Antonio Ruiz has left his blood, sweat, and tears. Ruiz owns and operates A. Ruiz Construction Company & Associates (ARCCO), a firm which he founded in 1978. A general engineering and building contractor, ARCCO has expertise in civil engineering, as well as residential construction and remodeling. It has worked on everything from reservoir repair and street improvements to utilities installation and demolition in both the public and private sectors. Clients include the City of San Francisco, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Bombardier Transportation. ARCCO primarily serves the Bay Area.

Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables and to control cable dynamics. These products also include hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. It also provides protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. In addition, the company offers data communication cabinets that are used in high-speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment; plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

Heavy construction firm Ranger Construction Industries builds and resurfaces roads and parking lots in the Sunshine State. It also operates asphalt plants and a large fleet of excavation, grading, and asphalt equipment. The company's Ranger Golf division provides golf course construction and renovation services, including mass excavation, shaping, and turf services, throughout the US. Ranger Construction Industries is a subsidiary of Florida-based Vecellio Group, one of the largest transportation contractors in the US.

WS Atkins (Atkins) serves up a steady diet of engineering, management, and technical services to public and private sector clients in the rail, transportation, aerospace, defense, and energy sectors. The UK-based infrastructure consulting group divides its business into seven segments: design and engineering solutions; highways and transportation; rail; management and project services; asset management; the Middle East; and China and Europe. Atkins' rail business is one of the largest in Europe; it also operates in the US as well as other regions. The company operates through brands including Atkins, Faithful Gould, Peter Brown, and (the latest addition) PBSJ.

Joseph Vicat, whose father invented a method of creating artificial cement, founded Vicat in 1853. The Vicat family continues to lead the company. Vicat's objectives are set in stone. The company produces some 21 million tons of cement and aggregates and 10 million cubic meters of concrete per year. Vicat operates about a dozen cement plants and grinding plants, more than 200 concrete plants, and 70 quarries in Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. It also has operations in specialty chemicals and paper manufacturing, transportation, and precast concrete. More than half of Vicat's revenues come from outside of France. In 2010 Vicat expanded into India with plans to acquire 51% of Bharathi Cement.

MFM Building Products, founded in 1961 by Robert E. Simpson, offers the construction industry nearly 50 years of knowledge and expertise in providing waterproofing and weather barrier products. From humble beginnings, this family-owned company has continued to grow and foster new product development, improved product performance and help reduce overall costs with a value-based philosophy.

Carlisle SynTec knows that a dry roof over one's head is a good thing. Carlisle SynTec Incorporated makes and installs roofing membrane and insulation products designed to withstand heat, puncturing, water, and load strain, primarily for commercial and industrial use. However, school's also are big customers. Products are sold under the brands Sure-Seal, Sure-Tough, Sure-White, FleeceBACK, Sure-Flex, and Sure-Weld. In the US the company has manufacturing facilities in Illinois, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Utah. Carlisle SynTec, which is a subsidiary of manufacturing group Carlisle Companies, has produced more than 15 billion sq. ft. of single-ply roofing membrane material since it was founded in the 1960s.

Rothenberg Sawasy Architects provides architectural and interior design services through its offices in Los Angeles and San Diego and in Beijing. The company's clients include The Allstate Corporation, Bank of America, Brinks International, and MetLife. Managing principal Mark Rothenberg and design principal Mitchell Sawasy founded the firm in 1979.

Ball Homes can help you get settled. The company builds about 1,000 single-family homes a year in central Kentucky, mainly in Lexington, Louisville, and surrounding towns. Its homes range in size from about 1,040 sq. ft. to 3,550 sq. ft. and in price from the low $100,000s to more than $300,000. The company's property management division manages more than 1,300 rental homes, townhouses, apartments, and duplexes. Ball Homes also has a development unit that sells land to individuals and to other builders. Ball Homes, founded in 1959, is owned and operated by the Ball family.

Founded in 1873, Boon Edam B.V. produced its first revolving door in 1903. The US subsidiary took on its current form in 2005 when Boon Edam Inc. acquired Tomsed Corp. Boon Edam Inc.'s door is always open to you -- and, paradoxically, always closed, too. Boon Edam, Inc. is the main US subsidiary of Netherlands-based Boon Edam B.V., one of the world's leading makers of entrance technology products such as revolving doors and security doors. Boon Edam, Inc. markets aluminum, wood, brass, bronze, and stainless steel doors. It also manufactures turnstiles and barriers. The parent company markets its doors in more than 40 countries worldwide and operates factories in China, the Netherlands, and the US .

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