MODEC (Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co.) keeps sea vessels floating and oil and gas flowing. The company is a global general contractor that specializes in the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of floating production systems for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include storage vessels, offloading vessels, tension leg platforms, semi-submersibles, and mobile production units. It also offers vessel leasing and chartering; operation and maintenance services; and spare parts supply and aftersales support. Customers include Petrobras and BP. Founded in 1968, MODEC is controlled by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.

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.

Ground Construction Ltd. (GCL) isn't afraid to get a little dirty on the job. GCL subcontracts with UK property developers to ready land sites and construct building foundations. The firm handles site preparation from demolition, excavation, and groundworks to drainage and concrete frames, primarily in London and the home counties. It has completed more than 200 industrial, office, academic, and residential projects. Founded in 1997, the company has been in on the ground floor (so to speak) of such projects as Gainsborough Studios, London; Lambeth College, London; and Broadway House, Wimbledon.

Revcor blows hot and cold. The company utilizes advanced airflow technology to manufacture metal and plastic wheels, fans, and blowers for use in the heating and air conditioning, automotive, and off-road original equipment manufacturer markets. Revcor's products include the Revolutionary Air Flow and SmoothFlow Systems. The company also offers system analysis and project software. Revcor products are manufactured at a plant in Carpentersville, Illinois (near Chicago) and an axial fan assembly facility with other manufacturing capabilities in Mexico.

Chiles Architects provides architectural design, land planning, and landscape design services throughout the southern US. The firm's architectural services range from artistic renderings, master planning, landscape design, and site planning to project management and construction administration. Chiles Architects specializes in upscale condominiums and multi-family apartment buildings in Central Texas.

StressCrete was founded in 1953 as a concrete utility pole manufacturer. Although StressCrete Group makes poles for myriad purposes, you won't find any firefighters sliding down its products. StressCrete makes a wide variety of spun concrete poles for street lighting, utility, and ornamental applications. The company's special use products include flag poles, camera surveillance poles, traffic sign and signal poles, sports lighting poles, closed circuit television poles, and microwave towers. The group's King Luminaire unit, which was acquired in 1985, makes decorative outdoor lighting products. King Luminaire also offers site amenities, such as benches, trash receptacles, bicycle racks, and tree guards/grates.

Portage Environmental helps carry the load for customers needing environmental engineering services. The firm's offerings include environmental remediation, process and project engineering, and decontamination and decommissioning services. Portage Environmental counts US government agencies (such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy) and Native American tribes among its clients, and has conducted projects in 20 US states, as well as in Afghanistan, Guam, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Qatar, and South Korea. The firm operates from some two dozen offices throughout the US. President and CEO Michael Spry helped found Portage Environmental in 1992.

company builds single-family homes and townhouses in the Orlando and Tampa area. Park Square Homes has developed about 20 planned communities and subdivisions across central Florida that range in price from the mid-$100,000s for a townhouse to about $1 million for a custom home in a gated waterfront community. The company offers about 30 floor plans for its townhouse models and more than 50 floor plans for detached houses. Park Square Homes markets many of its homes as vacation or resort homes due to its proximity to Central Florida's vacation hotspots. The company was founded in 1984.

ESTec Systems is on the job. Through its Allan R. Nelson Engineering subsidiary, the company provides mechanical engineering (including fire investigations) and forensic engineering services (failure analysis and reporting for criminal and civil investigations and court cases) to the petrochemical, manufacturing, and drilling industries. It provides mechanical design, repair, construction, measurement, and certification services to oil, gas, mining, and construction companies from North and South America to Russia. ESTec also performs billing analysis for insurance companies investigating industrial accidents. The company was formed in 1989.

HDR has left its mark on the US. HDR is an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that specializes in projects including bridges, water- and wastewater-treatment plants, and hospitals. HDR also provides mechanical and plumbing services, construction and project management, and utilities planning. The group has completed projects throughout the US and in some 60 countries abroad and has more than 185 locations around the world. The employee-owned company was founded as Henningson Engineering in 1917 to build municipal plants in the rural Midwest.

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