“Solar energy and health-care projects are the hot markets right now, and we happen to be playing in those markets,” says Larry Hollis, vice president of business development for Rosendin Electric Inc.

Specialty contractors are as different as their niches, but most agree the market has to get a lot better before they’re healthy again. ASAC President Santo Pernicano’s firm, Area-West Fence, is working on the San Vicente Dam project in Lakeside with Kiewit Pacific. No. 32 Clark Pacific supplied the concrete work on Mineta San Jose Airport’s car rental facility. Related Links: 2010 Top Specialty Contractors List Top Specialty Breakdown and Methodology List “One might argue that this is one of the steepest [construction] declines in my generation,” says Tony Guzzi, CEO of Norwalk, Conn.-based EMCOR Group, Inc. Guzzi, whose global