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| 1 | The Cat Rental Store | Peoria | IL | *$5,500 | The combined, global dealer-owned fleet includes $8 billion in Cat machines (average age of 19 months) and about $2 billion in allied equipment | |
| 2 | United Rentals | Greenwich | CT | $4,200 | Reported 5.8% less rental revenue Q1 2008 and 44.8% less profits on 1.4% lower rental rates and a 0.8% decline in time utilization. | |
| 3 | U.S. Army Engineers | Ft. Leonard Wood | MO | $3,267 | Worldwide fleet of construction and support equipment | |
| 4 | Hertz Equipment Rental Corp. (HERC) | Park Ridge | NJ | $3,000 | Shanghai operations began in July. Acquired a substantial power-generation rental company, Quilovat, in Spain in spring 2008. | |
| 5 | Martin Marietta Aggregates | Raleigh | NC | $2,861 | Acquired five quarries in Georgia and one in Tennessee from Vulcan -- aggregate production in those states will increase 30% | |
| 6 | Lehigh Heidelberg Cement Group | Allentown | PA | *$2,850 | Paid a $74,700 penalty in an "agreement" with EPA over alleged clean-air violations at its Mitchell, IN, plant | |
| 7 | Lafarge North America | Reston | VA | *$2,638 | Entered southeastern Louisiana with purchase of Texas Industries' sand and gravel assets (four pits) in the area | |
| 8 | Rio Tinto America | Salt Lake City | UT | *$2,467 | Approved $293 million investment to expand Canadian iron ore production by 50 percent by 2011 | |
| 9 | Vulcan Materials Co. | Birmingham | AL | *$2,397 | Florida Rock acquisition fallout: sold four quarries and a greenfield in GA and a TN quarry; received a quarry near Sacramento, CA, reserves in San Antonio, TX, and ownership of adjacent property in NC | |
| 10 | Sunbelt Rentals | Charlotte | NC | $2,314 | Ashtead PLC, parent to Sunbelt and UK rental company A-Plant, reported 51 percent profit growth for its fiscal year ended April 30 | |
| 11 | Kiewit Corp. | Omaha | NE | $2,200 | DJ Power Partners, a JV with TIC, signed EPC contract for a gas desulfurization and baghouse at PacifiCorp's Glenrock, WY, power plant | |
| 12 | Oldcastle Materials | Washington | DC | *$2,192 | 13 acquisitions worth about $95 million expanded this Irish consolidator's materials presence in North America in the first half of 2008 | |
| 13 | Arch Coal Inc. | St. Louis | MO | *$1,729 | Spent $38.9 million on 157 million tons of coal reserves, creating a 300-million-ton contiguous block or reserves in the Illinois Basin Company |
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| 14 | RSC Equipment Rental | Houston | TX | $1,696 | Rental revenues up 5.3% in first half of 2008 and profits improved 13.4%; spending on new fleet cut 56%, 10 stores closed or merged. | |
| 15 | Cemex North America | Monterrey | NL | *$1,675 | In debt-reduction mode: selling Austrian and Hungarian operations for $234 million; considering sale of Australian pipe plants. | |
| 16 | FCX | Phoenix | AZ | *$1,430 | Restarting former Phelps Dodge Climax molybdenum mine in CO and Miami copper mine in AZ | |
| 17 | Drummond Co. | Jasper | AL | $1,300 | Ranks in the top 25 percent of U.S.-owned coal companies | |
| 18 | BNSF Railway | Fort Worth | TX | $1,250 | Replacing 20 miles of rails at between Beaver Hill, MT, and Mandan, ND, as part of $1.8 billion in infrastructure rejuvenation | |
| 19 | Vale Inco | Toronto | ON | *$1,210 | Copper Cliff North Mine won the Canadian Institute of Mining's Ryan Trophy for excellence in safety for the fourth straight year | |
| 20 | GE Commercial Finance | Stamford | CT | $1,200 | Provides leasing, rental, financing, and fleet management services to equipment dealers, rental and leasing retailers | |
| 21 | MDU Resources | Bismarck | ND | $1,200 | Acquiring Intermountain Gas Company, serving 300,000 customers in ID, for $328 million | |
| 22 | BHP Billiton | Houston | TX | *$1,190 | Joint venture with Caterpillar will integrate driverless trucks in mine systems by 2010. Value for North American equipment only. | |
| 23 | Peabody Energy Corp. | St. Louis | MO | *$1,102 | World's largest private-sector coal company, with 2007 sales of 238 million tons and $4.6 billion in revenues | |
| 24 | Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. | Oak Brook | IL | *$1,065 | Fleet includes 13 cutter suction dredges, 8 hopper dredges, 6 bucket dredges, 2 drill boats, 1 unloader, 7 booster pumps, and 184 support vessels | |
| 25 | Suncor Energy Inc. | Calgary | AB | *$1,035 | $360 million mine equipment and support deal with Finning includes 22 Cat 797B trucks, 19 D11T and five D8T dozers | |
| 26 | NES Rentals | Chicago | IL | $1,000 | Added 16,000 new aerial lifts in a four-year, $500-million fleet upgrade refocusing the company on aerial-equipment rental | |
| 27 | Quanta Services | Houston | TX | *$1,000 | Acquired InfraSource, naming it a wholly owned subsidiary | |
