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The Company Named for Communication Works Underground
For three decades, a Van Nuys contractor has made modern communication possible by doing the least glamorous part first: opening the street, placing the conduit, and closing the ground behind it.
The Oakland Firm That Makes a Public Promise Survive the Job Site
Lowe Consulting Group works in the narrow, consequential gap between a public project’s promises and the paperwork, people and persistence required to keep them.
VILOR builds the way back
From a flood-wrecked station in Paiporta to the tunnels beneath Seville, the Valencia contractor has made public infrastructure its business. Its next challenge reaches from recycled asphalt to the security of construction data.
CATALIS Bought 30 Gov-Tech Companies. The Hard Part Was Making Them Feel Like One.
CATALIS assembled a billion-dollar government software portfolio by buying the specialists already running courts, tax offices and city halls. Now it has to make those inherited tools easier to use, easier to connect and harder for public servants to dislike.
Cloudpermit Turned a Government Side Project Into the Software Behind 1,450 Town Halls
The first version looked like a wireframe and swapped integrations for hand work. Thirteen years later, Cloudpermit is selling local governments a practical escape from paper files, phone tag, and the lonely spreadsheet that somehow runs city hall.
The Garbage Trucks That Went to War With Urban Blight
A University of Alabama economics experiment strapped cameras to trash trucks to map urban decay. Five years and $15 million later, City Detect is doing the work of 40 code officers with one vehicle - and cities are starting to fix blight before it spreads.
Granite Construction
Granite Construction does not merely pave the road. It can quarry the stone, mix the asphalt, help redesign the job and then build it - a century-old loop now powering a $7 billion project book.