Month: December 2016

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Low Voltage, High EnergyLow Voltage Solutions

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Low Voltage, High Energy

Low Voltage Solutions

Low Voltage Solutions’ (LVS) experience and skilled employees work to ensure the delivery of only the best products and services in the low voltage electrical installations industry. The company is a full-service provider of low voltage infrastructures and products. It has been supplying cabling infrastructures systems for data, voice, and video along with fire alarm, audio/visual, sound, and security systems in the Chicagoland area since 1997.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Bringing Power through ProfessionalismCasteel Corporation

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Bringing Power through Professionalism

Casteel Corporation

Uniontown, Pennsylvania’s Casteel Corporation has provided a variety of electrical project management services to clients in America’s renewable energy, utility, shale gas and petrochemical, substation and transmission and other industries for nearly fifty years. The ever-innovative company’s expertise allows it to take on a broad range of work, backed by a safety record that is one of the best in the industry.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Engineering a Green FutureCAP Technologies

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Engineering a Green Future

CAP Technologies

Coating metals like steel and iron usually involves a process known by the disturbing title of “acid pickling.” Speaking to me from Denham Springs, Louisiana where CAP’s 50,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility opened only three years ago, Company President Eddie Daigle is quick to point out the drawbacks of the old-school procedure. “Acid picking involves a lot of fumes and corrosion, even though there are now so called fumeless pickling; nonetheless the system is a very nasty process that’s not good for the people who do it.”

2016 | Equipment & Materials | In Focus | November 2016Building America and the World with Quality, Safety, Service and Next Day DeliveryWire Mesh Corporation

2016 | Equipment & Materials | In Focus | November 2016

Building America and the World with Quality, Safety, Service and Next Day Delivery

Wire Mesh Corporation

Jordi Barrenechea and his brother Luis are Skyping from one of Wire Mesh Corporation’s (WMC) six locations, this one in Conroe, Texas. “We have a set of values: work with passion, work as a unit. If we’re going to do something, we’re going to do it well. In the market that we are in, if you are not constantly improving and being more efficient, you are not going to compete.”

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Half a Century of Quality and ServiceConstruction Materials Inc.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Half a Century of Quality and Service

Construction Materials Inc.

Celebrating its fifty-fifth year in the upper Midwest, is Construction Materials Inc., with operations in several states and a home base in Minneapolis, MN. This construction materials company supplies materials for the Highway Paving, Heavy Construction and Commercial Construction Industries. It fabricates reinforcing steel for the Commercial Construction and Heavy Construction industries as well as it manufactures Contraction and Expansion Baskets for the Highway Paving industry. Revenue currently stands at $40 million, and the company is growing at a good pace. We spoke with its President Dick Galligan.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016The Highest Standards of SustainabilityGCI General Contractors

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

The Highest Standards of Sustainability

GCI General Contractors

Established in the early nineties, GCI is a leading general contractor covering the San Francisco Bay area. The majority of the company’s work involves general contracting, pre-construction estimating, sustainable planning, and construction, along with construction management. It seems that GCI has always been at the forefront of sustainable design projects, even before it became trendy.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Doing More with LessSR Construction

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Doing More with Less

SR Construction

SR Construction was founded in 1991 by owner Scott Loughridge. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, this is a full-service, design/build company that strives for achieving quality, meeting schedules and delivering value to its clients. Its licensing capacity includes eleven states throughout the Southwest in which this general contractor serves the healthcare, hospitality and commercial markets, among others.

2016 | In Focus | November 2016Comprehensive Construction since 1884Donohoe Construction Company

2016 | In Focus | November 2016

Comprehensive Construction since 1884

Donohoe Construction Company

The Donohoe family has been involved in real estate and related businesses since 1884. Working from Washington, DC since its inception, the Donohoe Construction Company has grown with America, striving to be the best at what it does. Family-owned and operated, Donohoe is one of the leading general contractors exclusively serving the Washington metropolitan area. Business in Focus spoke with President Steve Donohoe.

2016 | In Focus | October 2016A Superior Building SolutionArea Erectors

2016 | In Focus | October 2016

A Superior Building Solution

Area Erectors

Area Erectors provides steel, ornamental iron, pre-engineered metal building, and precast erection to the Northern and Central Illinois and Southern Wisconsin areas. Founded back in 1964, the firm has made Engineering News Record’s list of America’s top 20 erection companies every year since 1994. The business has expanded steadily over the decades to operate offices in Rockford, Villa Park, Peoria, and Rochelle, Illinois.

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