| 28 | North American Coal | Dallas | TX | *$980 | Operates six surface coal mines and provides dragline mining services for independent FL limerock quarries | |
| 29 | Newmont Mining Corp. | Denver | CO | *$900 | Q2 2008 net income increased 123% to $230 million on 19% increase in revenues | |
| 30 | Granite Construction | Watsonville | CA | $875 | Won a $39.2 million CA DOT contract to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 395 in Inyo County. | |
| 31 | Holcim US | Dundee | MI | *$874 | Theodore, Ala., cement plant received the Environmental Performance Award from the Portland Cement Association | |
| 32 | Flint Energy Services | Calgary | AB | $850 | Signed contracts worth $450 million, extending through mid-2009, for construction at Suncor's oil-sands facilities near Fort McMurray, AB | |
| 33 | Maxim Crane Works | Pittsburgh | PA | *$840 | Bought by private-equity firm, Platinum Equity Capital, in June | |
| 34 | H & E Equipment Services | Baton Rouge | LA | $798 | J.W. Burress acquisition contributed $28 million of a $36-million revenue increase in Q1 2008 (ended March 31) | |
| 35 | North American Energy Partners | Spruce Grove | AB | $773 | Started up a Hitachi EX8000 shovel and a maintenance facility at CNRL’s Horizon Mine | |
| 36 | Chevron Mining Inc. | Englewood | CO | $747 | Operates five coal and metal mines, including former Pittsburg & Midway Coal holdings | |
| 37 | Hochtief Americas GmbH | New York | NY | *$693 | Value includes fleet of No. 1 U.S. builder, Turner Corp., heavy constructor, Flatiron (purchased November 2007), but not Hochtief do Brasil | |
| 38 | Waste Management Inc. | Houston | TX | $650 | Attempting to buy stock of Republic Services to prevent it from merging with rival Allied Waste. Threatening hostile takeover | |
| 39 | Cleveland-Cliffs | Cleveland | MI | *$631 | Acquired PinnOak Resources, three-mine producer of coking coal | |
| 40 | Texas Department of Transportation | Austin | TX | $600 | State road maintenance | |
| 41 | All Erection & Crane Rental | Cleveland | OH | *$596 | Fleet includes three of the eight 1000-ton cranes available in the U.S. | |
| 42 | Neff Rental | Miami | FL | $594 | Shifting earthmoving-heavy fleet from hard-hit FL and CA branches to higher-demand areas. Gross profit jumped 30% despite falling rental revenues. | |
| 43 | Finning International | Edmonton | AB | *$576 | Acquired oilfield service company, Colicott Energy Services | |
| 44 | Virginia Department of Transportation | Suffolk | VA | $550 | Highway department maintains 10,000 pieces of rolling stock | |
| 45 | Alpha Natural Resources Inc. | Abington | VA | *$505 | $10 billion merger with Cleveland-Cliffs expected to create Cliffs Natural Resources, wth nine iron-ore facilities and more than 60 coal mines | |
| 46 | Fluor Corp. | Irving | TX | $500 | Booked EPC contracts worth $1.2 billion on Valero Energy's hydrocracker expansions at LA and TX refineries. | |
| 47 | Grupo Mexico | Colonia Roma Sur | DF | *$500 | Subsidiary Americas Mining Corp. is the world’s third largest copper producer, second in molybdenum, fourth in silver and eight in zinc | |
| 48 | Tube City IMS | Horsham | PA | $500 | Recovers byproducts generated in steel and iron production and reprocesses them into valuable materials | |
| 49 | Weyerhaeuser Co. | Federal Way | WA | *$500 | Sold its Containerboard Packaging and Recycling business to International Paper for $6 billion in cash | |
| 50 | Syncrude Canada Ltd. | Ft. McMurray | AB | $488 | Every 24 hours there is enough metal worn off Syncrude mining equipment by abrasive oil sand, to make two full-size pick-up trucks | |
| 51 | Elmo Greer & Sons Inc. | London | KY | $475 | Uses DTSystems dispatching system | |
| 52 | Ahern Rentals Inc. | Las Vegas | NV | $474 | 86% of Q2 2008 revenues ($83.9 million) came from equipment rental, 68% of that attributable to rentals of high reach equipment | |
| 53 | Aggreko North America | New Iberia | LA | *$473 | Bought Power Plus Rental and Sales, a rental power specialist in Alberta | |
| 54 | Buzzi Unicem USA | Indianapolis | IN | *$468 | Subsidiary Alamo Cement bought 50% ownership in Houston's Dorsett Bros. Concrete Supply | |
| 55 | Southern Company | Atlanta | GA | *$462 | Contracted with Westinghouse and Shaw to construct two AP1000 nuclear generators | |
| 56 | Exelon Corp. | Chicago | IL | *$461 | Distributes electricity to 5.2 million customers in northern IL and PA and gas to 460,000 around Philadelphia | |
| 57 | Ring Power Corp. | Jacksonville | FL | *$455 | Cat dealer operates 14 Cat Rental Store branches in Florida | |
| 58 | Verizon Communications | New York | NY | *$450 | Broadband fiber-to-the-premises network delivered FiOS Internet to 11 million addresses by mid-2008 | |
