Architects Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker (A|DWRB) has designs on the Southern California market. A|DWRB provides design/build architectural services that range from analysis (including due diligence, code analysis, and site analysis of existing conditions to determine specific use suitability of a site or building) to master planning and interior design services. Its portfolio includes designs for biotech and advanced technology firms, educational facilities, and hospitality projects. A|DWRB, which was founded in 1961, focuses on projects in Southern California, but has also served clients around the globe.

Ball Homes can help you get settled. The company builds about 1,000 single-family homes a year in central Kentucky, mainly in Lexington, Louisville, and surrounding towns. Its homes range in size from about 1,040 sq. ft. to 3,550 sq. ft. and in price from the low $100,000s to more than $300,000. The company's property management division manages more than 1,300 rental homes, townhouses, apartments, and duplexes. Ball Homes also has a development unit that sells land to individuals and to other builders. Ball Homes, founded in 1959, is owned and operated by the Ball family.

Wise Recycling is keen on the recycling business. The company receives aluminum cans from the public through its network of some 50 neighborhood collection centers, then processes them at its seven facilities, which are located in Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia. It also does some commercial recycling. Much of the aluminum yielded by the company's recycling efforts goes to sister company Wise Alloys, a maker of aluminum can sheet. Wise Recycling was formed when parent Wise Metals Group acquired the Reynolds Aluminum Recycling business from Reynolds Metals in 1998.

American Infrastructure provides balance and structure. Through subsidiaries Allan A. Myers and American Infrastructure-Virginia, the firm provides heavy civil construction services for projects in the Mid-Atlantic. It builds and reconstructs highways, water treatment plants, medical facilities, and shopping centers, and offers site development for homebuilders. Its Independence Construction Materials (ICM) subsidiary supplies aggregates, asphalt, and ready-mixed concrete to its construction companies. The family-run business was established in 1939 as Allan A. Myers and Son, a local hauling company in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Johns Manville, a Berkshire Hathaway company (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B), is a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality products for building insulation, mechanical insulation, commercial roofing, and roof insulation, as well as fibers and nonwovens for commercial, industrial and residential applications. JM serves markets that include aerospace, automotive and transportation, air handling, appliance, HVAC, pipe and equipment, filtration, waterproofing, building, flooring, interiors and wind energy. In business since 1858, the Denver-based company has annual sales of approximately $2 billion and holds leadership positions in all of the key markets that it serves. JM employs approximately 6,500 people and operates 41 manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe and China.

Barton Malow scores by building end zones and home plates. The construction management and general contracting firm, which has built its share of sporting facilities, also makes points for its schools, hospitals, offices, and plants. The company offers design/build and program management services ranging from the pre-planning stage to completion throughout the US and Mexico. Projects have included the Detroit Institute of Arts and Cultural Center and the Baltimore Orioles stadium. Affiliate Barton Malow Design provides architecture and engineering services, while Barton Malow Rigging installs process equipment and machinery. Carl Osborn Barton founded the employee-owned firm as C.O. Barton Company in 1924.

Bennett Environmental Inc., which operates in Canada and the US, uses a high-temperature process (thermal oxidizer) to treat contaminated soil. The group operates treatment facilities for companies requiring offsite removal and treatment of construction debris and contaminated soil before recycling or disposal. It treats such toxins as PCBs, pesticides, dioxins, creosote, and PCPs. Most of its revenues are generated from its waste remediation plant at Saint Ambroise, Quebec. The company began as a unit of oil spill equipment group Aqua-Guard Technologies, which was also founded by former chairman John Bennett.

Established in 1857, William A. Berry & Son, Inc. prospered as a local North Shore builder, specializing in high-end carpentry and millwork. Founded by William Berry, a respected member of a prominent Danvers family, Berry is one of the oldest construction companies in the nation. The last member of the Berry family to own the company was third generation Dudley "Max" Berry. A graduate of West Point, Max Berry developed an unusual niche for his family business: moving historical buildings. From the 1940's through the mid 1980's, Berry relocated homes from New Hampshire and Vermont and rebuilt them in locations such as South Natick, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

Besse Forest Products Group is branching out and it wooden want it any other way. Consisting of about a dozen firms, the group manufactures and exports hardwood lumber, veneer, and plywood from nearly 20 species of trees. The group's manufacturing plants, including veneer cutting and splicing plants, rotary cutting mills, and sawmills, have the capacity to produce more than 850 million sq. ft. of veneer and some 40 million board feet of lumber annually. Besse Forest Products Group also exports lumber, logs, and veneer from its mills and warehouses in the US and Canada, with the bulk of its operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. Owned by the Besse family, the group was founded in 1966.

McGuyer Homebuilders, Inc. company annually builds some 3,000 single-family residential homes in Texas in the Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio areas. The company markets its homes under the Coventry Homes, Pioneer Homes, Carmel Homes, and Plantation Homes brands, with prices ranging from the low $100,000s to more than $1 million. It operates from four offices in its service areas. Chairman and CEO Frank McGuyer and president and COO Mike Love, founders of MHI and MHI Partnership, Ltd., have worked closely since the start-up of the businesses in 1988.

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