Costain constructs some of the UK's major infrastructure and environmental projects. But Costain's reach goes beyond its home country. Since its founding in 1865 by Richard Costain, the civil engineering and building group has worked on a number of significant projects at home and abroad, including the Channel Tunnel and Channel Tunnel Rail Link and Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Bridge. Costain focuses on building projects in the highway, water, waste, energy, health, and education markets. Its residential property operations are based in southern Spain. Malaysian construction company UEM Builders Berhad and Kuwaiti builder Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Karafi & Sons each own 22% of Costain.

Bache Pallets Ltd company is a UK-based manufacturer of material-handling equipment. Products include metal pallets, roll containers, and pallet converters. Customers include the automotive, construction, agriculture, foundry and forging, and retail industries, as well as the UK Ministry of Defence. Among Bache Pallets' recent clients are Land Rover, Royal Mail, and Caterpillar. The company utilizes computer-aided design to ensure its products meet specifications, and automated production lines to ensure a proper build. Bache Pallets has been in business for more than 50 years.

Shaped by Messrs. Raub, Bein, and Frost, RBF Consulting has built a reputation for helping to build Southern California's infrastructure. The firm provides engineering, planning (it surveyed the initial site for Disneyland), and construction management services for public and private sector projects. RBF has expanded both its size and its breadth of services over the years by acquiring other firms, and now has more than a dozen offices in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Formerly known as Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates, RBF has been ranked among country's top 100 engineering design firms.

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.

Calder Peel provides architectural design and engineering services. Its projects range from smaller renovation jobs to mixed-use commercial and residential buildings to large commercial office buildings. Calder Peel works primarily in North West UK (through offices in South Manchester, Deeside Wales, and Poole), but has completed buildings all around the UK. Calder Peel has also expanded it repertoire with a growing body of work in the urban design and conservation sectors. Customers include the Bury Times headquarters (owned by Newsquest) and an apartment complex for Wesbury Homes.

Hull Forest Products produces softwood and hardwood lumber products from its sawmill in Pomfret, Connecticut. The mill owns more than 8,000 acres of sustainable working forest in Massachusetts and produces 10 million board ft. of lumber (kiln-dried and green lumber) annually. Products include wide plank flooring, oak timbers, wood siding, container load quantities of green and kiln dried lumber, as well as by-products such as wood chips, sawdust, and bark mulch. The family-owned and managed company also provides forestland management services and leases selected properties for recreational use through Hull Forestlands L.P. CEO Bill Hull founded Hull Forest Products in 1970.

EnGlobe (formerly Environmental Management Solutions) spans a good part of the globe in providing environmental consulting, environmental contracting, remediation, and waste management services (in Canada, France, the UK, and the US). The company manages nine soil-treatment facilities and eight composting centers and provides testing and compliance services for storage tanks. It additionally operates landfills for non-hazardous industrial waste, as well as transfer stations where industrial waste is treated and recycled or sent to a landfill. Founded in 1995 by former CEO Frank D'Addario, EnGlobe has primarily grown through acquisitions.

PCL Construction Enterprises is the contractor to contact for commercial and civil construction concerns. The company, along with primary subsidiaries (PCL Construction Services, PCL Civil Constructors, PCL Construction Resources, PCL Industrial Services, Teton Industrial Construction, and Nordic PCL Construction) is the US arm of employee-owned PCL, one of the largest general contracting groups in Canada. With projects completed in nearly every state in the US, the company is active in the commercial, institutional, multi-family residential, heavy industrial, and civil construction sectors. PCL first entered the US construction market in 1975.

Elkins Constructors builds it all. The company, one of Florida's largest privately held construction companies, works on commercial, industrial, multi-family residential, institutional, and retail projects mainly in the Southeast. It offers general contracting, design/build, and construction management services, and its retail market clients have included Lowe's, British Airways, and Castleton Beverage. Other projects include the America Online call center and headquarters for PGA Tour Productions. Elkins also has been named one of the top green contractors in the US by Engineering News-Record. Founded in 1955 by Martin Elkins, the company was acquired in 1984 by CEO Barry Allred and a team of investors.

HNTB knows the ABCs of A/E. The company ranks among the pack of pure designers, or firms that derive most of their revenues from architecture, engineering, or environmental design operations. It specializes in transportation infrastructure projects and government contracts. HNTB is best-known for its highway and transit system design (its portfolio includes the New Jersey Turnpike) as well as airports (Chicago's Midway) and sports arenas (Invesco Field in Denver). The company operates some 60 locations across the US. The employee-owned HNTB (its name once stood for Howard Needles Tammen & Berendoff) traces its roots to 1914.

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