BE&K Building Group is a top US contractor. The company, which is part of Houston-based construction giant KBR, provides design-build services, construction management, general contracting, and other construction services. It specializes in mixed-use projects, educational facilities, entertainment venues, food and beverage plants, hospitals, hotels, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities. BE&K Building Group operates mostly in the Southeast, but also works on projects in other parts of the country. KBR bought BE&K for some $550 million in 2008.

Fred Weber weaves a web of heavy and highway construction services, including site work, bridge building, paving, sewers, and grading. Its history includes work on a section of Route 66 noted for having the largest vertical rock cut ever completed in Missouri. Fred Weber's construction materials segment (asphalt, crushed stone, sand, landfill, and compost) includes subsidiaries Quality Sand, Bluff City Minerals, Iron Mountain Trap Rock, and EZ Street Cold Asphalt. It operates quarries, sand plants, and asphalt plants. The company was founded by Fred Weber Sr. in the 1920s. Employees purchased the company from the Weber family in 1980.

Quanex Building Products Corporation provides engineered products and aluminum sheet products. Its Engineered Products segment produces window and door components for original equipment manufacturers that primarily serve the residential construction and remodeling markets. This segments products consist of insulating glass spacer/sealant systems, thin film solar panel sealants, window and patio door screens, aluminum cladding and other roll formed metal window components, thresholds and astragals, moldings, residential exterior products, engineered vinyl and composite patio doors, window profiles and custom window grilles, and trim and architectural moldings in various woods primarily for the home improvement and residential construction markets.

Flatiron Construction Corp. company, which has regional offices throughout the US and western Canada, provides transportation construction and civil engineering services for major bridge, highway and rail projects. Flatiron splits its work among divisons: Canadian, Intermountain, Western, and Heavy Civil. Its E.E. Cruz subsidiary provides heavy civil construction in the Northeast. Flatiron has worked on such projects as California's Carquinez Suspension Bridge, the John James Audubon Bridge in Louisiana, and the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge. Founded in 1947, the company is a part Germany's HOCHTIEF.

Construction aggregates supplier Luck Stone Corporation produces a wide range of crushed stone, concrete, asphalt, architectural stone, pavers, and sand and gravel products for customers throughout the mid-Atlantic US. The company has more than 15 crushed stone plants in Virginia and North Carolina, in addition to six retail architectural stone centers in those states and Maryland. It serves the construction, homebuilding, remodeling, and agricultural markets. The company also produces mulch, topsoil, and other specialty products for turf, landscaping, and sports-surfacing applications.

Russell Armer turns brownfield sites into vibrant, beautifully landscaped housing developments. The builder is one of the largest independently-owned new homebuilders in the Cumbria and north Lancashire region of England, and it has been building for more than 40 years. Russell Armer designs and constructs new houses and apartments that range in price from about 170,000 to more than 400,000. Some of its developments have won "Green Leaf" awards, which recognize the importance of creating whole living environments rather than just building new homes. Russell Armer is a subsidiary of Russell Armer Holdings Limited.

Sonag Company is a general contracting and construction enterprise that offers a variety of services including masonry, carpentry, and demolition. The firm works on private and public sector projects that range from civil, commercial, and health care structures to industrial and residential projects. The minority-owned company operates from offices in Madison, Milwaukee, and Tomah, Wisconsin and in Mascoutah, Illinois. President and CEO Brian Ganos owns the firm.

Construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro is committed to building a stronger India. Founded in 1938, the firm and its subsidiaries offer construction and engineering services related to commercial projects. Services include civil and electrical engineering and IT consulting. Larsen & Toubro also makes equipment and machinery used to build a weaponry systems and infrastructure facilities including airports, oil and gas platforms, power plants, refineries, roads and bridges, and water treatment facilities. The firm has more than 60 units in some 25 countries. Domestic business within India dominates, but the company is steadily growing its global operations with a focus on China and the Middle East.

Peckham Industries has a crush on road materials. Peckham Industries, Inc. produces asphalt, crushed stone, ready mix concrete, and liquid calcium chloride (used to melt ice in the winter and to keep road dust down in the summer). It also builds and repairs roads. Peckham Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate throughout New England with locations in New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. Peckham's plants include liquid asphalt facilities, hot mix plants, and a reclaiming facility. The company's Peckham Materials Corp. unit operates quarries and supplies aggregates through the Hudson River Valley. William Peckham, father of chairman and president John Peckham, founded Peckham Road Corp., the flagship of Peckham Industries, in 1924.

Jones Bros., Inc. company has evolved from a partnership between two brothers, Guy and Dillon Jones, with one bulldozer, to one of the largest bridge builders and heavy construction firms in the southeastern US. A transportation specialist, the company also is involved in highway construction and grading; site preparation for residential, industrial, and commercial projects; concrete paving; asphalt paving and operation of asphalt plants; and sewer rehabiliation using trenchless technologies. The company is still owned and operated by the Jones' descendants, including president and CEO M. Dale McCulloch, Guy Jones' grandson.

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