Adolfson & Peterson provides general construction, construction management, design/build, and facilities maintenance services. With 10 offices scattered around the United States the company provides services for health care, multifamily residential, education, and institutional projects. Adolfson & Peterson also works on retail, office, hospitality, and manufacturing and distribution projects and offers historic renovation services. George Adolfson and Gordon Peterson established the company as a homebuilder in 1946. The Adolfson family has a majority stake in the company. David Adolfson (son of George Adolfson) continues to be active in the company and serves as chairman emeritus.

OPT-Sciences Corporation, through its subsidiary, O & S Research, Inc., deposits anti-glare and transparent conductive optical coatings on glass used primarily to cover instrument panels in aircraft cockpits. Its products enable pilots to read aircraft instruments in direct sunlight or at night, or in covert situations using appropriate night vision filters. The company offers coatings to various types of glass face plates, which are mounted on the front of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), cathode ray tubes, and electromechanical displays. It also provides glass cutting, grinding, and painting services, as well as manufactures wedge glass lenses for electro-mechanical displays. In addition, the company provides a range of other specialty instrument glass, including night vision filter glass, circular polarizers, touchpads, glass sandwiches for LCDs, and other custom designed specialty glass components and assemblies. It primarily offers its products to commercial, business, and regional aircraft market, as well as to the military aircraft market. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Cinnaminson, New Jersey.

Dean Word Company, Ltd. company builds and maintains roads, bridges, parking lots, and related structures in and around San Antonio. It also produces crushed aggregates and hot-mix asphalt materials for paving applications, performs industrial sitework, and provides contract mining and bulk transport services. Dean Word handles highway construction, maintenance projects, and civil construction projects for such public agencies as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) as well as for private clients. The company was founded in 1890 and continues to be owned and run by the Word family.

Roger & Sons Construction provides general contracting, concrete, structural-steel, excavation, and demolition work for commercial, industrial, institutional, and utility projects. The company operates primarily in the midwestern region of the US in the states of Illinois and Indiana, although it offers its services throughout the country. Roger & Sons was founded in 1998. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2009.

Cornejo & Sons provides asphalt and concrete paving, demolition, road reconstruction, and paving maintenance services. Through its Concrete Materials Co., the company operates one of Wichita, Kansas' largest ready-mix concrete businesses. The firm also operates a construction and demolition landfill, and offers asphalt and scrap metal recycling. Contracts from local government agencies make up a substantial amount of the company's revenues. Founded in 1952, the formerly family-owned business and its subsidiaries serve the Midwest. In 2010 Cornejo & Sons was bought by Washington, DC-based Summit Materials, a holding of The Blackstone Group.

Brooks Manufacturing makes and distributes structural wood products for the utility industry. The company primarily manufactures braces, crossarms, and framing, as well as related hardware such as nuts, bolts, washers, plates, and brackets, for electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure. It receives, dries, treats, and processes timber from Douglas fir sawmills throughout the Pacific Northwest. Brooks Manufacturing was founded as the Ralph Turner Pipe Company in 1915. The Brooks family purchased the firm in 1935 and has owned and managed it ever since.

Bacon Veneer is not what happens when your breakfast meat spatters all over the kitchen. Bacon Veneer, the common name for R.S. Bacon Veneer Company, produces and imports decorative and architectural quality specialty veneer products for distribution to architectural, automotive, and other industries. The company also buys and sells logs from such species as American walnut, maple, white oak, rift red oak, birch, African cedar, aspen, and cherry. It has offices in the US (North Carolina, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, New York) and in Alberta, Canada. Robert S. Bacon and his wife Julia founded Bacon Veneer in Chicago in 1898.

Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects provides architectural design services that include needs analysis and programming; masterplan development; new construction, renovation, addition, and interior design; and project management. The firm specializes in civic, university, school, and government building projects, though it also designs commercial and residential buildings. Clients include The University of Texas, Texas A&M University, the City of Austin, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by principals Jay Barnes, Carl Gromatzky, and Thomas Kosarek.

MEDCO Construction, a subsidiary of Baylor Health Care System. The general contractor began building hospitals and other facilities for the health care industry. It now has expanded its project list to include office buildings, education and athletic facilities, churches, and renovations. The company has three divisions -- millwork, electrical, and mechanical -- that carry out its work in millwork fabrication and installation; electrical and voice and data installations; concrete framework placing and finishing; mechanical and plumbing services; and engineering and layout services.

EcoStar's roof is the first recycled one I've seen tonight. EcoStar, a division of Carlisle SynTec, manufactures roofing tiles that are composed of up to 80% recycled post-industrial plastic and rubber. The materials are remnants of such products as car bumpers and baby diapers. Its products are meant to be wind, rain, fire, and hail resistant; they offer a durable alternative to traditional tile, slate, and shake. EcoStar also makes polypropylene underlayments (Aqua Guard), sheet membranes to protect against moisture (Glacier Guard), copper snow retention brackets (Snow Guards), fasteners, tapes, and walkway pads (NOVA). Its products are sold in the US and Canada.

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