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Giants 2007 Listings

September 1, 2007

By Larry Stewart, Executive Editor

Rank	Company			Equipment Replacement Value ($ in millions)	Comments
1	United Rentals	Greenwich	CT	$4,000	Sold to private equity group, Cerberus, for $6.6 billion
2	U.S. Army Engineers	Ft. Leonard Wood	MO	$3,267	Worldwide fleet of construction and support equipment
3	Martin Marietta Aggregates	Raleigh	NC	$2,861	Named to the InformationWeek 500 list of largest and most innovative users of information technology
4	Lehigh Heidelberg Cement Group	Allentown	PA	2850*	German parent, HeidelbergCement, bought Hanson
5	Lafarge North America	Reston	VA	2638.3*	Three Chicagoland acquisitions raise area aggregate sales to 11 million tons
6	Rio Tinto America	Salt Lake City	UT	2467.4*	Austral-Anglo owner of Kennecott is offering $38.1billion for bauxite/aluminum producer Alcan
7	Vulcan Materials Co.	Birmingham	AL	2397*	Acquired Florida Rock Industries for $4.6 billion
8	Sunbelt Rentals	Charlotte	NC	$2,200	Assimilating NationsRent and its goal to integrate new equipment sales with rental
9	Kiewit Corp.	Omaha	NE	$2,100	2006 construction revenues grew 22 percent
10	CVRD Inco	Toronto	ON	2092.8*	Inco is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD)
11	Hertz Equipment Rental Corp. (HERC)	Park Ridge	NJ	2075*	Opened or reopened 24 new or refurbished retail locations in 2006 and 14 so far in 2007
12	Oldcastle Materials	Washington	DC	2005*	Bought APAC and raised $215 million selling non-quarry operations in GA, NC, SC, TX and VA
13	RSC Equipment Rental	Houston	TX	1696.2*	Atlas Copco sold RSC to private equity firms Ripplewood Holdings and Oak Hill Capital for $3.8 billion. Disappointing IPO raised $458.3 million
14	Cemex North America	Monterrey	NL	1675*	Took over The Rinker Group, 2nd-quarter debt was $4.1 billion
15	FCX	Phoenix	AZ	1430*	Freeport McMoran bought Phelps Dodge, creating the world's largest publicly held copper producer, and renamed itself FCX
16	Arch Coal	St. Louis	MO	$1,300	Sold Hobet Mining, Apogee Coal and Catenary Coal to Magnum Coal Company
17	BNSF Railway	Fort Worth	TX	$1,250	Conversations with 200 local residents may have shaped the railway's Southern California International Gateway into "the greenest rail facility in the United States"
18	MDU Resources	Bismarck	ND	$1,200	Sold independent power-production unit to purchase Cascade Natural Gas
19	Drummond Co.	Jasper	AL	$1,100	Ranks in the top 25 percent of U.S.-owned coal companies
20	BHP Billiton	San Francisco	CA	1085.4*	Spending $3.74 billion developing oil and gas fields in Gulf of Mexico
21	Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.	Oak Brook	IL	1065*	Invested $65 million in a large hydraulic dredge and a hopper dredge
22	NES Rentals	Chicago	IL	1000*	Sold Shaughnessy Crane to AmQuip in July 2007
23	North American Coal	Dallas	TX	980*	Top 10 U.S. coal producer mines about 35 million tons per year
24	Newmont Mining Corp.	Denver	CO	900*	Expects to spend $560 and $630 million in Nevada this year
25	Granite Construction	Watsonville	CA	$875	$43.8 million net income in the 2nd quarter was 32% greater than Q2 2006
26	Holcim US	Dundee	MI	874*	Aggregate Industries subsidiary bought Nazcon's ready mixed concrete operation and Hardaway Concrete
27	Maxim Crane Works	Pittsburgh	PA	$770	Strategic review recommended neither merger nor sale, but focus on operating fundamentals
28	Peabody Energy Corp.	St. Louis	MO	737*	Purchased Excel Coal, a large independent Australian coal company
29	Texas Department of Transportation	Austin	TX	$720	State road maintenance
30	Irving Materials (IMI)	Greenfield	IN	$700	Ready-mix firm fields 850 trucks and 130 plants in IN, KY, and TN
