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Exclusive Report: Giants 2006

Giants 2006 Listings

September 1, 2006

By Larry Stewart, Executive Editor

Rank	Company	Equipment Replacement Value ($ in millions)	Comments
	* Equipment-replacement values are compiled by Construction Equipment magazine using information provided by the individual companies. When figures were not provided (identified with an asterisk), Construction Equipment estimated fleet value. The Construction Equipment Giants list (a portion of which is published here) represents as closely as possible all firms that own fleets with replacement values of $25 million or more. For past Giants data, please click here. If you feel your firm qualifies as a Giant, please write to Larry Stewart, Construction Equipment, at lstewart@reedbusiness.com or phone 314-962-0639. For more 2006 Giants information, click here.
1	United Rentals, Greenwich, CT	$4,000	Purchased Carter Rental in Valdosta, GA; annual revs $10 million
2	U.S. Army Engineers, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO	$3,267	Worldwide fleet of construction and support equipment
3	Martin Marietta Aggregates, Raleigh, NC	$3,024*	Invested $56 million to improve plant productivity in 2006's record Q2
4	Lafarge North America, Reston, VA	$2,638*	Acquired Ritchie Cos. in Wichita in November 2005
5	Hanson North America, Neptune, NJ	$2,420*	Acquired 13th largest aggregate producer in U.S., Materials Service Corp.
6	Sunbelt/NationsRent, Charlotte, NC	$2,200	Parent, Ashtead, is buying NationsRent; forming rental's new No. 3
7	Inco, Toronto, ON	$2,093*	Trying to merge with Phelps Dodge; become 2nd largest nickel producer
8	Hertz Equipment Rental (HERC), Park Ridge, NJ	$2,075*	Investors that bought Hertz are taking the company public
9	Peter Kiewit Sons, Omaha, NE	$1,900	Stockton, CA, precast yard will cast 878 panels for Oakland Bay Skyway deck
10	Vulcan Materials, Birmingham, AL	$1,892*	Raising capacity of Sac Tun quarry on Yucatan from 9 to 12 million tons
11	GE Energy, Stamford, CT	$1,736*	Provides power-plant clients with construction ability
12	RSC Equipment Rental, Houston, TX	$1,696*	Atlas Copco expects to close sale of RSC in Q3 2006
13	Cemex North America, Monterrey, NL	$1,508*	Adding a second kiln at Balcones Cement Plant in New Braunfels, TX
14	Phelps Dodge Mining, Phoenix, AZ	$1,430	Plans to best Teck Cominco's offer to buy Inco
15	APAC, Russell, KY	$1,400	Parent, Ashland, is negotiating sale of paving subsidiary to OldCastle
16	Arch Coal, St. Louis, MO	$1,300	Income from Q1 2006 operations ($94.1 million) tripled previous year's
17	BNSF Railway, Fort Worth, TX	$1,250	Q2 2006 freight revs up 18 percent, or $549 million, over 2005
18	MDU Resources, Bismarck, ND	$1,200	Acquired Cascade Natural Gas in WA and OR
19	Kennecott Services, Salt Lake City, UT	$1,151*	Investing $170 million to stretch Bingham Canyon Mine's life to 2017
20	Marathon Oil, Houston, TX	$1,100*	Acquired leases in Colorado Piceance Basin, adding 900 bcf of natural gas
21	BHP Billiton, San Francisco, CA	$1,085*	Developing Shenzi field in Gulf of Mexico and Canada's EKATI diamond
22	Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Oak Brook, IL	$1,000	Rock dredging is a specialty of this dredging contractor
23	Drummond Co., Jasper, AL	$980	Ranks in the top 25 percent of U.S.-owned coal companies
24	Oldcastle Materials, Washington, D.C.	$925	Largest U.S. asphalt producer; attempting to buy APAC
25	Newmont Mining, Denver, CO	$900*	About 38% of sales and gold reserves are in North America
