Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) does not tell you what not to wear, but it has fashioned a business out of providing engineering, consulting, construction, and operations services. The company provides services for public and private entities worldwide. Founded in 1947 by engineers Thomas Camp, Herman Dresser, and Jack McKee, CDM has expanded from its original role in water-treatment technologies to provide services in environmental management, transportation development, and facilities design. CDM specializes in the environmental management, water treatment and supply, energy, wastewater treatment, and hazardous waste markets. The employee-owned company operates about 120 offices around the world.

Caddick Group offers construction, civil engineering contracting, and property development services throughout the UK. The group's construction and development projects cross over multiple sectors, including commercial, industrial, institutional, leisure, retail, and residential. Clients include J Sainsbury, LINPAC, and Croda International. Firm founder Paul Caddick shares ownership of the Headingley Carnigie Stadium near Leeds and is part owner of two professional rugby teams in the city. In 2007 Leeds Metropolitan University bought a majority of one of the teams, known as Leeds Carnigie. The Caddick Group remains a main sponsor of the teams.

Thetford is there to lend a helping hand to all sorts of recreational campers on the go, no matter where they are in the world. The company makes and markets a variety of recreational sanitation and RV-care products and supplies them to the trucking, marine, camping, and RV markets. Thetford's products include toilets (both portable and permanent), hand wipes, sanitizers, and RV washing and waxing products. Its Norcold subsidiary, purchased in 1997, offers US-made refrigerators and freezers for mobile industries.

Manufactured Housing Enterprises builds modular, sectional, and singlewide homes as well as commercial and retail developments for clients in the Midwest. The company is the largest manufactured home builder in Ohio and among the 20 largest in the country. It offers more than 80 floor plans for singlewide homes as well as two-story homes of more than 3,000 sq. ft. The company has delivered homes to Illinois, Indiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Manufactured Housing Enterprises was established in 1965, when being "mod" was fab.

Rosboro Lumber is deeply rooted in building supplies. The company produces a wide variety of products, including studs and plywood for the homebuilding market, laminated beams and frames for heavy construction, and hardwood door and window frames through subsidiary Washington Hardwoods. The company owns timberlands in western Oregon; it also buys timber from other public and private land owners. Rosboro operates about a half-dozen production facilities. It sells its products to customers in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. A group of about 60 investors owns Rosboro. T. W. "Whit" Rosborough founded the company as a small lumber mill in the 1930s.

Richmond American Homes believes in enriching lives through home ownership. Encompassing the homebuilding subsidiaries of M.D.C. Holdings (MDC), Richmond American is one of the top homebuilders in Colorado and operates in othe US markets, including Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, northern Virginia, and West Virginia. The company also provides mortgage financing, insurance and title services, primarily for MDC homebuyers, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, American Home Insurance Agency and American Home Title and Escrow. Richmond American targets first-time and move-up buyers.

Samsung C&T is the trading, investment, construction, and engineering arm of the Samsung Group, the largest "chaebol" (business conglomerate) in South Korea. The unit's trading and investment group is active in a number of sectors, including oil and gas, electronics, heavy machinery, and chemicals. Meanwhile, the construction and engineering division handles projects including bridges and ports, power plants, petrochemical facilities, and multifamily residential developments. It has helped build such notable projects as the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai -- both among the world's tallest buildings. Founded in 1938, Samsung C&T has more than 100 offices worldwide.

Fairmount Minerals is responsible for a fair amount of the minerals mined in the Midwest. Operating through several divisions and subsidiaries, Fairmount Minerals, Ltd. is one of the United States' largest producers of industrial sand used for construction, metal casting, glass, landscaping, oil and gas stimulation, filtration, abrasives, and filler. Products include silica sand, resin-coated sand, lake sand, and other specialty sands, including those used in pool filters, golf course bunkers, and children's sand boxes. Fairmount Minerals has operations in seven states (primarily in the Midwest) and in Canada, Mexico, and China, 11 mining and mineral processing facilities and seven manufacturing plants.

Hardaway Construction is paying off all over the Southeast. The firm offers general contracting, construction management, and design/build services on both large and small projects. Known for the diversity of work it takes on, Hardaway has built everything from offices and schools to hospitals and industrial plants, among other commercial structures. Its Cumberland Builders unit focuses on the residential sector, building and remodeling condominiums and retirement facilities. The company's portfolio includes work on Vanderbilt University, the Gaylord Opryland Resort Hotel, and the Nashville International Airport. The family-owned company was founded in 1924 by the late L.H. Hardaway, Sr.

Penta-Ocean Construction isn't all pent up along the waterfront, although it does specialize in such marine engineering projects as dredging and land reclamation, including some environmental protection (it has developed an eelgrass transplantation process). The company's civil engineering unit also constructs airports and container terminals as well as dams, bridges, and highways. Work by its architecture unit includes concert halls, aquariums, office towers, and condominiums. Its environmental technology division builds wind power stations and recycling facilities. The company also has research and development operations for all of its divisions.

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