Bringing Designs to Life

• Erica Bender

Bringing architectural design concepts to life in an immersive, multidimensional visual format is the core of what Arktek3D delivers to its global clientele. From the United States to Canada to the Middle East to Australia, the company’s photorealistic portrayals of building interiors and exteriors, floor plans, site plans, aerials and animations are on display in the work portfolios of builders, architects, engineers, interior designers, real estate companies and developers. Even homeowners rely on Arktek3D’s services when building, renovating or remodeling their properties.   read more...

A Specialized Niche

• Susan Shalhoub

Finishing touches such as granite and shiplap get a lot of attention, especially on home improvement TV shows dealing with renovations.   read more...

Solving the People Problem

• Chancellor Page

Mike Matalone, Owner of XP3 Talent, headquartered in Bumpass, Virginia, spent years advising CEOs and other executives about finding, training and retaining the right talent before he developed the XP3 Talent System. Today, his company’s predominant focus is on helping commercial, residential and industrial construction companies hire, train and retain the right people.   read more...

Reducing the Skilled Trades Shortage, One Person at a Time

• Melinda Guravich

Michelle Lewter, President and CEO of Connect for Success NC (Connect for Success), has a passion for filling the construction workforce pipeline. Her focus on addressing this challenge goes back several years. During her long career as an executive at a national construction association, contractors and suppliers often expressed their concerns about the existing and growing shortage of students who were interested in and prepared to enter the skilled trades. Educators described to Michelle their struggles to prepare students to thrive and succeed in good jobs after graduation from high school and community college.   read more...

Making Magic

• Tonie Auer

Whether installing complicated concrete work for the Google campus in Kirkland, Washington, or creating state-of-the-art animal habitats for Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, Edge Concrete Construction LLC’s expertise grows with each new project. Edge Concrete Construction (Edge) is both a commercial concrete flatwork site work contractor in Washington state, as well as a thematic builder of zoo and aquarium habitats all over the country, says firm Managing Member Kevin Morrison.   read more...

Better with Age

• Amanda Milford

Some things—like fine wine—improve with age. Stellar Cellars, founded in 1992 by Ron Cowan, was born from a desire to find better ways of storing wine. And, for nearly 30 years, Cowan and the Stellar Cellars team have constantly strived to improve their crafting techniques and products to better serve their clients.   read more...

Supplying What the Industry Needs to Grow

• Ben Wheatley

Horizon Distributors (Horizon) sells just about everything it takes to serve the landscape and irrigation industry professional. The Phoenix-headquartered wholesale distributor offers professional-grade landscape and irrigation supplies, technical support and all the commercial power equipment needed to perform that type of work.   read more...

Form and Function Meet Construction Excellence

• Tonie Auer

Tradition and innovation work side by side at Z-Craft. While Z-Craft has a strong reputation for quality roofing and siding, the Denver, Colorado-based company is especially known for its expertise in architectural metal.   read more...

Clearly the Exception

• Nancy Lovell

In 1982 in Rogers, Minnesota, a stone’s throw north of the Twin Cities, Scott Nelson seized an opportunity, his brother and dad joined in, and three Nelsons formed the charter staff of Eagle Window Distributing Company (Eagle Window), also known as Window Solutions. At the time the manufacturer was still a relatively new brand, but Scott was impressed enough to leave his job at Pella Corporation, a competitor door and window manufacturer, to represent it.   read more...

Daring Decisions, Remarkable Results

• Erica Bender

A decade has gone by since the official end of the Great Recession, but the financial crisis is still fresh in the minds of many business leaders, including Daniel Schmidtendorff, President and CEO of Communication Company of South Bend, Inc., an audio visual, life safety, security and communication systems firm headquartered in South Bend, Indiana.   read more...