| 59 | AmQuip Crane Corp. | Bensalem | PA | *$440 | Rental volume grew 15 percent in fiscal 2007. Shaughnessy purchase in March '07 has brought big growth in Boston and RI. | |
| 60 | Las Vegas Paving | Las Vegas | NV | $433 | Pioneered asphalt recycling in the early '70s by developing special equipment and methods | |
| 61 | Sunstate Equipment | Phoenix | AZ | $430 | Locations in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas | |
| 62 | Essex Crane Rental Corp. | Buffalo Grove | IL | $425 | Hyde Park Acquisition, a private-equity firm, acquired Essex for $210 million | |
| 63 | Weeks Marine | Cranford | NJ | $402 | Will finish moving 5.7 million cubic yards from Baltimore's Seagirt Channel in January 2008 | |
| 64 | Bechtel Corp. | Louisville | KY | $400 | Leading EPC on the $2.5-billion completion of Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in TN. The unfinished plant was mothballed in 1985 | |
| 65 | New York Department of Transport | Albany | NY | $400 | State road maintenance fleet | |
| 66 | Qwest | Englewood | CO | *$400 | Macro Capacity fiber optic network spans more than 190,000 miles globally | |
| 67 | Skanska USA | Greenwich | CT | $400 | Miami-Dade County awarded $93 million contract to upgrade the South District Wastewater Treatment Plant in Miami, FL. | |
| 68 | The Walsh Group | Chicago | IL | $400 | Third-generation family business provides general contracting, construction management and design-build services | |
| 69 | Florida Power & Light | Miami | FL | *$397 | Nation's largest renewable energy company is Investing $20 billion in wind-energy facilities through 2012 | |
| 70 | Georgia Pacific | Atlanta | GA | $385 | Bought Brewton, AL, white top linerboard and bleached board mill from Smurfit-Stone for $355 million | |
| 71 | Teck Cominco | Vancouver | BC | *$376 | Acquiring Global Copper, owner of the Relincho copper project in Chile | |
| 72 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Washington | DC | $375 | The President’s Budget for fiscal 2009 included $4.7 billion in new federal funding for Civil Works, plus $5.761 billion in an emergency request | |
| 73 | Clyde Companies | Orem | UT | $373 | Constructor/materials firm's fleet value has grown $49 million in the past 36 months | |
| 74 | MidAmerican Energy Holding Co. | Des Moines | IA | *$363 | The 2007 Platts Global Energy Awards Power Company of the Year | |
| 75 | T.J. Lambrecht Construction | Joliet | IL | $360 | Heavy earthmover operates over 800 pieces of heavy equipment | |
| 76 | Barrick Gold | Toronto | ON | *$355 | Acquired 94% of Cadence Energy, and will buy remaining stock as a hedge against rising oil costs | |
| 77 | United Contractors Midwest | Springfield | IL | $351 | After building three bridges, now building 11.5 miles of four-lane expressway near Carthage in McDonough Co. IL | |
| 78 | Kokosing Construction | Fredericktown | OH | $350 | Regional general contractor/construction manager commits to at least 40 hours of training per year for each employee | |
| 79 | North Carolina Department of Transportation | Raleigh | NC | $350 | State road maintenance | |
| 80 | Allied Waste Industries | Scottsdale | AZ | $340 | Operates 163 transfer stations, 169 landfills and 57 recycling facilities in 37 states | |
| 81 | Safety-Kleen Corp. | Columbia | SC | $340 | Acquired Advanced Liquid Recycling, one of the Northeast's largest collector/recyclers of used oil, oil filters and antifreeze | |
| 82 | International Coal Group Inc. | Ashland | KY | *$325 | Bought Powell Mountain mining operations in VA and KY, including 29 million tons of coal reserves and 47 million tons of deposits deposits |
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| 83 | Morrow Equipment | Salem | OR | $315 | Liebherr distributor owns and operates the largest fleet of tower cranes in North America | |
| 84 | RJM Construction | Las Vegas | NV | $315 | Mining contractor | |
| 85 | Layne Christensen Co. | Mission Woods | KS | *$310 | Record Q1 2008 revenues up 21.3% to $244.5 million supported by strength in minerals and natural gas prices. | |
| 86 | Los Angeles Department of Water & Power | Los Angeles | CA | $305 | Nation's largest municipal utility | |
| 87 | Xstrata | Toronto | ON | *$304 | Anglo/Swiss mining titan, Xstrata, acquired Falconbridge to take top-five positions in copper, thermal and coking coal, ferrochrome, zinc, nickel and vanadium | |
| 88 | Clark Construction Group | Bethesda | MD | *$303 | Landed the $134 million contract for University Gateway, a mixed-use student housing project next to USC's Los Angeles campus | |
| 89 | KBR | Houston | TX | *$301 | Global engineer/constructor, separated from Halliburton, acquired BE&K | |
| 90 | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation | Harrisburg | PA | $300 | State highway maintenance | |
