Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., the company has a long history of converting swords into plowshares, or in this case, nuclear weapons into nuclear fuel. It converts weapons-grade highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium that can be used as fuel for nuclear power plants. NFS also provides decontamination, decommissioning, and remediation of nuclear sites, as well as packaging and shipping of nuclear materials. The company was acquired by Babcock & Wilcox in 2008 for almost $160 million.

Engineering firm Gannett Fleming has waded through water, waste, and sludge for nearly a century. Founded in 1915, the company focuses on serving the transportation, water and wastewater, facilities, technology, and environmental industries. Gannett Fleming operates through about a dozen subsidiaries that offer a variety of services that range from design/build, construction management, ground testing and soil strengthening, site remediation, structural rehabilitation, electrical and mechanical installation, geophysical mapping and surveying, and 3D visualization. The company works on projects around the world and has more than 55 offices throughout the US and Canada.

Orascom Construction Industries (OCI),the Egyption company offers construction services and fertilizer products primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. OCI performs large-scale commercial, industrial, and infrastructure engineering and building services; principal operating units include the Besix Group in Belgium and Contrack International in the US. Its fertilizer operations include Egyptian Fertilizer Company and Gavilon. The company sold its cement operations to building materials behemoth Lafarge in 2008.

Griffith's gifts lie in general contracting services -- specifically road and bridge work and paving. The century-old company works mostly in Southern California and offers grading, paving, and concrete services, in addition to underground installation and material recycling. The engineering and heavy construction group specializes in transportation infrastructure and site development projects in the region. It also works on flood control and water management structures, airports, ports, and institutional, industrial, and commercial projects. The company, which was established in 1902 and held by the Griffith family for nearly a century, is now owned by its employees.

Barrett Paving Materials, Inc. has offices in Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maine, and Maryland. The folks at Barrett Paving Materials want the road to road construction to begin with them. The company, which works primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, manufactures asphalt, ready-mix concrete, and other paving materials. It also works as a road construction and paving contractor. Barrett Paving Materials produces its own raw materials at sand and stone quarries and gravel pits. Its projects have included highways, parking lots, airport runways, sports facilities, and bike paths. Barrett Paving Materials is owned by French construction firm Colas.

Founded in 1819 in Vienna and traded since 1869 on the Vienna Stock Exchange, Wienerberger can look back on a great tradition. Only in 1986 the company started its dynamic expansion, which has focused on building materials since the introduction of Value Management in 1997. This transformed Wienerberger from a local Austrian brick-maker into the world’s largest producer of bricks within a few years. During this time the number of production facilities rose from 11 to a level of 229 plants in 27 countries.The construction industry was hard hit by the worldwide recession in 2009, which triggered a sharp drop in the demand for building materials. On the one hand, new residential construction is heavily dependent on bank financing and, on the other hand, consumers tend to postpone investment decisions as a reaction to the weak economy and uncertain expectations for the future. Wienerberger implemented a wide-ranging action plan to adjust capacity to reflect these developments, which also included active working capital management to reduce inventories, a decrease in administrative and selling costs and a cutback in investments to the necessary minimum.

Aireco Supply, Inc. was established in 1952 under the name American Baking Supply; it changed its name to Aireco Supply in 1957. Aireco Supply goes with the flow -- the flow of hot and cold air. Aireco Supply, Inc. is a supplier of residential and commercial HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) and refrigeration parts and supplies in the Baltimore and Washington, DC areas. Its M&M Controls division specializes in environmental controls equipment for commercial and industrial applications. Through more than 35 branch locations in Maryland and Virginia, Aireco offers its customers more than 250 industry-recognized brands, including Copeland, Fluke, Frigidaire, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Manitowoc, and more.

Siteserv is a holding company that comprises a group of seven companies in infrastructure, industrial, and utilities support services and products related to power generation, telecommunications, major public event operations, and road construction. The companies Deborah Services, Easy Access, Donohue Scaffolding, Rentafence, RoanKabin Modular Building Systems, and Sierra Communications operate out of over 50 locations in three divisions (infrastructure and utilities, industrial and multidiscipline, and access equipment) throughout Ireland and the UK. Siteserv was founded in 2004.

Founded in 1990 as DGH Systems, the company was bought by Italy-based Carel SpA in 2000 and adopted its current name. Carel USA doesn't want you to sweat the small stuff -- or the big stuff either, for that matter. The company manufactures and distributes industrial and commercial humidifiers; heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC/R) controls and sensors; and monitoring and remote management systems for industrial, commercial, and clean room applications. Carel USA markets its products to HVAC/R market manufacturers, installers, and designers.

General Engineering lays the groundwork for a customer's business. The company manufactures prefabricated concrete building materials and distributes construction goods made by other manufacturers. Products include precast concrete forms, bridge bearings, and expansion joints. The company's core products are its prestressed concrete pilings. Designed for the moist climate and soft soil of Thailand, its pilings are used in the foundations of highways, factories, power plants, and other structures. General Engineering also produces industrial grout and rapid hardening concrete under a license from Japan-based Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Customers include the Thailand Department of Highways.

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