26	North Carolina DOT, Raleigh, NC	$900	State road maintenance
27	Granite Construction, Watsonville, CA	$800	Will take $87 million of a $347.9 million bridge JV near Baton Rouge
28	NES Rentals, Chicago, IL	$800	Sold for $850 million to private equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings
29	Maxim Crane Works, Pittsburgh, PA	$744*	Hired Goldman Sachs to "explore strategic alternatives" including sale
30	Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO	$737*	World's largest coal company
31	Aggregate Industries, Bethesda, MD	$697*	Acquired Meyer Material near Chicago for $231 million in June
32	Texas DOT, Austin, TX	$650	State road maintenance
33	Waste Management, Houston, TX	$650	Enviro-services giant converted 495 vehicles from diesel to natural gas
34	H & E Equipment Services, Baton Rouge, LA	$600*	Bought Southern California's Eagle High Reach for $59.9 million
35	Cleveland-Cliffs, Cleveland, MI	$561*	Largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America
36	Virginia DOT, Suffolk, VA	$534	Highway department maintains 10,000 pieces of rolling stock
37	Syar Industries, Napa, CA	$520	Materials producer operates seven quarries in California
38	Florida Rock Industries, Jacksonville, FL	$505	Record net income of $58.3 million in Q3 2006 is 27% better than 2005
39	North American Coal, Dallas, TX	$504*	Top 10 U.S. coal producer mines about 35 million tons per year
40	FirstEnergy, Akron, OH	$500	Diversified energy firm owns 7 electric utilities serving OH, PA and NJ
41	Grupo Mexico, Colonia Roma Sur, DF	$500*	World's third largest copper producer, owns ASARCO
42	International Mill Service, Horsham, PA	$500	Slag processing subsidiary of Envirosource Inc; 51 sites
43	Modern Continental Construction, Cambridge, MA	$500	Working five contracts in Cambridge worth total of $34.1 million
44	Pennsylvania DOT, Harrisburg, PA	$500	State highway maintenance
45	Qwest, Englewood, CO	$500	Macro Capacity fiber optic network spans 190,000 miles globally
46	Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, WA	$500*	Reported 2005 earnings of $733 million, down from $1.3 billion in 2004
47	Syncrude Canada Ltd., Ft. McMurray, AB	$489	Canadian Oil Sands acquired Canada Southern Petroleum in June 2006
48	Southern Company, Atlanta, GA	$466*	Operates Alabama, Georgia, Gulf, and Mississippi Power; Savannah Electric
49	Elmo Greer & Sons, London, KY	$465*	Uses DTSystems dispatching system
50	Exelon, Chicago, IL	$462*	Merger with PSEG expected to close in third quarter
51	Pittsburg & Midway Coal, Englewood, CO	$460	Subsidiary of Chevron operating five mines
52	All Erection & Crane Rental, Cleveland, OH	$457*	Largest privately owned crane firm in North America; 25 locations
53	Verizon Communications, New York, NY	$450*	One of the 10 largest U.S. commercial fleets; Giants value excludes autos
54	Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA	$431*	Bought Insulair, maker of paper cups and lids, for $170 million
55	Aggreko North America, New Iberia, LA	$428*	Focused on renting power, temperature control and oil-free compressed air
56	Neff Rental, Miami, FL	$420	In 2005 Odyssey Investment acquired for about $510 million
57	Clark Construction, Bethesda, MD	$400	Started Phase 1 of Houston's Hobby Airport expansion in June 2006
58	Freeport Indonesia, New Orleans, LA	$400	Precious-metals miner (mostly copper) operates mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia
59	Teck Cominco, Vancouver, BC	$376*	Trying to get in front of Phelps Dodge with a hostile takeover of Inco
