Michaud Cooley Erickson (MCE) is a consulting engineering firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota that designs heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), mechanical, electrical, plumbing and specialty systems for commercial buildings across the United States. In their 72-year history, the company has designed services in the aviation, corporate, cultural, entertainment, hospitality, government, healthcare, science and technology, higher education, mission-critical, and retail markets. This extensive market platform has created opportunities to work with thirteen of the seventeen Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota.

Group 4 Architecture is a growing national architectural practice based in San Francisco that has been translating community vision into compelling public architecture for over 40 years. The firm is tailoring community projects such as libraries and community/recreation centers throughout California, Washington, Texas, Colorado, Ohio, Kentucky, Oregon, and Kansas, focusing on ensuring the best use of public funds towards cherished civic spaces.

Newport Concrete out of Manassas, Virginia supplies concrete to builders and provides other essential tools for the residential housing industry. It depends on suppliers to acquire such things as rebar and will also supply labor for these projects…

Founded in 1996 by John L. DiVito and John N. Rahkonen, Northern Construction Service, LLC works throughout New England, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Its sizeable list of customers includes the United States Coast Guard, the New York State Construction Fund, transportation departments, and municipalities, as well as private clients.

We wrote about Bloomsdale Excavating, a family-run company for three generations, back in November of 2015. It serves many industries but concentrates on excavation, blasting and miscellaneous concrete work for site development. Bloomsdale is also known for the development and implementation of safe mining practices that help other companies throughout the country. We spoke with Executive Vice President Pete Buback and President Scott Drury about the company’s many recent developments.

The Midwest has always been a hotbed of activity for the manufacturing industry. With all of the necessary environmental and geographic ingredients such as accessible rivers and lakes, plentiful forests, and rich soil, products that range from wheat to automobiles, textiles to airplane parts have all come out of the region for hundreds of years.

While the concept of creating thriving communities is making a welcome comeback in the real estate development industry, it is rare to hear of a residential and commercial property developer that caps long-term residents’ rent after five years. In honor of its founder, the late Robert Lay Grubb, Jr., Grubb Properties’ multi-family units are built with quality living in mind.

The world’s leading bankers and analysts are closely watching the Canadian real estate market, chiefly hot markets in Toronto and Vancouver, trying to make sense of the perceived volatility that many speculate will result in a bubble and a subsequent crash.