Veridian Homes wants to paint the town green. As an environmental steward, Veridian Homes builds communities with homes that are both Energy Star- and Green Built Home-certified. Those homes must meet strict standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Veridian offers more than 40 floor plans (with such distinguished names as The Bentley, The Carter, The Everest, and The Oxford) for single-family detached homes as well as condominiums in about 20 neighborhoods in Dane County and Madison, Wisconsin. The company also supports buyers in home plan selection, interior design modifications, and financing.

The company manufactures veneers and hardwood lumber, primarily using species that include ash, cherry, hard maple, hickory, walnut, poplar, red oak, white oak, and other native American trees. NVI markets its products to manufacturers of furniture, plywood, doors, and cabinetry. The employee-owned company uses the sawdust left over from production to fuel its boiler, which produces steam energy to run production processes.

The Adams Manufacturing Company cares for the air. The company makes oil and gas furnaces for residential, commercial, and light industrial applications in the US and Canada; the furnaces, can also be adapted for use as air conditioners. The company also manufactures humidifiers, air cleaners, oil and gas burners, and related components such as it also sells component parts such as pilot ignition systems, hygrometers, and draft control mechanisms. Sidney Schonberger founded The Adams Manufacturing Company in 1945.

Rothenberg Sawasy Architects provides architectural and interior design services through its offices in Los Angeles and San Diego and in Beijing. The company's clients include The Allstate Corporation, Bank of America, Brinks International, and MetLife. Managing principal Mark Rothenberg and design principal Mitchell Sawasy founded the firm in 1979.

GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., provides environmental consulting and remediation, geotechnical engineering, construction management, and regulatory compliance services through a network of 25 US locations. It also offers air quality monitoring services through its Airlogics partnership, and operates a soil and rock instrumentation division. The company operates Baystate Environmental Consultants which provides civil engineering, natural resource management, environmental permitting, and environmental land planning services across the US.

S. T. Wooten Corporation is a heavy construction firm that specializes in building roads and other civil infrastructure projects in the Carolinas, Florida, and other southeastern states. It operates through more than a half dozen business units: asphalt, commercial, quality concrete, ready mix concrete, heavy grade, structures, and utilities. It has 13 asphalt plants and 17 ready-mix concrete plants. Seth T. Wooten Sr. founded the company in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, in 1952. Seth Wooten Jr. serves as the company's CEO; the Wooten family continues to own the business.

A scrap metal processing and recycling company, Upstate Shredding converts scrap metal from appliances, automobiles, machines, and other sources into commodities sold to mills, foundries, and manufacturers around the world. It processes both ferrous (iron) and nonferrous metals -- including 700,000 tons of iron and 21,000 tons of aluminum annually -- and sells a significant portion of its products to steel mills in India, China, and other Asian countries. Founded in 1996 by president Adam Weitsman, Upstate Shredding is today one of New York State's largest privately-owned scrap metal companies.

Fullmer Construction is full of ideas when it comes to commercial construction. The company, which does business as Fullmer Companies, provides commercial and industrial construction and reconstruction service in Southern California, including tenant improvements. Typical projects include industrial centers, airport facilities, and office/warehouse spaces. The company has built more than 2,000 buildings totaling about 98 million sq. ft. of space. Fullmer was founded in 1946; founder Leonard Fullmer still serves as a consultant to the family-controlled firm.

Rooney Holdings, through Manhattan Construction and other subsidiaries, builds hospitals, schools, government buildings, roads and bridges, and sports facilities including the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and Reliant Stadium in Houston. Rooney's family of companies offer construction management, general contracting, and design/build services in the US, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. The family-owned company also operates an insurance agency and manufactures electronics through OAI Electronics.

Viceroy Homes Limited designs and manufactures modular, panelized, pre-engineered custom home packages for both owner/builder clients and professional contractors. Its packages, which include all materials needed to construct a home (doors, windows, flooring), are sold throughout North America and also are shipped around the world. Viceroy constructs what is called a "healthy house" (built with products free of formaldehyde and other solvents). The company, which was founded in the mid-1950s, operates manufacturing plants in Ontario and British Columbia. In 2008 the company was taken private by Open Investments (OPIN) of Russia.

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