Elder Wood Preserving Co., Inc., pressure treats lumber and plywood to protect it against termites and fungi for construction purposes. Its milling facilities produce a range of wood products from dimensional lumber, timbers, boards, and plywood and plywood siding to fencing, flooring, lattice, and decking and deck accessories (spindles, balusters, hand rails, step stringers). The company has an environmental monitoring program and shares its results with scientists, universities, and government agencies. Elder Wood Preserving was founded in 1977.

Biffa, one of the UK's leading waste management companies, it offers collection (curbside, light commercial, hazardous/special waste), landfill, groundwater and soil treatment, and industrial cleaning services. Its operations include more than 1,500 collection and transportation vehicles to handle its curbside and manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical, petroleum, chemical, and electronics industry customers. Biffa has about 75,000 customers. It operates more than 30 landfills in the UK. It also is a provider of renewable energy with 109 MW of installed capacity. Biffa was taken private in 2008 by a group of private investors led by Global Infrastructure Partners.

GSE Construction Company provides heavy construction for government agencies, public utilities, and the private sector. The general engineering contractor specializes in building water and wastewater infrastructure. GSE provides services such as new construction, renovation work and upgrades, and construction labor. Projects range from retrofitting old systems and expanding capacity, to constructing storage tanks, treatment facilities, and pump stations. The company also often teams with fellow engineering firm Applied Technologies to complete waste-to-energy conversion projects. GSE performs most of its work in California and Nevada.President and CEO Orlando Gutierrez founded GSE Construction in 1980.

Moorefield Construction, Inc.,the company provides general contracting services for retail projects throughout Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Clients have included Lowe's, Best Buy, and Walgreen. The company operates from offices in Santa Ana and Sacramento. Moorefield Construction was founded in 1957 by the late Harold Moorefield, and continues to be owned and operated by his family, including his wife Ann (CEO) and their sons, Mike (president), Larry (vice president), and Hal (vice president).

Kell Muñoz Architects is very proud of that curly tilde above its name. As one of the largest minority-owned architectural firms in Texas it often incorporates mestizo regionalism into designs to reflect the diverse history and culture of the Texas/Mexico border. Kell Muñoz has worked on public, corporate, and academic projects such as the San Antonio Convention Center, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Trinity University, and SeaWorld. In addition to its architectural and planning services the firm also offers logo design, branding, and interior design. Bartlett Cocke and John Kell Sr. co-founded Kell Muñoz Architects in 1927. Today the firm is led by entrepreneur and activist Henry Muñoz III and Geoffrey Edwards.

HDR has left its mark on the US. HDR is an architecture, engineering, and consulting firm that specializes in projects including bridges, water- and wastewater-treatment plants, and hospitals. HDR also provides mechanical and plumbing services, construction and project management, and utilities planning. The group has completed projects throughout the US and in some 60 countries abroad and has more than 185 locations around the world. The employee-owned company was founded as Henningson Engineering in 1917 to build municipal plants in the rural Midwest.

Fastenal Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a wholesaler and retailer of industrial and construction supplies. It offers fastener product line under two categories, which include threaded fasteners, such as bolts, nuts, screws, studs, and related washers that are used in manufactured products and building projects, as well as in the maintenance and repair of machines and structures; and miscellaneous supplies, including paints, various pins and machinery keys, concrete anchors, batteries, sealants, metal framing systems, wire rope, strut, private-label stud anchors, rivets, and related accessories.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

Bradford White Corporation was founded in 1881. Bradford White Corporation helps folks get in (and stay in) hot water. Bradford White Corporation manufactures water heaters for residential, commercial, and industrial heating applications. It makes oil-fired products, gas power burners, and indirect-fired units. Through subsidiaries Bradford White-Canada and LAARS Heating Systems, it also manufactures products such as pool heaters, oil burners, and air handlers. Bradford White Corporation wholesales its products through a network of plumbing and heating professionals. Subsidiary Niles Steel Tank produces custom steel tanks for companies in the automotive, petrol-chemical, pharmaceutical, and refrigeration industries.

Walrus Projects company takes you down to Leicestershire and the surrounding area, where its projects range from 50,000 apartments to 1,000,000 country houses. With a little help from its friends, Walrus Projects uses materials and processes that range from reclaimed timber and "distressed" finishes to underheated floors. Managing director Chris Freeman began Walrus Projects in 1994, while working out of a spare bedroom at his home -- no doubt with his headphones on. Many Walrus Projects developments, such as Pepper's Field, bear Beatles-influenced names.

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