Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

Baker Concrete Construction, among the top specialty concrete contractors in the US. The company performs concrete formwork design and installation, concrete reinforcement and finishing, preconstruction estimating and scheduling, project management, and repair and restoration. Projects include commercial office buildings, high-rise residential towers, industrial power plants, parking structures, sports stadiums, schools, LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals, and highways and bridges. Baker Concrete Construction operates through more than half a dozen US regional offices. It is owned by president and founder Daniel Baker.

Downer EDI works to keep things working. The company provides engineering and infrastructure management for public and private entities throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and the Pacific. The company strives to be a "one-stop" provider for engineering services that include design, project and facilities management, operations, consulting, and maintenance. The company is organized along five divisions representing its primary activities: infrastructure services through Downer EDI Works, Downer EDI Engineering, Downer EDI Mining, Consulting Services, and Downer EDI Rail. Although the company's footprint covers the Asia/Pacific region, Downer EDI's Australian operations account for about 70% of its revenue.

Conti Electric counts on commercial and industrial clients to keep it busy. The company designs, installs, and maintains electrical systems and equipment for customers throughout the Americas. The company's industrial division completes installation projects for such large-scale facilities as automobile plants, refineries, and manufacturers. Its commercial division focuses on shopping centers, casinos, and other smaller projects; the division also offers electrical maintenance services in the Midwest. Conti Electric was founded in 1969 and has operations in Delaware, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Nevada.

Mercury Recycling Ltd, the company recycles mercury-containing waste materials, such as arc rectifiers, batteries, dental amalgam, elemental mercury, fluorescent light bulbs, hospital waste, thermometers, and tilt switches. Mercury Recycling provides storage containers for waste materials and offers collection, disposal, and documentation services. Customers include the UK government, for whom the company recycles 1 million lamps annually. Mercury Recycling annually recovers and recycles more than 3 million tons of mercury.

BAM Nuttall is crazy about civil engineering and construction. The firm is involved in infrastructure and transportation projects throughout the UK, including roads, railways, marine facilities, airports, and water treatment plants. BAM Nuttall also provides specialty contracting services such as tunneling and mechanical and electrical engineering and offers rail industry training courses. Subsidiaries include marine civil engineering firm Nuttall John Martin Construction and geotechnical specialist BAM Ritchies. The company has about 20 offices throughout the country. Dutch engineering Group Royal BAM acquired BAM Nuttall (then named Edmund Nuttall) in 2002.

Gray Construction doesn't have the blues when it comes to building projects. The firm is a top US design and construction firm. Through its subsidiaries the company works on a large array of commercial and industrial projects in the US and Japan. It ranks among the top US contractors in auto plant, distribution/warehouse, and processing plant construction. It also serves the federal government (including military projects), education, medical, and retail industries. Subsidiaries include WS Construction (heavy industrial and commercial contracting); Gray-I.C.E. Builders, Inc. (retail, commercial, industrial, and public construction); and Operations Associates (facilities, supply chain, and consulting).

Border Construction won't be fenced in by a limited palette of products. The company offers a range of building services, including residential construction, civil engineering, and commercial construction. Border Construction's offerings include painting, roofing, building maintenance, residential development, pipeline installation, and joinery manufacturing. Border operates through a handful of offices throughout throughout northern England and southern Scotland. Border Construction was created in 1998 with the merger of Border Engineering Contractors and Crombie Construction Limited.

Onsite Energy says electricity efficiency is "outta sight." The energy services company identifies energy management measures that its mostly industrial and government clients can use to save on power and fuel-supply costs. It installs the recommended cost-effective systems, heat and power generation systems, central plant upgrades, lighting and refrigeration system upgrades, and air compressor and boiler retrofits. It also provides consulting services to help customers monitor energy usage and identify incentive programs. The company focuses on California, though its market extends throughout the western US and northern Mexico. Management bought control of Onsite in 2003.

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.

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