A Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, Clayton Homes builds one- and two-story modular and manufactured houses and other buildings that range in price from $20,000 to more than $130,000 for upscale models and range in size from around 700 to more than 3,000 sq. ft. The homes are built at about 35 plants and distributed across the US through a network of about 1,800 mostly independent, but also company-owned retailers. Clayton's homes often contain products from fellow Berkshire Hathaway companies such as Shaw flooring, Johns Manville insulation and MiTek fasteners. Clayton Homes also offers home financing, loan-servicing, and insurance through subsidiaries.

Nuprecon. Considered one of the largest companies in its industry, Nuprecon specializes in demolition services, including total building and targeted demolition, and plant dismantlement. Nuprecon also offers environmental remediation and abatement, construction-related debris and hazardous waste recycling, and concrete sawing and drilling. Serving various industries, the company's projects have included factories, office and retail buildings, hotels, hospitals, and government buildings. Nuprecon, which is majority-owned by private equity firm Evergreen Pacific Partners, merged with competitor CST Environmental in 2008.

Meruelo Enterprises (dba The Meruelo Group) takes a diverse interest in California businesses. A holding company, the Meruelo Group owns five construction and engineering firms that specialize in utility and telecom construction in the southwestern US. The minority-owned group also owns interests in a handful southern California restaurants, including pizza chain La Pizzeria Loca, an operator of 50 franchised and Meruelo-owned stores in Los Angeles, and Pacific Whey Café, an upscale cafe and bakery chain. In addition, Meruelo also actively invests in commercial and residential properties and middle-market companies through affiliates. Founded by CEO Alex Meruelo, the group traces its roots back to the 1980s.

Holloman isn't the stuff of poetry, but rather the Texas oil patch. Employee-owned Holloman installs, repairs, and upgrades pipelines for the oil and gas industry, public and private utilities that handle water and wastewater, and sports facilities. Holloman also builds or upgrades gas compressor stations, petroleum processing plants, and utility pump stations. The company's in-house engineering staff designs and constructs process plants for its oil and gas clients; it also seeks out civil, mechanical, or process jobs. Subsidiary Holloman Minerals explores for minerals including uranium in Australia. Sam Holloman founded the company in 1967.

Petrin Corporation has got you covered. The company fabricates, distributes, and installs industrial insulation. Other services include asbestos and lead abatement, scaffolding erection, marine insulation, sand blasting, and power washing, as well as the application of specialty coatings for fireproofing, noise abatement, and tank linings. The company also supplies and installs removable covers for underground piping, exhaust systems, energy conservation, and protection against freezing. Founded in 1972, Petrin Corporation serves the chemical, marine, oil, petrochemical, power, sugar, and pulp and paper industries.

Belcan can take care of the technical stuff. The company's engineering division provides such services as product design, testing, procurement, and computer modeling. Its IT and media division produces videos and interactive presentations and provides desktop publishing and e-learning services. Belcan's automation and design/build team engineers and installs complete factory automation systems. The firm also offers technical and general staffing services. With nearly 60 offices in the US and around the world Belcan reaches clients in the aerospace, energy, health care, and manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 1958 by Ralph Anderson.

Delta Mutual, Inc., this development stage company has shifted its direction to being an environmental services provider. Delta Mutual offers waste processing and reclamation technology and equipment, as well as energy-efficient construction technologies to low-cost housing development projects. Its operations are concentrated in the US, the Asia/Pacific region, the Middle East, and Puerto Rico. In 2008 the company acquired American Hedge Fund LLC, a limited liability company that intends to make investments in South America.

Adolfson & Peterson provides general construction, construction management, design/build, and facilities maintenance services. With 10 offices scattered around the United States the company provides services for health care, multifamily residential, education, and institutional projects. Adolfson & Peterson also works on retail, office, hospitality, and manufacturing and distribution projects and offers historic renovation services. George Adolfson and Gordon Peterson established the company as a homebuilder in 1946. The Adolfson family has a majority stake in the company. David Adolfson (son of George Adolfson) continues to be active in the company and serves as chairman emeritus.

Dectron Internationale (DECT) was officially launched as a public corporation and has been trading in NASDAQ since fall of 1998 to March 2007 and the TSX since May 2005. The corporation originates from a consortium of private companies in the Indoor Air Quality industry.Dectron was founded in 1976 with the objective of preventing structural damage caused by high levels of humidity in indoor pools. In this pursuit, Dectron pioneers the indoor pool dehumidification market with the introduction of the DRY-O-TRON®, a mechanical dehumidification system that uses a revolutionary energy saving feature that controls humidity levels while helping maintain comfortable temperature levels of the pool’s water as well as the air inside the building.

United Electric Company makes air conditioning and heating components bearing the Magic Aire brand. A subsidiary of Carrier Corporation (itself a division of United Technologies), its product list includes chilled water and direct expansion blower coil units, modular blower coil units, roof top air handlers, floor and ceiling fan coil units, direct drive chilled water air units, direct drive direct expansion units, water coils and direct expansion coils, and ventilators. Magic Aire has product lines designed for commercial buildings, apartments, and residential usage; unit capacities range from 1 to 20 tons.

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