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In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the project manager and supervised by...
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (川崎重工業株式会社, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7012) is an international corporation based in Japan. It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.
The company is named after its founder Shozo...
Date founded:
- Oct 15, 1896
Skanska
Skanska, is a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden, where it is also the largest construction company.
Aktiebolaget Skånska Cementgjuteriet was established in 1887 and started by manufacturing concrete products. It...
Date founded:
- 1877
Place founded:
Bechtel
Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is the largest engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the U.S. With headquarters in the Financial District of San Francisco, Bechtel had 44,000 employees as...
Date founded:
- 1898
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Kellogg, Brown and Root
KBR, Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root) NYSE: KBR is an American engineering and construction company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, headquartered in Houston. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser's engineering...
Date founded:
- 1998
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation (株式会社竹中工務店, Kabushiki-gaisha Takenaka Kōmuten) is the biggest architecture, engineering, and construction firm in Japan. Its headquarters is in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture.
The company's website also claims it to be the...
Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation (三菱商事株式会社, Mitsubishi Shōji Kabushiki Kaisha) TYO: 8058 is Japan's largest trading company (sogo shosha), a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu. Mitsubishi Corporation employs over 50,000 people and has seven business segments...
Aker Solutions
Aker Solutions ASA (OSE: AKSO) is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to engineering, construction, maintenance, modification and operation of both large and small industrial facilities. The company, with roots back to 1841, has...
Date founded:
- 2004
Wienerberger
Wienerberger AG is the world’s largest producer of bricks, and the second-largest European manufacturer of clay roof tiles. It is based in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1819, the company's shares have been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since...
Date founded:
- 1819
Strabag
Strabag (ISIN: AT000000STR1) is a European construction company based in Vienna, Austria (formerly based at Spittal an der Drau, Austria). It is the largest construction company in Austria. Strabag's current CEO is Hans Peter Haselsteiner.
The...
Date founded:
- 1835
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Peter Kiewit Sons'
Kiewit Corporation, a private company, is a Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3...
Date founded:
- 1884
Carillion
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Downer EDi
Downer EDI (ASX: DOW)is an Australian Top-100 company that provides comprehensive engineering and infrastructure management services to the public and private transport, energy, infrastructure, communications and resources sectors, across Australia,...
VINCI
Vinci (Euronext: DG) is a French construction and electrical engineering company, formerly called Société Générale d'Enterprises. It employs over 164,000 people and is the largest construction company in the world by revenue. Vinci is listed at...
Date founded:
- 1899
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Louisiana-Pacific
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation NYSE: LPX, commonly known as "LP", is a building materials manufacturer. It was founded in 1973 and is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. Key products are oriented strand board, molding and other trimming...
Date founded:
- 1973
Place founded:
Hovnanian Enterprises
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) is a United States real estate company involved in every aspect of marketing homes, including design, construction and sales. The company works with individual detached housing as well as higher-occupancy...
Date founded:
- 1959
Daelim
Daelim Industrial was established in 1939, and its E&G;(Engineering & Construction) and Petrochemical Groups are the main lead of the Daelim Business Conglomerate.
In 1966, Daelim became Korea's first company to work on an overseas construction...
Date founded:
- Oct 10, 1939
Clugston Group
The Clugston Group is a privately-owned business involved in construction and civil engineering, property development and distribution. The group is based in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom.
The Company was founded by LG Clugston in...
Date founded:
- 1937
Industry:
Lafarge
Lafarge (Euronext: LG) is a French industrial company specialising in four major products: cement, construction aggregates, concrete and gypsum wallboard. It currently (2008) is the world's largest cement manufacturer by mass shipped ahead of Holcim...
Date founded:
- 1833
YTL Corporation Berhad
YTL Corporation Berhad (MYX: 4677, TYO: 1773) is one of Malaysia's largest conglomerates, and is headed by Tan Sri Dato' Seri (Dr) Francis Yeoh Sock Ping.
The group was founded by Francis Yeoh's father, Tan Sri Dato' Seri (Dr.) Yeoh Tiong Lay, after...
Date founded:
- 1955
Industry:
Sunway Group
Sunway Group (MYX: 4308) also known as Sunway Holdings Incorporated Berhad commenced operations in 1986, mainly to develop the Bandar Sunway township in Petaling Jaya. Following the success of the township, the Group has since grown and diversified...
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SNC-Lavalin
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX: SNC) is a large Canadian engineering firm. It is one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world and is based in Montreal, Quebec. It formed in 1991 from the merger of SNC and Lavalin, another Quebec based...
Date founded:
- 1911
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Vulcan Materials Company
Vulcan Materials Company NYSE: VMC Vulcan Materials Company (Vulcan) is principally engaged in the production, distribution and sale of construction materials. Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials (primarily gravel, crushed stone...
