SmithGroup is the oldest continuously practicing architectural and engineering firm in the US. Founded in 1853 in Detroit by architect Sheldon Smith, the firm partnered with engineers in 1907 to become one of the first multidisciplinary firms in the country. Formerly known as Smith, Hinchman & Gryllis, it influenced the skyline of Detroit with structures like the Guardian, Penobscot, and Buhl buildings. These days the group offers architecture engineering, interiors planning, and consulting services and has about a dozen offices across the US. It targets the office, research, education, health care, technologies, and cities and communities markets.

Time is money, but TIMEC is like money in the bank for the oil and gas industry. The company provides maintenance, turnaround, and construction services to oil and gas, industrial, and utility customers in the US. The company, which has 11 offices in the US, specializes in catalyst handling, outsourced training, safety support, small capital construction, specialized welding, supplemental maintenance, and turnkey turnaround services. TIMEC works at some 39 of the country's 150 refineries with clients such as Chevron, Shell, and Marathon Petroleum. J.G. Red" Meacham and R. Briggs Wood founded the company in 1971. Transfield Services bought TIMEC in 2007 for $100 million.

Remondis (formerly Rethmann Entsorgungs) is a private waste management firm with branches, subsidiaries, and affiliated businesses in more than 25 countries in Europe and in Australia, China, Japan, and Taiwan. Serving more than 22 million customers and thousands of companies, Remondis is engaged in the collection, transport, processing, and disposal of waste, as well as the reclamation and sale of secondary materials from recycling. The company handles large contracts for garbage collection, waste water management, recycling, and composting. Remondis also handles the collection and proper disposal of toxic wastes such as chemicals, photo and print materials, and sewage.

Brice Building is braced for continued success as a general contracting and construction management firms in the Southeast. Its construction portfolio includes education, retail, hospitality, health care, office, and industrial projects. Notable projects include the Birmingham Museum of Art, a Honda manufacturing plant in Alabama, and expansions to the Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama. Ongoing jobs include numerous post Hurricane Katrina rebuilding projects and the $64 million Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium research center. Mississippi-based construction group Anderson Companies acquired Brice Building from the company's senior management in 2010.

Facility Group wants to facilitate every phase of your construction project. The privately owned and operated group provides planning, architectural and engineering, and program and construction management services. It manages more than $700 million in projects and targets several commercial and industrial markets, including the food and beverage, distribution, justice, and education sectors. Clients have included The Coca-Cola Company, Russell Stover Candies, Bright Horizons, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Trinchero Family Estates (formerly Sutter Home Winery), and Ampacet. Facility Group, which was established in 1986, operates from offices located throughout the US.

Founded in 1866 by David Saylor as Coplay Cement, the company is now a part of the Italian cement and building materials group, Italcementi. Essroc Cement likes to mix it up. The company operates about a dozen cement plants and other facilities in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and has an annual capacity of more than 6.5 million metric tons of cement. Essroc makes bulk and packaged cement products, including portland cement, ready mix concrete, and masonry cement. Its AXIM Concrete Technologies subsidiary creates concrete admixtures used to improve the performance quality of cement. Essroc's brands include BRIXMENT, Saylor's PLUS, and VELVET masonry. Its BRAVO line includes masonry chemical products.

Molzen-Corbin & Associates is a full-service consulting, engineering, and architecture company with a Southwest accent. The firm, which specializes in civil engineering and facility designs, was founded in 1960. It operates from offices in Albuquerque and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Projects have included roadways, bridges, airport runways, water resource facilities, and electrical engineering designs. The firm also offers municipal architecture and designs recreational facilities such as gyms, ball fields, and parks. President and CEO Del Archuleta is the majority stockholder of .

Southeastern Metals has grown into one of the region’s leading manufacturers of metal building products. In 1997, Gibraltar Industries acquired the company, uniting the quality product line of Southeastern Metals with the nationally respected brand name of Gibraltar. As a member of the Gibraltar Industries family, Southeastern Metals is part of a billion dollar network of manufacturers expanding across the globe. With the support and backing of Gibraltar, Southeastern Metals will remain the name you can trust for quality metal building products.

Permasteelisa Group is a worldwide leading Contractor in the engineering, project management, manufacturing and installation of architectural envelopes and interior systems. The Group brings its Know-How and expertise to all projects, in particular when dealing with Special Features Buildings, beginning with the design development phases all the way to the successful completion, achieving the customer's expectations.Present in four continents, the Group yearly generates a total turnover of around 1 billion euro.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

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