In many ways, you can say Larry Loyd Construction, Harcot Construction and QSM are siblings — corporately speaking. The three firms are all in the Civil Construction industry. Based in South Louisiana, all three companies have “sort of grown up together through the years,” says Josh Loeske, CEO at QSM. Chad Hambacher, President of Larry Loyd…

The new Walgreen’s facility at Clearview Blvd. and Airline Drive in Metairie, required an underground detention system to enable the site to comply with storm water runoff regulations, and to facilitate optimum drainage for the area. Lanco Construction was awarded the project as general contractor, and they knew just who to call for the site…

Scott Johnson, Field Superintendent at Leon Lowe & Sons, Inc., says it’s always a pleasure to work with QSM. “They have the products on the job when we need them. Nothing ever slows down. We work with QSM all the time.” In fact, Leon Lowe & Sons has been choosing drainage pipe and site prep…

The St. James Parish Hospital In Lutcher, La. has grown since opening its doors in 1995. New buildings, additional clinics and ancillary service centers have all increased the need for additional parking and roadway infrastructure at the campus. As any public works project manager knows — with growth comes redesign. St. James recently sought to…

Gene Robichaux, Vice President of Low Land Construction Co., Inc., says he and his company go “a ways back” with QSM. “I’ve been buying from them since they got started,” says Robichaux. “I was one of their first customers when they opened in Schriever.” It was no surprise when Robichaux called on QSM to provide…

The Costco Wholesale Corp. project is one of the most talked about and recognizable job sites in the New Orleans area. QSM provided drainage materials to the job through its customer, Cooper Contracting Group, of Harvey, LA. Cooper Contracting was subcontracted by Durr Heavy Construction, LLC to perform site utilities (water, sewer, drainage) on the…

Byron E. Talbot Contractor, Inc. excels at construction projects in the industrial sector. Rightly so, as so much of South Central Louisiana’s business revolves around industrial plants and fabrication yards related to offshore shipping and the oil & gas industry. When K&B Machine Works, LLC decided to expand its business at an existing location in…

When it was time to relocate Grand Caillou Middle School in Terrebonne Parish, B&B Underground knew exactly who to call for its drainage materials. “We chose QSM because we have had a good relationship with them for many years, and also because we’ve done several large, successful projects with them in the past,” said Joe…

The owners of Laguna Beach Volleyball Complex had visions of building a top notch sports facility for the Baton Rouge Metro area. Their recent decision to install a Hydraway 2000 Drainage system puts them closer to realizing that dream. In fact, installing the Hydraway Drainage system puts them on par with world class facilities such…

Performing complicated construction projects at the Port of New Orleans is no light task, but KASS Bros., of Westwego, LA, welcomed the challenge on France Road in East New Orleans. Specialists in sitework preparation, underground utilities and concrete paving, KASS Bros. worked with the Port’s Construction Services Division to completely overhaul drainage improvements at Pump…

Evan Conravey, owner of Subterranean Construction, LLC is a big fan of A-2000 PVC pipe. So much so, that he chose it for a drainage job in Jefferson Parish. When Conravey started work on the Bunche Village Drainage Project at Myrtle and Meadow Streets in East Jefferson, he knew he would go with PVC pipe….

When Advanced Quality Construction won the contract to build the Labarre Street Detention Pond and Drainage Improvements, it collaborated with engineers at Buchart Horn, who St. Tammany Parish had selected as the engineering firm on the project. The goal was to build a detention pond and make drainage improvements in a manner that was as…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specified Snap-Tite Pipe for a project in Pineville, La. Don M. Barron Contractor, Inc., was set to perform the work, but had one question remaining: Where would it source product for this job? Enter QSM, which represents Snap-Tite in Louisiana. The project, at Spanish Bayou (Location #9), called for…

Byron E. Talbot Contractor, Inc. has worked with QSM on many projects. When it needed a complete inventory of products for the Rienzi Place Subdivision Talbot knew QSM could deliver. “Our task at Rienzi was to build a high quality subdivision for our client, J.B. Levert Land, Co.,” says Nick Grabert, project manager / estimator at…

Residents in the town of Blanchard, La, and in other areas of North Caddo Parish will soon have cleaner drinking water, delivered by a state-of-the-art water treatment plant on Caddo Lake. The project, more than seven years in the planning, broke ground in Sept., 2012. McInnish Brothers Construction, Inc., a company based in Minden, LA,…

Tommy Boudreaux of Norris Boudreaux Contractors, in Houma, La., says that although his firm has been in business for 16 years, it’s always been known as “too little of a company to be considered big, and too big of a company to be considered little.” Two projects recently completed by Norris Boudreaux might change that…