31	H & E Equipment Services	Baton Rouge	LA	$678	New and used sales/service bring half of integrated rental firm's gross profit
32	Waste Management Inc.	Houston	TX	$650	Operates 24,000 collection and transfer vehicles, 500 run on natural gas
33	All Erection & Crane Rental	Cleveland	OH	596.1*	Bought 250 JLG aerial work platforms with intent to grow access-rental business
34	Cleveland-Cliffs	Cleveland	MI	561*	Acquired PinnOak Resources, three-mine producer of coking coal
35	Sunstate Equipment	Phoenix	AZ	$550	Fleet value has more than doubled since 2005
36	Neff Rental	Miami	FL	$530	Acquired in June 2007 by New York-based Lightyear Capital
37	Finning International	Edmonton	AB	521.5*	Cat dealer sold Hewden Tool Hire in the UK for $235 million
38	Syar Industries	Napa	CA	$520	Materials producer operates seven quarries in California
39	Alpha Natural Resources Inc.	Abington	VA	505.1*	Bought Arch Coal's Ben Creek Complex in WV for $40 million
40	FirstEnergy Co.	Akron	OH	$500	Diverse 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	Qwest	Englewood	CO	$500	Macro Capacity fiber optic network spans more than 190,000 miles globally
43	Tube City IMS	Horsham	PA	$500	Recovers byproducts generated in steel and iron production and reprocesses them into valuable materials
44	Virginia Department of Transportation	Suffolk	VA	$500	Highway department maintains 10,000 pieces of rolling stock
45	Weyerhaeuser Co.	Federal Way	WA	500*	Sold its plywood mill in Springfield, Ore. to Pacific States Industries
46	Syncrude Canada Ltd.	Ft. McMurray	AB	$489	Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. acquired Canada Southern Petroleum in June 2006
47	Pittsburg & Midway Coal	Englewood	CO	$485	Founded in 1885, this Chevron subsidiary is one of the oldest continuously operating mining companies in the US
48	AmQuip	Bensalem	PA	484.2*	Acquired for $320 million by private equity firm Bard Capital
49	Elmo Greer & Sons Inc.	London	KY	$475	Uses DTSystems dispatching system
50	Ahern Rentals Inc.	Las Vegas	NV	$474	34% larger fleet increased 2006 revenues 31%
51	Aggreko North America	New Iberia	LA	473.6*	Purchased GE Energy Rentals for $230 million in October 2006
52	Buzzi Unicem USA	Indianapolis	IN	468.6*	Italian materials producer operates 11 cement plants capable of 10 million tons per year, and 56 ready mix plants in the US
53	Southern Company	Atlanta	GA	466*	In 2007 raised dividend rate for sixth straight year
54	Exelon Corp.	Chicago	IL	461.5*	Distributes electricity to 5.2 million customers in northern IL and PA and gas to 460,000 around Philadelphia
55	Ring Power Corp.	Jacksonville	FL	455.8*	Cat dealer operates 14 Cat Rental Store branches in Florida
56	Verizon Communications	New York	NY	450*	One of the 10 largest commercial fleets in the U.S., but Giants value excludes autos
57	Georgia Pacific	Atlanta	GA	430.5*	Bought Insulair, maker of paper cups and lids, for $170 million
58	Essex Crane Rental Corp.	Buffalo Grove	IL	$425	Operates rental fleet of over 420 lattice-boom crawler cranes, up to 300 tons
59	Las Vegas Paving	Las Vegas	NV	$420	JV with CH2MHILL will design/build $242 million improvements to I-15
60	AMECO (American Equipment Co.)	Greenvillle	SC	414*	Celebrating its 60th anniversary of providing integrated equipment and tool solutions to government and industry
61	Bechtel Corp.	Louisville	KY	$400	Finished Washington state's new Narrows Bridge and Virginia’s Springfield Interchange in July
62	Clark Construction Group	Bethesda	MD	$400	In JV with Balfour Beatty, took the $334 million first phase of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's complex.
