Family-owned-and-operated Jacobsen Homes has produced manufactured and modular residential buildings for the last sixty-two years. The oldest and largest builder of manufactured homes in Florida has developed a strong presence, and now builds roughly double the capacity of any other factory within the state.
General Contracting
First Onsite Property Restoration
Bringing Disaster Preparedness and Restoration to North America
With the world’s climate crisis mounting ever further, disaster preparedness and recovery in construction both old and new are proving paramount. In North America, First Onsite Property Restoration elevates the field of emergency mitigation, providing prevention and response expertise in all areas of commercial properties.
Truman Homes
Calgary Homebuilder Turns Dreams into Reality
Canadian homebuilder Truman Homes is based in Alberta, mainly serving Calgary and the surrounding areas. Company President George Trutina previously made his name in construction after emigrating from Croatia, with the dream of creating and owning a company. From this dream, Truman Homes was born in 1995, starting with the purchase of about thirty acres of land in Chestermere, Alberta.
CASE Design/Remodeling-Halifax and Archadeck Nova Scotia
Your Home, Your Way
Four years ago we featured Case Design Remodeling–Halifax and Archadeck Nova Scotia, award-winning companies dedicated to improving and transforming the way homes function, indoors and out. Now we’re checking in to learn how they fared during the pandemic.
Robbins Construction
Committed to Client Needs
South Carolina-based construction firm Robbins Construction Group began its official operations just two years ago, in January 2019. Having spent the prior decade working in the construction industry before striking out on his own, President and Chief Executive Officer Derek Robbins is now finally able to live a dream in the industry that made him and is riding a wave of momentum from these first two years of operation.
Midwest Drywall Co., Inc.
Approaching the Mid-Century Mark in a Power Position
Midwest Drywall Co. Inc., (MWD) is thriving as it prepares to mark its fiftieth anniversary next year. COVID-19 threw the Wichita, Kansas-based wall and ceiling drywall subcontractor something of a curveball, but it has endured. Since it was last profiled in the November 2019 issue of Construction in Focus magazine, the employee-owned firm has opened an office in an additional geographic location and continues to take on large projects as it approaches a corporate milestone.
Diverso Energy
This Geothermal Firm is Fired Up to Expand Its Reach
Diverso Energy of Toronto is poised for huge growth as government mandates and environmental concerns from developers and home buyers spur interest in renewable energy.
Straub Construction
Building People First
General contractor Straub Construction primarily focuses on construction projects for local, state, and federal governments, including all branches of the United States military. The company also specializes in public school projects. Straub got its start in Alaska forty years ago, before moving to San Diego, where the headquarters are today. Most of Straub’s projects are located in California and the Southwestern United States, where it specializes in full installations from the ground up, design-build, design-bid-build, “and just about everything in between,” says Vice President Patrick Nolan.
davisREED Construction Inc.
The Root of This Company’s Strength? Its Diversity
Construction is a cyclical market. davisREED Construction Inc. knows that all too well – that to survive, a construction company must adapt, evolve, and respond to market changes, utilizing all its knowledge and expertise if it is to sustain project excellence over nearly 20 years.
1-800-SWEEPER
Giving Back
A nationwide service network made up of independently owned power-sweeping companies, 1-800-SWEEPER unites sweeping companies throughout the United States beneath a common marketing and service structure. Partner companies provide parking lot sweeping, street sweeping, and construction-related power sweeping services to a wide variety of customers, from nationwide and regional facility managers to municipalities and local contractors.
Complete Landsculpture
Transforming Property, Transforming Lives
Chris Strempek never thought he’d own an award-winning full-service landscape firm. What began as a “temporary” job while getting his real estate and finance degree became an actual career, including 36 impressive years as founder, president, CEO, and co-owner of Complete Landsculpture.
Asphalt Specialists Inc.
What it Takes to Make Smooth Roads and Perfect Parking
What happens when you spend your high school summers getting up at 4:30 a.m. to go to work for a civil engineering contractor and learn the ropes of putting in underground utilities like water mains and storm sewers?
Alpha Structural Inc.
Building a Strong Foundation in Los Angeles – and Beyond
David Tourjé found a place in the construction community after his parents moved to the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Mount Washington when he was twelve years old. “Back then it was a pretty isolated hillside area,” Tourjé remembers. “It kind of cut me off from all my friends. But I made new friends who all happened to be in construction.”
What Would a City Designed by Women Look Like?
New Directions
True story: two female real estate developers turned the site of a former strip club in Toronto into a nine-story, 197-unit condo building named Reina, which is the Spanish word for queen. In a first for the city, they assembled an all-woman team of architects, engineers, planners, construction managers and lawyers to get the job done.
Boudreau Pipeline Corporation
Setting the Standard while Digging the Future
Boudreau Pipeline Corporation is known for being different, but in all the right ways. For 23 years, the company has served Southern California with immaculate underground utilities work. But, more than what it does, it is how it does it that is most admirable. The ‘how’ is the ‘people’.
Falcon Structures
Taking Shipping Containers to the Next Level
Strong, durable, adaptable, transportable, affordable, and quick to produce – what’s not to like about working spaces and living spaces transformed from shipping containers by Texas-based Falcon Structures?
Glengate Company
Making Home a Beautiful Place to Be
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort,” said Jane Austen in Emma. Surely she would endorse Connecticut’s Glengate Company, which loves to create pools and gardens for clients whose homes mean everything to them, making their dreams a reality.
Roman Mosaic & Tile Company
Turning Tilework Into Artwork
Since 1902, Roman Mosaic & Tile has been a leader in flooring, the result of a fabulous marriage of traditional craftsmanship with modern technology and artistic creation, winning the National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association’s Job of the Century award.
George D. Alan Company
An Education in Waterproofing
Do you know what can happen if you don’t properly waterproof a building? The George D. Alan Company (GDA) does.
L&L Builders
Building Community
L&L Builders got its start in 1960 as a residential masonry company operating under the name Larry Book Contracting. Business boomed and the company quickly expanded into the commercial sector and evolved into a merit-shop general contracting firm.
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