SALUTE TO A CUSTOMER
LEMOINE INFRASTRUCTURE THIS DIVISION OF LOUISIANA-BASED LEMOINE FOCUSES ON AGGRESSIVE GROWTH, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION start to finish as a general contractor and construction management firm,” stated Seth. “We work extensively throughout the U.S. as well as in Puerto Rico. Predominantly, however, our Infrastructure jobs are located right here in southern Louisiana.”
Seth Lemoine, President
Crawford James, Civil Operations Manager
Seth Lemoine is approaching the 20th anniversary of when he joined LEMOINE full time. However, Seth’s start date actually extends back to when he was still a student.
In the ’80s, they moved the firm to Lafayette, La.
“I worked for the business part time while I was going to college at LSU (Louisiana State University),” recalled Seth, who is now the President of LEMOINE Infrastructure (a division of LEMOINE). “Fortunately, for the four years I was there, LEMOINE generally had a project within walking distance of the campus.” LEMOINE was founded in 1975 in Cottonport, La., by Tim Lemoine, Seth’s uncle. Tim’s brother, Lenny, later came on board and is now the company’s CEO.
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“They relocated here because Lafayette Parish passed a bond issue for several new schools, and they wanted to get in on the work,” explained Seth. “It was a bit of business preservation too because there wasn’t much going on at the time in Avoyelles Parish where Cottonport is.”
FORESIGHT LEADS TO MASSIVE EXPANSION LEMOINE has since expanded into four full-service offices in Louisiana located in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, and New Orleans. It also has offices in Houston, Texas; Birmingham, Alabama; Alexandria, Virginia; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Today, it’s privately owned by members of the LEMOINE management team and its private equity partner, Bernhard Capital Partners. “My uncles’ foresight paid off, and because of that, LEMOINE grew into a highly respected regional company that can take practically any project from
With several divisions and subsidiaries, LEMOINE maintains a service list that is long and includes everything from preconstruction to final closeout. It provides general contracting, construction management, design/build and self-performed work. Markets include commercial, civil, industrial, residential subdivision site work and more. LEMOINE service lines also include Program Management and Disaster Services, supported by subsidiaries DCMC Partners and Workforce Group. “Our service lines often work on the same project,” noted Civil Operations Manager Crawford James. “For instance, LEMOINE Building Construction serves as a general contractor on a building and LEMOINE Infrastructure does the site work, which includes earthmoving and utility installation. As a separate entity, it bids to LEMOINE Infrastructure, as well as to other general contractors. LEMOINE Building Construction is our largest single customer, but in aggregate it does not account for the majority of LEMOINE Infrastructure’s total workload.”
BUILDING A FLEET OF OWNED EQUIPMENT LEMOINE Infrastructure is actively growing and aggressively pursuing new earthwork projects. In order to do that, it had to put together a fleet of equipment to move massive amounts of materials, finish grade, dig trenches, put pipe in the ground and backfill. Crawford said when
