CSM Group is a construction management firm with four offices spread throughout Michigan, Nebraska and Tennessee. As a huge CSM project in Kalamazoo, Michigan neared completion, we spoke with Director of Business Development and Marketing Lori Green and Divisional President Jim Feltch. In addition to construction management, the company also specializes in master planning, design/build, pre-construction services and facility assessments.
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SPEC Construction
SPEC-tacular Building Solutions
SPEC Construction is a highly reputable, full-service general contractor in Southwestern Ontario that also supplies clients with real estate expertise. The company’s design and construction abilities can bring any clients’ vision to reality. It serves clients from the healthcare, retail, office, retail, commercial and industrial sectors.
Global Stone
Leading the Stone & Tile Industry through Quality and Innovation
Last year Global Stone, Inc. celebrated its tenth anniversary: ten years of growth through innovation, operational excellence, and commitment to customer satisfaction. Global Stone founders Dan Nelson and Renato Fuchs spoke with Construction in Focus about the company’s growth and what makes it so successful.
Crossville Inc.
Sustainable Beauty, Exceptional Design
Crossville Inc. is the leading American manufacturer of remarkably beautiful and sustainable tiles and surfacing solutions. The company has pushed the limits of what is possible, taking the market and the industry to new heights.
Gratton Construction
It’s All in the Attitude
Gratton Construction started as a trucking company, established by Denis Gratton in 1981 in Sudbury, Ontario. With decades of knowledge and expertise, a reputation for reliability and great work ethic, the company has grown and evolved over the years to now encompass many specialized services within the construction field. Gratton Construction has always taken great pride in a job well done – no matter how the size.
Tensar Corporation
Designed for Success
Tensar Corporation, based in the southern city of Alpharetta, Georgia, provides unique and highly innovative solutions that preserve, stabilize and reinforce soil and pavement. From humble beginnings, the privately owned company has grown to a global entity with approximately six hundred employees. Tensar Corporation is also the parent company of Geopier Foundation Company, Tensar International Corporation and North American Green.
Merchants Metals
The Finest in Fencing
Fencing is often taken for granted, yet wherever you are, you are probably only a few yards from fencing of some kind. It is used for protection, security or simply to divide or mark a territory. Merchants Metals specializes in fencing and is the provider of choice for thousands of professional fence contractors, architects and quality building material retailers. We spoke with an enthusiastic Chief Executive Officer Andrea Hogan about her company, this industry and its prospects for the future.
PND Engineers
Providing Unique Solutions
PND Engineers is a full-service engineering firm founded in Alaska in 1979. An expert in civil, structural, and waterfront design, frozen ground engineering, and extreme and remote projects, it has a reputation for coming up with innovative design solutions while providing a great place for employees to work and grow.
Clark Patterson Lee
Enriching Communities through Inspired Design
Clark Patterson Lee (CPL) was founded in 1975, in Rochester, New York and began as a firm purely dedicated to civil engineering projects. In 1992, the company made the transition to a full-service architecture and engineering firm. It later expanded into a second office in the Hudson Valley and continues to grow. Presently, CPL consists of eleven offices across the eastern seaboard with concentrations in New York, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Cansel
Workflow Specialists from Field to Finish
Cansel is the only company of its kind in Canada and is celebrating fifty years of being the industry-leading workflow specialist. It delivers unique, tailored solutions and serves as a resource for its clients to more efficiently measure, analyze, design and build by providing the latest software, hardware, services, and support that improve results and profitability.
Tricon Precast
Wall, Bridges, and More
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Tricon Precast Limited remains one of the largest precast concrete manufacturers in the entire state. Providing a wide range of proven, mechanically stabilized earth retaining wall systems, bridge systems, precast products and engineering services, Tricon Precast has earned the business and respect of customers across North America for its innovative systems and solutions.
Custom Rock Formliner
Making a Great Impression
Custom Rock Formliner was established as a concrete contractor in 1971, specializing in both commercial and residential stamped concrete. Over the next decade, Custom Rock evolved and focused on theme-scapes, producing realistic-looking artificial landscapes across the country for zoos, casinos and retail stores such as Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops.
Royal Concrete Pipe
From Precast Concrete to Rapid Growth
Royal Concrete Pipe is a rapidly expanding manufacturer based in Stacy, Minnesota specializing in precast concrete pipes, manholes and other products for sewers and storm water. A sister company, Royal Environmental Systems, offers products for water treatment and utilities infrastructure. The aim for both firms over the next few years is diversification and growth.
Municipal Ready-Mix
Longstanding Industry Leadership
Established in 1952, Municipal Ready-Mix has become a fixture in Nova Scotia, serving the Cape Breton regional municipality. In fact, since its inception, the company has had a hand in every single construction project in the region, in one way or another.
Lithko Contracting
Tilt-Up Construction Specialists
Lithko Contracting, LLC was formed in 1992 by skilled concrete construction professionals who found the constant travel their job required was no longer conducive to their growing families. Seeing an opportunity to create a different kind of organization, they formed a commercial concrete contracting company focused on working close to home.
STABIL Concrete
Up to the Challenge
STABIL Concrete Products LLC is a company known for being able to do the things that other companies cannot or won’t do – the challenging projects. Working with innovative materials that enable architects to design stunning, durable, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly buildings and hardscape applications makes the company stand out from its competitors…
Command Alkon
Integrated Solutions, Added Value
Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and serving customers from multiple office locations worldwide, Command Alkon has been bringing innovation to the construction materials industry since 1976. The company has come a long way to offer highly-innovative supply chain solutions that control, measure and improve performance.
Hamilton Kent
Keeping Underground Infrastructure Watertight
Hamilton Kent Inc. manufactures and supplies rubber watertight sealing systems and components such as seals and gaskets to ensure underground storm, sewer and water pipes remain watertight. Preventing underground infrastructure from leaking or absorbing unwanted water can stave off pollution, sinkholes and massive repair bills, explains company president and COO, Bernard Grégoire.
American Concrete Pipe Association
Representing the Concrete Pipe Industry
The American Concrete Pipe Association (ACPA) is the nation’s voice of all matters influencing the concrete pipe industry. Representing the industry since 1907, the organization helped oversee the rapid modernization of America’s infrastructure throughout the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty first century, the ACPA continues to move the industry—and America’s infrastructure—forward through education, networking opportunities, and advocacy.
Harvest Landscape Enterprises
Conservation Experts in Drought-Addled California
Harvest Landscape Enterprises is based in Orange County, California. Currently, the state is dealing with one of the worst droughts in its history, and there are no signs of immediate relief. Surprisingly, water is not a free good – it is actually quite expensive – and the current conditions in California have led to an acute awareness of water management challenges…
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