Modular Building Institute
Recent reports offer plenty of good news for the modular construction sector in both the United States and Canada. The value of the U.S. modular market was pegged at more than $20 billion in 2024...
Wind River Built
Wind River Built is a fast-rising, specialty construction company that custom-manufactures family homes, guest houses, cabins, and other structures. The Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company is eager...
DY Concrete Pumps
Based in Alvarado, Texas, DY Concrete Pumps Inc. is a family-owned company that sells concrete pumps, parts, and ancillary equipment. Since we spoke last year, the team has new products, an...
Cloward H2O
This spring, staff from Cloward H2O—a leading aquatics engineering firm from Lindon, Utah—got to enjoy the fruits of their labor at the Glenwood Hot Springs Resort in Colorado. Cloward H2O engineers...
Daley’s Drywall & Taping Inc.
Daley’s Drywall & Taping Inc. is an award-winning, family-owned drywall contracting firm founded over half a century ago. Based in Campbell, California, Daley’s offers metal framing, drywall,...
DHE Plumbing
DHE Plumbing marked its 20th anniversary this year in a big way by transitioning to full employee ownership, all the while maintaining a tradition of exemplary work. Based in Grandville, Michigan,...
DWB Consultants
DWB Consultants of Piedmont, Quebec, has taken on new personnel and projects since Construction in Focus last profiled the integrated engineering firm in August 2024. While DWB continues to offer...
Canusa Wood
Canusa Wood has passed the half-century mark as one of the leading importers and distributors of wood panel products in North America. Based in Vancouver, BC, the company purchases a variety of...
Miller Marriott Construction Co.
When faced with a client who wanted to build a house dangerously near a cliff, the team at Miller Marriott Construction Co. did not blink. “We have a reputation for being able to get our homes into...
Building-integrated Photovoltaics – Visually Pleasing and Eco-Friendly
The Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health (SAMIH) at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) promises to be a unique building once it’s completed. In addition to being an...
Foam Expo 2025
Foam Expo North America promises to be a three-day extravaganza featuring over 400 exhibitors, product/material/process demonstrations, conference sessions, and networking. Now in its eighth year,...
Silvi Materials
There have been some big changes at Silvi Materials of Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, since Construction in Focus profiled the family-run building materials supplier in October 2023. Over the past...
iWired/HomeRun Electronics
iWired of Scottsdale, Arizona specializes in lighting, sound, and security solutions for private homes and commercial buildings. The company’s “three-pillar approach,” as CEO Johnathan George calls...
Video & Audio Center
Video & Audio Center of Los Angeles, California blends cutting-edge technology with old-fashioned customer care. It has proven a hugely successful formula for this award-winning company that...
Builders
Builders is a multi-faceted, family-owned business based in Kearney, Nebraska, with additional operations across the state and in neighboring Colorado. The company is primarily a pro dealer,...
Troyer Post Buildings
Troyer Post Buildings of Monterey, Tennessee supplies unique, low-cost pole barns for the residential, commercial, and agricultural sectors. The rapidly growing, family-run firm blends an...
Environmental Containment Corp
The companies who are represented by Environmental Containment Corp (ECC) of Seattle, Washington design, manufacture, and install state-of-the-art underground stormwater vaults, cutting-edge...
Richco Structures
Richco Structures of Haven, Wisconsin is a family business that designs, builds, and delivers roof and floor trusses, walls, and other building components. Richco is part of a larger corporate...
A Look at Family and Employee Ownership Plans
There are many ways to run a construction business. Family ownership is a common model—of 789 family firms surveyed in a 2024 study by non-profit research group, Family Enterprise USA, a little over...
Algonquin Mouldings
Algonquin Mouldings has been on a spending spree. Based in Mirabel, Quebec, the firm has spent roughly $10 million over the past year on an automated rip and cross-cut line and a pair of scanners...
Madysta Group
Madysta Group is a vertically integrated, rapidly expanding company based in Trois-Rivières, Québec that provides construction and engineering services for the telecommunications industry and other...
Modular Building Institute
The modular construction industry in North America is enjoying a surge of popularity, with rising housing starts, a big regulatory victory, and growing public acceptance. “The industry around the...
Wind River Built
For most of its existence, Wind River Built of Chattanooga, Tennessee designed, manufactured, and delivered Park Model tiny homes—that is, mini-residences on wheels. The specialty construction...
Apogee Consulting Group
Apogee Consulting Group, P.A. of Cary, North Carolina specializes in architecture, engineering, and excellent customer care. This service-disabled, veteran-owned, small business (SDVOSB) with a...
Arsenal Constructors Inc.
Based in Vaughan, Ontario, Arsenal Constructors Inc. (ACI) is approaching its tenth anniversary as a full-service general contracting firm that excels at building and renovating grocery stores and...
DY Concrete Pumps
DY Concrete Pumps Inc. of Alvarado, Texas and Calgary, Alberta is gearing up for new products, an e-commerce website, and a milestone anniversary. The company acquires pumps and parts made by South...
Applied Fabricators
Applied Fabricators (AFAB) of Greenfield, Indiana marked its 40th anniversary this year, a milestone the company achieved through hard work, advanced technology, and old-fashioned customer care. “We...
TOLM Group
TOLM Group of Morrilton, Arkansas is a construction firm with a difference—and not just due to its impressive achievements, comprehensive client support, and safety-first approach. “Our work centers...
Cloward H2O
Based in Lindon, Utah, Cloward H2O has brought its aquatic engineering skills to water parks, aquariums, splash pads, fountains, white water rafting sites, and the world’s deepest swimming pool,...