60	AMECO (American Equipment Co.), Greenvillle, SC	$375	Supplying most equipment to build Mexico's El Cajon hydroelectric dam
61	United Contractors Midwest, Springfield, IL	$365	Two years into $172-million reconstruction of I-74 thru Peoria
62	Las Vegas Paving, Las Vegas, NV	$356	Produced and laid 1 million tons of asphalt each year since 1992
63	Barrick Gold, Toronto, ON	$355*	Acquired Placer Dome; became world's leading gold company with 27 mines
64	Bechtel, Louisville, KY	$350	Motiva hired Bechtel/Jacobs JV to expand refinery at Port Arthur, TX
65	Essex Crane Rental, Buffalo Grove, IL	$350*	Operates rental fleet of over 420 lattice-boom crawler cranes, up to 300 tons
66	The Vecellio Group, West Palm Beach, FL	$350	Bought Sharpe Bros. and organized all NC asphalt work under Sharpe name
67	North American Energy Partners, Spruce Grove, AB	$343	Started up Hitachi EX8000 shovel/maintenance facility at CNRL's Horizon Mine
68	Allied Waste Industries, Scottsdale, AZ	$340	Operates 163 transfer stations, 169 landfills, 57 recycling facilities in 37 states
69	Safety-Kleen, Columbia, SC	$340	Operates more than 200 collection and processing facilities in North America
70	Consolidated Edison, New York, NY	$330*	Energy company will invest $5.3 billion in infrastructure over three years
71	T.J. Lambrecht Construction, Joliet, IL	$328	Highway-and-heavy firm operates over 800 pieces of heavy equipment
72	International Coal Group, Ashland, KY	$325*	Organized by W.L. Ross & Co. to acquire bankrupt Horizon Natural Resources
73	Weeks Marine, Cranford, NJ	$325	Value includes Healy Tibbitts Builders, of Hawaii
74	Ahern Rentals, Las Vegas, NV	$325*	U.S.' largest privately owned rental business operates 3,100 units
75	Clyde Companies, Orem, UT	$324	$90 million contract to rebuild 12300 South interchange on I-15 in Utah
76	RJM Construction, Las Vegas, NV	$315	Mining contractor
77	Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power, Los Angeles	$305	Nation's largest municipal utility
78	Falconbridge, Toronto, ON	$304*	Xstrata working to buy Falconbridge in the wake of Inco's failed attempt
79	A & A Ready Mixed Concrete, Newport Beach, CA	$300	26 locations serve CA; specialize in portable batch plants
80	Pike Electric, Mt Airy, NC	$300*	Overhead/underground powerline work in 19 states with fleet of 2,000 units
81	Skanska USA, Greenwich, CT	$300*	Awarded $199 million contract to rebuild section of I-95 in south Georgia
82	Teichert, Sacramento, CA	$300	250 Class 8 trucks, in addition to a highway-and-heavy-construction fleet
83	Willbros Group, Houston, TX	$300	Pipeline contracts include 750 miles of Overland Pass; 106 miles of Guardian
84	Suncor Energy, Calgary, AB	$286*	Oil-sands producer of raw material for light crude, diesel fuel, custom blends
85	The Lane Construction Corp., Meriden, CT	$282	Two contracts rebuilding SR 408 Toll Road in Orlando total $186 million
86	New York DOT, Albany, NY	$275	State highway department
87	Dominion Resources Services, Richmond, VA	$270	Power and gas utility
88	Flatiron Construction, Longmont, CO	$260*	In a JV constructing $348M cable-stayed Mississippi River crossing in LA
89	Carmeuse North America, Pittsburgh, PA	$250*	Stopped producing lime in Hanover, PA, but lime will be processed there
90	CONSOL Energy, Pittsburgh, PA	$250	Mines more high-btu bituminous coal than any other U.S. producer
91	Dycom Industries, Palm Beach Gardens, FL	$250	Acquisition of Prince Telecom Holdings brings family of subsidiaries to 28
