Gehan Homes builds single-family houses in about 60 communities in and around Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Its houses range in price from the low $100,000s to the low $300,000s. Gehan Homes owns the land it builds on and provides mortgage brokerage through majority-owned Suburban Mortgage. Through cutting costs and slowing down production, the homebuilder is working to stay afloat in a market that has caused several competitors to file for bankruptcy or shut down operations. John Gehan founded the family-owned company in the 1960s.

Overland Contracting Inc, the company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Black & Veatch, offers engineering, procurement, and construction services on electric utility substations, power plants, water and wastewater facilities, telecommunications sites, and gas, oil, and chemical facilities throughout the US. From testing to laying the foundation, the company is involved in nearly every part of the building process. Headquartered in Georgia, the company also has regional offices in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and North Carolina. Customers have included Florida Power & Light Company and T-Mobile.

HITT Contracting hits the nail on the general contracting head. The group provides turnkey construction services for corporate base building, aviation, legal, hospitality, technology, research, medical, and institutional and governmental facilities. Projects have included construction and design for the Federal Reserve, DirecTV, and Greenpeace. In addition to general contracting, HITT offers design, interior, paint, preconstruction, and construction management services. The firm also handles many eco-friendly projects, historic renovations, and infrastructure refits. HITT operates in more than 30 states. The family-owned and operated firm was founded in 1937 as W.A. Hitt Decorating Co. by Warren and Myrtle Hitt.

Parsons Transportation Group, Inc.,the company provides engineering, construction, management, and maintenance services for infrastructure projects including airports, railroads, highways, and tunnels. In addition to handling large-scale building projects, Parsons Transportation Group offers expertise in revenue collection and management systems, communication and control systems engineering, and transportation planning services. It serves public and private customers around the world. Parsons Transportation Group is a business unit of engineering giant Parsons Corporation.

WYG doesn't ask "why?" It asks "why not?" The British engineering company provides a variety of civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and structural engineering consulting services. In addition to its facilities in the UK, it also has operations in Ireland, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. Its services, however, are not confined to its office locations; the company has completed projects as far away as Malaysia and Oman. Subsidiaries include management consultancy DeLeeuw International, consulting engineers Adams Kara Taylor, and construction project manager Trench Farrow. Its work may be spread far and wide but the UK accounts for about two-thirds of sales at WYG, which was formed in 1959.

Waste Industries USA, Inc.,the active consolidator has made more than 130 acquisitions since 1990. When it's not buying companies, Waste Industries USA is collecting, hauling, and disposing of solid waste for 875,000 municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the southeastern US. The company has 34 collection operations, and about 65 drop-off centers, 29 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and nine landfills. In 2008 Chairman Lonnie Pool Jr. led an investor group that took the company private for about $544 million.

Manafort Brothers' manifest destiny is to tear things down and build things up. The heavy construction firm specializes in demolition, wrecking, and site excavation projects, working primarily in Connecticut and surrounding areas of New England. Manafort Brothers also does excavation and foundation work; builds roads; installs utility lines; and engages in concrete construction and waste removal. The company works in both the public and private sectors with projects ranging from university parking garages to power plant demolition. The family-owned firm was founded in 1919 by Italian immigrant James Manafort as the New Britain House Wrecking Company.

Argan makes sure its customers stay all juiced up. The holding company includes subsidiaries that provide services and products for the government, telecommunications, power, and personal health care industries. Its main subsidiary, Gemma Power Systems, designs and builds power plants including traditional and alternate fuel plants. Argan's Southern Maryland Cable unit provides inside premise wiring and also performs splicing and underground and aerial telecom infrastructure construction services to carriers, government entities, service providers, and electric utilities. Argan's Vitarich Laboratories arm makes and distributes private-label dietary supplements and other nutraceuticals and health care products.

Jones Bros., Inc. company has evolved from a partnership between two brothers, Guy and Dillon Jones, with one bulldozer, to one of the largest bridge builders and heavy construction firms in the southeastern US. A transportation specialist, the company also is involved in highway construction and grading; site preparation for residential, industrial, and commercial projects; concrete paving; asphalt paving and operation of asphalt plants; and sewer rehabiliation using trenchless technologies. The company is still owned and operated by the Jones' descendants, including president and CEO M. Dale McCulloch, Guy Jones' grandson.

Industrial TurnAround Corporation (ITAC) makes sure that wheels turn and conveyors churn at industrial plants around the world. ITAC provides architectural and design expertise, construction management, and electrical and mechanical engineering to clients whose facilities are based on heavy production, such as biofuels, chemical, metal, pharmaceutical, power, pulp and paper, and tobacco. It also offers on-site staffing (for clients who need temporary project managers, draftsmen, CAD operators, and other support staff), as well as hazard and fall prevention assessment, equipment, and training. Clients include Amtrak, Honeywell International, and NASA.

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