VELUX has been bringing natural light and ventilation into buildings since its founding in 1941. The company manufactures skylights and roof windows, as well as decoration and sunscreening products, roller shutters, blinds, remote control units, and solar panels. VELUX, which is part of VKR Holding, has production facilities in 10 countries and sells its products in nearly 40 countries worldwide. VELUX was founded by civil engineer Villum Kann Rasmussen, who invented the window for sloping roofs in Denmark and trademarked the product in 1942.

Bovis Lend Lease is a key player in the global construction market. The subsidiary of Australian real estate firm Lend Lease provides management and construction services for nearly every project phase, including consultation, design/build services, and construction management. Its many projects have included the Staten Island September 11 Memorial, London's Paddington Central Station, and The Blue City development project in Oman. Bovis Lend Lease operates in more than 30 countries, offering management services for commercial, residential, government, industrial, and infrastructure projects. Its technology division provides design/build services focused on IT facilities.

Shook National Corporation provides commercial and industrial construction services through its subsidiaries. The group offers design/build, construction management, and traditional general contracting project delivery through its ABS General Contractors, Amerticon, Shook Construction, Shook Masonry, and Shook, Inc., subsidiaries. The company specializes in healthcare and industrial facilities, commercial, institutional and educational buildings, telecommunications and data centers, as well as infrastructure projects such as water and waste water treatment plants. Founded in 1926 by Charles Shook, the now employee-owned company has offices in Indiana and Ohio.

Truland Systems takes current events seriously. The US electrical contractor is a privately-held group made up of about 10 companies that design, build, test, and maintain electrical systems in offices, condominiums, hospitals, hotels, sports stadiums, and mass transit facilities. Its services focus on building automated systems that increase speed and decrease energy consumption. As a specialty contractor, it is hired by general contractors, as well as commercial and public facility owners and developers. Clients have included Turner Construction, AOL, and the US Department of Homeland Security. Founded in 1913, the company is in its second generation of being family run, led by CEO Robert Truland.

Phillips and Jordan, Incorporated, founded in 1952 as a small land clearing firm, P&J is a general and specialty contractor that still provides land clearing services in addition to industrial, commercial, and residential site development and heavy civil construction on dams, highways, bridges, railroads, and waterways. P&J also performs reclamation, landfill, and disaster recovery services. The latter includes handling some of the nation's worst disaster cleanups, including hurricanes, floods, toxic spills, and land and rock slides. P&J operates more than a dozen offices throughout the Southeast and in California. The Phillips family owns the company.

Installux provides the framework that will allow it to be the window to your world. The French manufacturer operates several divisions, Installux Aluminum, Stores Roche, Tiaso, and Sofadi, each of which offers different aluminum frame and fitting products used in residential and commercial construction. Its products are used in door, window, awning, and wall partition installation. Installux has operations in Europe and Asia, as well as in the Middle East, where it is actively expanding. It has supplied products to such projects as the Gajria building in Bahrain and the Beverly Hills tower in Qatar.

Standard Pacific's foundation is built on single-family homes. The company, one of the US's top 20 builders, constructs homes in California and Florida (which combined generate more than half of its sales), as well as Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas. Its homes typically range in size from 1,500 sq. ft. to more than 3,500 sq. ft. The average cost of a Standard Pacific home in 2009 was more than $300,000, from an average low of $190,000 in Florida to $434,000 in California. The company also builds condominiums, buys and develops land tracts (both alone and through joint ventures), and offers mortgage loans in all of its markets and title services in Texas.

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.

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.

Johnson & Jennings General Contracting provides construction services in the San Diego area. Projects range from corporate office, health care, and retail construction to commercial and industrial facility tenant improvements. Services include project evaluation and consulting, estimating, and construction management. CEO Tom Johnson and president Jackie Jennings co-own the company they founded in 1981.

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