Fortis Construction isn't afraid to get its hands dirty. The fast-growing US construction company offers general contracting, preconstruction, construction management, and environmentally-friendly green building services to customers primarily in Portland, Oregon and others in the Pacific Northwest. It specializes in remodeling and upgrading corporate offices, health care facilities, retail complexes, and schools; it also conducts seismic and structural upgrades. Customers have included Oregon State University, Portland State University, PPG Industries, and StanCorp.

Dominion Homes is the master of its domain -- some 60 communities in central Ohio, and in and around Jefferson, Indiana, and Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. The company builds single-family entry-level, move-up, and luxury homes, as well as townhomes that range from about 1,000 sq. ft. to 3,500 sq. ft. Homes are priced between $90,000 to more than $300,000. Centennial Home Mortgage, an affiliate of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, offers financing, and affiliate Alliance Title Agency sells title insurance. In 2008 Dominion Homes was taken private by a group of investors, including founder and CEO Donald Borror and his BRC Properties, plus Angelo, Gordon & Co., and Silver Point Capital.

Harry Mathews Jr. founded the privately-held company as the Mississippi Sand Company in Alton, Illinois in 1907. If you've been looking for lime in all the wrong places, your troubles are over. Mississippi Lime Company mines and manufactures such products as high-calcium lime, limestone, and other calcium-based chemicals used in agriculture applications or food additives. The company has operations in Missouri, South Carolina, West Virginia, and in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where its Falco Lime division is headquartered. Falco Lime serves customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Another division, Reagent Technology Services, provides air pollution control products.

Populous builds it, they will come. Formerly known as HOK Sport Venue Event, the global architecture firm specializes in sports and entertainment facility design and also offers graphic design, interior design, and facility assessment services, which are intended to help facility owners make operational changes and improvements. Clients include the Major League Baseball and National Football League franchises, colleges and universities, and soccer and rugby teams. Outside of the US, Populous has completed projects in Asia, Australia, and Europe. The company was spun off from HOK Group in a management buyout in early 2009.

Sigdo Koppers is a holding company with more than 40 subsidiaries involved in heavy construction, civil engineering, appliance manufacturing, plastics, and automobile and industrial machinery sales and distribution. Main subsidiary Sigdo Koppers Ingeniería y Construcción (ICSK) owns the largest fleet of heavy machinery in Chile and is responsible for infrastructure and development projects across South America. Other companies are involved in industrial services related to mining, energy, and forestry, including chemical plants for producing ammonium nitrate fertilizer and explosives.

B. L. Harbert International Group provides highway and heavy construction services for commercial, industrial, and public projects throughout the world, primarily in the Southeast US. The design/build company's portfolio includes commercial and institutional buildings, research facilities, hotels and condominiums, water and wastewater treatment plants, dams and highways, and pipelines. B. L. Harbert International has offices in the US and Dubai. CEO Billy Harbert, Jr., leads the family-owned company, which traces its roots to the 1949 founding of Harbert Construction by brothers Bill and John Harbert.

Appalachian Log Homes designs and builds modern-day log structures for families and businesses. The company has more than 40 different pre-designed floor plans for log homes that range in size from about 430 sq. ft. to more than 4,000 sq. ft. and contain such modern amenities as sunrooms and skylights. The company can also custom-design homes to customer specifications. It makes log siding, railing, staircases, and wall systems as well. Commercial uses for the company's products include restaurants, office buildings, retail stores, churches, meeting halls, and lodges.

Zhejiang Expressway is an infrastructure company principally engaged in investing in, developing and operating high grade roads. The Company and its subsidiaries also carry out certain ancillary businesses such as automobile servicing, operation of gas stations and billboard advertising along expressways, as well as securities business.

Sidney Cubbage provides a variety of building engineering services, primarily air conditioning, heating, plumbing, refrigeration, and ventilation. Subsidiary Thames Ducting makes and installs ventilation ductwork. Sidney Cubbage's handiwork is most often found in hospitals, leisure centers, schools, and office buildings. Alfred McAlpine, Krispy Kreme, University of Reading, and various county councils are counted among the firm's clients. Sidney Cubbage founded his eponymous firm in 1927; semi-retired chairman Paul Remsbury bought the company along with Rod Harris in 1971.

Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables and to control cable dynamics. These products also include hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. It also provides protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. In addition, the company offers data communication cabinets that are used in high-speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment; plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

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