92	Florida Power & Light, Miami, FL	$250	Utility plans new transmission lines for Miami-Dade/Manatee-Sarasota Cts.
93	Manson Construction, Seattle, WA	$250	Wrapping up construction of $14.8 million Port of Everett Rail/Barge Facility
94	McAninch, Des Moines, IA	$250	Iowa's largest earthmover/utility contractor; fleet of 400 Cats
95	South Carolina DOT, Columbia, SC	$250	State road maintenance
96	Tennessee DOT, Nashville, TN	$250	State road maintenance
97	Canada Building Materials, Toronto, ON	$249	Over 450 ready-mix trucks operate out of 40 plants
98	Edward Kraemer & Sons, Plain, WI	$249*	Spun off Kraemer Materials in July; sold E80 Plus Constructors in May
99	Balfour Beatty, Novi, MI	$248*	New road contracts in OH and PA total more than $200 million
100	The Walsh Group, Chicago, IL	$247	Hometown contractor picked to build Chicago's 2,000-foot Fordham Spire
101	Sunstate Equipment, Phoenix, AZ	$243	Renting for 25 years; now has locations in 8 Southwestern states
102	Prairie Group, Bridgeview, IL	$240	Materials producer to Chicagoland
103	Jones Brothers Construction, Mt. Juliet, TN	$232*	Largest heavy highway construction company in Tennessee
104	Morrow Equipment, Salem, OR	$225	High rise boom created 6-month backlog to rent company's 500 tower cranes
105	Layne Christensen Co., Mission Woods, KS	$223	Combined acquired Reynolds and CWI operations
106	Ameren, St. Louis, MO	$220	AmerenUE invested $2.5 billion in infrastructure since 2002
107	Ames Construction, Burnsville, MN	$220*	Widening five miles of SR-189 in Utah's sensitive Provo Canyon
108	Minnesota DOT, Duluth, MN	$220	State highway maintenance
109	Kinross Gold, Toronto, ON	$217*	North America's 4th largest gold producer
110	Mid American Energy Holding, Des Moines, IA	$215*	Acquired OR-based PacifiCorp for $5.1 billion in cash
111	Herzog Contracting, St. Joseph, MO	$214*	Heavy constructor specializes in building railroads
112	New Enterprise Stone & Lime, New Enterprise, PA	$210	Subsidiaries include Martin Limestone and Buffalo Crushed Stone
113	Quanta Services, Houston, TX	$205*	Designs, installs and maintains power, telecom, cable and gas networks
114	The Hubbard Group, Orlando, FL	$205	Atlantic Coast's Plant #2 in Jacksonville earned NAPA's Diamond Achievement
115	City of Los Angeles, Public Works, Los Angeles	$200	City government
116	F & M Mafco, Harrison, OH	$200	Rental and sales organization targets rigging and fabrication contractors
117	Kokosing Construction, Fredericktown, OH	$200	Public buildings, process and power plants, water treatment, roads and bridges
118	New Mexico Hwy. & Trans. Dept., Santa Fe, NM	$200	GRIP $1.6 billion initiative finances 40 highway projects in Rio Grande corridor
119	Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN	$200	29,469 megawatts generating capacity serving 8 million users in 7 states
120	Titan America, Norfolk, VA	$200	Tarmac subsidiary acquired Metro Redi-Mix and Elbrecht Concrete in FL
121	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.	$200*	Fiscal 2007 construction budget of $1.6 billion funds 63 projects nationwide
122	Zachry Construction, San Antonio, TX	$200	Acquired Universal Utility, adding cooling-tower/high-volt.-substation abilities
123	McDermott International, New Orleans, LA	$198*	Specializes in power plants, off-shore oil and gas facilities
124	AT&T, San Antonio, TX	$190	Consolidated Cingular, Bell South, Ameritech, Pacific Bell, others
125	Barnhart, Memphis, TN	$190	Crane company bought Scott Crane Services in Lubbock, TX
126	Lunda Construction Co., Black River Falls, WI	$188*	Bridge division includes pile driving, railroad bridges and concrete work
127	Washington Group International, Boise, ID	$185	Subsidiary to manage construction of $1.5 billion uranium facility in NM
128	Alaska DOT, Anchorage, AK	$181	New $90 million Fairbanks Int'l. Airport terminal broke ground in July
129	Rockford Blacktop, Loves Park, IL	$180	Includes Rockford Sand & Gravel, Rockford Electric, Rockford Environmental
130	Rogers Group, Nashville, TN	$180	Crushed stone producer in five states also has asphalt/construction operations
131	Traylor Brothers, Evansville, IN	$180	In a JV awarded $9.6 million seizmic-retrofit subcontract by San Francisco BART
132	Haines & Kibblehouse, Skippack, PA	$177	Highway-and-heavy firm focuses on quarrying operations
133	Holcim US, Dundee, MI	$177*	Swiss-owned cement producer operates 14 plants and 70 facilities here
134	Arizona DOT, Phoenix, AZ	$176	Draft five-year plan allots $5.5 billion for highway projects 2007 to 2011
135	Cardi Corp., Warwick, RI	$176*	Highway/heavy contractor trades on concrete, asphalt, aggregate capabilities
136	James River Coal, Richmond, VA	$175*	Acquired 16.5 tons of reserves from Indiana Land and Mineral
137	Kentucky Dept. of Environ. Protect., Frankfort, KY	$175	Mission is to protect and enhance Kentucky's environment
138	U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.	$175	Federal fleet value on the Savannah River Site
139	Hunt Construction Group, Scottsdale, AZ	$170*	Completed major stadiums for St. Louis, Phoenix in 2006; started one in D.C.
