Wastren Advantage's advantage is that it handles the kind of waste that others won't handle. The environmental services company provides radioactive and hazardous waste management, including packaging, transport, and disposal. Wastren Advantage also provides facilities operations and maintenance, decontamination and decommissioning, pollution prevention, site remediation, and various environmental engineering services. It manages facilities and cleanups for federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as for private companies. Based in Piketon, Ohio, the company also has offices in Grand Junction and Thornton, Colorado; Kevil, Kentucky; Chesapeake, Virginia; and Houston, Texas.

Carlin Combustion Technology burns more than just the midnight oil. Carlin Combustion Technology, Inc. makes natural gas, propane, fuel oil, and furnace oil burners, as well as igniters, controls, and related components such as motors, oil valves, circuit interfaces, and burner cover kits, for both residential and commercial applications. It also offers one-day professional training sessions on the components, setup, and testing of its residential oil, residential gas, and commercial oil and gas burners. Carlin Combustion Technology distributes its products throughout the US, as well as in Puerto Rico and Canada.

Shaped by Messrs. Raub, Bein, and Frost, RBF Consulting has built a reputation for helping to build Southern California's infrastructure. The firm provides engineering, planning (it surveyed the initial site for Disneyland), and construction management services for public and private sector projects. RBF has expanded both its size and its breadth of services over the years by acquiring other firms, and now has more than a dozen offices in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Formerly known as Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates, RBF has been ranked among country's top 100 engineering design firms.

Brookfield Homes builds you up as the master of your own domain. A spinoff of Brookfield Properties, the land developer and homebuilder designs and constructs single- and multi-family homes for move-up and luxury buyers. Its homes average about $486,000 and are located in master-planned communities in Northern and Southern California; the Washington, DC, area; and other noncore markets. The company is merging with the residential division of Brookfield Properties, which will focus on office developments. The deal will create Brookfield Residential Properties -- a top North American land and housing company. Brookfield Asset Management owns 82% of Brookfield Homes and will maintain control of the combined group.

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.

Shepherd Homes has tended its portfolio well. The company develops urban and rural properties for a diverse range of homebuyers, from one-bedroom apartments to five-bedroom executive homes. Shepherd Homes is a subsidiary of Shepherd Building Group Limited, one of the largest family-owned, private companies in the UK building industry.

Deltec Homes, Inc. company, which was founded in 1968, crafts circular houses to serve as primary or vacation homes. It offers 10 models of round homes that range in size from 300 sq. ft. to 2,500 sq. ft. per level. Each model can be built as a one-, two-, or three-story home, with added living space possible by adding wings or by connecting two or more homes. Deltec Homes designs its homes to be hurricane- and high wind-resistant. The dwellings have roofing systems built with a ring-and-collar system and there are no single, flat sections wider than 8 ft. Most Deltec circular homes are built at the company's plant and can be shipped for on-site assembly around the world.

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.

Bennett Lumber Products annually produces about 150 million board ft. of lumber from such species as Douglas fir, white fir, inland red cedar, Idaho white pine, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and ponderosa pine. The company ships its products by truck and rail, and distributes them throughout the US and Canada. Guy Bennett founded the enterprise in 1939, sawing scrap lumber to build fruit crates for area orchards. It encompasses the operations of the former Guy Bennett Lumber Company in Clarkston, Washington and Bennett Lumber Products in Princeton, Idaho, which merged in 2003.

Jacobsen Construction Company helps to build a strong foundation. The company performs design/build services and general contracting for medical and medical research, commercial, hospitality, institutional, residential, manufacturing, and industrial construction projects mainly in the western US and Mexico. Jacobsen Construction performs earthwork, concrete work, structural steel and metals erection, carpentry, and the setting of industrial equipment. The company, which is employee-owned, makes most of its revenue from negotiated work and from work awarded in negotiated selection processes. Soren Jacobsen founded the enterprise in Salt Lake City in 1922.

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