational, health care, laboratory and research, commercial, and religious and historical buildings. Barr & Barr has offices in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts. Its projects include the Geonomics Institute and Lewis Library at Princeton University, the New England Medical Center in Boston, the Bass Library at Yale University, and the renovation of New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Joseph R. Barr founded the company in 1927. Employees own the company.

Patrick Industries makes and distributes building products, primarily for the manufactured home (MH) and RV industries. Products that it manufactures include cabinet, counter, furniture, and wall components, as well as adhesives, aluminum extrusions, and laminating machines. The company distributes such products as building hardware, hardboard and vinyl siding, particleboard, and wall and ceiling panels. The company was founded in 1959 by Mervin Lung and went public in 1968.

Sekisui House could have written the book on Zen and the art of house building. One of Japan's leading homebuilders, Sekisui House designs, prefabricates, and builds steel, wooden, and concrete houses and condominiums. It is also involved in selling land, detached houses, and condominiums. Its real estate operations include leasing and managing houses, low-rise apartments, and commercial and retail buildings. Other operations include contract remodeling and landscaping. The company is also focusing on green building and sustainability in its new line of homes, and adds such features as fuel cells to its houses. Sekisui Chemical owns 15% of the company, which dates back to 1929.

Design Components, Inc. (DCI) designs, manufactures, and distributes metal building and metal roofing products, including doors and windows, rooftop walk systems, flashings, skylights, vents and fans, louvers, curbs, and related items. DCI sells its products to architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers. The company was established in the early 1970s.

NVR offers homebuyers everything -- including the kitchen sink. The company builds single-family detached homes, townhomes, and condominiums, mainly for first-time and move-up buyers, primarily in the eastern US. NVR markets its homes as Ryan Homes, Fox Ridge Homes, Rymarc Homes, and NVHomes. Its largest markets, the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas, account for nearly half of sales. NVR sells about 15,000 homes annually. Sizes range from 1,000 sq. ft. to 7,300 sq. ft., and prices range from $56,000 to $2 million, averaging about $296,000. Subsidiary NVR Mortgage Finance offers mortgage and title services.

Glasgow, Inc. has been staking a reputation for its highway construction work throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, but it also helps build airports, dams, nuclear power plants, parking lots, and utilities. The firm's other two divisions focus on construction materials supply and reclamation. The company owns and operates more than a half dozen asphalt plants and crushed stone quarries, as well as two clean fill reclamation facilities that accept uncontaminated soil, unpainted brick, block, stone, concrete, and used asphalt. Glasgow is privately owned.

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