| 91 | Price Gregory Services Inc. | Dallas | TX | $300 | Pipeline contractor H.C. Price merged with Gregory & Cook Construction | |
| 92 | South Carolina Department of Transportation | Columbia | SC | $300 | State road maintenance | |
| 93 | Teichert Inc. | Sacramento | CA | $300 | 250 Class 8 trucks, in addition to a highway-and-heavy-construction fleet | |
| 94 | Tennessee Valley Authority | Knoxville | TN | $300 | 29,469 megawatts generating capacity serving 8 million users in seven states | |
| 95 | Titan America | Norfolk | VA | $300 | Spending $320 million building a 2.4-million-ton/year plant on the site of Ideal Cement's old plant at Castle Hayne, NC | |
| 96 | Wildish Construction Co. | Eugene | OR | $300 | Preparing the northbound I-5 bridge for traffic on the 10-bridge South Medford Interchange project | |
| 97 | Willbros Group Inc. | Houston | TX | $300 | Two new contracts -- one on the Canadian Mainline and the other on the Alberta Clipper -- total 145 miles of 36-inch pipeline | |
| 98 | Dominion | Richmond | VA | *$296 | Selling its Peoples and Hope natural-gas distribution companies to Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Fund for $910 million | |
| 99 | Entergy Corp. | New Orleans | LA | *$291 | Owns 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and is the second-largest nuclear generator in the U.S. | |
| 100 | The Lane Construction Corp. | Meriden | CT | $282 | Landed Maryland DOT I-495 design/build interchange worth $26.5 million | |
| 101 | Consolidated Edison Inc. | New York | NY | *$276 | Fleet of 1,700 diesel trucks is using B-20 biodiesel fuel; will replace 50 smaller vehicles with hybrids this year | |
| 102 | Perini Construction | Framingham | MA | *$269 | In the proces of acquiring Tutor-Saliba; value includes both companies' fleets | |
| 103 | PCL Construction Resources | Denver | CO | $266 | Independent operating companies work from offices in twenty-nine locations across Canada, the U.S. and the Bahamas. M |
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| 104 | Ames Construction | Burnsville | MN | $250 | Won AGC's Construction Safety Excellence Award in 2007 | |
| 105 | Carmeuse North America | Pittsburgh | PA | *$250 | Belgian-owned lime producer acquired Cleveland's Oglebay-Norton | |
| 106 | Dycom Industries | Palm Beach Gardens | FL | $250 | Installs cable systems, strings power lines, and locates underground utilities | |
| 107 | McAninch | Des Moines | IA | $250 | Iowa's largest earthmover/utility contractor pioneered GPS grade controls in production on its fleet of 400 Cat machines | |
| 108 | New Enterprise Stone & Lime | New Enterprise | PA | $250 | Awarded a contract for a mile of five-lane roadway from SR 1021 to SR 36 (Park Avenue) in Blair Co., PA | |
| 109 | Tennessee Department of Transportation | Nashville | TN | $250 | State road maintenance | |
| 110 | Traylor Brothers | Evansville | IN | $250 | Tom Traylor, CEO, received the 2008 Golden Beaver Management Award for 46 years of contributions to heavy construction | |
| 111 | Trinity Industries | Dallas | TX | $250 | Industrial giant includes Transit Mix Concrete and Trinity Materials | |
| 112 | Canada Building Mateirals Co. | Toronto | ON | $248 | Over 450 ready-mix trucks operate out of 40 plants | |
| 113 | Edward Kraemer & Sons | Plain | WI | *$248 | New York APWA named the Frederick Douglas-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge in Rochester its Public Works Project of the Year | |
| 114 | Pike Electric Inc. | Mt Airy | NC | *$247 | Purchased Shaw Energy Delivery Services for $24 million to gain EPC ability and reach West Coast, Southwest, Pacific Northwest and Mid-Atlantic markets. | |
| 115 | Prairie Group | Bridgeview | IL | $240 | Materials producer to Chicagoland | |
| 116 | Herzog Contracting | St. Joseph | MO | *$235 | Heavy constructor specializes in building railroads | |
| 117 | Jones Brothers Construction | Mt. Juliet | TN | *$232 | Largest heavy highway construction company in Tennessee | |
| 118 | AECON Group | Toronto | ON | $220 | Awarded $99-million contract to widen 9 miles of Highway 401 near Woodstock, ON | |
| 119 | Barnhart Crane & Rigging | Memphis | TN | $220 | Won two Rigging Jobs of the Year Awards from the Specialized Crane and Rigging Association | |
| 120 | Haines & Kibblehouse | Skippack | PA | $220 | Highway-and-heavy firm focuses on quarrying operations | |
| 121 | Minnesota Department of Transportation | Duluth | MN | $220 | State highway maintenance | |
| 122 | Manson Construction Co. | Seattle | WA | *$217 | 100-year old, family-lead marine contractor works throughout the coastal US | |
| 123 | Kinross Gold | Toronto | ON | *$217 | Nine gold mines located in the US, Canada, Brazil, Chile and Russia | |
| 124 | FirstEnergy Co. | Akron | OH | *$213 | Invested $125 million in a joint venture with Boich to buy 80 percent of Bull Mountain Mine in MT | |