140	Insituform Technologies, Odenton, MD	$170	Fleet value includes that of tunneling subsidiary, Affholder
141	Rinker Group, West Palm Beach, FL	$167	Wireless fuel management systems installed in 50 Florida operations
142	Buzzi Unicem USA, Indianapolis, IN	$165*	Fourth largest US cement company with 11 plants and 10% market share
143	City of Dallas, Dallas, TX	$162	Operates fleet of 4,400 vehicles
144	O & G Industries, Torrington, CT	$162	Preservationists' challenge forced CTDOT to shelve $98-million contract
145	Tutor-Saliba Corp., Sylmar, CA	$157	JV with O & G on $242 million Southside Airfield Improvement contract at LAX
146	Barnhill Contracting, Tarboro, NC	$155	Acquired grading/paving contractor, Mac Construction in Shallotte, NC
147	CB & I, Plainfield, IL	$155*	Golden Pass awarded CB&I $1 billion EPC contract for LNG terminal in TX
148	Basin Electric Power Coop., Bismarck, ND	$150	Plans to complete a new coal-based power plant near Gillette, WY, by 2011
149	De Silva Gates Construction, Dublin, CA	$150	In 10 years has placed infrastructure for 3,000 commercial acres/20,000 homes
150	Francis O. Day Co., Rockville, MD	$150	Highway-and-heavy constructor; materials producer
151	Halliburton Energy Services, Houston, TX	$150*	Sold KBR's Production Services Group for $280 million
152	Indiana DOT, Indianapolis, IN	$150	$3.6 billion lease of toll road will fund 10-year transportation investment plan
153	Kansas DOT, Topeka, KS	$150	State highway maintenance
154	Northeast Utilities, Hartford, CT	$150	Furnishes electrical service in NH, MA, and CT, as well as natural gas in CT
155	PPL, Allentown, PA	$150	Joined FutureGen alliance to develop $1 billion, zero-emiss. coal power plant
156	Ready Mix USA, Birmingham, AL	$150*	Over 160 ready mix plants in the southeastern US
157	TXU Power, Dallas, TX	$150	Signed InfrastruX to a 10-year, $8.7 billion contract for infrastructure service
158	U.S. Air Force, Hickman AFB, HI	$150	Military construction fleet
159	U.S. Concrete, Houston, TX	$150*	Acquired Redi-Mix, Ingram Enterprises, Alliance Haulers in TX for $165 million
160	S.T. Wooten Corp., Wilson, NC	$145	Builds roads and bridges, buildings, makes asphalt and ready mix
161	Flint Energy Services, Calgary, AB	$145*	Oilfield service provider started 2005 with $700 million infrastructure backlog
162	IA Construction, Concordville, PA	$144	Highway-and-heavy-construction division of Colas North America
163	Orion Marine Group, Houston, TX	$144*	Holding company for Orion Construction, King Fisher Marine, Misener Marine
164	Finning International, Edmonton, AB	$143*	Cat dealer has rental fleets in Langley, Prince George, Calgary and Edmonton
165	PCL Construction Resources, Edmonton, AB	$143	Ranked 64th on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list
166	Laramie Crane & Equipment, Detroit, MI	$141	Rental; heavy hauling. Subsidiary of Laramie Enterprises
167	Boh Brothers Construction, New Orleans, LA	$140	Earned bonus for reopening east. I-10 bridge over Pontchartrain 17 days early
168	City of Houston, Houston, TX	$140	Public works and engineering
169	DuPont, Wilmington, DE	$140*	Industrial firm
170	Los Angeles County Sanitation Dist., Whittier, CA	$140	Implementing waste-by-rail, including new transfer station and rail yard
171	Mann Brothers, Elkhorn, WI	$140*	Highway-and-heavy construction
172	Westchester County DOT, Mount Vernon, NY	$140	County roads and transit-system maintainer
173	Kirby-Smith Machinery, Oklahoma City, OK	$138	Komatsu dealer's rental fleet
174	Clarkson Construction, Kansas City, MO	$135	Working on Kansas City Triangle project, scheduled for completion 2008
175	Entergy, New Orleans, LA	$135*	Distributes power to 2.5 million in AR, LA, MS and TX
176	Hydro One, Pickering, ON	$132	Largest electricity delivery company in Ontario
177	International Paper, Stamford, CT	$131*	World's largest producer of forest products
178	John Carlo Inc., Mt. Clemens, MI	$130	General contractor derives nearly all of its revenues from highway construction
