KML Engineering can usually be found between Point-A and Point-B. The company is a leading provider of solutions and systems for the public transportation and utility industries. Systems designed by KML include Toll collection systems, automatic fare collection, display and queue management systems, and entrance control (turnstiles). The company's fabrication services unit provides consoles, equipment cabinets, and terminal kiosks. KML's engineering division delivers engineering expertise in fields including railway signaling, communications, and electrical power distribution. Affiliate KML Technology Limited markets KML Engineering's revenue collection and turnstile systems.

HSU Development is one company that "does" get it. The full-service construction company (which serves private- and government-sector clients) claims projects with these venerable institutions in its portfolio. HSU Development's services include pre-construction, design/build, construction management, general contracting, mission-critical assessments, historical renovations, residential building, and land development. The company works primarily in and around Washington, D.C. CEO Walter Hsu founded the firm in 1994.

Envoy wants to serve as an ambassador of construction management services for public- and private-sector projects in Indiana. The company's services include strategic planning, structural design, bidding, scheduling, contracting, and site management. Projects include schools, fire stations, police stations, museums, shopping centers, and other municipal, commercial, and institutional facilities.

The Rottlund Company (Rottlund Homes) develops the land people live on and builds the houses they live in. The company builds condominiums, townhouses, villas, and detached single-family homes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and in Florida and Iowa. Rottlund's homes range in price from $125,000 to more than $1 million. The company targets a wide range of customers, from first-time and move-up buyers to active adults and retirees. Brothers David Rotter (the firm's chairman) and the late Bernard Rotter founded the company in 1973. The Rotter family continues to own the company.

While Leonardo created masterpieces out of paint and canvas, Leopardo creates them from brick and mortar. One of the top contractors in Illinois, Leopardo Companies, which also has an office in South Carolina, provides an array of construction services from pre-construction and general contracting to construction management, design-build, green building, and real estate development. Projects include office buildings; health care facilities; senior housing; retail, office, and industrial space; airports; condos; and community projects, such as churches, libraries, and schools. It is also a top interiors contractor. CEO Jim Leopardo started the company in 1979.

Homasote Company sees green when it comes to building materials. It manufactures environmentally-friendly fiberboard for use in residential and commercial construction. The fiberboard is made from recycled paper and contains no asbestos or formaldehyde. Applications include roof decking, concrete forming, paneling, insulating, sound proofing, and industrial packaging purposes. Its Pak-Line division creates packaging materials for electronics. Homasote processes up to 250 tons of post-consumer paper daily, helping to conserve 1.4 million trees and eliminate 65 million pounds of waste per year.

Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

Linford Group maintains many construction operations under one roof. The company handles construction projects for the education, health-care, commercial, retail, industrial, and residential sectors, serving clients located throughout the UK. Linford's other operations include property development, interior remodeling, stonework, and woodwork. It also operates historic building restoration companies Linford-Bridgeman and Faenol Linford (in North Wales). Linford was founded in 1877 as a family-owned company, now headed by chairman David Linford.

Pacific National Group (PNG) performs general contracting and construction management services in Arizona and Southern California. The company tackles a range of projects, including commercial and industrial complexes, medical buildings, high-tech and aerospace centers, and sports and recreation facilities. The company offers pre-construction through post construction services as well as site supervision. Its Modulex division manufactures aluminum door frames and glazing systems. PNG's client roster includes Northrop Grumman, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Universal Studios, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The company was founded in 1959 as Pacific Luminaire.

Joseph Vicat, whose father invented a method of creating artificial cement, founded Vicat in 1853. The Vicat family continues to lead the company. Vicat's objectives are set in stone. The company produces some 21 million tons of cement and aggregates and 10 million cubic meters of concrete per year. Vicat operates about a dozen cement plants and grinding plants, more than 200 concrete plants, and 70 quarries in Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. It also has operations in specialty chemicals and paper manufacturing, transportation, and precast concrete. More than half of Vicat's revenues come from outside of France. In 2010 Vicat expanded into India with plans to acquire 51% of Bharathi Cement.

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