Case Studies Companies to Watch 2017

Brackish waters, tidal creeks and marshy banks are staples to coastal Charleston, South Carolina. Without the famous waterways that flow along its banks, this historic city would not have risen and flourished to the charming destination it is today. The Ashley River is one of many waterways that have contributed to Charleston’s continuous growth, and […]

Paul Eitel takes pride in building, whether it’s a physical structure or his children’s character. It just better stand the test of time and whatever storms—literal or metaphorical—may arise. Just back from the Republic of Georgia, where his 11-year-old son, Hayden, joined him in relief efforts on behalf of refugees from some of the world’s […]

Relationships matter: It’s perhaps the most oft-iterated of sentiments in the construction industry. Yet it never ceases to be true, and millennials Dan Gring and Brennan Reichenbach prove it’s an idea worth building on as they make their impression on the aging industry. Gring and Reichenbach first met as students at Elizabethtown College in southeast […]

When Henry Ford started using the assembly line to manufacture his Model Ts, people thought he was crazy. Kris Megna and Doug Carlson get a similar reaction when they tell people about their company, Dreamline Modular Homes, which wants to do for homebuilding what Ford did for car manufacturing. Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, Dreamline Modular […]

During his 40-year career, Larry Greenberg has built more than 1,000 homes. He’s renovated and sold hundreds of others, too. For much of that time, Greenberg ran his own successful companies, including Hannover Homes, and JRN Construction, all of which were well-known in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, area. It might surprise some, then, that Greenberg […]

When clients call to have their heating or air conditioning systems serviced, they’re usually too hot or too cold. So, Hometown Heating & Air Conditioning aims to be a Goldilocks company: just right. The Golden State home service company—based in Concord, California—does especially well with high-end customers who appreciate the details, like the care Hometown […]

It was Christmastime 2016 in Temple, Texas, and the offices of Ellis Air Systems Inc. were decked out for the company’s holiday party. Co-owners Mason and Preston Ellis got up to make a startling announcement. Ellis Air had just been ranked as the fastest-growing HVAC service and installation company in Texas in Inc. Magazine’s 5000 […]