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.

Family-owned Facemyer Lumber Co. produces and distributes high-grade wood products from its locations in Ohio and West Virginia. The company owns four facilities -- Facemyer Forest Products, Facemyer Lumber, Facemyer Resources, and Ohio Pallet Company -- that annually produces more than 30 million board feet of lumber and veneer logs, mainly from the region's Appalachian hardwood species. They also make railroad ties, timber, pallets, mulch, sawdust, and woodchips. Founded by brothers Dennis and Eugene Facemyer in 1964, Facemyer Lumber ships its products nationwide.

Robert Keller, the inventor of Kalwall®, was named a Fellow of ASES (American Solar Energy Society) during the Solar 2000 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. For the first time in its history, the Society created this new class of membership. This was the second time in as many years that Keller had been honored by the solar industry; in 1999, he was awarded the Passive Pioneer Solar Award by the Society.Keller noted that once again he was pleased to receive recognition for the long effort he and his family have made, while achieving commercial success in the companies he founded to put his solar ideas into practice. He reiterated his pledge to the solar community that he will continue to strive to develop more ways to use solar energy to benefit humanity. He added that he "plans to continue his efforts to urge others to seek more innovative and practical ways to use the free energy from the sun to liberate our society from the bondage of fossil fuels to satisfy our energy needs."

Orchard Homes and Developments' homes are blooming across the South Coast of England. The regional builder constructs homes and apartments in Dorset and the South Hampshire region. The company also refurbishes and converts brownfield properties. Orchard Homes was established in 1997 and plans to further expand its residential developments along the South Coast.

Quanta Services, electric and gas utilities and telecom providers would be all juiced up with no way to go. The company designs, installs, repairs, and maintains network infrastructure nationwide, including electric, gas, broadband cable, and telephone and data lines. Quanta also provides outsource management services and other specialty services such as installing traffic and light rail control systems, conducting directional drilling and rock trenching, and constructing wind generation facilities. Around 85% of its revenues come from gas and electric work.

American Walnut Company manufactures hardwood lumber, walnut gunstock blanks, and other wood products. The company gets its logs from species that include American black walnut, red oak, white oak, soft maple, hard maple, pecan, ash, and cottonwood from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Its plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, plant annually produces more than 3 million board ft. of lumber. Subsidiary Dyrnamic Research Technologies produces handgun and rifle ammunition for hunting and law enforcement. Other offerings include export packaging and in-house freight forwarding. The firm traces its roots to 1889. American Walnut Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

Dunn Construction Company has been there and done that. The company specializes in transportation projects including industrial roads, highways, storage yards, parking lots, city streets, and airport runways. Dunn Construction also operates about half a dozen asphalt plants in Alabama and has a fleet of more than 40 dump trucks and other road building equipment. Founded in 1878 as a railroad construction firm by brothers Evans and Thomas Dunn, the group also includes sister company Dunn Roadbuilders, which serves southeast and east-central Mississippi.

Weston Homes builds apartments and houses in the UK. The company focuses its efforts on brownfield development and urban regeneration projects throughout the country. It has about a dozen projects scattered throughout England, either currently in operation (with rented or sold units) or under development. Building industry expert Bob Weston formed Weston Homes' parent company, Weston Group Plc, in 1987. Its first development was a four-bedroom, detached house in Essex; today its building portfolio features large high-rise developments in London's Docklands region.

PDG Environmental, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides environmental and specialty contracting services to private sector clients, and government and public institutions in the north eastern, southern, and western portions of the United States. Its services include asbestos and lead abatement; disaster response/loss mitigation, such as emergency response, loss mitigation, and structural drying; reconstruction and restoration for natural and man-made disasters, including fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and sudden water intrusion events; insulation; mold remediation services comprising decontamination, application of biocides and sealant, removal of building systems, and disposal of building furnishings; and interior and structural demolition and related services. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hopewell Highway Infrastructure (HHI) develops and operates roads, tunnels, bridges, and related infrastructure projects in the Guangdong Province in southern China. HHI has interests in two toll road projects in the Pearl River Delta region bordering Hong Kong, including the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Superhighway, which links the capital of the province of Guangdong to the Hong Kong border. It plans to make a bid for a stake in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project, the giant bridge would link Hong Kong to Macao and mainland China. HHI is the highway unit of Hopewell Holdings. Hong Kong tycoon Gordon Wu holds a majority interest in the company.

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