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TOP 10 OF 2010 • 2009 PROJECT UPDATES • PROJECTS OF NOTE Brice Building Company... continuing our 58-year commitment to New Orleans and it’s Healthcare community. A Leader in Serving the Construction Industry Our Construction Services Group provides: At LaPorte Sehrt Romig Hand, we understand the special accounting, tax, and consulting needs • Attest and assurance services of construction-related businesses. Beyond traditional services, clients turn to us to help them compete more effectively, – audit, review and compilation improve profitability, and plan for the future. • Tax planning and tax return Our industry commitment has spanned 50 years, and we work hard to stay abreast of changing trends, regulations, preparation and best practices in order to create value at every opportunity for our clients. • Internal control studies and evaluations • Cash management projections • Sale and use tax issues for contractors • Cost segregation studies • Payroll tax and independent contractor issues • Estate and business succession planning • Benchmarking Analysis New Orleans | North Shore | Baton Rouge 504.835.5522 985.892.5850 225.296.5150 Published by NOPG LLC Managing Editor: Greg LaRose Introduction . .4A Updates on 2009 top projects . .16A 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., News Editor: Christian Moises Suite 1440, Metairie, La. 70005 Associate Editors: 504-834-9292; Autumn C. Giusti, Renee 2010 Top 10 Projects of Note Aragon Dolese Fax: 504-837-2258 Task Force Hope . .5A Bayou District . .18A Art Director: Alex Borges Orleans Parish Public School rebuild . .6A City Park redevelopment . .18A Publisher and President: Market Researcher: La. Highway 1 upgrades . .7A LSU/VA complex . .19A D. Mark Singletary Jennifer Nall Huey P. Long expansion . .8A TerraBella community . .20A Associate Publisher: Account Executive: Federal City . .9A Lisa Blossman Peggy Bruce Production Manager: Public housing rebuild . .10A Lists Julie Bernard Twin Span rebuild . .11A Architectural firms . .21A Photography: Frank Aymami Napoleon Avenue container Engineering firms . .23A terminal expansion . .12A Commercial landscape contractors . .27A The entire contents of this publication are copyrighted by NOPG LLC, 2003, with all rights reserved. Reproduction or use, without permission, of editorial or graphic content in any Airport renovations . .14A General contractors . .28A manner is prohibited. Orleans Parish Prison upgrades . .15A NOPG LLC, 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie LA 70005, (504) 834-9292. A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL COUNSEL GJTBS is a construction litigation law firm with clients throughout the construction industry, including: general contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, developers, owners, product manufacturers and suppliers - and the companies that insure those businesses. Image is for demonstrative purposes only. CONSTRUCTION | MARITIME | ENVIRONMENTAL | PRODUCTS LIABILITY PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY | GENERAL CASUALTY EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY | ENERGY | INSURANCE HOUSTON | LAFAYETTE | NEW ORLEANS | MANDEVILLE | ST. 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Also, Pervious the Top 10 list as more projects are on the horizon with others under construction not concrete pavement is a unique and effective means to address important environmental included in this publication. issues and support green, sustainable growth. By capturing stormwater and allowing it to Several of the projects included in this year’s Top 10 started this year and are seep into the ground, porous concrete is instrumental in recharging groundwater, scheduled to wrap up in the next three reducing stormwater runoff, and meeting EPA regulations. years, while a handful of others are ongoing and expected to finish this year. Others are in progress but waiting for funding to con- tinue with future phases. For more information, contact the CAAL office. Half of the projects are related to Hurricane Katrina repairs or rebuilding, Concrete & Aggregates Association of Louisiana and they providing the region with much 11924 Justice Avenue, Suite B needed upgrades to infrastructure and Baton Rouge, LA 70816 storm protection. (225) 293-5735 • (800) 486-6179 The economic recovery,albeit slow,also is starting to be felt throughout the area. www.caal.org Looking through the “Progress Report” section, three projects the economy side- lined last year have resumed, with work scaled down or cut into phases in some cases. Two more have been completed and another was scrapped completely. While not every construction project in the region is detailed, the ones profiled in the following pages cover a broad swath of community needs: transportation, energy, education, storm protection, housing, com- munity safety and national defense. This widespread scope of construction is providing much-needed jobs, allowing the New Orleans region to withstand reces- sion pressures while serving as a lure for new business. Arriving daily on your computer! This year’s recording setting total is just another sign New Orleans is moving for- ward and that developers still believe and are willing to invest in the region and its future. Those who haven’t should take note of our progress.• Daily Update FREE Register today News Editor Christian Moises can be reached at 293-9249 or by e-mail at chris- www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/dailyupdate.cfm [email protected]. 4A CITYBUSINESS TOP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Work continues on a two-mile-long, 26-foot-high storm surge barrier near the point where the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway meets the closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. TOP 10 CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Project description: hurricane and storm-damage risk reduction Start date: 2005 Expected completion date: bulk of work to be done by mid-2011 Peak construction employment: 2,500 Task Force Hope Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Project manager: Task Force Hope director Karen Durham-Aguilera $15 billion General contractors: Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure Inc., Boh Brothers Construction Co., Kiewit Louisiana Co. Top 3 subcontractors: INCA/Gerwick, Linfield Hunter and Junius, 1 Eustis Engineering onstruction cranes loom over New Orleans waterways Another gate will be built where the Inner Harbor Navigation largest drainage-pump stations near the confluence of the as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and contractors Canal meets Lake Pontchartrain. Harvey and Algiers canals to remove rainwater from those Ctry to provide the city with 100-year-storm protection In July, the corps closed the MRGO corridor by installing a channels before a storm. Park predicted that West Bank flood- by mid-2011 under the agency’s $15 billion Task Force Hope 350,000-ton rock blockade. gates will be operational in June 2011 and the pump station will project. “We’ve already built enough protection in the last year so be fully functioning by 2013. Baton Rouge-based Shaw Environmental that you probably won’t see the topping images “In the Task Force Hope project schedule, we’re tracking and Infrastructure Inc. and other contractors are from Gustav any time soon,” Park said. 20,000 milestones,” covering all design and construction By Susan Buchanan hurrying to build a storm-surge barrier that’s Contributing Writer During Hurricane Gustav in August 2008, phases, Park said. Under an umbrella name — Hurricane and two miles long and 26 feet high near the point [email protected] water splashed over the Industrial Canal floodwall. Storm Damage Risk Reduction System — 76 corps projects where the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway meets the “Every day, we’re reducing the risk of storm are under way and more than a third of the work is complete. closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. That new surge in the five-parish area,” he said. More than 230 contracts have been awarded out of a structure is the centerpiece of the corps’ $1.3 billion Inner Meanwhile, on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, the planned 353 contracts, and more than $6.6 billion has been Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier Project. corps in August began work on a $1 billion Gulf Intracoastal committed under the $15 billion program. Mike Park, deputy director of Task Force Hope, said the Waterway West Closure Complex to form a storm-surge barrier Park pointed to the challenges of addressing environmental, IHNC project is now 50 percent complete and most definitely on for Plaquemines, Jefferson and Orleans parishes. Negotiations navigation and cost concerns with “buildability” or construction schedule for a mid-2011 deadline. over West Bank real estate acquisitions caused early delays, but needs, and of coordinating with local and state agencies. Navigation