The Sunshine State has a 62 percent chance of experiencing a hurricane. So if you live in Florida, it’s best to be prepared for stormy weather. Family-run Paradise Exteriors wants to make sure your doors and windows will withstand severe winds and flying debris to protect your home and keep you safe.

In 2013, Will Herring founded Hunter Quinn Homes to serve as a builder of choice for the Charleston, South Carolina-area housing market, on a mission to enrich the lives of his company’s team, customers, partners, and community.

When you go to a concert or a hockey game, you probably do not give much thought to the seats in which you are sitting – unless, of course, they are uncomfortable. But Series Seating has made your comfort its business. Now, combining its ergonomic, award-winning patented seating with the addition of a 203,000 square foot North Carolina plant, the company is bringing its manufacturing and distribution closer to its customer – a win for everyone.

The Rinomato Group is a family of construction industry companies headquartered in Woodbridge, Ontario and serving the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). It includes a drywall installation division called Torino Drywall, a homebuilding division under Country Homes, and a property management division that runs Tonlu Properties.

For almost sixteen years, R&B Metal Structures has served customers across Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida and continues to earn the business of both new and repeat clients. The company offers a wide range of high quality metal buildings from carports and garages to barns, storage buildings, agricultural structures, industrial, boat and dock covers, and much more.

The cost of building is skyrocketing. As a result, expanding office, medical or industrial facilities has become as financially challenging as it is erecting state-of-the-art buildings from the ground up. However, thanks to Premier Development Partners, LLC, there is hope.

Established in 2005, Paladin Crossings is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta with offices in Regina, Saskatchewan and Vancouver, British Columbia. With a specialization in trenchless construction work, Paladin Crossings offers turnkey solutions to industries including energy, forestry, infrastructure, and utilities, among others. The company is a member of the Canadian Construction Association and the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT).

Watkins Landmark Construction is a general contractor operating in California that specializes in building landmark projects. “We pride ourselves on the quality of service we bring to difficult projects that require a higher level of expertise,” says Dean Schumacher, Vice President of Business Development. “We don’t shy away from a challenge.”

The world of general contracting covers a vast list of services, sometimes making it hard to find experts in specialist fields. However, for those looking for an unconventional set of turnkey services where thinking outside the box is the only standard rule, Connor & Gaskins Unlimited, LLC is the right partner for the job.

In the Yup’ik language the word ‘tunista’ can mean “one who sells or gives or trades,” according to Andrew Guy, President of the Calista Corporation. With headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska, the Calista Corporation is the parent company of Tunista Construction, LLC, formed in 2010 as a general contractor working on building and civil projects in Alaska and throughout the lower 48.

In 1983, a group of employees from Revelstoke Construction formed Vic Van Isle Construction and became active in the construction industry. Two years later, when Braniff Construction went out of business due to a tragedy, two key employees formed the ownership group of Vic Van Isle as well as a large group of Braniff employees which doubled the company’s size.

Founded in 1959, the Forest Products Group, a family run enterprise presently has four offices, two in Ohio and one each in North Carolina and Indiana. It is a specialty wholesale wood products distributor that places a special emphasis on its relations with suppliers and customers. New milling equipment has been brought in to improve efficiencies and keep up with the technological advances. It is excited about its growth into the North Carolinas. We spoke with Vice President Charlie Hess.

Architecture has always been considered fine art. Whether it’s the Acropolis, Chartres Cathedral or a Frank Lloyd Wright design, if it’s aesthetically pleasing and form follows function, it’s art.