Carl E. Woodward LLC (dba Woodward Design+Build) has an eye for southern style. Serving retail, hospitality, and other clients in Louisiana and the Gulf States region, Woodward Design+Build offers a range of construction services, including pre-construction, general contracting, engineering, and architectural design. Projects include everything from transforming historic buildings into retail space to ground-up construction of sports facilities. The firm, founded in 1924 by New Orleans architect Carl Woodward, boasts an in-house staff of architects and engineers whose work is generally geared toward emulating southern architectural style. CEO Paul Flower has owned Woodward since the 1990s.

Christenson Electric is all charged up about the work it does. The electrical contractor provides services for a variety of markets including the government, utilities, renewable energy, health care, commercial, and industrial sectors. Its offerings include design/build engineering; high-voltage construction, energy, and data cabling; and commercial and industrial electrical construction. The company has experience developing and maintaining wind farms, solar installations, and hydropower facilities. Christenson primarily operates in the Pacific Northwest but has been increasingly active in the rest of the US. Founded in 1945, the company was acquired by its management in 2008.

Integrated Electrical Services (IES) has a hand in all three. The company installs and maintains electrical and communications systems for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Work on commercial buildings and homes includes custom design, testing, and maintenance on low-voltage systems such as lighting, fire alarm, audio/video, and Internet cabling. On the industrial side, IES performs high- and medium-voltage systems installation and construction on power stations, oil and gas pipelines, and processing plants. The company has a network of some 70 locations serving the continental US.

HeidelbergCement AG has operations in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Subsidiary Hanson is a top building materials company in the UK. HeidelbergCement believes in concrete results. The company is one of the world's leading producers of cement and clinker (more than 100 million tons annually), and concrete; it is the largest cement producer in Germany. Cement, concrete, and aggregates together account for more than 90% of the company's sales. HeidelbergCement also has group services which manage fossil fuels and electricity for its operations and trade internationally in cement and clinker (an intermediate product used to make portland cement).

Big-D builds big things. With offices in Utah, Arizona, California, and Wyoming, the construction firm offers design/build services to customers in about 20 states. Big-D focuses on projects for clients in such industries as manufacturing, health care, hospitality, food processing and distribution, manufacturing, and retail. The company's Signature Group builds high-end luxury homes, as well as and condominiums, spas, and other special projects in resort communities. Clients have included SYSCO and Marriott. The company also operates a concrete division devoted to architectural, structural, and parking garage projects. Big-D was founded in 1967 by Dee Livingood. His family continues to lead the company.

Uralita makes building materials including insulation, gypsum, roof tiles, and pipes. Product lines include Pladur plasterboard for building partitions, Cobert roofing tiles and bricks, and Adequa plastic pipes for commercial and infrastructure use. Insulation accounts for about half of the group's business. The company has about 45 production plants in operation or under development throughout Europe. Uralita is the market leader in Spain (where it makes about half of its revenues) and Portugal. The wealthy Serratosa family owns 79% of the firm through investment vehicle Nefinsa. Uralita was founded in 1907 as a fiber cement company.

MW Builders, a subsidiary of MMC Corp., provides construction management and general contracting services in the US. The group focuses on commercial construction projects for sectors including entertainment, higher education, hospitality, health care, and senior living. MW Builders was incorporated in 1971. The employee-owned company operates from offices in Overland Park, Kansas; and Salado, Texas.

Penta-Ocean Construction isn't all pent up along the waterfront, although it does specialize in such marine engineering projects as dredging and land reclamation, including some environmental protection (it has developed an eelgrass transplantation process). The company's civil engineering unit also constructs airports and container terminals as well as dams, bridges, and highways. Work by its architecture unit includes concert halls, aquariums, office towers, and condominiums. Its environmental technology division builds wind power stations and recycling facilities. The company also has research and development operations for all of its divisions.

Goodfellow processes and distributes lumber and wood products to customers in Canada and the US. In addition, the company makes and distributes plywood, hardwood flooring, paneling, laminated veneer, coated and stained siding, and building products. Its products are mainly used in new home construction, renovations, and industrial manufacturing. Customers include home centers and lumber dealers, contractors, and industrial customers and manufacturing firms that make such products as furniture, window frames, and doors. Canada accounts for some 85% of sales. The company's Goodfellow Distribution subsidiary sells lumber and wood products in the US.

Cementir - Cementerie del Tirreno SpA is working to build a concrete future. The company makes and sells Portland cement as well as concrete and related products, such as composite concretes made for use in blast furnaces and other applications. Founded in 1947, it sells products primarily to sister companies in the Caltagirone group, of which Cementir is a subsidiary. Its cement is used in water projects, bridges, and dams as well as in roads, tunnels, and other infrastructure. Cementir also has operations in Turkey, Denmark, China, and other international locations. Through various subsidiaries and holdings, chairman Francesco Caltagirone (also chairman of Caltagirone) controls more than 60% of Cementir - Cementerie del Tirreno S.p.A. company.

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