Patrick Industries makes and distributes building products, primarily for the manufactured home (MH) and RV industries. Products that it manufactures include cabinet, counter, furniture, and wall components, as well as adhesives, aluminum extrusions, and laminating machines. The company distributes such products as building hardware, hardboard and vinyl siding, particleboard, and wall and ceiling panels. The company was founded in 1959 by Mervin Lung and went public in 1968.

DooleyMack Constructors does the heavy lifting on big construction projects. The company provides design and planning, construction management and general contracting services for commercial, industrial, multifamily residential, and institutional projects. DooleyMack has built and renovated everything public schools, condos, and performance arts centers to waste disposal facilities and laboratories. The company mainly operates in the central and southeastern regions of the US and has several offices in Florida, as well as locations in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. The privately-owned company was founded in 1977 by executives Bill Dooley and Ken Smith. CFO Wendy Mack later joined the firm.

Design/build construction firm McShane Construction Company plans, executes, and closes out construction projects in the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and the West Coast of the US. The firm specializes in building for markets including health care, hospitality, industrial, institutional, multi-unit residential, office, and retail. Best known for its education and industrial process facilities, McShane has worked for clients such as Notre Dame, Ford, and General Mills. Established in 1984 by CEO James McShane, the company is a part of The McShane Companies, which also includes Texas-based Cadence McShane Construction.

Founded in 1952, ITL Corp. is owned by former president Michael Drusinsky. ITL Corp. has a soft spot in its heart when it comes to hardwood. The company, doing business as Industrial Timber and Lumber, produces Northern and Appalachian hardwood logs and lumber products from species that include black cherry, black walnut, maple, white ash, white oak, and poplar. The company sells to manufacturers of such wood products as cabinets, furniture, flooring, and veneer. ITL owns more than 50,000 acres of timberlands in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and it operates about 10 sawmill and dry kiln manufacturing facilities along the East Coast.

APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials. The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson.

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.

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.

Environmental Mill & Supply specializes in the rustic look. The company provides a variety of wood products for residential or commercial applications. Environmental Mill & Supply produces such wood products as post oak and aromatic cedar paneling, pine decking, cedar and pine siding, trusses, beams, flooring, and more. Environmental Mill & Supply uses planers, edgers, bandsaws, and other equipment to make mouldings and custom woodwork that have a more finished look. The company sells leftover cedar sawdust and shavings by the bag or truckload for stable and stall use.

Abengoa has an environmental interest in engineering. The company develops environmentally sustainable projects by focusing its business on five main areas: solar energy; bioenergy; waste recycling and management; information technology; and engineering and industrial construction. It provides engineering and infrastructure services to the energy, telecommunications, transportation, water, and environmental industries in more than 70 countries worldwide. It also controls Spanish aluminum and steel-dust recycling company Befesa Medio Ambiente and US-based ethanol producer Abengoa Bioenergy Corp. The Benjumea family controls about 56% of Abengoa.

The Ryland Group founded by James Ryan and Bob Gaw in 1967, constructs single-family detached homes, as well as attached condominiums for entry-level, first- and second-time move-up, and retired buyers. Ryland has constructed more than 285,000 homes in hundreds of communities around the US. The average price for a Ryland Home is around $240,000. The company offers services that span the homeownership process. Homebuyers can select custom home finishes at a My Style Design Center. The group also provides mortgage financing, including title, settlement, escrow, and insurance services, through Ryland Mortgage.

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