Balfour Beatty plc company provides commercial engineering, construction, and property management services, primary in the UK and North America but also in the rest of Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia. Balfour Beatty works on a range of project types including commercial buildings, housing, hospitals, railways, and airports. It also provides financing and is an active participant in public-private partnerships. US units include Balfour Beatty Infrastructure and Balfour Beatty Construction. Balfour Beatty bought New York-based transportation engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff for some $625 million in 2009.

Sino-Forest Corporation owns and manages some 350,000 hectares of forest plantations in China. It produces and sells logs, wood chips, engineered wood products, and standing timber. With timberland locations near major manufacturing hubs and consumer markets, the company is one of the top commercial wood fiber suppliers in the nation. Sino-Forest was founded in 1994 and was the first foreign and privately managed forest products firm to enter China.

Sonag Company is a general contracting and construction enterprise that offers a variety of services including masonry, carpentry, and demolition. The firm works on private and public sector projects that range from civil, commercial, and health care structures to industrial and residential projects. The minority-owned company operates from offices in Madison, Milwaukee, and Tomah, Wisconsin and in Mascoutah, Illinois. President and CEO Brian Ganos owns the firm.

Howard Stanley Hart was a turn-of-the-century entrepreneur, inventor, industrialist, and builder. In 1892, in partnership with Norman P. Cooley, he established the Hart & Cooley Manufacturing Company in Chicago, the first cold-rolled steel plant west of Pittsburgh. One of Hart's many inventions of the next few years was a steel heating register that proved superior to traditional heavy cast-iron models.

CDI Contractors means big buildings in Little Rock and beyond. The company has completed commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, including the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Other areas of specialty include health care facilities, parking decks, condos, hotels, and educational institutions. CDI Contractors provides a range of services including pre-construction, scheduling, general contracting, and construction and project management. The company was founded in 1987 as a partnership between the late Bill Clark and Dillard's head Bill Dillard II. CDI has built several Dillard's department stores. Dillard's bought the remaining 50% of CDI it did not already own in 2008.

The buzz on BUZZI UNICEM is that it is big in the cement and concrete industry. One of Italy's largest cement and concrete groups, BUZZI UNICEM produces expanded clay, ready-mix concrete, cement, aggregates, and other building materials in about a dozen countries; the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Slovakia, and the US are its largest markets. The group operates some 40 cement plants, 530 ready-mix concrete plants, and 35 aggregate quarries in North America and Europe, as well as Algeria and Russia. BUZZI UNICEM controls Dyckerhoff, a leading cement group and construction materials company in Germany. The Buzzi family owns a majority of BUZZI UNICEM's stock.

Project Enhancement offers a variety of environmental services, including hazardous waste management, nuclear plant decommissioning, and stabilization and disposition of nuclear materials. The company serves customers throughout the US from offices in Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington state. Clients have included several US Department of Energy nuclear sites, as well a range of industrial manufacturing companies and utilties including Bechtel, British Nuclear Fuels, Commonwealth Edison, Fluor, Lockheed Martin, Morrison Knudsen, and Science Applications International.

Nicolet Hardwoods has been shipping ash, beech, and cherry wood in the US since Ulysses Grant was president and just about everything was made of wood. Today the company produces and supplies hardwoods and softwoods both domestically and internationally. Nicolet Hardwoods manages 40,000 acres of hardwood timberlands in the Great Lakes region to produce fresh cut and kiln-dried lumber, rough and planed lumber, and random length and dimension stock. The company is owned and operated by fifth-generation members of the founding Connor family, who started Nicolet Hardwoods in 1872.

S. W. Rodgers provides heavy highway, site development, concrete, and utility construction services on a contract basis. The company mostly serves Gainesville and Richmond, Virginia, in addition to surrounding areas. The company provides a turnkey offering of services, including estimating, GPS machine control, erosion control, clearing, demolition, earthwork, drilling, and paving. It also works on storm sewer projects and water lines, and installs concrete curbs, gutters, and sidewalks. S. W. Rodgers operates a fleet of more than 850 earth movers, heavy construction vehicles, and hauling trucks. Chairman and CEO Steve Rodgers founded the family-owned company in 1980.

Herbeau Creations of America, cleanliness is next to elegance and luxury. The company specializes in decorative plumbing fixtures, tiles, and furniture for kitchens and bathrooms. Products include faucets, washbasins, tubs, and sinks. Formed in 1991, the company operates as the US and Canada distributor of items handcrafted from copper, brass, vitreous china, wood, and ceramics. Hearbeau Creations of America also offers select items painted by hand.

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