Founded in 1949, Nabholz is a general contractor that offers a variety of commercial construction services, including pre-construction, excavation, project management, street and roadway paving, concrete work, and steel structure assembly. The company, which operates primarily in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, provides its services through several specialty divisions and through partnerships with third-party companies. Its completed projects include hospitals, churches, industrial buildings, as well as high school and university facilities. A private company, Nabholz is employee-owned and operated.

E.W. Howell is a midsized New York general contractor and construction management firm that is a regional leader in retail construction. With offices in Manhattan and Long Island, E.W. Howell also builds hospitals, labs, libraries, office interiors, schools, and restaurants. Clients have included Bergdorf Goodman, Target, and Columbia University. It typically bids on projects in the private sector, but it also selectively competes within the public sector. Established in 1891, E.W. Howell began as a builder of homes for such well-heeled East Coast families as the Huttons and the Guggenheims. The Howells left the firm in the 1980s, and Japanese construction group Obayashi acquired the company in 1989.

Integrated Management Services, which operates as IMS Engineers, provides engineering, consulting, and construction management services. IMS offers its services to a variety of industries; projects include aviation, environmental, transportation, water, and wastewater facilities. It has offices in Jackson, Mississippi; Memphis; New Orleans (where it participates in Hurricane Katrina recovery work); and Detroit, Michigan. The city of Jackson, Mississippi and Nissan Motor are among the company's customers. The minority-owned IMS was formed in 1996 by CEO John Calhoun and President Rod Hill. It is a mainstay on Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US.

Ron Jones Hardwood Sales produces kiln-dried and green Northern Appalachian hardwood lumber for distribution within the US and for export container shipping. Species used to make its lumber include cherry, red and white oak, hard and soft maple, hickory, yellow birch, beech, ash, poplar, and basswood. The company operates a lumber yard with a capacity of more than 3 million board ft. in Franklin, Pennsylvania. It also has 300,000 board ft. kiln capacity there. President Ron Jones and other members of the family own and operate the business.

General contracting firm S. M. Wilson & Co. is right on Target as one of the giant retailer's preferred providers of construction services. The firm provides construction, construction management, and design/build services, mainly for retail, education, industrial, senior care, commercial, and health care projects. It operates from offices in Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana. Shouse McGarvey Wilson founded S. M. Wilson & Co. in Granite City, Illinois in 1921. The company is owned by the Wilson family and is headed by Scott Wilson (president), grandson of the founder. The company expanded geographically in 2007 with the acquisition of Rollins Construction in Indianapolis.

EMJ does it all for the mall. The company, which was founded in 1968, specializes in building and renovating retail outlets and shopping centers throughout the US. However, the company also is known for building other projects, including offices, warehouses, churches, hotels, multifamily residential units, and hospitals. Working from five offices across the US, EMJ provides general construction and construction management. Its pre-construction services include creating detailed budgets and construction schedules and coordinating permitting, utility companies, and municipal requirements. Quality control, safety and warranty management also is offered in order to track a project's progress and monitor costs.

Integrated Electrical Services (IES) has a hand in all three. The company installs and maintains electrical and communications systems for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Work on commercial buildings and homes includes custom design, testing, and maintenance on low-voltage systems such as lighting, fire alarm, audio/video, and Internet cabling. On the industrial side, IES performs high- and medium-voltage systems installation and construction on power stations, oil and gas pipelines, and processing plants. The company has a network of some 70 locations serving the continental US.

Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. provides industrial and hazardous waste services to small and mid-sized customers in the United States. It offers a range of services, including parts cleaning, containerized waste management, used oil collection, and vacuum truck services. The company provides its cleaning services by offering parts cleaning equipment and chemicals to remove oil and grease, and other contaminants from engine parts and machine parts requiring cleaning. It offers waste management services by collecting drums, pails, boxes, and other containers of hazardous and non-hazardous waste materials from its customers. The company provides its vacuum truck services for the removal of mixtures of oil, water, and sediment from wastewater pretreatment devices. Its customers include businesses involved in vehicle maintenance operations, such as car dealerships, automotive repair shops, and trucking firms, as well as small manufacturers, such as metal product fabricators and printers. Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Elgin, Illinois.

Philip Services Corporation (PSC) undertakes a wide range of industrial and environmental cleanup projects throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada. Besides scrap metal recycling services, which have been the company's longtime focus, PSC provides on-site waste disposal and recycling, cleaning of industrial equipment, transportation of commercial and industrial waste, and emergency response to spills. In addition, PSC alos offers oil field services both onshore and offshore along the US Gulf Coast. Entities owned by investor Carl Icahn control PSC. The initials PSC also stand for the company's operating philosophy -- People, Safety, and Commitment.

Conti Electric counts on commercial and industrial clients to keep it busy. The company designs, installs, and maintains electrical systems and equipment for customers throughout the Americas. The company's industrial division completes installation projects for such large-scale facilities as automobile plants, refineries, and manufacturers. Its commercial division focuses on shopping centers, casinos, and other smaller projects; the division also offers electrical maintenance services in the Midwest. Conti Electric was founded in 1969 and has operations in Delaware, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Nevada.

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