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 client-centric focus. The company’s origins can be traced to an effort to please a customer who was employing separate firms for a project.
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 soaring growth in recent years.
Falcon Structures
Meeting as engineering students at the University of Texas at Austin, Stephen Shang and Brian Dieringer found success in their own careers upon graduation. Reconnecting years later, the duo became co-founders of Texas-based Falcon Structures, which repurposes steel shipping containers into modular work, living, and storage spaces.
Northgate Industries
Recently, it was our pleasure to sit down with Cheryl Watt, President of Northgate Industries Ltd., to learn the inside story of how the trailer parts and service business, first launched in her parents’ garage in 1968 and incorporated in 1970, came to be.
Affinity Modular
Energy-efficient, climate-resilient, and economically viable, Affinity Modular homes are constructed using next-generation modular technology for a variety of structures including single-family and multi-family houses, hotels, and offices. A Vantem firm based in Lakeland, Georgia, Affinity’s buildings, in contrast to typical site-built construction, are assembled in a controlled atmosphere, meaning no materials utilized in their build are exposed to the elements.
Dvele
Formed through a collaboration of knowledge, values, talent, and the desire to create healthy homes for healthy futures, Dvele’s innovative style and design disrupt decades of traditional home building in an effort to create the smartest, healthiest, most sustainable homes on the market.
FK Architecture
Back in 1963, the world was swept up in Beatlemania. In America, NASA was pushing the boundaries of space exploration with its Mercury capsule, and Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
EVstudio
EVstudio offers integrated architectural, engineering, design, and planning services for residential and commercial construction projects. While headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the progressive, rapidly growing, full-service firm also has branches in Texas and Idaho and big plans to go national.
SFA Saniflo Canada
When it comes to plumbing solutions, SFA Saniflo Canada is a global leader and the only manufacturer of its kind in Canada. Customers in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors have come to depend on the company’s diverse line of innovative, above-floor technology that promises reliability, affordability, and ease of use.
Cornerstone Detention Products
Before founding Cornerstone Detention Products Inc. in 1998, Charles ‘Mitch’ Claborn had already dedicated years of his life to honing his experience in the corrections industry.
Bishop Cabinets
For 50 years, Bishop Cabinets has operated as a family-owned company that’s deeply rooted in both its relationships with others and in its faith, and has never faltered in its delivery of excellent service and cabinetry solutions at affordable prices.
Great Northern Cabinetry
For the team at Great Northern Cabinetry, it’s about the journey, not the destination, and the opportunity to help someone turn an ordinary house into an extraordinary home. With its reputation for producing high-end, handcrafted cabinets for kitchens, bathrooms, and any other room of the house, Great Northern Cabinetry aims to offer its customers products proudly made in the USA.
Craft-Maid Handmade Cabinetry
At Craft-Maid Handmade Cabinetry in Reading, Pennsylvania, solid craftsmanship is precisely what this team of traditional artisans delivers. In a world filled with mass-produced, imported furniture, there is much to be said for time-honored, authentic artisanal cabinetry that weathers as well as it works.
National Institute of Building Sciences
The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) is a non-profit, non-governmental agency established by Congress in 1974. With headquarters in Washington, DC, NIBS is tasked with developing innovative solutions for the built environment that serve the public interest by advancing building science and technology.
Public Transportation in Times of Change
When it comes to public transportation, renovations and new builds are fast becoming as high a priority as building infrastructure for electric vehicles.
TerraWise Solutions
TerraWise Solutions supplies superior products that hold up against the very toughest job site conditions. With over 20 years’ experience under its belt, the McDonough, Georgia-based business has emerged as a leader in premier positioning technology, known for providing the latest, most leading-edge equipment from Leica Geosystems, one of the world’s largest positioning technology manufacturers.
Hinton Scaffold Solution
Working for a major construction company a decade ago, Brandon Marton met Omar Miller, and the two soon became friends. They came from very different backgrounds. Omar was of Jamaican ancestry, and Marton’s roots were Jewish, yet they shared many of the same passions.
Jeffery Homes
Over his years as one of Ontario’s premier home builders, Scott Jeffery has learned many things, particularly respect for customers and for the trades who work to ensure the Jeffery Homes brand maintains its sterling reputation. Jeffery and his team strive for better than the best—something the company has maintained for almost 60 years.
Huron Creek Developments
Recognized as a leader in innovation in new home construction and neighbourhood growth, Huron Creek Developments has over 80 years of combined building expertise and has delivered more than 10,000 new homes to neighbourhoods over the past 20 years. In both its current and future communities, Huron Creek strives to give its homeowners outstanding value and a top-notch building experience.
Cardel Homes
A home is a sacred place where individuals live their lives to the fullest, something that Cardel Homes is deeply aware of. For 50 years, this family-owned homebuilder has continually grown its capacity and thus, its impact, a testament to the homes it has built, the spaces it has created and the relationships it has formed in the many communities it serves across North America.
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Momentive Performance Materials
Momentive Performance Materials (Momentive), a premier global advanced materials company with a legacy dating back to the 1940s, has a unique brand, culture, and position in the silicones and specialty products industry. So unique, in fact, that today, Momentive may be one of the only remaining pure silicones companies in the world, according to Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer Thanos Yiagopoulos.
Building Knowledge Canada
Building Knowledge Canada (BKC) is an Ontario-based professional engineering firm with a focus on low-rise residential construction, with specialties in building science and sustainability. Building science reflects the study and mastery of the interaction of heat, air, and moisture with a building enclosure, its service systems, and its occupants.
The Business of Heavy Construction Equipment Rentals
From reduced startup costs to saving on storage, insurance, and maintenance, there are plenty of advantages to renting rather than owning construction equipment.
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.
Construction Equipment Co. (Sault) Inc.
For over 56 years, Construction Equipment Co. (Sault) Inc. has served everyone from homeowners to contractors and major corporations in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and surrounding areas with new, used, and rental equipment, parts, and service.
Allegheny Crane & Rigging
Shortly after 6:38 a.m. on January 28, 2022, Kyrk Pyros, President and CEO of Allegheny Crane & Rigging of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received an emergency call.
