M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates (Gensler) consistently ranks among the largest architectural firms in the US. Founded as a tenant development company in 1966 by chairman and owner Art Gensler, the company has grown to include offices in more than 30 cities. Gensler offers architecture, interior design, urban design and planning, strategic consulting, and graphic services to almost every industry sector. The group also heads the ranks of interior design companies in the US, where it is a leading designer of government institutions, banks, offices, retail facilities, and schools. Projects include the 18-million sq. ft. CityCenter project in Las Vegas.

High Tech Electric provides electrical contracting services for commercial and industrial projects including office, retail, municipal, entertainment, and utility facilities. Services include new construction, voice data and video communications, security and alarm systems, lighting protection, and electrical maintenance and troubleshooting. The company has offices in Sioux City and Des Moines, Iowa, and another in Pickstown, South Dakota. President Mark Pottebaum founded High Tech Electric, which he still owns, in 2001.

Ready Mix USA was founded in 1995 by Paul Bryant. It is majority-owned and operated by Bryant's son, Marc Bryant Tyson. Business goals for Ready Mix USA are always concrete. Through its operating units, which include 12 autonomous divisions that cover regional service areas, the company operates around 180 concrete ready-mix plants, concrete masonry manufacturing facilities, sand and gravel operations, and construction materials distribution locations throughout the Southeast. Ready Mix USA provides ready-mix concrete to commercial, residential, public-works, and road-building contractors. Other products include flowable fill, grout, retaining walls, pavers, stone, and varieties of concrete.

Tenon has neatly dovetailed its Kiwi and American operations in the pine-products business. The company (formerly Fletcher Challenge Forests) processes Radiata pine from New Zealand and makes such products as molding and millwork, primarily for the US market. Through subsidiaries, the group supplies finished moldings and boards to such customers as The Home Depot and Lowe's; it also provides appearance-grade lumber to other molding and millwork makers. Operating units include the Empire Company, Fletcher Wood Solutions, Ornamental Mouldings, and Southwest Mouldings. Rubicon Forests Limited controls more than 55% of Tenon.

Levine Builder offers general contracting and management services for ground-up construction and renovation projects. Since its founding in 1979, it has completed more than 60 projects, including hotels, high-rise residential, and retail space, as well as affordable housing, assisted-living facilities, and churches. Its affiliate Douglaston Development oversees Levine's real estate development, while another of its affiliates, Clinton Management, provides property management services for Levine-owned buildings. Chairman Jeffrey E. Levine founded the company and its affiliates.

CORE Construction fits into the core clique of contractors in the southwestern US. The company, formerly Targent General, is one of the top contractors in the region; it also has offices in Florida and Illinois. CORE offers construction management, general contracting, and design/build services for municipal, educational, health care, office, residential, retail, sports, institutional, and industrial projects. It has worked on projects as diverse as Phoenix's Chase Field Ballpark, Dodge Theatre, and Lower Buckeye Jail. German immigrant Otto Baum founded the company in 1937.

Bob Adams Homes builds single-family detached homes and develops communities in Georgia in Fayetteville, Locust Grove, McDonough, and Newnan (all outside the US 285 perimeter in Atlanta). The company specializes in building low-maintenance homes that range in price from the $140,000s to more than $240,000. Bob Adams Homes began operations in the ealy 1980s.

KML Engineering can usually be found between Point-A and Point-B. The company is a leading provider of solutions and systems for the public transportation and utility industries. Systems designed by KML include Toll collection systems, automatic fare collection, display and queue management systems, and entrance control (turnstiles). The company's fabrication services unit provides consoles, equipment cabinets, and terminal kiosks. KML's engineering division delivers engineering expertise in fields including railway signaling, communications, and electrical power distribution. Affiliate KML Technology Limited markets KML Engineering's revenue collection and turnstile systems.

Superior Ready Mix Concrete, with more than 20 plants throughout Southern California, traces its roots to a concrete batch plant that was incorporated by Jack Brouwer in 1959 as Escondido Ready Mix Concrete, Inc. Superior Ready Mix Concrete continues to be family owned. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's strives to make its lowly products top-of-the-heap. Superior Ready Mix Concrete provides concrete, aggregates, and asphalt products for contractors and homeowners. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's products also include block, decorative rock, sand, tools, and other building materials for small and large-scale projects. Superior also sells used paving equipment and trucks. Its paving division resurfaces roads and highways around California.

SNC-Lavalin believes that if you build it, they will come. The group is an international engineering and construction services provider, with operations in some 100 countries around the world. It designs and builds structures such as chemical and petroleum plants, power generation and transmission systems, bridges, highways, mass transit systems, and water treatment plants. Projects include Canada's first liquefied natural gas regassification terminal as well as agricultural land and water improvements in developing countries. It also provides operations and maintenance services, oversees management and financing, and invests in infrastructure facilities. Formed in 1911, SNC acquired rival Lavalin in 1991.

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