Adonel Concrete has its footprint firmly planted in South Florida. With six concrete plants, the privately-owned company is a materials supplier to residential and commercial construction projects from Key Largo to Palm Beach. It makes concrete and special mixes that repel water, inhibit corrosion, and self compact. Clients have included homebuilders Caribe Homes and Lennar, Perini Marine Construction, and Trans Florida Development. President Luis Garcia, an immigrant from Nicaragua, started the company in 1984 with a single employee and a single truck. Adonel Concrete has expanded to some 150 trucks and about 250 employees.

Lauren Engineers & Constructors is one of three business units of holding company The Lauren Corporation, along with Canadian-based KSI, East and KSI, West. Lauren Engineers & Constructors is a contractor that targets the power, chemical, special metals, and oil refining industries. In addition to its core engineering, procurement, and construction capabilities, the firm offers fabrication, project management, and mechanical and electrical maintenance services. With offices in Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, and Calgary, Lauren operates in about 40 states and Canada. Customers include Flying J, GE, and Proctor & Gamble. The company was originally established in 1984 as a subsidiary of Comstock Mechanical.

Titan Technologies, Inc. licenses recycling technologies to tire recycling plants in the United States and internationally. It utilizes thermolysis, together with a proprietary reactor catalyst, to recycle tires and other scrap material. The company offers its technology for construction and operation of commercial plants to recycle waste tires and plastics into marketable products. Titan Technologies has a working relationship with Adherent Technologies, Inc. to develop technologies for recycling electronic (computer) scrap and waste plastic. The company was formerly known as Titan Uranium Corporation and changed its name to Titan Technologies, Inc. in 1986. Titan Technologies was founded in 1954 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Luddon Construction provides civil engineering and construction services primarily in Scotland, but also throughout the rest of the UK. Founded in 1975, the company works as both a main contractor and sub-contractor, having completed office developments, industrial units, pharmaceutical facilities, and warehouse distribution centers. Luddon also undertakes major roadwork projects, with experience in repairing sewers and paving sidewalks. Clients include Scottish Enterprise and the Network Rail in Scotland. Luddon is a private family-owned business and carries out as many as 90 projects per year.

The Collins Companies makes its money by lumbering around and gathering dust -- sawdust, that is. The company operates a group of forest product divisions that include four sawmills capable of producing more than 250 million board feet of lumber annually. The group manufactures lumber, veneer logs and flooring, pine particleboard, and TruWood brand siding and trim. It harvests wood from forests in California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, using hardwood species such as ash, oak, maple, black cherry, poplar, and basswood, and softwood species including white fir, incense cedar, and three varieties of pine. The business has been family-owned since its inception in 1855.

Brand Services can scale a tall building. Operating as Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, the company offers a diverse mix of specialty contract services to the North American downstream energy infrastructure market, including industrial scaffolding, abrasive blasting, insulation, corrosion protection, specialty coating, and weatherproofing. It provides concrete construction formwork and design on infrastructure projects through its global Aluma Systems division, while another division, Aluma and DCCL, offers civil and general construction services to Canada's petrochemical market. Customers include global energy companies, such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and ExxonMobil.

C.F. Jordan is a top building contractor that offers preconstruction, design/build, development, and project management services. The company has traditionally built hotels and resorts, but has diversified into military, residential, highway, and school construction. Its contracts include projects for the Immigration and Naturalization Service for border patrol stations, health care centers, and detention centers. Other works have included Sea World in San Antonio, the Insights Science Museum in El Paso, and the Pearl Harbor Commissary and Exchange in Hawaii. Chairman Charles "Paco" Jordan started the Texas-based firm in 1988.

Envoy wants to serve as an ambassador of construction management services for public- and private-sector projects in Indiana. The company's services include strategic planning, structural design, bidding, scheduling, contracting, and site management. Projects include schools, fire stations, police stations, museums, shopping centers, and other municipal, commercial, and institutional facilities.

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.

Time is money, but TIMEC is like money in the bank for the oil and gas industry. The company provides maintenance, turnaround, and construction services to oil and gas, industrial, and utility customers in the US. The company, which has 11 offices in the US, specializes in catalyst handling, outsourced training, safety support, small capital construction, specialized welding, supplemental maintenance, and turnkey turnaround services. TIMEC works at some 39 of the country's 150 refineries with clients such as Chevron, Shell, and Marathon Petroleum. J.G. Red" Meacham and R. Briggs Wood founded the company in 1971. Transfield Services bought TIMEC in 2007 for $100 million.

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