The son of a bricklayer, Clément Fayat left school at age 15 to apprentice in construction, founding his own civil engineering firm at age 25.
In 1915, he struck out on his own in construction, founding the Avery Brundage Company, of which his uncle Edward was a director.
In 1955 Chick joined his father Carmelo in the family construction business founded in 1923 and grew it to one of the leading general construction companies in the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan area.
He said: "What happened [after the new law] was that construction firms founded their own inspection companies.
In 1997, Mr. Ryan decided to move back to Janesville, where he worked for a time in the family construction business founded by his great-grandfather.
Newmark Knight Frank's construction division, founded 10 years ago, has converted 26 commercial properties totaling more than seven million square feet, creating approximately 5,400 residential units, mostly in Lower Manhattan.
THE home builder Ken Formica is a Staten Islander born and bred, a third-generation principal in a construction company founded by his grandfather half a century ago.
Environmentally friendly construction "can be done in a way that's good for the economy, not bad," said Clinton, who spoke at a roundtable discussion sponsored by Shangri-La Industries, a green development and construction company founded by Hollywood mogul Steve Bing.
The Straights were particularly interested in liberal politics, and while their house was under construction they founded The New Republic magazine for their friend, the writer Herbert Croly, who became its president and one of its editors.
Built by the Binladin Group, the construction firm founded by Mohammed bin Laden, the father of Osama, the ZamZam tower offers five-star accommodation, a shopping centre, restaurants and a car park.
Although the construction firm founded by Mohammed bin Laden turned the family into one of Saudi Arabia's richest, Osama bin Laden has strong personal links to Yemen, and chose it in the early 1990's as the base for several thousand young Arab militants trained in Afghanistan, some of whom formed Islamic terror groups tied to Al Qaeda.
