CalAtlantic Group, Inc. was a home construction company based in Arlington, Virginia. As of 2018, it was the 4th largest homebuilder in the United States.[2] The company built homes for more than 113,000 families during its 46-year history.[3] In February 2018, the company was acquired by Lennar Corporation. The company’s homes and target buyers varied widely. It operated in many of the largest housing markets in the country including California, Florida, Arizona, The Carolinas, Texas, Colorado, and Nevada.[1] The company developed subdivisions within urban metropolitan areas, as well as smaller groupings of new homes, and single homes such as rural ranch properties. The company was operated via various regional divisions representing different parts of the United States.

D. R. Horton, Inc. is a home construction company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Arlington, Texas. In 2017, the company was the largest home builder in the United States based on the number of homes closed.[2] As of 2018, the company is ranked 211th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue.[3] The company operates in 78 markets in 28 states.[1] D. R. Horton operates three separately branded divisions: Emerald Homes, Express Homes, and Freedom Homes. Express Homes is tailored to entry-level buyers while the Emerald Homes brand is sold as luxury real estate. Freedom Homes caters to the active adult community, aged 55 and over.

Fluor Corporation is an American multinational engineering and construction firm headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a holding company that provides services through its subsidiaries in the following areas: oil and gas, industrial and infrastructure, government and power. It is the largest engineering & construction company in the Fortune 500 rankings and is listed as 164th overall.[2] Fluor was founded in 1912 by John Simon Fluor as Fluor Construction Company. It grew quickly, predominantly by building oil refineries, pipelines and other facilities for the oil and gas industry, at first in California, and then in the Middle East and globally. In the late 1960s, it began diversifying into oil drilling, coal mining and other raw materials like lead. A global recession in the oil and gas industry and losses from its mining operation led to restructuring and layoffs in the 1980s. Fluor sold its oil operations and diversified its construction work into a broader range of services and industries. In the 1990s, Fluor introduced new services like equipment rentals and staffing. Nuclear waste cleanup projects and other environmental work became a significant portion of Fluor’s revenues. The company also did projects related to the Manhattan Project, rebuilding after the Iraq War, recovering from Hurricane Katrina and building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) is an American international technical professional services firm. The company provides technical, professional and construction services, as well as scientific and specialty consulting for a broad range of clients globally including companies, organizations, and government agencies. Its worldwide annual revenue reached nearly $15 billion in the 2018 fiscal year. Jacobs is ranked No. 1 on both Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s 2018 Top 500 Design Firms and Trenchless Technology’s 2018 Top 50 Trenchless Engineering Firms.

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (/lo?z/), doing business as Lowe’s, is an American retail company specializing in home improvement.[4] Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, the company operates a chain of retail stores in the United States and Canada. As of November 2018, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate 2,015 home improvement and hardware stores in North America.[2] Lowe’s is the second-largest hardware chain in the United States behind The Home Depot and ahead of Menards.[5] It is also the second-largest hardware chain in the world, also behind The Home Depot but ahead of European retailers Leroy Merlin, B&Q, and OBI.

Mohawk Industries is an American flooring manufacturer based in Calhoun, Georgia, United States. Mohawk produces floor covering products for residential and commercial applications in North America and residential applications in Europe. The company manufacturing portfolio consists of soft flooring products (carpet and rugs), hard flooring products (ceramic tile, natural stone and hardwood flooring), laminate flooring, sheet vinyl and luxury vinyl tile. The company employs 37,800 in operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia and the United States. In 2015, Mohawk was recognized as the most used, top-brand familiarity, and top-quality rating carpet product by the Builder magazine.

Owens Corning is a global company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites. It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois. The company employs approximately 19,000 people around the world. Owens Corning has been a Fortune 500 company every year since the list was created in 1955. The Pink Panther appears in most of the company’s advertisements.

Sherwin-Williams Company is an American Fortune 500 company in the general building materials industry. The company, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, primarily engages in the manufacture, distribution, and sale of paints, coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers primarily in North and South America and Europe. The company is mostly known through its Sherwin-Williams Paints line. Its consumer brands group manufactures products under such trade names as Dutch Boy, Krylon, Dupli-Color, VHT (a division of Dupli-Color), Minwax, Thompson’s WaterSeal, Pratt & Lambert, White Lightening, Purdy and Kool Seal.