Novalis Innovative Flooring
Dr. Z.L. Wu founded Novalis Innovative Flooring in 1984, when he became the first manufacturer to ship luxury vinyl flooring from China to the U.S. At the time, only a few companies in the world had any involvement in the product, giving the insightful entrepreneur a unique opportunity to bring an emerging product to customers around the globe.
Holtzman Home Improvement
Holtzman Home Improvement is a top-ranked, Arizona-based contractor specializing in kitchen and bathroom remodeling. After 18 years in business and over 5,000 customers, the licensed, bonded, and insured business also has extensive experience in whole house renovations and home additions.
Dekker Perich Sabatini
Architecture firm Dekker Perich Sabatini (DPS) has enjoyed 65 years of excellence. With offices in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, the company has expanded into a multifaceted, multidiscipline firm over the years.
Charlan Brock Architects
Butch Charlan and Gary Brock founded Orlando-based Charlan Brock Architects in 1980. The firm has been earning international recognition ever since for its buildable, marketable, and financially successful design solutions.
A&H Equipment Co.
A&H Equipment Co. is a market-leading distributor of environmental and municipal product solutions, from street sweepers and sewer cleaners to snow removal trucks. The company operates throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia. After reporting on the company’s latest developments in 2022, Construction in Focus sat back down with the team to hear this year’s news.
TurnPoint Services
Since its founding in 2016, TurnPoint Services has skyrocketed to success, growing from $30 million in annual sales in a single market to annual sales of over $1.4 billion and an active presence in 34 states.
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
After profiling the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) sustainability efforts in previous articles, Construction in Focus caught up with the organization once again, this time to learn about an exciting new report. State of Decarbonization: Progress in U.S. Commercial Buildings 2023 discusses the sector’s progress, the current status of data availability, and mechanisms available to reduce the carbon emissions of commercial buildings in the United States—the first report to compile all of this information into a single source.
J. Pettiecord
Known as one of the Midwest’s premier specialty contractors, J. Pettiecord, Inc. handles large-scale land clearing, environmental remediation, demolition, wood waste grinding, railroad services, underground storage tank removal, snow removal, dump trucking, and heavy haul trucking. With 70 full-time employees at the ready, the Bondurant, Iowa-based business is well prepared for whatever short-term, long-term, or emergency project comes its way.
Atlantic TNG
Atlantic TNG LLC, originally Atlantic Concrete, has been casting quality precast concrete products since 1969. In 2019, we sat down with Megan Kitchner, a third-generation precaster who launched her own division of the family business in 2011. We checked back in with Kitchner this month to learn the latest from her Sarasota, Florida headquarters.
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Craft-Maid Handmade Cabinetry
There’s much to be said for time-honored craftsmanship surviving the onslaught of 21st-century fast fashion, whether that’s on catwalks or in kitchens. With a sleek new website and a premium portfolio, Craft-Maid Handmade Cabinetry understands that true, enduring appeal is layered into the details of good design.
Great Northern Cabinetry
For Tim Ford, owner of Great Northern Cabinetry, the concept of lean is widely misunderstood in both the general population and the business media. Often used interchangeably with Six Sigma and other forms of continuous improvement or productivity, for him it simply means creating a better, stronger, and safer company.
Menard Canada
Menard Canada uses innovative equipment and treatments to enhance, strengthen, and stabilize soil at construction sites prior to building. The company’s ground improvement solutions reduce settlement, prevent liquefaction, and increase support and the bearing capacity of buildings without the need for deep foundations. Based in Brossard, Quebec, with offices across Canada, the company also offers measures to address seismic risk in earthquake-prone areas.
Venditti Demolition
After one and a half decades serving Chicagoland, Venditti Demolition moved its knowledge and experience, together with a competitive approach to service delivery and considerable love of this industry, to the south four years ago. And judging by the lively growth the company has enjoyed since it opened for business in Austin in 2020, the southern market for breaking down buildings appears to be speeding up.
M.R. Brewer
Considering the economic challenges of the past two decades, maintaining any legacy business is not for the faint of heart. This is all the more true when it is a family business. At home in one of the most beautiful areas of North America, M.R. Brewer of Portland, Maine is a second-generation construction millwork, interior design, and restoration firm founded on hard work, integrity, and humility.
Tempeff
Part of the NIBE Group—an international association of more than 120 independent enterprises that manufacture, distribute, and promote their own brands globally—Tempeff strives to reduce carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency by developing, manufacturing, and marketing environmentally friendly, energy-efficient solutions for indoor climate comfort for all types of properties through sustainable efficiency and exceptional eco-design.
