Varco Pruden proves its mettle through buildings. Doing business as VP Buildings, the company makes metal building components for a variety of nonresidential facilities. Its products are distributed throughout the US and Canada through a network of about 1,000 contractors. The company's systems are used to build facilities ranging from churches and schools to office buildings and warehouses. Metal buildings can cost up to 30% less to build than more traditional fare; glass, brick, stone, and concrete elements can be incorporated. VP Buildings also provides design and engineering services throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Australia's BlueScope Steel bought VP Buildings from Ternium in 2008.

C A Blackwell (Contracts) founded as an earthmoving contractor in 1956 to help carve out the UK motorway network, the group has expanded to include engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical, and remediation operations. The group wears many hats, including those of subcontractor, contractor, design-and-build contractor, and developer. The company also owns a fleet of motor scrapers, dump trucks, excavators, and more. Past projects include the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Middlehaven Docks remediation. C A Blackwell (Contracts) is a subsidiary of the C.A. Blackwell Group.

Component Assembly Systems (CAS) has assembled the components of its success as a specialty contractor. Founded in 1964, the company works on such commercial and institutional projects as hotels, offices, government facilities, apartments, hospitals, airports, and entertainment venues. It specializes in drywall construction, millwork, and carpentry, as well as niche areas such as architectural detailing, acoustical contracting, and specialty ceilings. The company primarily serves Eastern seaboard clients, but also offers its services throughout the US and internationally; in the western US, it operates as Component West. CAS operates from offices in Boston, Las Vegas, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC.

Anthony Forest Products first logged on well before the computer age. The company, which began in 1916, obtains its timber from more than 90,000 acres, maintained according to Sustainable Forestry Initiative policy, in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Anthony Forest Products then processes the timber into lumber and wood chips at mills located in the same three states. The company operates engineered wood laminating plants in Arkansas and Georgia, and, through a joint venture with Domtar, it produces I-joists under the Power Joist name at a plant in Canada. Anthony's Power Log products are used for log-home construction. Anthony Forest Products is owned by the fourth generation of the Anthony family.

Gustave A. Larson Company is the Midwest, Plains and Mountain States leading wholesale distributor of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVACR) equipment, parts, & supplies. Our business philosophy is to focus on serving the needs of our customers, with a value-added, professional and enthusiastic attitude. We have 350 team members who serve our customers in seventeen Midwest, Plains and Mountain states through our 44 locations.

PYI Corporation invests in infrastructure and cargo port operations on China's Yangtze River. The company also provides commercial development related to its port facilities and owns a majority stake in Paul Y. Engineering Group. PYI's projects, including joint ventures, include the maritime rescue, bridge decking, railway, and surrounding development at Yangkou Port, located at the north end of the Yangtze River Delta. Paul Y. Engineering invests in, develops, and manages the construction of commercial, residential, hospitality, and institutional properties, primarily in Hong Kong.

Tumac Lumber Co., Inc. company distributes wood and wood products in the US and internationally. The company and its regional subsidiaries sell products such as mouldings, hardwoods and softwoods, composite products, decking, and furniture parts to kitchen cabinet companies and furniture manufacturers, utility companies, pulp mills, RV manufacturers, and others. Tumac exports lumber (Douglas fir and southern yellow pine) to Europe, hardwood logs and lumber to Asia, and industrial and construction products to customers in the Caribbean. Paul McCracken and Bill MacPherson established Tumac Lumber in 1959.

Rosendin Electric has risen to the top ranks of US electrical contractors since its start in 1919 by Moses Rosendin. The employee-owned firm provides a range of services, including estimating and engineering/design, and installation of communications networks; traffic signals; gas, water, and electrical utility lines; and airport lighting. It also designs and constructs wind energy plants, including grids and collection systems. Rosendin Electric has offices in California, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia. It expanded into the Texas construction market with the 2010 acquisition of KST Electric, which operates as a subsidiary of Rosendin Electric.

Terracon Consultants provides geotechnical, environmental, construction material evaluation, pavement engineering and construction management, and facilities engineering services. One of the nation's top design firms, the company serves the agriculture, energy, telecommunications, commercial development, and transportation sectors, as well as government clients. Founded in Iowa in 1965, Terracon began as a joint venture between Shive, Hall and Hattery (civil consulting), Soil Testing Services (geotechnical testing), and Gerald Olson, PE (the company's founder and a project engineer). The company now has more than 100 offices in some 40 states.

Besse Forest Products Group is branching out and it wooden want it any other way. Consisting of about a dozen firms, the group manufactures and exports hardwood lumber, veneer, and plywood from nearly 20 species of trees. The group's manufacturing plants, including veneer cutting and splicing plants, rotary cutting mills, and sawmills, have the capacity to produce more than 850 million sq. ft. of veneer and some 40 million board feet of lumber annually. Besse Forest Products Group also exports lumber, logs, and veneer from its mills and warehouses in the US and Canada, with the bulk of its operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. Owned by the Besse family, the group was founded in 1966.

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