Standard Pacific's foundation is built on single-family homes. The company, one of the US's top 20 builders, constructs homes in California and Florida (which combined generate more than half of its sales), as well as Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas. Its homes typically range in size from 1,500 sq. ft. to more than 3,500 sq. ft. The average cost of a Standard Pacific home in 2009 was more than $300,000, from an average low of $190,000 in Florida to $434,000 in California. The company also builds condominiums, buys and develops land tracts (both alone and through joint ventures), and offers mortgage loans in all of its markets and title services in Texas.

Scandinavia's largest construction and property development group, Skanska provides building, financing, development, and management services for commercial, residential, and civic projects in Europe, the US, and Latin America. Its areas of expertise include office buildings, industrial plants, single- and multifamily residences, hospitals, bridges, and highways. Its US divisions include Skanska USA Civil and Skanska USA Building. The group has completed work for clients such as Boeing, IKEA, Volvo, and PETROBRAS. Skanska was founded in 1887.

NSL was founded in the early 1960s to support Singapore's nation-building efforts. Chemicals, engineering, and construction are at the heart of NSL. The company, which was formerly in the steel business, divides its operations into three units. The largest segment makes construction products including precast concrete and premix mortar. The chemicals division makes lime products and provides environmental services. NSL's engineering division is one of the largest manufacturers of container spreaders, which are used to position shipping containers. NSL is active in eight countries in Asia the Middle East and Europe. The company shifted focus after Tata Steel purchased its steel operations in 2005.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc. provides resource management services, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to the residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers in the United States. It offers non-hazardous solid waste services, including collection operations, transfer stations, material recycling facilities, and disposal facilities. The company also markets recyclable metals, aluminum, plastics, and paper and corrugated cardboard, which have been processed at its facilities; and recyclables purchased from third parties. In addition, it generates and sells electricity under a contract at a waste-to-energy facility. The company has operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has a 50% joint venture with US GreenFiber LLC to manufacture, market, and sell cellulose insulation, which is used in residential dwellings and manufactured housings. As of August 31, 2010, the company owned and/or operated 31 solid waste collection operations, 30 transfer stations, 34 recycling facilities, 8 subtitle D landfills, and 1 landfill permitted to accept construction and demolition materials, as well as 1 waste-to-energy facility. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in Rutland, Vermont.

Pernix Group (formerly Telesource International) provides engineering and construction services and operates independent power generation projects in the Pacific region and in the US. The group offers project development and management, specialized construction and engineering, and utility and plant operations. It also brokers goods and services. While its previous focus had been on Fiji and other islands in the Pacific, Pernix Group has shifted its business model to emphasize offering construction services and working on power plant projects in North America. Kuwait-based civil, electrical, and mechanical group Sayed Hamid Behbehani & Sons controls 97% of the company.

Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction (STECON) touches an array of construction projects across Thailand. Established in 1962, the engineering and construction firm primarily engages in governmental infrastructure projects, including highways, mass transit, power generation, water systems, telecommunications, and bridges. Recent projects include the Foreign Affairs Ministry headquarters, a Thai Airways aircraft maintenance center, and a thermal power plant for EGAT. STECON also builds oil refineries, petrochemical facilities, chemical plants, and residential housing. Thailand Securities Depository Company owns almost half of STECON shares.

Artisan (UK) is skilled at the art of real estate. Through a number of operating subsidiaries, the company builds, invests in, and manages multifamily residential and commercial properties throughout the UK. Subsidiary Rippon Homes builds three- to five-bedroom houses and bungalows, including its Living Heritage line of luxury homes in the East Midlands. Artisan (UK) Developments is engaged in the development of small business parks and light industrial properties; construction is managed by Artisan (UK) Projects. The group's property investments are held by Artisan (UK) Properties. Chairman Michael Stevens owns 30% of Artisan (UK) through Aspen Finance.

Founded in 1819 in Vienna and traded since 1869 on the Vienna Stock Exchange, Wienerberger can look back on a great tradition. Only in 1986 the company started its dynamic expansion, which has focused on building materials since the introduction of Value Management in 1997. This transformed Wienerberger from a local Austrian brick-maker into the world’s largest producer of bricks within a few years. During this time the number of production facilities rose from 11 to a level of 229 plants in 27 countries.The construction industry was hard hit by the worldwide recession in 2009, which triggered a sharp drop in the demand for building materials. On the one hand, new residential construction is heavily dependent on bank financing and, on the other hand, consumers tend to postpone investment decisions as a reaction to the weak economy and uncertain expectations for the future. Wienerberger implemented a wide-ranging action plan to adjust capacity to reflect these developments, which also included active working capital management to reduce inventories, a decrease in administrative and selling costs and a cutback in investments to the necessary minimum.

The Adams Manufacturing Company cares for the air. The company makes oil and gas furnaces for residential, commercial, and light industrial applications in the US and Canada; the furnaces, can also be adapted for use as air conditioners. The company also manufactures humidifiers, air cleaners, oil and gas burners, and related components such as it also sells component parts such as pilot ignition systems, hygrometers, and draft control mechanisms. Sidney Schonberger founded The Adams Manufacturing Company in 1945.

The Brock Group of Companies when they need a handyman. Through a network of about 15 subsidiaries, The Brock Group acts as a specialty contractor to such companies as Chevron, CITGO, Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, and Valero. It offers scaffolding and shoring, environmental remediation, asbestos and lead abatement, general labor and maintenance, disaster response, fireproofing, and insulation. The firm also offers offsite blast cleaning for machines that need to kept in tip-top shape. Besides oil refineries, The Brock Group serves chemical plants, energy plants, nuclear power plants, industrial manufacturers, pulp and paper mills, and offshore facilities.

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