63	Freeport Indonesia	New Orleans	LA	$400	Precious-metals miner (mostly copper) operates mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia
64	New York Department of Transport	Albany	NY	$400	State fleet value grew $125 million in a year
65	The Walsh Group	Chicago	IL	$400	Hometown contractor picked build Chicago's 2,000-foot Fordham Spire
66	Weeks Marine	Cranford	NJ	$400	Will finish moving 5.7 million cubic yards from Baltimore's Seagirt Channel in January 2008
67	Teck Cominco	Vancouver	BC	376.1*	Acquisition of Aur Resources boosts copper production 43%, or 200 million pounds
68	Barrick Gold	Toronto	ON	355*	Acquired Placer Dome to become the world's leading gold company with 27 mines
69	T.J. Lambrecht Construction	Joliet	IL	$348	Heavy earthmover operates over 800 pieces of heavy equipment
70	Allied Waste Industries	Scottsdale	AZ	$340	Operates 163 transfer stations, 169 landfills and 57 recycling facilities in 37 states
71	Safety-Kleen Corp.	Columbia	SC	$340	Acquired Jacobus Environmental, bringing a major collector of used oil, oil filters and antifreeze from the upper Midwest into its network
72	United Contractors Midwest	Springfield	IL	340*	Reworking 10.9 miles of Route 50 in Moniteau Co., MO, for $30 million
73	Consolidated Edison Co.	New York	NY	330*	Provides electricity to 3.2 million customers and gas service to 1.1 million in New York City and Westchester County.
74	International Coal Group Inc.	Ashland	KY	325*	Purchased reserves, a coal prep plant and a rail load-out assets of Northern Appalachia producer, Buffalo Coal, for $5 million
75	Clyde Companies	Orem	UT	$324	WW Clyde, Sunroc, Geneva Rock, Gorge Rock are subsidiaries
76	North Carolina Department of Transport.	Raleigh	NC	$320	State road maintenance
77	RJM Construction	Las Vegas	NV	$315	Mining contractor
78	Los Angeles Department of Water & Power	Los Angeles	CA	$305	Nation's largest municipal utility
79	Falconbridge	Toronto	ON	304.3*	Xstrata working to buy Falconbridge in the wake of Inco's failed attempt
80	A&A Ready Mixed Concrete	Newport Beach	CA	$300	26 locations serve CA; specialize in portable batch plants
81	Pennsylvania Department of Transportation	Harrisburg	PA	$300	State highway maintenance
82	Teichert	Sacramento	CA	$300	250 Class 8 trucks, in addition to a highway-and-heavy-construction fleet
83	Willbros Group Inc.	Houston	TX	$300	Will build 257 miles of 42-inch pipeline in TX and OK for the Midcontinent Express
84	Suncor Energy Inc.	Calgary	AB	286*	Plans to use mobile ore preparation equipment instead of a truck and shovel in Voyageur South expansion near Fort McMurray
85	The Lane Construction Corp.	Meriden	CT	$282	Landed Maryland DOT I-495 design/build interchange worth $26.5 million
86	Balfour Beatty	Novi	MI	277.6*	Purchased the Centex commercial construction unit
87	Kokosing Construction	Fredericktown	OH	$275	Won AGC's award for best overall construction safety program
88	Dominion Resources Services	Richmond	VA	$270	Power and gas utility
89	Skanska USA	Greenwich	CT	268.8*	Construction manager for the United Nations' Capital Master Plan renovation, with value of work expected to be $1 billion
90	Carmeuse North America	Pittsburgh	PA	250*	Stopped producing lime in Hanover, PA, but lime will be processed there
91	CONSOL Energy	Pittsburgh	PA	$250	Mines more high-btu bituminous coal than any other U.S. producer
92	Dycom Industries	Palm Beach Gardens	FL	$250	Acquisition of Prince Telecom Holdings brings family of subsidiaries to 28
93	Florida Power & Light	Miami	FL	$250	Utility plans new transmission lines for Miami-Dade and Manatee-Sarasota Counties
94	McAninch	Des Moines	IA	$250	Iowa's largest earthmover/utility contractor pioneered GPS grade controls in production on its fleet of 400 Cat machines
95	Tennessee Department of Transportation	Nashville	TN	$250	State road maintenance
96	Canada Building Mateirals Co.	Toronto	ON	$249	Over 450 ready-mix trucks operate out of 40 plants
97	Edward Kraemer & Sons	Plain	WI	248.7*	Spun off Kraemer Materials in July; sold E80 Plus Constructors in May