179	Ryan Inc. Central, Janesville, WI	$130	Specializing in site work and mass excavation
180	Briggs Equipment, Dallas, TX	$129	Case distributor with 18 locations in NC, SC, GA, and FL
181	ECCO Equipment, Santa Ana, CA	$129	Over 700 pieces of heavy earthmoving equipment in the Western U.S.
182	The Shaw Group, Baton Rouge, LA	$128*	Contracted under USAF $6 billion Heavy Engineering Repair program
183	American Infrastructure, Worcester, PA	$127	Subsidiary R.G. Griffith started Harbor-Station site work, will go into Oct. 2007
184	C.W. Matthews Contracting, Marrietta, GA	$125	Asphalt producer/leading contractor for GA DOT w/fleet of over 500 machines
185	Michels Corp., Brownsville, WI	$125	Pulled 20-inch pipe 7,600 feet across the St. Lawrence River
186	Parsons, Pasadena, CA	$125	Acquired RCI Construction, largest minority-owned business in WA, in 2005
187	West Virginia Div. of Highways, Charleston, WV	$125	Maintains 37,000 miles of highway
188	New Jersey DOT, Trenton, NJ	$124	2007 transportation program funds $3.2 billion in construction
189	Centex, Dallas, TX	$122*	Fiscal 2006 revenues grew 23% to $14.4 billion in tenth record year
190	Tarco Inc., Arvada, CO	$121	Fields 34 crews doing earthmoving, utility and concrete work
191	N.A. Degerstrom, Spokane, WA	$120	Mining and heavy construction firm
192	Fisher Sand & Gravel, Dickinson, ND	$120	Operates 40 aggregate plants and a fleet of 2,000 machines
193	Matrix Service, Tulsa, OK	$120	Industrial contractor projects FY 2007 revenues of $480 to $520 million
194	Republic Services, Fort Lauderdale, FL	$120	No. 3 waste handler has 60 landfills, 90 transfer stations, 35 recycling centers
195	URS, San Francisco, CA	$120*	Includes Aman, Banchee, Cleveland Wrecking, EC Driver & Assoc.
196	AECON Group, Toronto, ON	$118	Canada's top public constructor, awarded $100 million in infrastructure work
197	Patten Rental Service, Elmhurst, IL	$118	Caterpillar rental fleet of 350 machines in 7 Illinois and Indiana locations
198	American Bridge, Coraopolis, PA	$117*	Awarded a $52M contract to replace deck of west. Chesapeake Bay Bridge
199	Canter Construction, Wilkesboro, NC	$115	General building contractor
200	Fred Weber Inc., Maryland Heights, MO	$115	Recently awarded three Missouri DOT projects totaling $18.9 million
201	R.E. Monks Construction, Fountain Hills, AZ	$114	Operates 500-machine fleet of Tier 2 equipment
202	Irving Materials (IMI), Greenfield, IN	$112	Ready-mix firm fields 850 trucks and 130 plants in IN, KY and TN
203	Jakes Crane & Rigging, Las Vegas, NV	$112	Rental fleet investing in support equipment
204	Perini Construction, Framingham, MA	$112*	Purchased Redwood-CA-based builder, Rudolph and Sletten, for $53 million
205	Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ	$111	Utility to construct $600 million, 400-megawatt coal-fired power plant
206	Rieth-Riley Construction, Gary, IN	$110*	Purchased Consumers Asphalt in April 2006
207	Centerpoint Energy, Houston, TX	$110*	Will develop 1,600-mile Mid-Continent gas pipeline with Duke Energy
208	Mashuda, Cranberry Township, PA	$110	Highway and heavy contractor
209	Norfolk Dredging, Chesapeake, VA	$110	Specialist in sub-aqueous trench/tunnel excavation, backfill, hydraulic landfill
210	Sherwood Construction, Wichita, KS	$110	Heavy constructor includes a family of 17 companies
211	Sims Crane & Equipment, Tampa, FL	$110	Rental fleet value has grown $50 million in 36 months
212	Xcel Energy, Denver, CO	$110*	Part of CapX 2020 alliance to construct $1.3 billion in new transmission lines
213	Fordyce Ltd., Victoria, TX	$108	Sand and gravel producer