| 125 | Ameren Corp. | St. Louis | MO | *$209 | Provides electricity to 2.4 million and natural gas to 1 million customers across 64,000 square miles in IL and MO | |
| 126 | Barnhill Contracting | Tarboro | NC | $205 | Acquired grading/paving contractor, Mac Construction in Shallotte, NC | |
| 127 | The Hubbard Group | Orlando | FL | $205 | Part of French constructor, Vinci, and a holding company comprised of Hubbard Construction and Blythe Construction. | |
| 128 | Flatiron Construction | Longmont | CO | *$204 | Acquired by German general builder, Hochtief, and added to Hochtief Americas operations along with Turner | |
| 129 | AT&T | San Antonio | TX | $200 | Consolidated Cingular, Bell South, Ameritech, Pacific Bell, others | |
| 130 | Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping | Denver | CO | $200 | Concrete pumping contractor, pump dealer | |
| 131 | City of Los Angeles, Public Works | Los Angeles | CA | $200 | City government | |
| 132 | CONSOL Energy | Pittsburgh | PA | $200 | Developing a coal gasification and liquefaction plant in WV to produce 720,000 tonnes per year of methanol | |
| 133 | Dobson Brothers Const. Co. | Lincoln | NE | $200 | Highway and heavy construction units, including Western Plains Construction, of Olson Enterprises | |
| 134 | F & M Mafco | Harrison | OH | $200 | Rental and sales organization targets rigging and fabrication contractors | |
| 135 | Grace Pacific Corp. | Honolulu | HI | $200 | Mining firm | |
| 136 | Henkels & McCoy | Blue Bell | PA | $200 | Signed a three-year alliance worth $90 million with AmerenUE to put some aerial circuits underground | |
| 137 | James River Coal | Richmond | VA | *$200 | Exiting underground mining at the BL-4 Mine and Cabin Hollow Mine; accelerating development at two surface mines | |
| 138 | Manatts Inc. | Brooklyn | IA | $200 | Asphalt and concrete paving, water and sewer, excavation, quarries, and more | |
| 139 | Michels Corp. | Brownsville | WI | $200 | Laying 273 miles of the Keystone Pipeline -- 24- to 36-in. pipe -- through the Dakotas | |
| 140 | New Mexico Highway & Transportation Dept. | Santa Fe | NM | $200 | GRIP $1.6 billion initiative finances 40 highway projects in Rio Grande corridor | |
| 141 | Rogers Group | Nashville | TN | $190 | Twelve RGI plants received NSSGA beautification awards in 2007 | |
| 142 | Lunda Construction Co. | Black River Falls | WI | *$188 | Bridge division includes pile driving, railroad bridges and various concrete work | |
| 143 | Briggs Equipment | Dallas | TX | *$188 | Case distributor with 18 locations in NC, SC, GA, and FL | |
| 144 | Rockford Blacktop Construction | Loves Park | IL | $188 | Includes Rockford Sand & Gravel, Rockford Electric, and Rockford Environmental | |
| 145 | McDermott International Inc. | New Orleans | LA | *$185 | Babcock & Wilcox subsidiary purchased Intech to extend capabilities in serving the U.S. commercial nuclear service market | |
| 146 | Insituform Technologies | Chesterfield | MO | $182 | Q1 2008 income of $2.0 million compares to a loss of $3.3 million in Q1 2007, before exiting the tunneling business | |
| 147 | Alaska Department of Transportation | Anchorage | AK | $181 | State highway department | |
| 148 | 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 | |
| 149 | Cardi Corp. | Warwick | RI | $180 | Highway and heavy contractor trades on concrete, asphalt and aggregate capabilities | |
| 150 | Zachry Construction Corp. | San Antonio | TX | $180 | Reorganized and operating as two separate companies: Zachry Construction and Zachry Industrial | |
| 151 | Arizona Department of Transportation | Phoenix | AZ | $176 | Draft five-year plan allots $5.5 billion for state highway projects 2007 to 2011 | |
| 152 | PPL Corp. | Allentown | PA | $175 | Sold its PPL Telcom subsidiary to Zayo Bandwidth for $60 million | |
| 153 | Rodman Companies | Frisco | TX | $175 | Site developer is investing in fleet management after period of rapid growth | |
| 154 | U.S. Air Force | Hickman AFB | HI | $175 | Military construction fleet | |
| 155 | U.S. Department of Energy | Washington | DC | $175 | Federal fleet value on the Savannah River Site | |
| 156 | Kinder Morgan Energy Partners | Lakewood | CO | *$174 | KMP has increased its share distribution 33 times since current management took over in February of 1997 | |
| 157 | Clyde Hanson Industries | Kensington | MD | $172 | Building constructor | |
| 158 | Hunt Construction Group | Scottsdale | AZ | *$170 | Joint venture Hunt-Walton is construction manager for the $250 million renovation of Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City | |
| 159 | Kirby-Smith Machinery | Oklahoma City | OK | $170 | Komatsu dealer operates five branches in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri | |
