Hampton Affiliates knows trees from the seedling to the stud. One of Oregon's top timber firms, Hampton produces approximately 2 billion board ft. of softwood lumber yearly through eight sawmills. The company has some 170,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and Washington and manages some 300,000 acres of publicly owned forest land in British Columbia. Through its Hampton Distribution Companies division, it distributes doors, windows, and other building materials. Hampton supplies homebuilding centers through its stud lumber and distribution operations. The company has its own railcar fleet to transport its products.

Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. company manufactures solid wood kitchen cabinets, doors, drawer fronts, mouldings, and decorative accessories (such as table legs, columns, and bun feet) at its seven plants located in Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, and Pennsylvania. The company offers a variety of wood species and finishes. Conestoga has an OEM/contract division to serve high-volume customers and a custom division that serves the custom kitchen and bath industry. The company sells only to woodworking professionals. Brothers Norman and Samuel Hahn founded Conestoga in 1964.

Andersen Construction Company focuses on commercial and industrial construction in the Western US. The group, which introduced concrete tilt-up construction to the Pacific Northwest, builds everything from parking structures to medical facilities, manufacturing plants, and industrial complexes. It also works on institutional projects for the government and education markets. Other projects include tenant improvements, seismic upgrades, and remediation construction. The company provides construction management (which accounts for 80% of its work), as well as general contracting and design/build delivery. It also offers startup and commissioning services. Chairman and CEO Andy Andersen founded the company in 1950.

Raymond Construction puts it all together deep in the heart of Texas. The firm provides general contracting and construction management services, primarily in the Dallas/Fort Worth and Austin, Texas areas. Projects include office buildings, industrial warehouses, retail centers, schools, and healthcare facilities. Projects include the General Motors Call Center in Austin; the MCA Student Life Center for McKinney (Texas) Christian Academy; and the Active Power Production Facility in Austin. The company, formed in 1952 by Charles B. Raymond, is owned by President Charles M. Raymond and executives Lee Hall and Rusty Burnett.

Nasland Engineering provides civil engineering, surveying, and land planning services to private land developers and government agencies in Southern California and Arizona. It offers services for developing subdivisions, commercial/industrial sites, apartments and condominiums, and streets and highways. It also offers flood-control planning, utilities system design, hydrology studies, assessment district engineering, and consulting services. Projects include work for Sea World, the San Diego River Improvement Project, and the redesign of National City, California's "Mile of Cars" auto dealer district. In 1959 Don Nasland founded the company; his two sons, Don and Steven, now own and operate Nasland Engineering.

Black & Veatch (BV) provides the ABCs of construction, engineering, and consulting. The international group is one of the largest private companies in the US. It specializes in infrastructure development for the energy, water, environmental, federal, and telecommunications markets. BV engages in all phases of building projects, from design and engineering to financing and construction. The company offers environmental consulting, operations and maintenance, security design and consulting, management consulting, and IT services. The employee-owned firm has worked on coal, nuclear, and combustion turbine plants; drinking water and coastal water operations; and wireless and broadband installation.

Canfor has a can-do attitude about forest products. One of Canada's largest lumber companies, Canfor mainly produces softwood lumber, but also plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), remanufactured lumber products, and specialized wood products at some 30 facilities in Canada and the US. Each year Canfor is capable of turning out five billion board feet of lumber, 270 million sq. ft of plywood, and one billion sq. ft. of OSB. It manages woodlands on public lands in British Columbia and Alberta and has annual harvesting rights on about 11 million cubic meters of timberland. The company also owns a slight majority of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, which produces pulp and kraft paper.

Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction gilds the Golden State. The California general contractor, designer, and project manager specializes in constructing microelectronic, semiconductor, and biopharmaceutical facilities. Hathaway Dinwiddie also has experience building office buildings, entertainment centers, hotels, retail stores, and schools. Other specialties include interior improvements and seismic retrofits for the state's earthquake-prone market. The company has worked on projects for clients such as The Irvine Company, Stanford University, and Disney. Executive management owns Hathaway Dinwiddie, which has offices in San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Los Angeles.

Formed by Charles Shelly in 1938, the company was acquired in 2000 for $362 million by Oldcastle Materials, a unit of Ireland-based CRH. The acquisition helped boost Shelly's growth and now it produces nearly 9 million tons of asphalt each year. The Shelly Company has only scratched the surface of the road paving business. The company, which produces aggregates and asphalt for road surfacing, operates several aggregate facilities and asphalt plants in Ohio. Operations include quarries, sand and gravel pits, fixed and portable asphalt plants, and bitumen terminals. The Shelly Company is also a paving and road construction contractor. Other divisions manufacture cement and and ready mix concrete.

Stella-Jones is under pressure. In addition to utility poles, the company produces pressure-treated timber and railway ties from species that include maple, oak, ash, birch, pine, hemlock, and Douglas fir. It also produces marine and foundation pilings, guardrails, and other industrial treated wood products and such consumer products as dimension lumber, fence board, and plywood. Stella-Jones expanded its capabilities in the US railway tie market in 2010 with the acquisition of Tangent Rail. James Jones & Sons Limited (forest products, UK) and Stella SpA, through the Stella Jones International S.A. joint venture, control a majority of Stella-Jones Inc.

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