Rick Engineering Company provides civil and transportation engineering, planning, and design services for government agencies, real estate companies, and other public and private institutions in the Southwest US. The company's offerings surveying and mapping, water resources modeling, aerial photogrammetry, legal support services, and specialized computer services. The company's urban design and planning division has overseen streetscape improvements, master planning and landscape architecture projects for municipalities and communities. Rick Engineering Company operates from eight offices in Southern California and in Arizona. The firm was founded as Glenn A. Rick Engineering and Development in 1955.

Sekisui Chemical (named for a concept of power taken from Sun-Tsu's Art of War) is a central corporation of the Sekisui "keiretsu --" companies affiliated through cross-ownership. Its main segments include housing, urban infrastructure and environmental products, and high performance plastics. Prefabricated housing (detached steel-framed and wooden-framed construction), accounts for about half of its sales. Other products include plastic pipes and fittings (used in water and sewage systems), medical multifrequency body fat meters, pipe valves, foams for automotive and construction applications, and rain gutters.

Glenn O. Hawbaker (GOH), it's all about making the grade. Founded as an excavating and grading company, GOH provides heavy construction, concrete construction, utility work, asphalt production, and heavy equipment rentals and sales. From its home base in Pennsylvania, the company serves customers in the north-central portion of the state. GOH also operates 17 quarries and eight asphalt production facilities in Pennsylvania and New York. Its Hawbaker Engineering subsidiary provides civil engineering services and site designs. The family-owned company was founded in 1952 by Glenn and Thelma Hawbaker, the parents of president and CEO Daniel Hawbaker.

WBB Minerals extracts and processes clay and sand for customers worldwide. More than 6,000 buyers in a variety of industries -- primarily ceramics, construction, foundries, glass, and sports and leisure -- use material from WBB Minerals. WBB operates throughout the UK and Europe. The company was created through the merger of Watts Blake Bearne & Co. and Sibelco Minerals and Chemicals. WBB Minerals is part of the Sibelco Group.

Hartzell Fan, an affiliate of Hartzell Industries, manufactures industrial ventilation and heating equipment for direct sale and for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America. Its product roster includes propeller fans; exhaust, duct, and utility fans; roof and wall ventilators; gas and steam heaters; and special application products such as adjustable pitch fans, mine- and marine-duty fans and blowers, and special duty axial flow fans, as well as related parts. It constructs its products from aluminum, steel, and fiberglass. Brands include Cool Blast and HartKool.

Bertrandt AG provides engineering design for the global automotive and aviation industries. Its services include design, prototyping, and model construction, as well as parts processing. Bertrandt develops modules and vehicle derivatives, often collaborating with others in the industry. It develops bodywork, interiors, chassis, engines, and electronics systems, working closely with OEM customers such as AUDI, BMW, Daimler, and Ford. Founded in 2007, subsidiary Bertrandt Services provides human resources services throughout Germany. Harry Bertrandt founded the company as a one-man engineering firm in 1974. The company operates about 30 branches throughout Europe and one in Detroit.

Nasland Engineering provides civil engineering, surveying, and land planning services to private land developers and government agencies in Southern California and Arizona. It offers services for developing subdivisions, commercial/industrial sites, apartments and condominiums, and streets and highways. It also offers flood-control planning, utilities system design, hydrology studies, assessment district engineering, and consulting services. Projects include work for Sea World, the San Diego River Improvement Project, and the redesign of National City, California's "Mile of Cars" auto dealer district. In 1959 Don Nasland founded the company; his two sons, Don and Steven, now own and operate Nasland Engineering.

Cajun Industries builds oil refineries, power plants, process plants, water-treatment plants, and other industrial and infrastructure projects, primarily in Louisiana and Texas. Subsidiary Cajun Constructors provides a full range of services from design/build to maintenance; Cajun Deep Foundations offers drilling, piles installation, and related services. Cajun Maritime focuses on marine, coastal, and oilfield services including construction, repair, and power distribution. Cajun Equipment Services manages a fleet of trucks and trailers that transport heavy and specialized loads. Chairman and owner Lane Grigsby founded the company as Cajun Contractors and Engineers in 1973.

Warings Contractors provides building services to a number of different sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial. In addition, the design/build company has worked on defense-related projects, built airport structures, and constructed leisure properties such as hotels and country clubs. Warings, which operates in southern England, has also been part of J Sainsbury's store reinvigoration project in that region. The firm began as a small family-owned business in Yorkshire that relocated to Portsmouth in 1933. It was bought out by management in 1998, then acquired by French construction firm Bouygues SA in 2007.

Waterman Group provides engineering and environmental consulting throughout the Asia/Pacific region, Australia, Europe, and Russia. It also provides mechanical and electrical services and facilities management. The global, multidisciplinary firm has expanded significantly from the pure structural engineering firm founded by Harold Waterman in 1952 to help rebuild towns damaged in WWII bombings. Growth has come both organically and through acquisitions, which have occured at a steady pace for the company, adding to Waterman Group's expertise and reach.

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