Edd Helms Group wants you to "stay cool." The contracting group provides electrical and HVAC maintenance and retrofitting services for commercial, marine (primarily private yachts), and residential customers in South Florida. It also offers temporary power and lighting installation for tradeshows and conventions; the group markets its temporary power services for emergency restoration in emergency situations such as hurricanes. Additionally, the group provides structural and radio frequency services for wireless and cellular towers. CEO and founder W. Edd Helms, Jr., owns 84% of the company.

BAM Nuttall is crazy about civil engineering and construction. The firm is involved in infrastructure and transportation projects throughout the UK, including roads, railways, marine facilities, airports, and water treatment plants. BAM Nuttall also provides specialty contracting services such as tunneling and mechanical and electrical engineering and offers rail industry training courses. Subsidiaries include marine civil engineering firm Nuttall John Martin Construction and geotechnical specialist BAM Ritchies. The company has about 20 offices throughout the country. Dutch engineering Group Royal BAM acquired BAM Nuttall (then named Edmund Nuttall) in 2002.

Nearly as old as the aggregate it mines, Granite Rock (founded on Valentine's Day, 1900) operates four quarries, a design center, and other facilities in Northern California. The company, often referred to as Graniterock, provides materials for construction and landscaping: rock, sand, gravel, stone, concrete, asphalt, road oils and asphalt coatings, and masonry and wall-system products. The company has a fleet of railroad cars to transport rock, sand, gravel, and concrete; it also operates a fleet of delivery trucks. Its Pavex Construction unit builds roads and airports, as well as commercial and residential projects. CEO Bruce Woolpert (the grandson of founder A. R. Wilson) and his family own Granite Rock.

Stuart Dean Company provides restoration, refinishing, conservation, and maintenance services for architectural metal, stone, and woodwork in residential, institutional, and commercial buildings. Projects include curtain wall restorations, bronze statue preservation, church pew refinishing, and marble restorations. The company serves a variety of customers including homeowners, corporations, and building industry professionals such as property managers and maintenance engineers. Its diverse group of clients have included AT&T, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, The Kennedy Center, and Stanford University. Stuart Dean has 26 regional offices in the US and Canada. The company was founded in 1932.

Lastar is the parent company of two main operating units, Cables To Go and Quiktron, that provide cabling and connectivity products and services to computer, audio/video, electrical, and industrial distributors.

A Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, Clayton Homes builds one- and two-story modular and manufactured houses and other buildings that range in price from $20,000 to more than $130,000 for upscale models and range in size from around 700 to more than 3,000 sq. ft. The homes are built at about 35 plants and distributed across the US through a network of about 1,800 mostly independent, but also company-owned retailers. Clayton's homes often contain products from fellow Berkshire Hathaway companies such as Shaw flooring, Johns Manville insulation and MiTek fasteners. Clayton Homes also offers home financing, loan-servicing, and insurance through subsidiaries.

American Buildings Company manufactures metal buildings and roofing products for industrial, institutional, and commercial construction applications. From multi-story buildings to customized self-storage units to metal roof and wall panels, the company's buildings and components are marketed through a network of more than 1,000 authorized builders and dealers in the US and Canada. Its heavy fabrication capabilities include building custom-engineered steel mills, sports stadiums, and large aircraft maintenance hangars. American Buildings Company and its former parent, MAGNATRAX, were acquired by steelmaker Nucor Corporation in 2007.

Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) gathers used rechargeable batteries at more than 30,000 retail locations in the US and Canada and recycles them for further use. The company also recycles, refurbishes, and resells cell phones. RBRC is funded by more than 350 makers and marketers of rechargeable batteries who license the RBRC battery recycling seals to imprint on batteries and product packaging. The organization recycled 6.9 million pounds of rechargeable batteries in 2008 and has recycled about 50 million pounds of rechargeable batteries since 1996.

Chevalier International, which takes its name from the French word for "knight", is a holding company with interests in a wide range of industries including construction, engineering, real estate, hotels, travel services, insurance, asset management, and information technology. Its interests span Australasia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. Sister firm Chevalier Pacific Holdings invests in restaurants and food and beverage companies. Chairman Chow Yei Ching, who founded Chevalier International in 1970, controls the company through The Chevalier Group.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

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