Toll Brothers builds luxury homes in the US, targeting move-up, second-home, and retired buyers. Its single-family detached houses and apartments range in price from about $230,000 to some $2 million. The company also develops communities for active adults and operates country club communities. Subsidiaries offer related services and products including insurance coverage, title and mortgage services, and landscaping. Like its peers, Toll Brothers closed on fewer homes with the housing downturn and financial crisis: It went from delivering nearly 8,600 homes in fiscal 2006 to fewer than 3,000 in fiscal 2009.

Freese and Nichols (FNI) keeps water in the Lone Star State flowing in the right direction. The consulting firm specializes in water management engineering but offers other services including architecture, environmental science, and construction management to clients in the Southwest, primarily Texas. The company has designed more than 150 dams and reservoirs and also works on such projects as municipal waterworks, water treatment facilities, and highways. Freese and Nichols serves the private and public sectors including clients from all levels of government. The company has offices in about a dozen Texas cities and traces its roots to a Ft. Worth firm founded in 1894 by John B. Hawley.

International Architectural Group is an integrated building products manufacturer of diversified lines of quality aluminum and vinyl building products. The company is headquartered in Monterey Park, California and has approximately 1,600 employees. Operations are conducted through 12 North American subsidiaries.

George Dubya has built a reputation in the construction industry. George W. Auch, a top contractor in the US, offers general contracting, design/build, and construction management services, primarily in Southeast Michigan. The commercial and institutional builder targets the medical/health care and educational markets. George W. Auch founded the company in 1908 as a family partnership, building homes and churches in the Detroit area.

Obayashi Corporation, a leading global contractor and one of Japan's top four general contractors, the company is a pioneer in the development of earthquake-resistant building techniques. Obayashi serves as architect, consultant, engineer, and systems designer for buildings and large-scale civil engineering projects worldwide. Projects have included the Dubai Urban Rail Transit System; the bobsled and luge runs used in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano; the Ted Williams tunnel in Boston; and restoration of port facilities in Kobe, Japan, damaged by a 1995 earthquake.

Geo-Con one of the top geotechnical construction and environmental firms in the US. The employee-owned company works on projects in four areas: wetlands mitigation, enhancement, and restoration; environmental remediation; geotechnical construction; and general cntractor construction. Since its founding in 1979, Geo-Con has worked on more than 30 Superfund sites. The company operates in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America; it has domestic offices in Colorado, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Geo-Con was acquired by a group of long-term employees in 2004.

Bouygues (U. K.), a subsidiary of Gallic giant Bouygues, provides full-service construction, engineering, and design contracing services throughout the UK. Bouygues (pronounced "bweeg") UK targets the health care, education, and housing sectors; it has also completed office, retail, industrial, and residential projects. The company was involved in the award-winning redevelopment of the Home Office headquarters, completed in 2005. Bouygues UK's sister company Ecovert provides facilities maintenance services. The firm is a key player in the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), in which private funds are used to build and maintain public buildings. Bouygues UK also pursues private-sector clients.

Amarr was founded in 1951 by brothers Abe, Morris, and Herb Brenner and is owned by the Brenner family. This company is really into garage sales. Amarr designs, manufactures, and distributes garage doors for residential and commercial customers. Residential doors are made from steel, wood, aluminum, and wood composite; commercial doors come in aluminum, glass, or steel. Other products include garage door openers, screen doors, and vinyl garage flooring. The company offers door brands such as JELD-WEN, LiftMaster, Dynasty, and Linear. Amarr has 70 distribution centers in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Hungary, and its products are sold to dealers and major retailers such as Sears, Lowe's, Sams Club, and Costco.

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.

Titan Cement Company was founded in 1902. Titan Cement is a towering presence in the cement industry. The company also makes ready-mix concrete, fly ash, concrete blocks, dry mortars, aggregates, and other construction materials. It has operations in a dozen counties in Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Operating through joint ventures and wholly owned affiliates, Titan Cement annually produces some 16 million tons of cement at 10 plants; approximately 20 million tons of aggregates from about 15 quarries; and about 6 million cubic meters of ready-mix concrete at more than 130 facilities.

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