Quanta Services, electric and gas utilities and telecom providers would be all juiced up with no way to go. The company designs, installs, repairs, and maintains network infrastructure nationwide, including electric, gas, broadband cable, and telephone and data lines. Quanta also provides outsource management services and other specialty services such as installing traffic and light rail control systems, conducting directional drilling and rock trenching, and constructing wind generation facilities. Around 85% of its revenues come from gas and electric work.

Butler Manufacturing, maker of pre-engineered buildings, structural systems, and roof and wall systems for nonresidential construction. A subsidiary of Australia-based BlueScope Steel, Butler produces pre-engineered and custom-designed steel structures used in a range of projects, from offices to schools to shopping centers. Through its BUCON and Butler Heavy Structures units, the company provides general contracting services for large-scale projects. Butler also offers real estate development services. It distributes its products throughout North America.

Ames Construction aims right for the heart of heavy construction. The company is primarily a general contractor, providing heavy civil and industrial construction services to the transportation, mining, and power industries mainly in the West and Midwest. The family-owned company works on highways, airports, bridges, rail lines, mining facilities, power plants, and other infrastructure projects. Ames also performs flood control, environmental remediation, reclamation, and landfill work. Additionally, the firm builds golf courses and undertakes commercial and residential site development projects. It typically partners with other companies to perform the engineering and design portion of construction jobs.

The Cretex Companies is a conglomerate of companies that manufacture a diverse range of products, spanning from steel heart-pacemaker components to reinforced concrete pipe. Primarily operating in the Midwest, the company is organized into three operating units: commercial products (medical implants, machines stampings, plastic moldings, and steel machining); concrete products (reinforced concrete pipe and other precast and prestessed concrete products for infrastructure use); and construction products (precast and prestressed concrete products used in buildings, stadiums, bridges, and other structures). Its results may be concrete, and the same can be said about many of its products.

High Industries is at the top of its game, and that game is steel and construction. The company's largest division, High Steel Structures, is one of the largest steel bridge fabricators in North America. Other members of the High Industries' stable of companies include High Steel Service Center (metal processing and distribution), High Concrete Group (precast concrete components), and High Safety Consulting Services (air quality and safety). Affiliates of High Industries, such as High Hotels, are active in the real estate business. High Industries, which mostly does business along the East Coast, traces its roots to a welding shop founded by Sanford High in 1931. The company is controlled by the High family.

Abengoa has an environmental interest in engineering. The company develops environmentally sustainable projects by focusing its business on five main areas: solar energy; bioenergy; waste recycling and management; information technology; and engineering and industrial construction. It provides engineering and infrastructure services to the energy, telecommunications, transportation, water, and environmental industries in more than 70 countries worldwide. It also controls Spanish aluminum and steel-dust recycling company Befesa Medio Ambiente and US-based ethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy Corp. The Benjumea family controls about 56% of Abengoa.

Morrow-Meadows Corporation provides electrical contracting services, including work on data communications and power distribution systems, for commercial and industrial facilities in the western US, primarily in California and Oregon. Its divisions include Oregon-based Cherry City Electric and Morrow-Meadows Corp., Northern California. The company provides project development, design, engineering, and construction services on a range of projects, such as shopping malls, office buildings, medical centers, hotels, parking garages, theme parks, and water treatment plants.

Pfluger Associates Architects is a pfull-service architecture pfirm that specializes in educational pfacilities. The "p" may be silent, by this firm speaks out across Texas and the southwestern US, helping independent school districts, universities, colleges, and municipalities with pre-design services, bond support, architectural and interior design services, and construction administration. Pfluger Associates Architects' clients include the Diocese of Austin, Round Rock Independent School District, The University of Texas, and the US Border Patrol. The firm operated as Pfluger + Polkinghorn from 1972 until 1983, when it adopted its current name. Today, it operates offices in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio.

Airwell-Fedders has a distribution center in Missouri and global manufacturing operations in Argentina, China, France, Israel, and Italy. Airwell-Fedders North America runs hot and cold -- depending on what its customers call for. The company designs, manufactures, and markets heating and air conditioning products for residential, commercial, and industrial use. Among its products are mobile and window air conditioning units, condensing units, fan coils, water chillers, furnaces, and heat pumps. Airwell-Fedders is the North American arm of Paris-based Airwell Group, which also makes and sells Electra and Wesper brand HVAC products.

Midland Quarry Products is one of the UK's leading producers and suppliers of hard rock and asphalts (coated materials). The company provides a comprehensive range of single sized and blended Drystone aggregates to meet most of the demands of the building, construction and rail industries. We manufacture a large range of Asphalt products to comply with current British Standard and Highway agency specifications, including a number of proprietary products to fulfil specific customer needs.The business operates three quarries, four rail ballast depots and seven asphalt plants in the East and West Midlands, including the award winning and internationally recognised Cliffe Hill Quarry in Leicestershire. As an independent and autonomous Midlands based company, it is totally focused on meeting and, where possible, exceeding customer expectations. Formed in December 1996 MQP controls more than 200 million tonnes of consented reserves. Its extensive in-house resources are strengthened by services available through its parent companies, Tarmac and Hanson.

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