98	Pike Electric Inc.	Mt Airy	NC	247.9*	Power distrubtion outsourcing in 19 states from PA to FL to TX
99	Prairie Group	Bridgeview	IL	$240	Materials producer to Chicagoland
100	Herzog Contracting	St. Joseph	MO	235*	Heavy constructor specializes in building railroads
101	Jones Brothers Construction	Mt. Juliet	TN	232*	Largest heavy highway construction company in Tennessee
102	Morrow Equipment	Salem	OR	$225	High rise boom created 6-month backlog to rent company’s 500 tower cranes
103	Layne Christensen Co.	Mission Woods	KS	$223	Bought American Water Co.'s Underground Infrastructure Group for $28.6 million last November
104	Ameren Corp.	St. Louis	MO	$220	AmerenUE invested $2.5 billion in infrastructure since 2002
105	Ames Construction	Burnsville	MN	220*	Widening five miles of SR-189 in Utah's sensitive Provo Canyon
106	Barnhart	Memphis	TN	$220	Crane comnpany bought Scott Crane Services in Lubbock, TX
107	Minnesota Department of Transportation	Duluth	MN	$220	State highway maintenance
108	South Carolina Department of Transportation	Columbia	SC	$220	State road maintenance
109	PCL Construction Resources	Edmonton	AB	$218	Working on the $79.6 million Orlando International Airport baggage screening system
110	Manson Construction Co.	Seattle	WA	217.3*	100-year old, family-lead marine contractor works throughout the coastal US
111	Kinross Gold	Toronto	ON	217*	Nine gold mines located in the US, Canada, Brazil, Chile and Russia
112	URS Corp.	San Francisco	CA	216.7*	Acquired Washington Group, combined 2006 revenue would have been $7.6 billion
113	KBR	Houston	TX	215*	Global engineer/constructor supporting energy, petrochemical, government and infrastructure sectors, now separate from Halliburton
114	Mid American Energy Holding	Des Moines	IA	215*	Acquired OR-based PacifiCorp for $5.1 billion in cash
115	New Enterprise Stone & Lime	New Enterprise	PA	$210	Subsidiaries include Martin Limestone and Buffalo Crushed Stone
116	Barnhill Contracting	Tarboro	NC	$205	Acquired grading/paving contractor, Mac Construction in Shallotte, NC
117	Quanta Services	Houston	TX	205*	Designs, installs and maintains power, telecom, cable and gas networks
118	The Hubbard Group	Orlando	FL	$205	Part of French constructor, Vinci, and a holding company comprised of Hubbard Construction and Blythe Construction.
119	Flatiron Construction	Longmont	CO	204.4*	Won $389-million contract to design/build northeast part of Calgary Ring Road
120	City of Los Angeles, Public Works	Los Angeles	CA	$200	City government
121	F&M Mafco	Harrison	OH	$200	Rental and sales organization targets rigging and fabrication contractors
122	James River Coal	Richmond	VA	200*	Exiting underground mining at the BL-4 Mine and Cabin Hollow Mine; accelerating development at two surface mines
123	New Mexico Highway & Transportation Dept.	Santa Fe	NM	$200	GRIP $1.6 billion initiative finances 40 highway projects in Rio Grande corridor
124	Tennessee Valley Authority	Knoxville	TN	$200	29,469 megawatts generating capacity serving 8 million users in seven states
125	Titan America	Norfolk	VA	$200	Acquired Powhatan Ready Mix, Cumberland Quarry, and S&W Ready Mix this year
126	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	Washington	DC	200*	Fiscal 2007 construction budget of $1.6 billion funds 63 projects nationwide
127	AT&T	San Antonio	TX	$190	Consolidated Cingular, Bell South, Ameritech, Pacific Bell, others
128	Lunda Construction Co.	Black River Falls	WI	188.3*	Bridge division includes pile driving, railroad bridges and various concrete work
129	Briggs Equipment	Dallas	TX	188.2*	Case distributor with 18 locations in NC, SC, GA, and FL
130	Rockford Blacktop Construction	Loves Park	IL	$188	Includes Rockford Sand & Gravel, Rockford Electric, and Rockford Environmental
131	Haines & Kibblehouse	Skippack	PA	$187	Highway-and-heavy firm focuses on quarrying operations
132	McDermott International Inc.	New Orleans	LA	185.2*	Salvaged Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary from Chapter 11
133	Alaska Department of Transportation	Anchorage	AK	$181	State highway department
