Kier Group focuses on construction (around 70% of revenues), building management, property development, home building, and private finance initiative (PFI) projects. Sectors served include government, health care, education, retail, energy, and transportation. Kier also builds and refurbishes schools through PFI contracts. The company's support services operations provide building and grounds maintenance for the public and private sectors. Its Partnership Homes arm builds private homes and social housing. In 2010 Kier formed a new unit to provide renewable energy installation services. Kier has more than 50 offices around the UK, and it also operates in the Middle East, Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Kok's Woodgoods produces wood and vinyl trim for home interior and exterior applications. Its products include decorative brackets and shelving, door accents, moldings, and other millworked products. The company also makes board products, including hobby boards, from oak, poplar, aspen, and pine woods. Kok's Woodgoods fills custom orders and sells its products in national chain hardware stores. The company began operations in 1983.

NBBJ spends a lot of time around hospitals, but don't worry -- there's nothing wrong. The architecture and design firm designs medical facilities as well as other structures including mixed-use commecial and office buildings, arenas, courthouses, colleges, and research facilities. In addition to architecture and design, the company provides consulting, branding, lighting, and landscaping services. NBBJ works on projects (clients have included Starbucks and Microsoft) around the world. It has offices in Washington, California, New York, and Ohio and international offices in China, the UK, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. NBBJ was founded in 1943 by four Seattle-based architects (Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson).

KSW may have a need to vent on occasion, but the company still knows how to keep its cool. Its KSW Mechanical Services subsidiary installs HVAC and process piping systems for large-scale industrial, commercial, institutional public, and residential projects. The company also provides mechanical trade management services and engineering assistance. KSW primarily works in the New York metropolitan area but hopes to expand in the Northeast. Much of KSW's business comes from repeat customers; the company is an authorized bidder for agencies including the New York City Transit Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Portage Environmental helps carry the load for customers needing environmental engineering services. The firm's offerings include environmental remediation, process and project engineering, and decontamination and decommissioning services. Portage Environmental counts US government agencies (such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy) and Native American tribes among its clients, and has conducted projects in 20 US states, as well as in Afghanistan, Guam, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Qatar, and South Korea. The firm operates from some two dozen offices throughout the US. President and CEO Michael Spry helped found Portage Environmental in 1992.

Hood Industries' products come from deep in the forest to a place in your 'hood. The company manufactures plywood, lumber, and siding from Southern Pine at mills in Mississippi and Georgia. Its McEwen Group division distributes hardwood and softwood products to the specialty millwork industry and to cabinet and furniture makers throughout the Southeast and Arizona. In New England, Hood Industries' McQuesten Company division distributes building products, including composite and vinyl products, to independent retail lumberyards. Hood Industries was established in 1983. Hit by falling prices and demand for building products, the company closed its mill in Coushatta, Louisiana, in 2008.

The Manhattan Project to this company just means its latest construction job. Manhattan Construction Company, a subsidiary of Rooney Holdings ranks among the top US contractors in general building, health care, sports, commercial offices, distribution/warehouses, government, and multi-unit residential structures. It also builds in Latin America and provides construction management and design/build services. L. H. Rooney founded Manhattan Construction Company in 1896. The Rooney family has held majority ownership through four generations.

A.C. Preou was founded in 1961 by company namesake and managing director A.C. Preou. A.C. Preou will have you running hot and cold. The UK company is a contractor that specializes in building and refurbishing heating and air conditioning systems in the London and Essex areas. It fixes plumbing, installs hot and cold water systems, fits pipes, and removes asbestos in boiler rooms. It primarily performs work in hospitals, offices, schools, retirement homes, and local government buildings. Clients include Acton College in West London and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals in Essex.

spear for Speer Industries Incorporated. Doing business as Speer Mechanical, the company offers mechanical design, construction, and preventive maintenance services for industrial, commercial, and institutional markets throughout Ohio. Speer Mechanical offers mechanical expertise for plumbing, HVAC, and building automation systems as well as custom fabrication prefabricated components from its in-house workshop. The company's portfolio includes state, local, and federal government projects and work for private colleges, manufacturers, and health care facilities.

1-800-GOT-JUNK? For a fee this junk removal service will haul away any nonhazardous materials that two people can lift. It won't pick up asbestos, chemicals, oils, oil drums, oil tanks, paints, and solvents. The company picks up from homes, restaurants, and other businesses and hauls the loads to local area transfer stations or recycling centers; up to 60% of its pickups are recycled or donated to local charities. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has more than 300 local franchises, mainly in the US and Canada (but it also operates in Australia). CEO Brian Scudamore owns the company.

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