Messer Construction Company, the company provides commercial construction services including design/build and construction management for projects in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. It completes some $700 million in construction each year. Projects have included one of the only LEED-certified research buildings in the US (at the University of Louisville) and the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky. The company boasts a return-customer rate of about 80%. Frank Messer founded the employee-owned firm in 1932.

Knife River Corporation. The company mines aggregates and markets raw construction materials including crushed stone, gravel, and sand. Other construction materials include asphalt, liquid asphalt cement, and ready-mix concrete. Knife River has operations in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. The company also provides such integrated construction services as site development, highway construction, and wind farm construction in the central and western US, including Alaska and Hawaii. Knife River is a subsidiary of MDU Resources .

CCCC designs and builds sea ports, roads, bridges, railways, tunnels, and other structures. In addition, the company operates a dredging and reclamation business, as well as a port machinery (mainly container cranes) and construction machinery manufacturing business. Although China constitutes its largest market, CCCC also has substantial operations in Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. The company, which operates through numerous subsidiaries, was established in 2006.

Laing O'Rourke has built a reputation for designing and building major commercial and industrial properties, roads, rail systems, entertainment complexes, airfields, and maritime support facilities. The group works on several of the UK's private finance initiative projects for public-sector infrastructure. Laing O'Rourke operates primarily in Europe, but also has growing operations in the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Chairman and CEO Ray O'Rourke founded the group in 1978 and acquired Laing Construction in 2001. The company is part of a consortium (including CH2M Hill and Mace) that will manage development of London's Olympic Park.

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 1866 by David Saylor as Coplay Cement, the company is now a part of the Italian cement and building materials group, Italcementi. Essroc Cement likes to mix it up. The company operates about a dozen cement plants and other facilities in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and has an annual capacity of more than 6.5 million metric tons of cement. Essroc makes bulk and packaged cement products, including portland cement, ready mix concrete, and masonry cement. Its AXIM Concrete Technologies subsidiary creates concrete admixtures used to improve the performance quality of cement. Essroc's brands include BRIXMENT, Saylor's PLUS, and VELVET masonry. Its BRAVO line includes masonry chemical products.

Johnson Supply does what it can. Through about two dozen locations in hot spots like Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana, Johnson Supply distributes air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment, supplies, and parts from more than 200 manufacturers. Since those places also get cold, relatively speaking, the company sells heating and ventilation equipment as well. Its 200 suppliers include names like York, Friedrich, Warren, Mueller, and Johnson Controls. The company was founded in 1953 by Carl I. Johnson, Sr.

Harland and Wolff's (H&W) ship has sailed. After launching vessels from its Belfast shipyard since 1861, the company has closed down most of its shipbuilding operations. Famous as the builder of the "Titanic", H&W is now focused on design services, heavy engineering, and contract projects such as ship repair and structural jobs. It is involved in ship conversion, steel fabrication, and some shipbuilding. It participated in building the Black Hall Place Bridge in Dublin. It is developing a research and tourism area called Titanic Quarter at its Queen's Island site. H&W has also entered the renewable energy industry, assembling wind turbines. Norwegian shipping firm Fred. Olsen Energy owns the company.

Ringway Group Limited,the company provides highway maintenance and construction services nationwide in the UK. Through its Ringway Highway Services and other subsidiaries, the company performs highway surfacing, emergency repair, materials recycling, sign and lighting installation, and winter maintenance. Customers include highway authorities, car park operators, schools, and municipalities. The company is a subsidiary of Eurovia, which is owned by construction titan VINCI.

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.

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