EllisDon is hoping to some day build its way to the very top of Canada's construction industry. One of the country's largest construction companies, EllisDon is a design/build firm that offers a range of services, including preconstruction, engineering, general contracting, and project management. Other services include arranging project financing for clients and updating and designing IT and communication systems for building infrastructures. EllisDon's major projects have included airports, hospitals, office buildings, schools, and shopping centers. The firm does most of its business in Canada, but it has also completed major projects in the US, United Arab Emirates, West Indies, Greece, and other countries.

Simons Group says it designs and builds industrial and commercial buildings in the UK. Its Simons Construction unit, along with subsidiary Wrights Construction, builds distribution centers, hospitals, schools, retail and leisure spaces, and offices, as well as providing engineering services to customers. The group handles its property investment business through Simons Estates. Simons Design operates as its architecture and design division. Chairman and CEO Paul Hodgkinson and his brother, Philip, own the group.

Oldcastle Materials, Inc. is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete, and construction and paving services in the United States. Our operations span the nation from Montana to Texas and from Washington to Florida. We’re local to the customers and communities that depend on our materials, yet we deliver the best practice standards and efficiencies of a company with a national presence. Oldcastle Materials has 18,000 employees at more than 1,400 operations in 44 states and generated over $6 billion in revenues in 2009. Towns have grown up around our operations, using Oldcastle products to fuel their growth. Our expansion is steady and strategic to meet the nation’s needs for new roadways, facilities and other infrastructure.

Highway engineering and bridge builder C.C. Myers is the master of the spaghetti bowl. Known for its work on elevated highway structures, the firm primarily serves California and Nevada, but also works in seven other western states. The company often is called to rebuild roadways that have been damaged. One of C.C. Myer's most notable projects was the 17-day reconstruction of a portion of San Francisco's I-5 known as the MacArthur Maze, which had collapsed after a fire. The company also rebuilt the Santa Monica freeway after an earthquake in 1994. In addition to its highway and bridge work, it also builds retaining walls and other public infrastructure. CEO and owner Clint C. Myers founded the firm in 1977.

International Barrier Technology Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary fire resistant building materials designed to protect people and property from the destruction of fire in the United States. It provides Pyrotite, a fire-barrier material designed to prevent ignition and inhibit the spread of flames; and Blazeguard, a composite fire-rated panel for various markets, including multifamily roof deck applications, structural insulated panels, commercial roof deck applications, and roof assemblies in commercial modular buildings.

CEMEX de Puerto Rico makes cement in Puerto Rico. Shocking, but true. Formerly Puerto Rican Cement Company (PRCC), the company operates a cement plant and about 20 ready-mix facilities, an aggregates quarry, and two land distribution centers in Puerto Rico. CEMEX de Puerto Rico serves cement customers throughout the island, but its ready-mix operations are concentrated in the eastern part of the island; it has an installed capacity of about 1.2 million tons a year. Its parent company, Mexico-based giant CEMEX, operates primarily in North America and Europe, but has customers throughout the world.

ABI (UK) makes a wide range of manufactured second homes, known in the UK as holiday homes. Its models have one, two, or three bedrooms; options include electric fireplaces and kitchen islands. Prices range from about £16,000 ($26,000) to some £61,000 (approximately $99,000). The company sells its homes to dealers and holiday parks throughout the UK and Ireland and in about a dozen European countries. Top customers include Parkdean Holidays and Park Resorts. ABI (UK) was formed as Ace Belmont International in 1972 following the merger of travel trailer company ACE International and leisure home company Belmont.

Weis Builders is a commercial and institutional builder with a portfolio that includes industrial, health care, hospitality, multi-unit residential, retail (some 35 million sq. ft.) military, mixed-use, and senior living facilities. The company offers build-to-suit, construction management, design/build, general contracting, and turnkey delivery methods to provide its range of services from planning and site analysis, due diligence and entitlement, and engineering to preconstruction and construction. John Weis founded the company as a small cabinetmaking firm in 1939; Weis Builders continues to be owned and operated by the Weis family, including chairman and CEO Jay Weis and president and COO Erik Weis.

Axis Construction revolves around building health care facilities, from operating suites and emergency rooms to outpatient treatment centers and medical imaging facilities. About 80% of the company's business comes from the health care industry, but Axis also constructs commercial and retail buildings, modular structures, and educational and intuitional facilities. The company provides general contracting, construction management, design/build, consulting, and renovation services to clients throughout New York. Its list of clients include Brookhaven National Lab, Northrop Grumman. Axis Construction was founded in 1993 by company leaders Robert Wihlborg and Roy and Ralph Lambert.

ROEL Construction builds large commercial projects,the general contractor provides commercial building preconstruction, construction, and management services to private-sector customers in the western US. It offers services including construction forensics, design, and management, focusing on new construction, tenant improvements, structural concrete work, and consulting. ROEL Construction has California offices in Palm Desert, Irvine, and San Diego, and another office in Las Vegas. The family-owned company was founded in 1917 by Tom Roel, great-grandfather of president and COO Kevin Elliott. Suffolk Construction is buying ROEL to boost its presence in Southern California.

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