Corporacion Uniland traces its roots to 1973 when Cementos y Cales Freixa and Cementos Fradera combined to form Cementos Uniland. Cementos Portland Valderrivas controls a 64% stake in the company; Irish building materials group CRH owns the rest. No need for abstractions when discussing Uniland. Its product line is concrete, as well as cement, mortar, and aggregates. Corporacion Uniland, S.A. has operations primarily in Spain, where it runs two cement factories, more than 25 concrete plants, about 10 aggregate quarries, and more than 10 mortar plants. Uniland has also expanded into Argentina, Tunisia, the UK, and Uruguay.

Navarro Research and Engineering provides environmental remediation and related services throughout the US. Specialties include nuclear safety and environmental safety and health. Navarro Research and Engineering's offices tend to be located near sites overseen by the US Department of Energy where nuclear materials have been stored. The company had employees in 14 offices and 23 project locations across the country. Navarro Research and Engineering works on projects for the US Department of Energy, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, and their primary contractors.

NBBJ spends a lot of time around hospitals, but don't worry -- there's nothing wrong. The architecture and design firm designs medical facilities as well as other structures including mixed-use commecial and office buildings, arenas, courthouses, colleges, and research facilities. In addition to architecture and design, the company provides consulting, branding, lighting, and landscaping services. NBBJ works on projects (clients have included Starbucks and Microsoft) around the world. It has offices in Washington, California, New York, and Ohio and international offices in China, the UK, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. NBBJ was founded in 1943 by four Seattle-based architects (Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson).

McDermott International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an engineering and construction company worldwide. It operates in three segments: Offshore Oil and Gas Construction, Government Operations, and Power Generation Systems. The Offshore Oil and Gas Construction segment engages in the front-end design and detailed engineering, fabrication, and installation of offshore drilling and production facilities; and installation of marine pipelines and subsea production systems. It also provides project management and procurement services. In addition, this segment operates a fleet of marine vessels used in offshore construction and various fabrication facilities. The Government Operations segment manufactures and supplies critical nuclear components, fuels, and assemblies for government and commercial uses, as well as provides various services, including uranium processing, environmental site restoration services, and management and operating services for various U.S. Government-owned facilities primarily within the nuclear weapons complex of the U.S. Department of Energy. It also supplies research reactor fuel elements for colleges, universities, and national laboratories; offers uranium-based products used for medical isotopes; and converts or downblends high-enriched uranium into low-enriched fuel for use in commercial reactors to generate electricity, as well as provides heavy fabrications for industrial use, including components for defense applications. The Power Generation Systems segment supplies fossil-fired boilers, commercial nuclear steam generators and components, environmental equipment and components, and related services. It designs, engineers, manufactures, constructs and services utility and industrial power generation systems, including boilers used to generate steam in electric power plants, pulp and paper making, chemical and process applications, and other industrial uses. The company was founded in 1923 and is based in Houston, Texas.

HNTB knows the ABCs of A/E. The company ranks among the pack of pure designers, or firms that derive most of their revenues from architecture, engineering, or environmental design operations. It specializes in transportation infrastructure projects and government contracts. HNTB is best-known for its highway and transit system design (its portfolio includes the New Jersey Turnpike) as well as airports (Chicago's Midway) and sports arenas (Invesco Field in Denver). The company operates some 60 locations across the US. The employee-owned HNTB (its name once stood for Howard Needles Tammen & Berendoff) traces its roots to 1914.

Waste Industries USA, Inc.,the active consolidator has made more than 130 acquisitions since 1990. When it's not buying companies, Waste Industries USA is collecting, hauling, and disposing of solid waste for 875,000 municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the southeastern US. The company has 34 collection operations, and about 65 drop-off centers, 29 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and nine landfills. In 2008 Chairman Lonnie Pool Jr. led an investor group that took the company private for about $544 million.

Redrow, a major homebuilder in England, Scotland, and Wales, completes around 2,000 homes annually through its regional Redrow Homes subsidiary companies. The slow housing market has Redrow refocusing its efforts on more mid-market residential homes and moving away from apartment, three-story, and starter homes. It is also building mixed-use residential developments and, through its Redrow Regeneration division, renovating brownfields and other commercial properties. Redrow homes have an average price of about $219,000. The group's land bank has some 13,000 plots. Founder and chairman Steve Morgan now controls about 30% of Redrow.

Baker Triangle is the contracting company specializes in installing drywall and acoustical ceilings. Its projects have included work on several of Texas' largest sports arenas (such as Ameriquest Field and Reliant Park), as well as dozens of educational, medical, commercial and other types of facilities. Baker Triangle operates from offices in the Texas cities of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, as well as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Phoenix, Arizona. B. R. Baker started the business in 1974. His son, CEO Steve Baker, now controls the company.

SubZero Constructors provides specialty contracting services for the refrigerated storage industry. The company operates through two divisions that have specialty areas of operation in thermal construction and industrial refrigeration. The company's thermal construction division specializes in building cold storage distribution and food processing facilities, while its industrial refrigeration division builds cooling systems. SubZero Constructors provides services nationally and has offices in Lake Forest, California (near Los Angeles) and Woodstock, Georgia (near Atlanta). President Dean Soll founded SubZero in 1997.

Jauregui, doing business as Jauregui Architect Builder, custom designs and builds luxury homes in Texas. The company offers architectural, interior design, brokerage, and construction services. Houses typically run in the multi-million dollar price range; architectural styles include contemporary, Tuscan, Mediterranean, and classical Italian. Jauregui Architect Builder operates primarily in the Austin and surrounding Hill Country area, but also has offices in Dallas and Houston.

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