Total Contracting Limited, NED Make for Good Partnership

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Working with National Equipment Dealers has been instrumental to the company’s success.

“I’ve dealt with NED, formerly Four Seasons Equipment, since 1999 and I’ve known David Keys,” Merhi said. “He is a great help to our company and we’ve grown together. Every time we need equipment, he was there to supply us. [David Keys] put priority to our company so we can meet our goals doing the job.”

As a general contractor performing work on and installation of storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water lines and roadways, TCL’s major business is municipal work for the city of Houston and surrounding counties. Such projects present a host of challenges, most notably those recently posed by a drainage system project calling for the city of Houston’s biggest-ever concrete box culvert at 14-ft. by 12-ft. and used to channel water as part of a drainage system.

“The city of Houston initiated this project to alleviate the flooding in the Houston Medical Center at Kirby Drive,” explained Merhi.

The box culvert, serving as an underground detention pond, called for the pouring of concrete 7-ft. deep and the installation of a wellpoint system for lowering the water table on a 27-ft. wide roadway. The lifting and positioning of the box called for a Leibher excavator 964 crane, which TCL owns, along with several Hyundai excavators, loaders, mixers, bull dozers, backhoes, brooms and rollers. The company performs all its own equipment maintenance.

“This project serves as an example of how TCL has grown steadily over the past 20 years, going from being a small concrete contractor to one of the area’s largest contractors with extensive experience in water, storm, sewage and roadway construction projects, including structures,” said Merhi. “We expect this growth to continue into the foreseeable future.”  CEG

(All photos courtesy of Total Contracting Limited.)