134	C.W. Matthews Contracting	Marrietta	GA	$180	More than 800 major construction machines; average age less than four years; 25,000 square feet of maintenance facilities
135	Rogers Group	Nashville	TN	$180	Twelve RGI plants received NSSGA beautification awards in 2007
136	Traylor Brothers	Evansville	IN	$180	Bridge, tunnel, elevated highway constructor has one of the nation's largest fleets of tunnel-construction specialty equipment
137	Zachry Construction Corp.	San Antonio	TX	$180	Acquired Universal Utility to add cooling-tower and high-voltage-substation capabilities
138	Arizona Department of Transportation	Phoenix	AZ	$176	Draft five-year plan allots $5.5 billion for state highway projects 2007 to 2011
139	Cardi Corp.	Warwick	RI	$176	Highway and heavy contractor trades on concrete, asphalt and aggregate capabilities
140	Insituform Technologies	Chesterfield	MO	$175	Company has announced plans to exit the tunneling business, and is seekng a buyer for that segment of its operation
141	PPL Corp.	Allentown	PA	$175	Sold its PPL Telcom subsidiary to Zayo Bandwidth for $60 million
142	U.S. Department of Energy	Washington	DC	$175	Federal fleet value on the Savannah River Site
143	Hunt Construction Group	Scottsdale	AZ	170*	Joint venture Hunt-Walton is construction manager for the $250 million renovation of Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City
144	Kirby-Smith Machinery	Oklahoma City	OK	$170	Komatsu dealer operates five branches in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri
145	The Vecellio Group	West Palm Beach	FL	164.5*	Developed petroleum/fuel services company, Vecenergy, after integrating liquid-asphalt producer South Florida Materials
146	City of Dallas	Dallas	TX	$162	Operates fleet of 4,400 vehicles
147	O&G Industries	Torrington	CT	$162	Operates 9 asphalt plants, 7 concrete plants, 10 sand and gravel operations, and 5 mason-supply stores
148	Alcoa Sandow Mine	Rockdale	TX	$160	Sold soft-alloy extrusion facilities in Warren, OH, and Plant City, FL, to Golden Aluminum
149	City of Vancouver	Vancouver	BC	$157	Municipal fleet
150	Tutor-Saliba Corp.	Sylmar	CA	$157	JV with O&G for $242 million Southside Airfield Improvement contract at LAX
151	The Branch Group	Roanoke	VA	154.5*	Employee-owned highway, airport, site-prep contractor
152	AECON Group	Toronto	ON	$153	Awarded $84.5 million contract for work on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) in Oakville, south of Toronto
153	Basin Electric Power Cooperative	Bismarck	ND	$150	Plans to complete a new coal-based power plant near Gillette, WY, by 2011
154	Boh Brothers Construction	New Orleans	LA	$150	2,000 pieces of equipment in sizes from welding machines and air compressors to crawler cranes
155	David A. Bramble Inc.	Chestertown	MD	150*	Fleet includes three asphalt plants, 150 construction pieces, and 75 trucks
156	De Silva Gates Construction	Dublin	CA	$150	Over $350 million in annual revenues from a 350-piece heavy-equipment fleet
157	Francis O. Day Co.	Rockville	MD	$150	Highway-and-heavy constructor; materials producer
158	Indiana Department of Transportation	Indianapolis	IN	$150	$3.6 billion lease of toll road will fund 10-year transportation investment plan
159	Kansas Department of Transportation	Topeka	KS	$150	State highway maintenance
160	Milestone Contractors LP	Indianapolis	IN	$150	Awarded ACPA's Excellence in Concrete Pavement Award for I-465 Interchange modifications
161	Northeast Utilities	Hartford	CT	$150	Furnishes electrical service in NH, MA, and CT, as well as natural gas in CT
162	Ready Mix USA	Birmingham	AL	150*	Over 160 ready mix plants in the southeastern US
163	TXU Power	Dallas	TX	$150	Shareholders preparing to vote on TXU's acquisition by investment group, Texas Energy Future Holdings Limited Partnership
164	U.S. Air Force	Hickman AFB	HI	$150	Military construction fleet
165	U.S. Concrete	Houston	TX	150*	Formed Superior Matierals, joint venture with Edw. C. Levy Co. that will be the largest ready mix producer in MI
166	R.E. Monks Construction	Fountain Hills	AZ	$149	Fleet value has grown $35 million in two years
167	S.T. Wooten Corp.	Wilson	NC	$145	Builds roads and bridges, buildings, makes asphalt and ready mix