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Autostrade International
Atlantia S.p.A. (formerly Autostrade S.p.A., BIT: ATL) is an Italian holding company whose primary asset is Autostrade per l'Italia, the largest concessionaire on the Italian autostrade network. Another subsidiary of Atlantia, Autostrade of Virginia...
Date founded:
- 1982
Industry:
Bin Laden Group
The Saudi Binladin (or Binladen) Group (SBG) (in Arabic, مجموعة بن لادن السعودية Majmūʿat Bin Lādin al-Saʿūdīya) is a multinational construction conglomerate and holding company for the assets owned by the bin Laden family, headquartered in Jeddah,...
Date founded:
- 1950
Industry:
Essar
The Essar Group (BSE: 500630), is a multinational conglomerate in the sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics as well as Construction. The Group's annual revenues were over USD 14 billion in FY08-09.
Essar began...
Hazama
Hazama Corporation (株式会社間組, Kabushiki-gaisha Hazama-gumi) (TYO: 1719), or Hazama (ハザマ), is one of the 10 biggest construction companies in Japan. It has a presence in Asia, the USA, Mexico and Central and South America. Hazama was established in...
Date founded:
- Apr 1, 1889
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AMEC
AMEC plc (LSE: AMEC) is a British company, headquartered in London. It carries out high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services for the oil and gas, mining, power generation, nuclear, process and water industries. AMEC is not...
Date founded:
- 1982
Fluor
Fluor Corporation is a publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services organization. Fluor is headquartered in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas. The company employs more than 41,000 international employees and...
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STX Corporation
STX Corporation is a South Korean holding company engaged in the provision of trading services. Headquartered in Gyeongsangnamdo, South Korea, the Company operates its business through two divisions: trade and ship maintenance. Its trade business...
Samsung Constructions
Samsung Engineering & Construction or Samsung E&C; (Korean: 삼성건설) is a construction company founded and established in 1977, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The name Samsung Engineering & Construction does not legally exist, it's a business...
Date founded:
- 1977
Carillion plc
Carillion plc (LSE: CLLN) is a British-based construction-services business headquartered in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Carillion was created in July 1999 by a...
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY) is a London-based construction, engineering, rail and investment services company. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world. It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index....
Date founded:
- 1909
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Alfred McAlpine
Alfred McAlpine plc was a British construction firm headquartered in London. It was a major road builder, and constructed over 10% of Britain's motorways, including the M6 Toll (as part of the CAMBBA consortium). It was listed on the London Stock...
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Keen Engineering
Keen Engineering Co. Ltd. was a consulting engineering firm based in Canada and the United States that operated from 1960 to 2005.
In the late 1950s James Keen, in association with Jerry Yost of Toronto, formed Yost Keen and Associates. The company...
Date founded:
- 1960
Industry:
Costain Group
Costain Group plc is a British construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Maidenhead. It was part of the original Channel Tunnel consortium and is involved in Private Finance Initiative projects. Turnover for the year to 31 December...
Date founded:
- 1865
Taylor Woodrow
Taylor Woodrow Holdings Limited was one of the largest British based housebuilding and general construction companies. The company was dissolved as a result of the sale of Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited and the brand name Taylor Woodrow to...
Date founded:
- 1921
Industry:
Interserve
Interserve plc (LSE: IRV) is a UK based engineering and support services company headquartered in Reading, Berkshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
Interserve traces its origins to 1884, when...
Date founded:
- 1884
Nordic Construction Company
NCC - Nordic Construction Company (NCC Construction, OMX: NCC B) is a Swedish construction company, the second largest in the Nordic region with annual revenues (2008) of 57,5 billion Swedish krona and about 20,000 employees.
The origins of NCC...
Date founded:
- 1988
Industry:
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co.
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. is one of the largest Korean heavy industries company established in 1962.
Its business ranges from nuclear power plants, thermal power plants, turbines and generators, desalination plants, castings...
Date founded:
- 1962
Industry:
BEML
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, with headquarters in Bangalore. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, transport and mining.
BEML incorporated in May 1964, and...
PERI GmbH
PERI is a German company that produces formwork and scaffolding systems. The company's headquarters are located in Weißenhorn, Germany, and it employs 5,400 people, of which 850 are engineers (as of 2008).
PERI was founded in 1969 in Weißenhorn,...
Date founded:
- 1969
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Mowlem
Mowlem was one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom. Carillion bought the firm in 2006.
Founded in by John Mowlem in 1822, the company was awarded a Royal Warrant in 1902 and went public on the London...