214	City of Calgary, Calgary, AB	$107	Exploring hybrid and alternative-fueled vehicles for fleet of over 4,000 units
215	McKinney Drilling, Odenton, MD	$105*	Founder pioneered drilled-shaft processes
216	TIC Holdings, Steamboat Springs, CO	$105	Expertise in building power, mining/minerals process, oil/gas/chem. facilities
217	W.O. Grubb Steel Erection, Richmond, VA	$105	About half of the firm's 200 cranes are Manitowoc-Crane-Group machines
218	Toromont, Toronto, ON	$101*	Rental-fleet value, operated primarily by Battlefield Cat Rental Store
219	Alberici Constructors, St. Louis, MO	$100	Selected to build Platte West Water Treatment Plant in NE for $235.7 million
220	American Asphalt & Grading, Las Vegas, NV	$100	Grading, paving, mine-reclamation fleet includes two Komatsu D575A dozers
221	Austin Industries, Dallas, TX	$100	Landed $153 million contract to build four-level interchange in Texarkana
222	Bauerly Brothers, Sauk Rapids, MN	$100	Supplies aggregate, asphalt and concrete to 29 Minnesota counties
223	Conoco-Phillips, Bartlesville, OK	$100	Third-largest integrated energy company in the US
224	Edward C. Levy, Detroit, MI	$100	Produces construction materials from steel and construction waste
225	EKPC, Winchester, KY	$100	Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative
226	Engelhard, Iselin, NJ	$100	Miner acquired in June 2006 by chemical giant BASF
227	English Construction, Lynchburg, VA	$100	Heavy structures contractor's fleet value increased $45 million in 48 months
228	Graniterock, Watsonville, CA	$100	A 6th NAPA Diamond Achievement goes to Northern Road Materials facilities
229	Gray BEC Lime, Pleasant Gap, PA	$100	Mining subsidiary of Graymont
230	Henkels & McCoy, Blue Bell, PA	$100	Utility and industrial contractor founded in 1923
231	Hinkle Contracting, Paris, KY	$100	Highway construction, materials producer, environmental work
232	HRI, State College, PA	$100	Highway-and-heavy contractor is a division of Colas North America
233	Hunter Industries, San Marcos, TX	$100	Highway constructor owns Colorado Materials
234	Illinois DOT, Springfield, IL	$100	Current phase of Transp. Enhancement spends $60 million on 107 projects
235	Imperial Crane Services, Bridgeview, IL	$100	Truck cranes to 500 tons, lattice boom and crawler cranes to 300 tons
236	Iowa Department of Transportation, Ames, IA	$100	Implementing $374-million FY2007 Highway Program
237	J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Hackensack, NJ	$100	New Jersey contractor
238	Kinder Morgan, Lakewood, CO	$100	Acquired A&L Trucking and U.S. Development Group for $61.6 million
239	Lehman-Roberts, Memphis, TN	$100	Predominantly highway construction
240	Metropolitan Washington Airport, Washington, D.C.	$100	Airport-maintenance equipment fleet
241	Montana DOT, Helena, MT	$100	56-mile, $150 million Peoples Way project in progress until 2009
242	Nevada DOT, Carson City, NV	$100	State highway maintenance
243	Orius, Twin Falls, ID	$100	Filed Chapter 11 in an agreement to sell $8 million in assets to Dycom
244	Ring Power, Jacksonville, FL	$100	Cat dealer rents equipment from locations in 18 Florida cities
245	Scotty's Contracting & Stone, Bowling Green, KY	$100	Highway and heavy construction; materials production
246	Solar Sources, Indianapolis, IN	$100	Coal miner
247	Star Industries, Seattle, WA	$100	Family-owned rental company has 16 locations in Washington and Oregon
248	The Doe Run Co., St. Louis, MO	$100	Lead-mining subsidiary of the Renco Group
249	Veco, Anchorage, AK	$100	Highway construction, utilities and oil-field service company to the world
250	W.A. Hazel, Chantilly, VA	$100	Site development specialist

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