168	Flint Energy Services	Calgary	AB	144.7*	Flint Transfield signed a 5-year, $1-billion contract to manage Suncor's assets at Fort McMurray oil sands and ON refinery
169	IA Construction	Concordville	PA	$144	Highway-and-heavy-construction division of Colas North America
170	Orion Marine Group	Houston	TX	144*	Holding company for Orion Construction, King Fisher Marine, Misener Marine
171	Laramie Crane & Equipment	Detroit	MI	$141	Rental; heavy hauling. Subsidiary of Laramie Enterprises
172	Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping	Denver	CO	$140	Concrete pumping contractor, pump dealer
173	City of Houston	Houston	TX	$140	Public works and engineering
174	DuPont Co.	Wilmington	DE	140*	Industrial firm
175	Mann Brothers	Elkhorn	WI	140*	Highway-and-heavy construction
176	Penhall International	Anaheim	CA	$140	Rental firm
177	Westchester County Dept. of Transportation	Mount Vernon	NY	$140	County roads and transit-system maintainer
178	Clarkson Construction	Kansas City	MO	$135	Working on Kansas City Triangle project, scheduled for completion 2008
179	Entergy Corp.	New Orleans	LA	135*	Distributes power to 2.5 million in AR, LA, MS, and TX
180	Sunland Construction	Eunice	LA	$135	32-year-old pipelining firm
181	Hydro One	Pickering	ON	$132	Largest electricity delivery company in Ontario
182	International Paper Co.	Stamford	CT	131.3*	World's largest producer of forest products
183	ECCO Equipment	Santa Ana	CA	$131	Over 700 pieces of heavy earthmoving equipment in the Western U.S.
184	John Carlo Inc.	Mt. Clemens	MI	$130	General contractor derives nearly all of its revenues from highway construction
185	Ryan Inc. Central	Janesville	WI	$130	Specializing in site work and mass excavation
186	The Shaw Group	Baton Rouge	LA	127.5*	Contracted under USAF $6 billion Heavy Engineering Repair program
187	American Infrastructure	Worcester	PA	$125	Pursuing the DE market with 120-acre site-development projects in Magnolia and Christiana
188	ASRC Energy Service	Anchorage	AK	$125	Manages maintenance on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
189	Mashuda Corp.	Cranberry Township	PA	$125	Highway and heavy contractor
190	Michels Corp.	Brownsville	WI	$125	Relined 3,000 feet of Portland, OR, sewer pipe with cured-in-place pipe
191	Parsons Corp.	Pasadena	CA	$125	JV with Tishman Construction and Arup awarded engineering contract on Phase 1 of the $7 billion Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel
192	New Jersey DOT	Trenton	NJ	$124	2007 transportation program funds $3.2 billion in construction projects
193	Tarco Inc.	Arvada	CO	$121	Fields 34 crews doing earthmoving, utility, and concrete work
194	Fisher Sand & Gravel Co.	Dickinson	ND	$120	Operates 40 aggregate plants and a fleet of 2,000 machines
195	Matrix Service Co.	Tulsa	OK	$120	Industrial contractor projects FY 2007 revenues of $480 to $520 million
196	Republic Services Inc.	Fort Lauderdale	FL	$120	No. 3 waste handler operates 60 landfills, 90 transfer stations, 35 recycling centers
197	Salt River Project	Phoenix	AZ	$120	Utility to construct $600 million, 400-megawatt coal-fired power plant
198	West Virginia Division of Highways	Charleston	WV	$120	Maintains 37,000 miles of highway
199	Battlefield Equipment Rentals	Toronto	ON	$119	Toromont Cat's rental operation runs 33 branches in Eastern Canada
200	American Bridge	Coraopolis	PA	116.5*	Virginia office received AGC safety award for having zero incidents
201	Canter Construction	Wilkesboro	NC	$115	General building contractor
202	Fred Weber Inc.	Maryland Heights	MO	$115	Recently awarded three Missouri DOT projects totaling $18.9 million
203	Wilder Construction Co.	Bellingham	WA	$115	Granite Const. owns a third of this 90-year-old heavy construction firm
204	Perini Construction	Framingham	MA	112*	Total revenue for 2006 of $3 billion was a 76% increase over 2005
205	Peterson Contractors	Reinbeck	IA	$112	Fleet value more than doubled since 2005
206	Rieth-Riley Construction	Gary	IN	110.4*	Won IN DOT's 2006 award for concrete-pavement smoothness on R-26937 in St Joseph County