Date founded:
- 1822
Industry:
Hochtief
HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft (FWB: HOT) is Germany's largest construction company. It is based in Essen but operates globally, ranking as the top general builder in the United States through its Turner Corporation subsidiary, and in Australia through...
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Pulte Homes, Inc.
Pulte Homes, Inc (NYSE: PHM) is a Bloomfield Hills, MI based company founded by Bill Pulte. Pulte is the third largest (by units) builder of homes and residential community developers in the United States according to Builder Magazine's"Builder 100"...
Date founded:
- 1950
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Trafalgar House
Trafalgar House Public Limited Company was a British conglomerate with interests in property investment, property development, engineering, construction, shipping, hotels, energy and publishing. Founded in 1963, it was listed on the London Stock...
Date founded:
- 1963
Tiriac Holdings
Ţiriac Holdings Ltd. is a Romanian company primarily owned by Ion Ţiriac. Among its operations are auto (ŢiriacAuto), real estate, elevator manufacturing, executive jet transport and leasing (ŢiriacAIR), banking (UniCredit Ţiriac Bank), and...
Date founded:
- 1990
Bilfinger Berger
Bilfinger Berger (FWB: GBFG) is a large, internationally active construction company based in Mannheim, Germany.
Bilfinger Berger dates back to 1880 when August Bernatz founded an engineering business which became known, from 1886 as Bernatz & Grün...
Date founded:
- 1880
Perini
Tutor Perini Corporation (NYSE: TPC) (formerly Perini Corporation) is one of the largest general contractors in the United States. At the end of 2008 it reported an annual revenue over $5.6 billion. Tutor Perini is headquartered in Sylmar,...
Date founded:
- 1894
Toll Brothers
Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) is a Horsham, Pennsylvania based luxury homes builder.
1967: The business is formed in Pennsylvania by Robert I. Toll and Bruce E. Toll.
1979: Annual revenues approach $50 million.
1982: Toll Brothers expands to New Jersey....
Date founded:
- 1967
Fadesa Inmobiliaria
Martinsa-Fadesa (BMAD: MTF) was one of the main real estate and construction groups of Spain before the crash of the Spanish property bubble. It is based in Madrid, Spain. Formed by the 2007 merger of the companies Fadesa Inmobiliaria (an IBEX 35...
Date founded:
- 2007
Lennar Corporation
Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) is a Fortune 500 company based in Miami, Florida, United States. It was founded in 1954.
In 2008, Lennar was the United States' second largest homebuilder, constructing homes in 17 different states throughout the...
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D. R. Horton
D.R. Horton NYSE: DHI until early-2009, was the largest homebuilder in the United States. Founded in 1978 by Donald R. Horton in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, D.R. Horton, a Fortune 500 company, was ranked as the largest homebuilder by units sold...
Date founded:
- 1978
Industry:
Emcor Group
EMCOR Group NYSE: EME is a Fortune 500 company based in Norwalk, Connecticut. This company's businesses include mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure, and facilities services.
The Company has its origins in Jamaica Water...
Date founded:
- 1994
Técnicas Reunidas, S.A.
Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (TRSA) is a Spanish-based general contractor which provides engineering, procurement and construction of industrial and power generation plants, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Since April 2008, the company has been...
Date founded:
- 1959
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O’Rourke plc is the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK.
The Company was founded by Ray O'Rourke in 1978: it was originally based in East London and was known as R. O'Rourke & Son.
R. O'Rourke established a comprehensive...
Date founded:
- 1978
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Philippine National Construction Corporation
The Philippine National Construction Corporation or PNCC is a majority government-owned and/or controlled corporation (GOCC) in the Philippines. It is the largest construction company in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.
It is usually tasked...
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Al-Ghurair Group
Al Ghurair Group — (Arabic:مجموعة الغرير); is a main business group contributing to the economy of Dubai and the UAE. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair are pioneers of the business society and pillars of the community. Abdul Aziz Al...
Date founded:
- 1960
Acciona
Acciona, SA, (BMAD: ANA) is a Spanish conglomerate group dedicated to civil engineering, construction and infrastructure.
The company was founded in 1997 through the merger of Entrecanales y Tavora and Cubiertas y MZOV. The company's headquarters is...
Date founded:
- 1997
Multiplex
Brookfield Multiplex is a large Australian-based group of property and construction companies notable for its involvement in large scale projects. The group is involved in construction, property development, facilities management and property funds...
Date founded:
- 1962
Edmund Nuttall
BAM Nuttall Limited, formerly known as Edmund Nuttall Limited, is a major group of construction and civil engineering businesses. The group is based in Camberley, Surrey, in the United Kingdom and has a portfolio of road, rail and other major...
Date founded:
- 1865
