Design Works Engineering
At Design Works Engineering, 20 appears to be a rather lucky number. However, as any successful creative can confirm, luck consists of 20 percent inspiration and 80 percent perspiration. For this dynamic team of well over 120, driving growth of over 20 percent annually year over year is just that: work, but with passion—and a lot of it.
Kodem Developments Inc.
Kodem combines vision and skill to return art to its rightful place in our daily lives, bringing as much beauty to its developments as possible and adding depth to spaces that would be treated as disposable by most other developers. Company Founder and President Benjamin Sternthal shares with us his ideas on the art of development.
KEIM Mineral Coatings of America
Dedicated to providing top-tier mineral paints, paint manufacturer KEIM Mineral Coatings of America operates from Charlotte, North Carolina and was incorporated in 2007. The American business is a wholly owned subsidiary of its main company, Keimfarben, a producer of mineral-based products and systems that was established in 1878 in Germany by chemist Adolph Keim. He invented and patented the first mineral silicate paint in the company’s initial year, and the company has continued to stand by its product for over a century.
Planning for Greener, Walkable Communities
For many urban dwellers and planners, the ideal state is to design, build and organize for people. In a dream world, that could mean having swaths of a city dedicated to pedestrians, with expanded café patios spilling out onto sidewalks, the streets transforming into walkways where community events take place and the parking lots becoming green spaces with trees, flowers and benches…
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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.
