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…

When Coast 2 Coast Construction was hired by St. Tammany Parish for the Hidden Oaks Bridge replacement project, they knew just who to call. “QSM,” said Jeffrey Pittman, with confidence. “We’ve been doing business with them since the time QSM was known as F&G Services. I knew what to expect with them, and I knew…

Durr Heavy Construction called on QSM to provide drainage pipe at the Cypress Bayou Intermediate Dentention Pond in St. Tammany Parish, near Lacombe. The 20-acre pond creates an area of 800-acre feet of storm water storage (the equivalent of 365 football fields holding water 2-feet deep). Pipe was installed recently in long runs underground coming…

Richard Price Contracting recently was awarded a Louisiana Department of Transportation Development (LaDOTD) contract to replace an existing 96″ equivalent metal culvert with new 96″ equivalent reinforced concrete culvert on a job site in West Baton Rouge Parish. The job, LA 985 Roadway Regrade SPN H.009235, included design, delivery and installation of a 96-inch EQ…

Byron E. Talbot Contractors relied on QSM to provide concrete drainage pipe and construction materials at the Valhi Extension Roadway Project in Terrebonne Parish, La. The location of this job, at Equity Rd. and Valhi Blvd. Extension, is part of the overall Valhi Boulevard Extension project — a divided four-lane road of approximately 13,200 linear…