Cajun Industries builds oil refineries, power plants, process plants, water-treatment plants, and other industrial and infrastructure projects, primarily in Louisiana and Texas. Subsidiary Cajun Constructors provides a full range of services from design/build to maintenance; Cajun Deep Foundations offers drilling, piles installation, and related services. Cajun Maritime focuses on marine, coastal, and oilfield services including construction, repair, and power distribution. Cajun Equipment Services manages a fleet of trucks and trailers that transport heavy and specialized loads. Chairman and owner Lane Grigsby founded the company as Cajun Contractors and Engineers in 1973.

Fisher Development is a big fish in the tenant improvement general contracting sector. The company provides core/shell and historic preservation construction services for retail stores, restaurants, and corporate offices throughout the US and Canada. It also provides construction management and design/build services for its clients. Fisher Development builds for some of the top names in retail, including Sephora, Gap, Tiffany & Co., Foot Locker, and Williams-Sonoma. The company was originally founded as a residential subdivision builder in 1971 by chairman and owner Robert Fisher, brother of Gap founder and chairman Donald Fisher. The firm shifted to retail construction after building for Gap.

Enka focuses on building airports, bridges, industrial plants, hospitals, petrochemical plants, power plants, shopping malls, and other large structures and complexes. Enka also rents and manages office and retail buildings. The company operated hypermart shopping centers in Russia, but handed over operations of the markets by renting the spaces to Auchan in 2007. The transaction signals Enka's move away from retail management. Other operations include machinery distribution and management of natural-gas power plants. Tracing its roots back to 1957, Enka was formally established in 1967.

Founded in 1819 in Vienna and traded since 1869 on the Vienna Stock Exchange, Wienerberger can look back on a great tradition. Only in 1986 the company started its dynamic expansion, which has focused on building materials since the introduction of Value Management in 1997. This transformed Wienerberger from a local Austrian brick-maker into the world’s largest producer of bricks within a few years. During this time the number of production facilities rose from 11 to a level of 229 plants in 27 countries.The construction industry was hard hit by the worldwide recession in 2009, which triggered a sharp drop in the demand for building materials. On the one hand, new residential construction is heavily dependent on bank financing and, on the other hand, consumers tend to postpone investment decisions as a reaction to the weak economy and uncertain expectations for the future. Wienerberger implemented a wide-ranging action plan to adjust capacity to reflect these developments, which also included active working capital management to reduce inventories, a decrease in administrative and selling costs and a cutback in investments to the necessary minimum.

Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) digs deep for business. One of the largest privately held concrete suppliers, Irving Materials, Inc. produces stone, sand, gravel, and concrete materials for customers in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It operates four regional operations centers and more than 150 ready-mix plants, about 15 asphalt plants, and 10 stone quarries. IMI also sells used equipment ranging from haul trucks and fleet cars to portable crushing equipment and other heavy equipment. C. C. "Skunk" Irving founded Irving Materials, Inc. in 1946. It is employee owned.

Choate Construction provides design/build, preconstruction, and management services for the construction of commercial and public facilities. It has experience in a wide range of projects including automotive showrooms, manufacturing plants, office buildings, schools, and condominiums. Completed projects include a dormitory on The University of Georgia-East campus, golf clubhouses, and a distribution warehouse for Crate & Barrel. The company has offices in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and is licensed to build throughout the US.

Airwell-Fedders has a distribution center in Missouri and global manufacturing operations in Argentina, China, France, Israel, and Italy. Airwell-Fedders North America runs hot and cold -- depending on what its customers call for. The company designs, manufactures, and markets heating and air conditioning products for residential, commercial, and industrial use. Among its products are mobile and window air conditioning units, condensing units, fan coils, water chillers, furnaces, and heat pumps. Airwell-Fedders is the North American arm of Paris-based Airwell Group, which also makes and sells Electra and Wesper brand HVAC products.

Glennwood Custom Builders is a residential design and build company. The company custom builds a wide range homes from Victorian-styled homes and cottages to log homes and timber-frame homes and retreats. The Michigan builder serves the Lake Charlevoix, Walloon Lake, Bay Harbor, Harbor Springs, and surrounding areas. President Jeff Collins owns the company.

SNC-Lavalin Constructors Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin Group, provides design, construction, and maintenance services on a variety of natural-gas-fueled and waste-fueled power generation plants. SNC-Lavalin has completed gas and steam turbine, reciprocating engine, and cooling and heating projects in North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. The company was formed in 2002 and names Boise Cascade, Union Carbide, and Calpine Corporation among its many public and private-sector clients.

Project Enhancement offers a variety of environmental services, including hazardous waste management, nuclear plant decommissioning, and stabilization and disposition of nuclear materials. The company serves customers throughout the US from offices in Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington state. Clients have included several US Department of Energy nuclear sites, as well a range of industrial manufacturing companies and utilties including Bechtel, British Nuclear Fuels, Commonwealth Edison, Fluor, Lockheed Martin, Morrison Knudsen, and Science Applications International.

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