| 160 | URS Corp. | San Francisco | CA | *$168 | Major new task order to design and build two medical schools at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio | |
| 161 | ASRC Energy Service | Anchorage | AK | $165 | Manages maintenance on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System | |
| 162 | The Vecellio Group | West Palm Beach | FL | *$164 | Developed petroleum/fuel services company, Vecenergy, after integrating liquid-asphalt producer South Florida Materials | |
| 163 | R.E. Monks Construction LLC | Fountain Hills | AZ | $164 | Fleet value has grown $50 million in two years | |
| 164 | CH2M Hill Equipment Inc. | Englewood | CO | $162 | Construction management and design firm earns more than $5 billion in revenue in transportation, water, energy, environment and industrial facilities | |
| 165 | City of Dallas | Dallas | TX | $162 | Operates fleet of 4,400 vehicles | |
| 166 | O&G Industries | Torrington | CT | $162 | Operates 9 asphalt plants, 7 concrete plants, 10 sand and gravel operations, and 5 mason-supply stores | |
| 167 | Alcoa Sandow Mine | Rockdale | TX | $160 | Sold soft-alloy extrusion facilities in Warren, OH, and Plant City, FL, to Golden Aluminum | |
| 168 | Boh Brothers Construction | New Orleans | LA | $160 | 2,000 pieces of equipment in sizes from welding machines and air compressors to crawler cranes | |
| 169 | General Crane USA | Pompano Beach | FL | $160 | Five independent operating companies include General Crane USA, United Crane, Hunter Cranes, Merchant Transport & Cranes, and Republic Tower & Hoist | |
| 170 | City of Vancouver | Vancouver | BC | $157 | Municipal fleet | |
| 171 | The Branch Group | Roanoke | VA | *$154 | Employee-owned highway, airport, site-prep contractor | |
| 172 | Keller Group PLC | Odenton | MD | $152 | International ground engineer's U.S. holdings include Hayward Baker, Case Foundation, McKinney Drilling, HJ Foundation, Suncoast Post-Tension, and Anderson Drilling | |
| 173 | McCarthy Holdings Inc. | Saint Louis | MO | *$150 | Saint-Louis-area contracts from ConocoPhillips, Ameren and Holcim boosted 2007 revenue 24 percent | |
| 174 | Basin Electric Power Cooperative | Bismarck | ND | $150 | Plans to complete a new coal-based power plant near Gillette, WY, by 2011 | |
| 175 | David A. Bramble Inc. | Chestertown | MD | $150 | Fleet includes three asphalt plants, 150 construction pieces, and 75 trucks | |
| 176 | De Silva Gates Construction | Dublin | CA | $150 | Over $350 million in annual revenues from a 350-piece heavy-equipment fleet | |
| 177 | Energy Future Holdings | Dallas | TX | $150 | New private-equity owners broke company into Luminant (competitive generation), Oncor (regulated distribution), and TXU Energy (competitive retail electric utility) Texas Energy Future Holdings Limited Partnership | |
| 178 | Francis O. Day Co. | Rockville | MD | $150 | Highway-and-heavy constructor; materials producer | |
| 179 | Indiana Department of Transportation | Indianapolis | IN | $150 | $3.6 billion lease of toll road will fund 10-year transportation investment plan | |
| 180 | John Carlo Inc. | Mt. Clemens | MI | $150 | General contractor derives nearly all of its revenues from highway construction | |
| 181 | Ready Mix USA | Birmingham | AL | *$150 | Over 160 ready mix plants in the southeastern US | |
| 182 | Peterson Contractors Inc. | Reinbeck | IA | $146 | Fleet value grew $34 million since 2007 | |
| 183 | Centex Corporation | Dallas | TX | *$145 | Sold properties with book value of $528 million for $161 million, anticipating related tax refund of $294 million | |
| 184 | S.T. Wooten Corp. | Wilson | NC | $145 | Builds roads and bridges, buildings, makes asphalt and ready mix | |
| 185 | IA Construction | Concordville | PA | $144 | Highway-and-heavy-construction division of Colas North America | |
| 186 | Orion Marine Group | Houston | TX | *$144 | Holding company for Orion Construction, King Fisher Marine, Misener Marine | |
| 187 | Laramie Crane & Equipment | Detroit | MI | $141 | Boom trucks to 35 tons; hydraulic rough terrains to 130 tons; hydraulic truck cranes to 500 tons Crawler Crane to 500 Tons |
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| 188 | City of Houston | Houston | TX | $140 | Public works and engineering | |
| 189 | Penhall International | Anaheim | CA | $140 | Rental firm | |
| 190 | Westchester County Dept. of Transportation | Mount Vernon | NY | $140 | County roads and transit-system maintainer | |
| 191 | Sunland Construction | Eunice | LA | $139 | 32-year-old pipelining firm | |
| 192 | Clarkson Construction | Kansas City | MO | $138 | Working on Kansas City Triangle project, scheduled for completion 2008 | |
| 193 | Mashuda Corp. | Cranberry Township | PA | $135 | Highway and heavy contractor | |
