English Construction Company knows how to rack them up and then put a little English on its projects. The company provides contracting and design/build services for bridges, highways, dams, power plants, waste water treatment plants, and other heavy/civil structures throughout the mid-Atlantic and Southeast US. Its commercial and institutional construction projects include schools, churches, and historic renovations. The fourth-generation family-owned company was founded by W.B. English in 1909.

Worcester Heat Systems may have to look for a new line of work. Also known as Worcester Bosch, the UK company primarily makes oil and gas boilers (cast iron, combination, condensing, floor-standing, wall-mounted, and system boilers). Other offerings include solar panel hot water heating systems (Worcester Blue Skies) and under-floor heating systems. Founded in 1962, Worcester Heat Systems was acquired by automotive component manufacturer Bosch in 1996 and is part of the Worcester Bosch group.

AYH provides construction and property services that include project and cost management (quantity surveying), move management, facilities consulting, and technical and industrial occupational services. The company serves clients in the UK and mainland Europe in the hotel, retail, residential, leisure, and stadia sectors; corporate accommodations sector; commercial property development; and in the public sector (health, education, law enforcement, and central government). It also provides telecommunications services to build and maintain data and switch center facilities. AYH became a wholly-owned subsidiary of ARCADIS in 2005.

Maguire Group is an architectural, engineering, planning, and construction management firm that services clients from its 12 offices throughout the northeastern US and in the US Virgin Islands. The company, which was founded in 1938, was the first to ever receive the Presidential Award for Design Excellence. However, the firm, which was part of the team that designed Boston's ill-fated Big Dig project, developed serious financial problems from the fallout from that debacle. In 2009, Carlos Duart became the new president and CEO of Maguire Group after buying a controlling interest from retiring owner and CEO Richard Repeta. Maguire Group now operates as a subsidiary of Duart's Miami-based Metric Engineering.

NCI Group, Inc, a subsidiary of NCI Building Systems, manufactures metal roofing and wall systems for the commercial, industrial, architectural, residential and agricultural markets. Products include steel and aluminum roofing, siding, and light gauge framing materials. MBCI also makes trims, flashings, and accessories. All products are available in a variety of colors and textures. Founded in 1976, MBCI operates some 20 sales and manufacturing facilities throughout the US. The company sells to regional manufacturers, contractors, distributors, lumber yards, and other groups.

Aukett Fitzroy Robinson (formerly Aukett Group) has designs for urban sprawl. As one of Europe's leading architectural, design, and engineering services companies, the group offers master planning, landscape architecture, structural engineering, urban design, interior design, graphics design, and space planning. It has designed structures ranging from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design to a Procter & Gamble research center in Germany. Aukett purchased architectural design firm Fitzroy Robinson in April 2005.

Skidmore Owings & Merrill prefers a skyline view. One of the world's largest architectural and engineering firms, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (or SOM) has earned its fame with innovative modernist designs and such high-profile projects as the John Hancock Building and Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). Its portfolio of services includes graphics, interior design, and urban design and planning. Transportation planning, infrastructure planning, environmental engineering, and geotechnical engineering are part of its structural and civil engineering offerings. The firm, which has completed projects in more than 40 countries, has offices in several major metropolitan US cities and in Europe and Asia.

Palm Harbor Homes, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of factory-built homes in the United States. The company manufactures a range of single and multi-section manufactured and modular homes, including ranch-style homes. It also builds single-section homes, split-level homes, cape cod style homes, and two and three story homes, as well as multi-family units, such as apartments and duplexes. In addition, the company offers conforming mortgages to the purchasers of factory-built homes sold by company-owned retail sales centers, as well as through certain independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Further, it provides property and casualty insurance, as well as extended warranties for the owners of manufactured homes. As of September 24, 2010, the company sold homes through 54 of the company-owned retail sales centers and builder locations, as well as through approximately 135 independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Addison, Texas. On November 29, 2010, Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Delaware.

Cementos Portland Valderrivas is 67%-owned by construction firm Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. Cementos Portland Valderrivas has built a business on a strong foundation. The company, founded in 1903, produces some 18 million tons of cement and clinker (an intermediate product used to make portland cement) annually at 15 plants in Spain, the US, South America, Africa, and Europe. Its acquisition of 64% of Corporacion Uniland cemented its position as the #1 cement producer in Spain. In the eastern US, the company makes and distributes cement, gravel, and sand through Giant Cement Holding. It also produces concrete, operates lime factories, and has transportation companies.

HKS is a good sport when it comes to building design. One of the largest architectural firms in the world, HKS has designed sports and entertainment, health care, hospitality, industrial, and corporate buildings in the US and across the globe. The company offers structural engineering, architecture, project management, and interior and graphic design services. Some of the firm's most notable work includes the Dallas Cowboys football stadium, the Whole Foods Market world headquarters, The Blue Man Group theater in Las Vegas, and the King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan. HKS has more than 20 offices in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Dubai, China, and the UK. Harwood K. Smith founded the firm in 1939.

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