207	Centerpoint Energy	Houston	TX	110*	Will develop 1,600-mile Mid-Continent gas pipeline with Duke Energy
208	Norfolk Dredging Co.	Chesapeake	VA	$110	Specialist in sub-aqueous trench and tunnel excavation, backfill and hydraulic landfill
209	Sherwood Construction	Wichita	KS	$110	Heavy constructor includes a family of 17 companies
210	Structural Group	Hanover	MD	110*	Acquired Delta Pacific Builders, a concrete restoration, coating and lining company
211	Fordyce Ltd.	Victoria	TX	$108	Sand and gravel producer
212	Cianbro Corp.	Pittsfield	ME	$106	Industrial/petro contractor and highway and heavy contractor
213	Ray Bell Construction Co.	Brentwood	TN	105.8*	Blalock JV netted $104-million SmartFIX 40 contract in Knoxville
214	McKinney Drilling Co.	Odenton	MD	105*	Founder pioneered drilled-shaft processes
215	TIC Holdings	Steamboat Springs	CO	$105	Expertise in building power, mining/minerals process, oil/gas/chemical facilities
216	W.O. Grubb Steel Erection	Richmond	VA	$105	About half of the firm's 200 cranes are Manitowoc-Crane-Group machines
217	Manitoba Hydro	Winnipeg	MB	$104	Utility
218	MacAllister Machinery	Indianapolis	IN	104.2*	Eight Cat Rental Store locations in Indiana
219	H.B. Mellott Estate	Warfordsburg	PA	$102	Material producer offers portable contract crushing on site
220	City of Calgary	Calgary	AB	$102	Exploring hybrid and alternative-fueled vehicles for fleet of over 4,000 units
221	American Asphalt & Grading	Las Vegas	NV	$100	Grading, paving, and mine-reclamation fleet includes two Komatsu D575A dozers
222	Austin Industries	Dallas	TX	$100	Received a $433,000 grant from TX for upgrading to lower-emissions equipment
223	Bauerly Brothers	Sauk Rapids	MN	$100	Supplies aggregate, asphalt and concrete to 29 Minnesota counties
224	City of Chicago	Chicago	IL	$100	Municipal fleet
225	Conoco-Phillips	Bartlesville	OK	$100	Third-largest integrated energy company in the US
226	Edward C. Levy	Detroit	MI	$100	Produces construction materials from steel and construction waste
227	EKPC	Winchester	KY	$100	Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative
228	Engelhard	Iselin	NJ	$100	Mining company acquired by chemical giant BASF and added to catalysts group
229	Graniterock	Watsonville	CA	$100	A 6th NAPA Diamond Achievement goes to Northern Road Materials facilities
230	Gray BEC Lime	Pleasant Gap	PA	$100	Mining subsidiary of Graymont
231	Henkels & McCoy	Blue Bell	PA	$100	Utility and industrial contractor founded in 1923
232	Hinkle Contracting Corp.	Paris	KY	$100	Highway construction, materials producer, environmental work
233	HRI Inc.	State College	PA	$100	Highway-and-heavy contractor is a division of Colas North America
234	Hunter Industries	San Marcos	TX	$100	Highway constructor owns Colorado Materials
235	Illinois Department of Transportation	Springfield	IL	$100	State highway department
236	Iowa Department of Transportation	Ames	IA	$100	Implementing $374-million FY2007 Highway Program
237	J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc.	Hackensack	NJ	$100	Pioneering CleanFast utility-installation equipment that simultaneously creates a mini-trench while removing debris
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	DC	$100	Airport-maintenance equipment fleet
241	Modern Group	Bristol	PA	$100	Employee-owned equipment distributor's rental-fleet value
242	Montana Department of Transportation	Helena	MT	$100	56-mile, $150 million Peoples Way project in progress until 2009
243	Nevada Department of Transportation	Carson City	NV	$100	State highway maintenance
244	Scotty's Contracting & Stone	Bowling Green	KY	$100	Chairman Jim Scott founded Scotty's in 1972
245	Sims Crane & Equipment	Tampa	FL	$100	Ranked No. 30 in RER's top 100 Rental Firms
246	Solar Sources	Indianapolis	IN	$100	Coal producer
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	Xcel Energy	Denver	CO	$100	Part of CapX 2020 alliance to construct $1.3 billion in new transmission lines
* 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 2007Giants information, click here!

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