Childs Mascari Warner Architects has found a healthy way to build its architecture practice. The firm provides design and planning services for commercial construction projects, focusing on the health care sector. The firm's client roster includes Kaiser Permanente, the Palomar Pomerado Health system, Saint Mary's Health Network, Scripps, and UCSD Medical Center. Childs Mascari Warner Architects has offices in the San Francisco and San Diego metro areas. James Leary founded the firm, then named James Leary Architecture and Planning, in 1989. Following Leary's retirement from the company, the three senior principals acquired ownership and changed the name.

The family-owned company was founded in 1946. Ernst Enterprises knows the value of a solid foundation. Operating as Ernst Concrete, Ernst Enterprises, Inc. makes and distributes ready-mix concrete and related products in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Ernst Enterprises, Inc. also provides concrete pumping services for residential, industrial, commercial, and government clients. Ernst Enterprises makes standard concrete mixes as well as custom and specialty products at the approximately 30 plants it operates. Other products sold include trowels, marking implements, and other finishing tools; concrete nails, cures, and stains; and general construction supplies. The firm also sells used mixers to other concrete suppliers.

Walter P. Moore and Associates has seen it all and designed it all. One of the largest structural and civil engineering firms in the Southwest, Walter P. Moore operates globally from more than a dozen US offices. The company also offers structural diagnostic assessments and historic preservation services. Walter P. Moore Sr. founded the company as a one-person structural engineering consulting practice in Houston in 1931. The company is still owned by the Moore family.

CTC Marine Projects is not about to hold its breath over the future strength of its business. The company is a leading specialist in trenching for subsea cables, flowlines, and pipelines, and offers installation of subsea cables and flowlines. Customers hail from the telecommunications, oil, and gas industries. CTC Marine Projects' equipment fleet is comprised of three cable ships and two supply ship, along with ploughs and trenchers. Its customers have included ExxonMobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips.

Stericycle, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides regulated waste management and related services in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The company offers various services, which include Bio Systems sharps management services that reduce the risk of needle sticks; various products and services for infection control; Steri-Safe Occupational Safety and Health Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance programs; and regulated returns management services for expired or recalled products. It serves large-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies and distributors, as well as small-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as doctors’ offices and retail pharmacies. Stericycle, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Am-Mex Products helps companies set up maquiladora operations in the McAllen, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico, border region. The maquiladora program allows US firms and other foreign companies to import raw materials into Mexico duty-free for assembly there by lower-wage Mexican workers. The program also offers faster startup, lower shipping costs, and central distribution. Its services include contract manufacturing, engineering factory management, warehousing and distribution, cross-border trucking, training, and other services required for international trade. Am-Mex has been in business since 1990 and has around 1 million sq. ft. of manufacturing and warehouse space in Mexico, in addition to its US operation.

Deffenbaugh Industries, Inc., collects, transports, and disposes of commercial and residential waste in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska. It also provides industrial waste services, quarrying services, the disposal of construction waste, and commercial and residential recycling. Deffenbaugh Industries' more than 700-acre Johnson County Landfill is the largest disposal facility in Kansas. The company's Johnny on the Spot division rents portable toilets.

Penta-Ocean Construction isn't all pent up along the waterfront, although it does specialize in such marine engineering projects as dredging and land reclamation, including some environmental protection (it has developed an eelgrass transplantation process). The company's civil engineering unit also constructs airports and container terminals as well as dams, bridges, and highways. Work by its architecture unit includes concert halls, aquariums, office towers, and condominiums. Its environmental technology division builds wind power stations and recycling facilities. The company also has research and development operations for all of its divisions.

Baillie Lumber Co. company produces and distributes nearly 200 million board ft. of American hardwood products annually. Baillie Lumber offers species that include cherry, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, poplar, beech, and ash, in addition to exotic species such as mahogany and teak. It operates five production facilities, three sawmills, and warehouses in the US and overseas and exports its products to more than 60 countries. Baillie's customers include window manufactures and furniture and molding makers. James Baillie founded the company as a lumber brokerage firm in Hamburg, New York in 1923.

Onsite Energy says electricity efficiency is "outta sight." The energy services company identifies energy management measures that its mostly industrial and government clients can use to save on power and fuel-supply costs. It installs the recommended cost-effective systems, heat and power generation systems, central plant upgrades, lighting and refrigeration system upgrades, and air compressor and boiler retrofits. It also provides consulting services to help customers monitor energy usage and identify incentive programs. The company focuses on California, though its market extends throughout the western US and northern Mexico. Management bought control of Onsite in 2003.

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