| 194 | Hydro One | Pickering | ON | $132 | Largest electricity delivery company in Ontario | |
| 195 | International Paper Co. | Stamford | CT | *$131 | World's largest producer of forest products | |
| 196 | Ryan Inc. Central | Janesville | WI | $130 | Specializing in site work and mass excavation | |
| 197 | Centerpoint Energy | Houston | TX | *$127 | Serves electric can natural gas to 5 million customers in AK, LA, MN, MS, OK, and TX | |
| 198 | The Shaw Group | Baton Rouge | LA | *$127 | Sold power-distribution unit, Shaw Energy Delivery Services, to Pike Electric for $24 million | |
| 199 | American Infrastructure | Worcester | PA | $125 | Pursuing the DE market with 120-acre site-development projects in Magnolia and Christiana | |
| 200 | Cianbro Corp. | Pittsfield | ME | $125 | Industrial/petro contractor and highway and heavy contractor | |
| 201 | ECCO Equipment | Santa Ana | CA | $125 | Over 700 pieces of heavy earthmoving equipment in the Western U.S. | |
| 202 | Parsons Corp. | Pasadena | CA | $125 | Chosen in a $4 billion, 5-year shared-capacity task order contract to support the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency | |
| 203 | Williams Brothers Construction Co. | Houston | TX | $125 | CEO Doug Pitcock received ARTBA's greatest recognition in the 2007 ARTBA Award | |
| 204 | A&A Ready Mixed Concrete | Newport Beach | CA | *$124 | 26 locations serve CA; specialize in portable batch plants | |
| 205 | Balfour Beatty | Novi | MI | *$124 | Purchased the Centex commercial construction unit | |
| 206 | New Jersey DOT | Trenton | NJ | $124 | 2007 transportation program funds $3.2 billion in construction projects | |
| 207 | Syar Industries | Napa | CA | *$122 | Materials producer operates seven quarries in California | |
| 208 | Tarco Inc. | Arvada | CO | $121 | Fields 34 crews doing earthmoving, utility, and concrete work | |
| 209 | Coast Crane Co. | Seattle | WA | $120 | Consolidation of three companies raised fleet value over $100 million | |
| 210 | Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. | Dickinson | ND | $120 | Operates 40 aggregate plants and a fleet of 2,000 machines | |
| 211 | HRI Inc. | State College | PA | $120 | Highway-and-heavy contractor is a division of Colas North America | |
| 212 | Illinois Department of Transportation | Springfield | IL | $120 | State highway department | |
| 213 | Mann Brothers | Elkhorn | WI | $120 | Highway-and-heavy construction | |
| 214 | Matrix Service Co. | Tulsa | OK | $120 | Won $36 million contract for Chevron's terminal expansion in Port Everglades, FL | |
| 215 | Republic Services Inc. | Fort Lauderdale | FL | $120 | Trying to complete acquisition of the country's No. 2 waste handler, Allied Services, over hostile-takeover efforts of No. 1, Waste Management | |
| 216 | Salt River Project | Phoenix | AZ | $120 | Utility to construct $600 million, 400-megawatt coal-fired power plant | |
| 217 | Scotty's Contracting & Stone | Bowling Green | KY | $120 | Fleet value grew $20 million between 2007 and 2008 | |
| 218 | U.S. Concrete | Houston | TX | $120 | Formed Superior Matierals, joint venture with Edw. C. Levy Co. that will be the largest ready mix producer in MI | |
| 219 | West Virginia Division of Highways | Charleston | WV | $120 | Maintains 37,000 miles of highway | |
| 220 | Battlefield Equipment Rentals | Toronto | ON | $118 | Toromont Cat's rental operation operates out of 33 branches in Eastern Canada | |
| 221 | American Bridge Co. | Coraopolis | PA | *$116 | Awarded a $39 million contract to reinforce cables and other components of the Bronx Whitestone Bridge in New York City | |
| 222 | Fred Weber Inc. | Maryland Heights | MO | $115 | Integrated contractor/materials producer leads the St. Louis area in concrete and asphalt paving | |
| 223 | Wilder Construction Co. | Bellingham | WA | $115 | Granite Const. owns a third of this 90-year-old heavy construction firm | |
| 224 | Rohm & Haas | New Iberia | LA | $112 | Morton Salt is a major North American operation of this global specialty materials producer | |
| 225 | Rieth-Riley Construction | Gary | IN | *$110 | Acquired Seng Dock & Trucking, which operates dock facilities, aggregate businesses and trucking in the northwestern MI | |
| 226 | City of Chicago | Chicago | IL | $110 | Municipal fleet | |
| 227 | Norfolk Dredging Co. | Chesapeake | VA | $110 | Specialist in sub-aqueous trench and tunnel excavation, backfill and hydraulic landfill | |
| 228 | Sherwood Construction | Wichita | KS | $110 | Heavy constructor includes a family of 17 companies | |
| 229 | Structural Group | Hanover | MD | *$110 | Subsidiary Vstructural selected to post-tension the Gerald R. Ford International Airport terminal in Grand Rapids, MI | |
| 230 | Yonkers Contracting | Yonkers | NY | $110 | Highway and heavy construction | |