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...
DWB Consultants
DWB Consultants is an integrated engineering firm with expertise in civil, mechanical, industrial, electrical, recreational tourism, and structural work. The company also takes on special projects...
HistoryMaker Homes
Buying a home is the biggest financial investment most people make in their entire lives. As such, the experience can be both exhilarating and unnerving. HistoryMaker Homes Limited of Texas works...
Corner Stone Construction
Corner Stone Construction is a commercial masonry firm based in Janesville, Wisconsin that practices a growth strategy based on known strengths, a highly focused service offering, and quality work....
Peerless Products
Peerless Products of Fort Scott, Kansas designs and manufactures doors and windows for everything from schools to skyscrapers. This strong proponent of sustainability produces its wares with...
Eastern Glass and Aluminum
Eastern Glass and Aluminum (EGA) of Norcross, Georgia, marks its tenth anniversary this year as a successful building envelope contractor. Spun off from a larger parent company, EGA excels at...
Architectural Glass & Metal Company
Architectural Glass & Metal Company, Inc., (AGM) of Indianapolis, Indiana, celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. It’s quite the accomplishment for a company of humble origins that...
Central Construction Group
Central Construction Group doesn’t “aim to be the biggest contractor” but “strives to be the best,” to paraphrase the company’s website. Headquartered in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Central also has shops...
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) provides a depth and breadth of services, programs, and opportunities for manufacturers. Headquartered in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a national presence,...
Anderson & Rodgers Construction
Anderson & Rodgers Construction, a fast-growing, award-winning design-build firm based in Lexington, Kentucky, has a wide range of residential and commercial clients. Its team performs custom...
ARCAN Construction
ARCAN Construction Ltd. offers a true breadth of services: general contracting, mould/lead/asbestos abatement, insurance claim restorations, modular construction, design-build, architectural design,...
Milis Flatwork
Milis Flatwork has enjoyed spectacular growth since Construction in Focus profiled the Kaukauna, Wisconsin-based concrete construction company in February 2019. Revenues and employment have tripled,...
Taylor Flooring
There have been momentous changes at Taylor Flooring since Construction in Focus profiled the booming Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based business in December 2022. Since that feature ran, a decision was...
Environmental Containment Corp
Environmental Containment Corp (ECC) aims to be the Pacific Northwest’s market leader in watertight, underground stormwater detention solutions. Based in Seattle, Washington, ECC is an umbrella...
Step One Design
Dreaming of a custom home on Vancouver Island off the British Columbia mainland? Step One Design, a flourishing company run by husband and wife team, Michael and Lisa Dunsmuir, would be a good place...
Long Painting Company
Long Painting Company has been a presence in the Pacific Northwest since it was founded in 1967. Headquartered in Kent, Washington and with an office in Vancouver, Washington, it works across the...
Rock Hard Landscape Supply
Rock Hard Landscape Supply is a family-run firm that stocks an array of products for beautifying lawns and properties. With four locations in Minnesota, the company stocks everything from mulch,...
Weir’s Construction
Weir’s Construction Limited has been something of an institution in Newfoundland for decades. Based in St. John’s, this family-run firm specializes in construction, infrastructure, and road and...
How the Paint and Sealant Sectors Respond to Changing Times
The markets for paint and sealants have had a tumultuous time as of late, due to “the COVID-19 pandemic, raw material shortages and supply chain disruptions,” states the American Coatings...
DES
Multi-disciplinary design firm DES of Redwood City, California, marked its 50th anniversary this year, an achievement made possible by having a sterling body of work, a progressive spirit, and a...
MMP Architects
Consistency, continuity, and quality have been central to the success of MMP Architects Inc., based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and founded nearly a century ago. In addition to its impressive heritage and...
Modular Building Institute
The Modular Building Institute (MBI), a global non-profit trade association based in Charlottesville, Virginia, represents several facets of the modular industry, a sector that has experienced...
EVstudio
EVstudio offers integrated architectural, engineering, design, and planning services for residential and commercial construction projects. While headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the progressive,...
Silvi Materials
Silvi Materials supplies high-end concrete, sand, stone, cement, and slag for building and offers a breadth of ancillary services. Based in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, this rapidly growing,...
onespace unlimited inc.
A little over two decades ago, Rod Rowbotham had a disconcerting experience while viewing a new building near Toronto. “In the late 1990s, I was designing a condominium in Mississauga. It was 24...
Ascendent Demolition
Ascendent Demolition, LLC demolishes building interiors and exteriors for a wide range of clients. Based in Puyallup, Washington, this demolition, abatement, and civil contracting firm uses...
Diverso Energy
Diverso Energy of Toronto, Ontario designs and installs geothermal heating and cooling systems that can reduce both energy costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Since the company was profiled by...
Worldwide Steel Buildings
Worldwide Steel Buildings is a leader in the fast-growing residential ‘barndominium’ sector. From its base in Peculiar, Missouri, the company designs, engineers, fabricates, and distributes...
Bassi Construction
Bassi Construction Ltd. marked its sixtieth anniversary this year with a new focus on converting buildings to residential use and a renewed commitment to technology and health and safety. Profiled...
Wall-tech Companies
Wall-tech Companies is a market leader when it comes to using prefabricated cold-formed steel (CFS) framing to create sturdy building exteriors. While the company, which is based near Madison,...
Brothers Paving & Concrete Corporation
Huge changes have taken place at Brothers Paving & Concrete Corporation since Construction in Focus profiled the construction company in August 2018. Based in Manassas, Virginia, Brothers’...