Gehan Homes builds single-family houses in about 60 communities in and around Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Its houses range in price from the low $100,000s to the low $300,000s. Gehan Homes owns the land it builds on and provides mortgage brokerage through majority-owned Suburban Mortgage. Through cutting costs and slowing down production, the homebuilder is working to stay afloat in a market that has caused several competitors to file for bankruptcy or shut down operations. John Gehan founded the family-owned company in the 1960s.

Windows of opportunity open daily for Andersen, a well-known maker of wood-clad windows and patio doors in North America. Andersen offers window designs from hinged, bay, and double-hung to skylight, gliding, and picture windows. Its Renewal by Andersen subsidiary provides start-to-finish window renewal services, including in-home consultations, in more than 100 markets in the US. Subsidiary EMCO Doors makes storm and screen doors. Through independent and company-owned distributorships (including its Andersen Logistics division), Andersen sells to homeowners, architects, builders, designers, and remodelers. Andersen Corporation is owned by the Andersen family, the Andersen Foundation, and company employees.

David Evans and Associates (DEA) can be classified as wind, land, and water. Consistently ranked among the leading "pure design" engineering and architectural firms, the employee-owned company serves four markets: energy, land development, transportation, and water resources. Services include marine surveying and watershed management, residential community development, heavy rail and highway design, and energy facility design. Projects include the Snohomish Cascade master planned community in Washington and the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. DEA maintains some 20 offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New York, Oregon, and Washington.

Kawneer is definitely into metal. Operating as Kawneer North America, the company manufactures architectural aluminum building products and systems for use in commercial and industrial construction. The Alcoa subsidiary's products include sliding and swing entrances, framing systems for shopping malls and storefronts, hung/sliding and ribbon/fixed windows, building panels, sun control products, and curtain wall systems for stadiums, sports facilities, schools, low-rise offices, and high-rise buildings. Kawneer operates manufacturing plants and fabricating service centers throughout the US and Canada. The company also sells products in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Garcia Roofing provides a full range of contracting services for commercial and government projects throughout the US and abroad. It is one of the largest roofing companies in Kern County, California. It also has been expanding to include worldwide roofing services and continues to land international projects. The company has government clearance for projects and often works on federal buildings or US embassies overseas. Garcia Roofing is owned by president Michael Garcia, who founded the company in 1975.

One of the largest lime companies in the world, Lhoist Group of Belgium, owns Lhoist North America, which was founded in 1966. Lhoist North America (formerly Chemical Lime Company) produces lime and lime-based products derived from calcium-rich limestone. The company's primary product, quicklime (or calcium oxide) is used for steelmaking, ore processing, industrial manufacturing, and construction. The company's products also serve environmental purposes such as wastewater treatment and softening drinking water, as well as roadbed stabilization. Lhoist North America provides lime slurry (hot liquid lime) to its customers from its mobile PORTA BATCH concentrated production units.

Overhead Door manufactures and sells wood, steel, and polyurethane garage doors, electric door operators, security grilles, and rolling doors for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The company operates through three divisions: The Access Systems Division (ASD), its largest, sells garage doors, garage door openers, and other door systems under the Overhead Door and Genie names. Horton Automatics handles automatic doors for commercial and industrial use, and TODCO sells doors and ramps for moving vans and other trucks.

Planning, design, and management services are the fruits of The Dewberry Companies' labor. The company provides architectural and engineering services, planning, program management, and surveying services, as well as environmental compliance, and security and homeland defense services. Dewberry serves private and public-sector clients. However, government customers such as FEMA, the Pentagon, and the US Department of Labor make up a big portion of business. Dewberry also serves departments of transportation, as well as universities, real estate developers and other commercial and institutional groups. Dewberry, which was founded in 1956, operates from more than 40 offices in nearly 20 states.

Bernards Brothers (aka Bernards Brothers Construction), is a general contracting and construction management company focusing on educational, entertainment, sports, commercial, industrial, institutional, medical, and public works facilities. Clients have included UPS, Six Flags, and Cal State L.A. The company operates throughout the western US from its four California offices. Brothers Doug and Greg Bernards established Bernards Brothers Construction in 1974, and the company continues to be owned and operated by the Bernards family.

Xytel quickly became the world's leader in advanced, automated pilot plants and process systems engineering. Since then, we have commissioned more than 600 pilot plants worldwide. More than half our customers have returned for additional plants, sending a clear signal that we are yet today the world's foremost pilot plant designer and manufacturer. Whether you need a one-of-a-kind lab-scale unit or a complete turnkey mini-plant, you benefit from our unrivaled depth of technological knowledge and experience.

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