| 231 | Fordyce Ltd. | Victoria | TX | $108 | Sand and gravel producer | |
| 232 | Ray Bell Construction Co. | Brentwood | TN | *$105 | Blalock JV netted $104-million SmartFIX 40 contract in Knoxville | |
| 233 | Omaha Public Power District | Elkhorn | NE | $105 | Public electric utility serving eastern Nebraska | |
| 234 | TIC Holdings | Steamboat Springs | CO | $105 | Expertise in building power, mining/minerals process, oil/gas/chemical facilities | |
| 235 | W.O. Grubb Steel Erection | Richmond | VA | $105 | About half of the firm's 200 cranes are Manitowoc-Crane-Group machines | |
| 236 | Manitoba Highways & Transportation Department | Winnipeg | MB | $104 | Provincial road maintenance | |
| 237 | Manitoba Hydro | Winnipeg | MB | $104 | Utility | |
| 238 | MacAllister Machinery | Indianapolis | IN | *$104 | Eight Cat Rental Store locations in Indiana | |
| 239 | City of Calgary | Calgary | AB | $101 | Exploring hybrid and alternative-fueled vehicles for fleet of over 4,000 units | |
| 240 | Northeast Utilities | Hartford | CT | *$100 | Furnishes electrical service in NH, MA, and CT, as well as natural gas in CT | |
| 241 | American Asphalt & Grading | Las Vegas | NV | $100 | Grading, paving, and mine-reclamation fleet includes two Komatsu D575A dozers | |
| 242 | Austin Industries | Dallas | TX | $100 | Received a $433,000 grant from TX for upgrading to lower-emissions equipment | |
| 243 | Bauerly Brothers | Sauk Rapids | MN | $100 | Supplies aggregate, asphalt and concrete to 29 Minnesota counties | |
| 244 | City of Tulsa | Tulsa | OK | $100 | Municipal services provider | |
| 245 | Consumers Concrete | Kalamazoo | MI | $100 | Ready-mix producer | |
| 246 | Continental Materials Corp. | Chicago | IL | $100 | Value is for subsidiary Transit Mix Concrete's extensive Colorado operations | |
| 247 | Edward C. Levy | Detroit | MI | $100 | Produces construction materials from steel and construction waste | |
| 248 | EKPC | Winchester | KY | $100 | Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative | |
| 249 | Engelhard | Iselin | NJ | $100 | Mining company acquired by chemical giant BASF and added to catalysts group | |
| 250 | Gary Merlino Construction Co. | Seattle | WA | $100 | Highway and heavy construction | |
| 251 | Graniterock | Watsonville | CA | $100 | Pavex Division won NAPA's 2007 Quality in Construction Award for work on the Montague Expressway | |
| 252 | Gray BEC Lime | Pleasant Gap | PA | $100 | Mining subsidiary of Graymont | |
| 253 | Hinkle Contracting Corp. | Paris | KY | $100 | Highway construction, materials producer, environmental work | |
| 254 | Hunter Industries | San Marcos | TX | $100 | Highway constructor owns Colorado Materials | |
| 255 | Iowa Department of Transportation | Ames | IA | $100 | State road maintence | |
| 256 | J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc. | Hackensack | NJ | $100 | Pioneering CleanFast utility-installation equipment that simultaneously creates a mini-trench while removing debris | |
| 257 | Kansas Department of Transportation | Topeka | KS | $100 | State highway maintenance | |
| 258 | Lehman-Roberts | Memphis | TN | $100 | Predominantly highway construction | |
| 259 | Metropolitan Washington Airport | Washington | DC | $100 | Airport-maintenance equipment fleet | |
| 260 | Modern Group | Bristol | PA | $100 | Employee-owned equipment distributor's rental-fleet value | |
| 261 | Montana Department of Transportation | Helena | MT | $100 | 56-mile, $150 million Peoples Way project in progress until 2009 | |
| 262 | Nevada Department of Transportation | Carson City | NV | $100 | State highway maintenance | |
| 263 | Northern Improvement | Bismarck | ND | $100 | Highway and heavy construction | |
| 264 | Panama Canal Authority | Miami | FL | $100 | Extended the deadline to December 10 for design/build proposals for locks, part of the $5.2 billion expansion | |
| 265 | Road Builders Machinery | Kansas City | KS | $100 | ||
| 266 | Sims Crane & Equipment | Tampa | FL | $100 | All-terrain cranes to 550 tons, crawler cranes to 330 tons, and rough-terrain cranes to 80 tons | |
| 267 | Solar Sources | Indianapolis | IN | $100 | Coal producer | |
| 268 | Star Industries | Seattle | WA | $100 | Family-owned rental company has 16 locations in Washington and Oregon | |
| 269 | Taisei Construction Corp. | Cypress | CA | $100 | US opertions in California and Hawaii of Japan-based global constructor | |
| 270 | The Doe Run Co. | St. Louis | MO | $100 | Lead-mining subsidiary of the Renco Group | |
| 271 | Veco | Anchorage | AK | $100 | Highway construction, utilities and oil-field service company to the world | |
| 272 | 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. 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. | ||||||
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