McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. company annually builds some 3,000 single-family residential homes in Texas in the Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio areas. The company markets its homes under the Coventry Homes, Pioneer Homes, Carmel Homes, and Plantation Homes brands, with prices ranging from the low $100,000s to more than $1 million. It operates from four offices in its service areas. Chairman and CEO Frank McGuyer and president and COO Mike Love, founders of MHI and MHI Partnership, Ltd., have worked closely since the start-up of the businesses in 1988.

Lochinvar knows that being in hot water doesn't always mean trouble. The family-owned company makes commercial and residential hot water generators, pool heaters, water heaters, storage tanks, boilers, and related parts and accessories. The company also offers high-efficiency products. Lochinvar distributes its products throughout the US and Canada, and exports to Europe, Australia, the Pacific Rim, and the Middle East. Walter Vallett Sr. founded the predecessor to Lochinvar in 1919.

MYR Group's work can be electrifying. The specialty contractor builds and maintains electric delivery infrastructure systems for electric utilities and commercial clients. It operates around the US through six subsidiaries: The L.E. Myers Co.; Harlan Electric; Hawkeye Construction; Sturgeon Electric; MYR Transmission Services; and Great Southwestern Construction. MYR Group constructs transmission and distribution lines for the oil and gas, power, and telecommunications industries; it also installs and maintains electrical wiring in commercial and industrial facilities and traffic and rail systems. MYR Group was founded in 1891 by Lewis Edward Myers, who briefly worked as a salesman with Thomas Edison.

RMJM designs big. As one of the world's largest architecture firms, with offices in some 16 cities throughout North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, RMJM draws blueprints for an array of projects. It serves a wide range of clients in the educational, commercial, industrial, leisure, retail, residential, scientific, health care, and public sectors. Major projects span the globe and include the Dubai Convention Centre, The Scottish Parliament, and the Synygy World Headquarters. In 2007 RMJM merged with the established US-based Hillier Group. The deal brought RMJM a well-known firm in North America, where it lacked a presence. The US arm dropped the Hillier name in 2008.

The BSS Group. The company buys, sells, and distributes pipeline, heating, plumbing, ventilation, and other products. It serves the building services, manufacturing, maintenance, and other sectors through its industrial, domestic, and specialist divisions. The domestic division operates through about 300 PTS (Plumbing Trade Supplies) branch locations. The industrial division serves commercial and industrial customers through nearly 65 branches in the UK and Ireland. Building materials and home improvement retailer Travis Perkins bought BSS in 2010.

Permasteelisa North America Corp.,the company's cladding division makes and installs exterior facades of large buildings. A subsidiary of Italy-based Permasteelisa, the company has completed complex glass and metal cladding work on projects across the US, including Seattle's distinct Experience Music Project and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, both designed by architect Frank Gehry. Permasteelisa North America also designs commercial building interiors and fixtures for offices, restaurants, and showrooms. Projects include the Condé Nast cafeteria, Vespa boutiques, and Brooks Brothers shops.

Bacon Veneer is not what happens when your breakfast meat spatters all over the kitchen. Bacon Veneer, the common name for R.S. Bacon Veneer Company, produces and imports decorative and architectural quality specialty veneer products for distribution to architectural, automotive, and other industries. The company also buys and sells logs from such species as American walnut, maple, white oak, rift red oak, birch, African cedar, aspen, and cherry. It has offices in the US (North Carolina, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, New York) and in Alberta, Canada. Robert S. Bacon and his wife Julia founded Bacon Veneer in Chicago in 1898.

Syska Hennessy Group is a smooth operator in world of engineering and consulting. With offices in the US and China, the firm tackles some of the world's most technically sophisticated buildings, including part of the Pentagon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and high-tech data centers for the likes of Oracle, SAS, and Verizon. Services consist of sustainable design consulting, architectural lighting design, security consulting, audio/visual design, facilities management, and commissioning (which ensures that a facility's performance complies with its design intent). The group serves a wide range of markets, including corporations, government facilities, hospitals, colleges, and sports venues.

JGC Corporation, one of the world's largest engineering designers and builders of industrial plants and refineries. It provides planning, engineering, procurement, operation, and construction services for hydrocarbon, petrochemical, and chemical plants; pharmaceutical plants; research laboratories and medical facilities; and storage terminals and pipelines. JGC also builds radioactive waste and nuclear energy facilities and communications facilities. The company is a leading builder of gas processing and LNG (liquefied natural gas) plants worldwide. Founded in 1928 as Japan Gasoline Company, JGC has worked on more than 20,000 projects in about 70 countries.

Sofame further developed markets for industrial process water heating and heating of institutional and multiple-unit rental buildings. The year 1997 marked a turning point for Sofame as it was listed on the Toronto Exchange under the symbol SDW. That year, Sofame also obtained a patent for its Ultra-High Efficiency water heater, of which it is still the world'S only authorized manufacturer. In 1999, Sofame achieved a breakthrough in the European market. Its first major contract was the installation of a Percotherm on the site of the Gaz de France Montoire de Bretagne LNG terminal. During that year, it also received one of its numerous awards(20 over the years), from the prestigious ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers).

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