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.

Waste Management, Inc. provides integrated waste management services in North America. The company offers collection, transfer, recycling, disposal, and waste-to-energy services. Its recycling operations include collection and materials processing, plastics materials recycling, and commodities recycling. The company also provides recycling brokerage and electronic recycling services, including the collection, sorting, and disassembling of electronics to reuse or recycle various collected materials. In addition, it engages in renting and servicing portable restroom facilities to municipalities and commercial customers under the Port-o-Let name; and involves in landfill gas-to-energy operations comprising recovering and processing the methane gas produced naturally by landfills into a renewable energy source, as well as provides street and parking lot sweeping services. Further, the company offers portable self-storage, fluorescent lamp recycling, and healthcare solutions services, as well as provides services on behalf of third parties for construct waste facilities. It serves commercial, industrial, municipal, and residential customers, as well as other waste management companies, electric utilities, and governmental entities. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Truland Systems takes current events seriously. The US electrical contractor is a privately-held group made up of about 10 companies that design, build, test, and maintain electrical systems in offices, condominiums, hospitals, hotels, sports stadiums, and mass transit facilities. Its services focus on building automated systems that increase speed and decrease energy consumption. As a specialty contractor, it is hired by general contractors, as well as commercial and public facility owners and developers. Clients have included Turner Construction, AOL, and the US Department of Homeland Security. Founded in 1913, the company is in its second generation of being family run, led by CEO Robert Truland.

Mapledean Developments Limited develops real estate and builds homes in the South Hampshire area in and around Southampton, Winchester, the Meon Valley, and Bishop's Waltham. Mapledean offers homes at Vears Lane, Colden Common for about 370,000 as well as one- and two-bedroom apartments in Bishops Waltham that range in price from 125,000 to more than 167,500. The company actively seeks development sites from single plots to larger schemes. Mapledean also assists customers with plot development. Mapledean Developments was established in 1991 by directors Jeff Adams and Nigel Freemantle.

U.S. Concrete produces ready-mixed concrete, precast concrete, and other related materials and services used for commercial, residential, and infrastructure construction projects. U.S. Concrete has a fleet of 1,000 mixer trucks and about 450 ready-mixed concrete, concrete block, and aggregate plants. The company produces more than 6 million cubic yards of ready-mix and 3 million tons of aggregate each year, with ready-mixed concrete accounting for about 90% of the company's sales. It concentrates on serving major markets, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. U.S. Concrete filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2010.

Integrated Paving Concepts Inc. was founded in 1992 and is majority owned by management firm Trimin. Integrated Paving Concepts (IPC) has street smarts. The company's main product is StreetPrint -- decorative asphalt used as crosswalks and sidewalks, traffic medians, driveways, and parking lots. Other products include DuraTherm, LogoTherm, Imprint, and Ride-A-Way, all decorative surface treatments and materials designed to last longer than traditional stone or gravel applications. IPC's products are installed in about 40 countries by a licensed network of around 750 contractors for such end-users as government projects, commercial and residential developers, and homeowners.

Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

Minaean International Corp., through its Minaean Building Solutions Inc. and Minaean Habitat (India) Pvt. Ltd. subsidiaries, provides building construction technologies and products designed to enhance the efficiency of the structures, both residential and commercial. Minaean's Vesta and Artisan Quik-Build Systems allow a team of 10 unskilled laborers to assemble 16 homes of 250 sq. ft. each in less than a week. The lower construction costs make the company's systems suitable for regions with a shortage of housing, especially in developing nations. Minaean's structures utilize recyclable components and technology that makes them earthquake- and hurricane- resistant. President Mervyn Pinto owns 17% of the company.

RPS Group wants to make an impact on the environment as well as on safety and resource conservation through the advice it gives. The group is one of Europe's leading environmental consulting and planning firms, providing services that include air quality assessment, engineering design, impact assessment, risk management, town planning, transport planning, and waste management. RPS Group's portfolio includes planning and development, energy (through RPS Energy and RPS Scotia), and environmental management. It has operations in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK, as well as in North America and Southeast Asia.

Founded in 1930 by William Murphy, CPM Development is owned by Oldcastle Materials (itself a subsidiary of UK-based CRH plc), which bought the firm in 1997. CPM Development Corporation paves the way for aggregate production in the Northwest. The company produces sand and gravel, ready-mix concrete, pre-stressed concrete building components, and asphalt paving materials for the construction industry. It also builds freeways, overpasses, and airport runways. The firm has about a dozen affiliate companies and some 30 locations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

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