Ridgeons Group has high hopes for supplying timber and other building materials for customers in the East Anglia region of the UK. The company distributes such products as bathroom and kitchen supplies, flooring, paint, plumbing products, and power tools. Ridgeons also rents equipment, including cement mixers, garden machinery, and basic carpentry implements. Founded in 1911, the company serves the construction and home improvement markets from its some 20 branch locations.

Pioneer General Contractors has been blazing trails for more than 75 years. The company provides design/build, general contracting, construction management, and competitive bid services for commercial, retail, hospitality, multi-unit residential, industrial, and institutional construction and renovation projects. No projects are too big or too small -- it renovated the Kent County Humane Society, for example, and also built the $32 million GVSU Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences in Grand Rapids. The company operates through offices in Grand Rapids and Traverse City, Michigan. Earl Beckering Sr. established Pioneer General Contractors in 1933.

Leo A Daly takes great pride in its work. The group provides architecture, engineering, design, and program management services for commercial, industrial, and public projects around the world. Its portfolio includes the award-winning First National Tower in its hometown of Nebraska and expanded facilities for The Institute of Genomic Research in Maryland. Leo A Daly also owns engineering group Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, which specializes in infrastructure management. The group has some 30 offices around the world. Established in 1915 by Leo A. Daly Sr., the company is now led by his grandson, Leo A. Daly III.

North Midland Construction provides civil engineering and building contracting services. The company has two major subsidiaries: North Midland Building (formed in 1995), which provides construction services to blue-chip companies, and Nomenca (formed in 1998), a provider of mechanical and electrical contracting services to the water and waste industries. North Midland Construction was established in 1946 as a partnership between William Morris and Major Terence Moyle (whose job it was to lay ducts for the Derbyshire Post Office); today the company operates four locations throughout the UK.

Ultraframe (UK) Ltd., offers custom-designed conservatories for homes and businesses. It constructs conservatories from glass, metal, and wood, in a range of styles, including Victorian, Georgian, Lantern, Orangery, and Mediterranean. Options include glass or polycarbonate roof panels, ceiling fans, decorative cresting and finials, and other features. Although the UK is the company's stronghold, it also operates in North America under the brand Four Seasons Sunrooms. Ultraframe was founded in 1983 and is owned by Latium Holdings.

Corna Kokosing provides general contracting services for commercial, industrial, institutional, and health care construction projects, primarily in central Ohio. Services include construction management, design/build, and finance services for new construction and renovations. The company also performs construction services ranging from carpentry and drywall installation to metal building erection and demolition. Stonemason Al Corna and carpenter Joe DiCesare co-founded the company in 1956. Midwest heavy construction group Kokosing Construction acquired Corna Kokosing 40 years later.

Zhejiang Expressway is an infrastructure company principally engaged in investing in, developing and operating high grade roads. The Company and its subsidiaries also carry out certain ancillary businesses such as automobile servicing, operation of gas stations and billboard advertising along expressways, as well as securities business.

Ground Construction Ltd. (GCL) isn't afraid to get a little dirty on the job. GCL subcontracts with UK property developers to ready land sites and construct building foundations. The firm handles site preparation from demolition, excavation, and groundworks to drainage and concrete frames, primarily in London and the home counties. It has completed more than 200 industrial, office, academic, and residential projects. Founded in 1997, the company has been in on the ground floor (so to speak) of such projects as Gainsborough Studios, London; Lambeth College, London; and Broadway House, Wimbledon.

Besse Forest Products Group is branching out and it wooden want it any other way. Consisting of about a dozen firms, the group manufactures and exports hardwood lumber, veneer, and plywood from nearly 20 species of trees. The group's manufacturing plants, including veneer cutting and splicing plants, rotary cutting mills, and sawmills, have the capacity to produce more than 850 million sq. ft. of veneer and some 40 million board feet of lumber annually. Besse Forest Products Group also exports lumber, logs, and veneer from its mills and warehouses in the US and Canada, with the bulk of its operations in Wisconsin and Michigan. Owned by the Besse family, the group was founded in 1966.

Biffa, one of the UK's leading waste management companies, it offers collection (curbside, light commercial, hazardous/special waste), landfill, groundwater and soil treatment, and industrial cleaning services. Its operations include more than 1,500 collection and transportation vehicles to handle its curbside and manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical, petroleum, chemical, and electronics industry customers. Biffa has about 75,000 customers. It operates more than 30 landfills in the UK. It also is a provider of renewable energy with 109 MW of installed capacity. Biffa was taken private in 2008 by a group of private investors led by Global Infrastructure Partners.

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