Orascom Construction Industries (OCI),the Egyption company offers construction services and fertilizer products primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. OCI performs large-scale commercial, industrial, and infrastructure engineering and building services; principal operating units include the Besix Group in Belgium and Contrack International in the US. Its fertilizer operations include Egyptian Fertilizer Company and Gavilon. The company sold its cement operations to building materials behemoth Lafarge in 2008.

VKR Holding lets the light shine in. The parent company of skylight and roof windows manufacturer VELUX and other building components manufacturers operates in more than 40 countries. The VKR group consists of manufacturers that supply windows, skylights, thermal solar energy products, sunscreening materials, natural ventilation products, and glass roofs. Members of VKR include Velfac (window systems), Rationel Vinduer (vertical windows and external doors), Svenska, GREENoneTec (solar panels), and WindowMaster (ventilation components). The company was founded in 1941 by civil engineer Villum Kann Rasmussen. VKR is owned by the Villum Fonden foundation.

The Lawrence Group is an architecture and interior design firm that offers more than just architecture and interior design services. While it undertakes traditional design development and space planning projects on multifamily residences, hospitals, museums, parks, retail stores, and schools, the group also boasts expertise in town planning and graphic design. It has master-planned neighborhood and downtown developments, while its STUDIO369 in-house graphics department provides marketing and branding for property developments through print and Web. The firm also owns a retail furniture and home accessories showroom called Niche. The Lawrence Group operates a half-dozen offices in the US and one in Beijing.

Shawmut Woodworking & Supply, which does business as Shawmut Design and Construction, provides beginning-to-end construction services, from preconstruction planning to post-construction quality assurance checks. Shawmut Design and Construction has experience building retail, restaurants, academic, banking, health care, and science facilities; it also handles corporate interiors and high-end residential construction and has expertise in cultural and historical preservation projects. The employee-owned company serves clients nationwide and operates from offices in a half-dozen states.

Sargent & Lundy is to deliver engineering, construction management, and consulting services to the global power industry. The company also offers project siting, construction start-up, operations and maintenance services, system upgrades, and decommissioning for fossil-fueled, nuclear power, and renewable energy plants. Sargent & Lundy has designed nearly 900 power plants in the Americas, Asia, and the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. It also engineers transmission line and substation projects for power delivery. Clients include electric utilities, oil and gas companies, equipment manufacturers, and financial institutions.

Carlin Combustion Technology burns more than just the midnight oil. Carlin Combustion Technology, Inc. makes natural gas, propane, fuel oil, and furnace oil burners, as well as igniters, controls, and related components such as motors, oil valves, circuit interfaces, and burner cover kits, for both residential and commercial applications. It also offers one-day professional training sessions on the components, setup, and testing of its residential oil, residential gas, and commercial oil and gas burners. Carlin Combustion Technology distributes its products throughout the US, as well as in Puerto Rico and Canada.

Facility Group wants to facilitate every phase of your construction project. The privately owned and operated group provides planning, architectural and engineering, and program and construction management services. It manages more than $700 million in projects and targets several commercial and industrial markets, including the food and beverage, distribution, justice, and education sectors. Clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, Russell Stover Candies, Bright Horizons, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Trinchero Family Estates (formerly Sutter Home Winery), and Ampacet. Facility Group, which was established in 1986, operates from offices located throughout the US.

Michels Corporation is a utility, engineering, design, and construction contractor. The family-owned company links systems for energy, transportation, distribution, and communications customers. It specializes in installing fiber optic networks for telephone, broadband, and cable providers. Through more than a dozen divisions, operating in the US and Canada, Michels offers a variety of services including horizontal and directional drilling, underground pipe repair, tunneling, engineering, paving, and materials production. The company also provides wind farm construction through a wind energy division. Founded in 1959 by Dale Michels, the company initially installed and serviced gas pipelines in Wisconsin.

Avatar aspires to be the embodiment of retirement living. The company develops residential communities and builds homes in the popular retirement destinations of Central Florida and Arizona. Its master-planned communities are often located in picturesque settings and offer amenities such as golf courses, restaurants, and fitness centers. The company owns some 16,000 acres of developed and developable land as well as wetlands and other open space. Avatar also operates a title insurance agency and manages the day-to-day operations of its communities' amenities. The company's development activities have been minimal as it weathers the economic downturn.

United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. manufactures and sells lime and limestone products in the United States. Its products primarily include pulverized limestone, quicklime, hydrated lime, and lime slurry. The company sells its lime and limestone products to highway, street and parking lot contractors, steel producers, municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities, aluminum producers, paper manufacturers, utility plants, glass manufacturers, roof shingle manufacturers, and poultry and cattle feed producers. United States Lime & Minerals, Inc., through its subsidiary, U.S. Lime Company — O & G, LLC, also owns royalty and working interests in natural gas wells located in Johnson County, Texas. The company was founded in 1948 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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