Bowman Consulting Group is in tune with its land development customers and tries to prevent foul notes. The company provides civil engineering, environmental assessment, land planning, and surveying services to businesses and government agencies interested in land development. Projects include residential communities, hotels, retail centers, industrial parks, recreational facilities, and schools. Bowman Consulting also provides environmental services that range from asbestos surveys to wetland delineation. Operating primarily in the Washington, DC, area, the company was formed in 1995 by president Gary Bowman.

JTS Communities builds and sells new homes in the Sacramento, California area. It constructs about 600 homes annually and is involved in land development as well. The company offers homebuyers both standard and customized floor plan options and its JTS Design Center allows customers to personalize their homes' decor. It has also incorporated green building techniques. Home prices range in price from around $250,000 to $1.5 million and in size from 1,100 sq. ft. to nearly 5,500 sq. ft. President and CEO Jack T. Sweigart co-founded the predecessor of JTS Communities in 1971 and now owns the company.

Founded in 1930 by William Murphy, CPM Development is owned by Oldcastle Materials (itself a subsidiary of UK-based CRH plc), which bought the firm in 1997. CPM Development Corporation paves the way for aggregate production in the Northwest. The company produces sand and gravel, ready-mix concrete, pre-stressed concrete building components, and asphalt paving materials for the construction industry. It also builds freeways, overpasses, and airport runways. The firm has about a dozen affiliate companies and some 30 locations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

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.

China Dredging Group isn't interested in digging up the past. It's focusing on the future as a public company and a provider of dredging contracting services designed to keep China's waterways clear and navigable. Operating through Chinese subsidiary Fujian Service, the group is a British Virgin Islands incorporated company that was formed in 2010 and subsequently filed to go public. With engineering and project management expertise, its services cover onsite inspection, cost estimation, sediment and obstruction removal, and transport and disposal of dredged material. It typically serves as a subcontractor for large, state-owned enterprises that act as general contractors on port infrastructure projects.

Soave Enterprises is suave enough to manage multiple lines of business. The company's wide-ranging interests are divided into four main industries: real estate (residential and industrial development), auto dealerships, beer distribution, and a catch-all diversified holdings group that includes businesses ranging from waste collection and transportation to scrap metals processing as well as units engaged in hydroponic tomato gardening and taxi services. The bulk of Soave's operations are in Michigan. President and CEO Anthony Soave, who founded the company in 1961, owns Soave Enterprises.

Synagro Technologies, Inc.,the company collects biosolids created by the treatment of wastewater at municipal and industrial plants throughout the US. Synagro Technologies makes money by drying, pelletizing, composting, and incinerating the biosolids and by transporting them for land application as soil base and fertilizer. The company also cleans out sewage lagoons and designs biosolids recycling systems. Synagro Technologies is owned by investment firm The Carlyle Group.

Ron Jones Hardwood Sales produces kiln-dried and green Northern Appalachian hardwood lumber for distribution within the US and for export container shipping. Species used to make its lumber include cherry, red and white oak, hard and soft maple, hickory, yellow birch, beech, ash, poplar, and basswood. The company operates a lumber yard with a capacity of more than 3 million board ft. in Franklin, Pennsylvania. It also has 300,000 board ft. kiln capacity there. President Ron Jones and other members of the family own and operate the business.

E.W. Howell is a midsized New York general contractor and construction management firm that is a regional leader in retail construction. With offices in Manhattan and Long Island, E.W. Howell also builds hospitals, labs, libraries, office interiors, schools, and restaurants. Clients have included Bergdorf Goodman, Target, and Columbia University. It typically bids on projects in the private sector, but it also selectively competes within the public sector. Established in 1891, E.W. Howell began as a builder of homes for such well-heeled East Coast families as the Huttons and the Guggenheims. The Howells left the firm in the 1980s, and Japanese construction group Obayashi acquired the company in 1989.

Atlas Industrial Holdings provides such specialty contracting services as machinery and equipment rigging and steel fabricating, as well as piping, transportation, and electrical services. It also offers plant relocation and maintenance services. The company, which serves clients throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada, has performed such projects as rigging work for a Valero oil refinery and an electrical furnace upgrade for Owens Corning. Clients, which are mostly in the automotive, cement, power, and food and beverage industries, have included Anheuser-Busch, Holcim, and Honda of America.

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