Shaw Subsidiary Wins Fourth & Fifth DoD National
Nunn-Perry Awards

The Shaw Group Inc. recently announced that its subsidiary, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Inc. (Shaw E & I) received the fourth and fifth Department of Defense (DoD) 2003 National Nunn-Perry Awards for Excellence in Mentor-Protégé Programs.

Shaw received the award along with its two protégé partners, Advent Environmental of Charleston, S.C., and EM Federal of Centreville, Va.

The honors were conferred by the DoD on March 19, 2003, at the National DoD Mentor-Protégé Conference at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.

Accepting both awards on behalf of the company was Tim Barfield, president of Shaw E&I.

A successful DoD Mentor since 1994, Shaw E&I has also won three previous DoD National Nunn-Perry Awards with its protégé partners, Innovative Technical Solutions Inc. (ITSI) of Walnut Creek, Calif.; Deerinwater Environmental Management Services (DEMS) of Norman, Okla.; and Mendelian Construction of San Francisco in 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively.

Shaw E&I was also honored by the Small Business Administration (SBA) with the 2002 SBA National Dwight David Eisenhower Award and the 2001 SBA National Award of Distinction, both for Excellence in Small Business Outreach Programs.

Shaw subsidiary awarded contract by Air Force center

The Shaw Group Inc. recently announced that its subsidiary, Shaw Environmental Inc., was one of 30 contractors selected by the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) for negotiation of an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide architectural and engineering (A-E) services for the U.S. Air Force.

The contract, known as the 4P A-E, will be a five-year, multiple award contract with a program ceiling of $2.75 billion.

Work includes all efforts necessary to manage and execute Title I, Title II, and other A&E services primarily for environmental projects including restoration, conservation, planning, compliance and pollution prevention. The work also includes a secondary requirement for traditional A-E services for design and construction, housing privatization, military family housing and military construction (MILCON). Shaw Environmental Inc. is the prime contractor.

New covered canals now drain water from New Orleans subdivision

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and its local partner, the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board, recently built two covered canals that will alleviate flooding in New Orleans' Broadmoor neighborhood.

The canals are part of the three-parish SELA (Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control) project. The contractor was James Construction Group LLC, formerly Angelo Iafrate Construction.

The Napoleon canals are one of four SELA projects in the area. Three are complete and completion of the fourth is expected in September. The new canals, or box culverts, triple the capacity to move rainwater beneath the 3,150 ft. of Napoleon Avenue between South Broad Street and South Claiborne Avenue. They parallel a similar covered canal placed in service in 1910.

"There is an important difference between old and new canals," said Col. Peter J. Rowan, district engineer at the Corps' New Orleans District.

"Ninety percent of sinking in the surrounding neighborhood forced us to build the new canals 5 ft. lower than the existing one," Rowan said. "This should be a lesson to those who take lightly the flood threat to south Louisiana on the basis of the past. A lot has changed."

The Corps' Stan Green said the loss of elevation had been slowly robbing the existing system of the gravitational force that made it work so well in the past.

"The storm drains are now below the top of the old box culvert. That means you can't fill up the old box," said Green, who is the senior project manager of the three-parish SELA project.

East Baton Rouge Parish gets bonds for sewerage disposal works

East Baton Rouge Parish will benefit from $45 million in bond issues approved at a recent State Bond Commission meeting, $20 million of which will go toward the construction and acquisition of sewers and sewerage disposal works.

"We've got a number of good projects in the works across the state, and even though they vary in cost and scale, the end result is the same - more jobs and more growth for Louisiana," said State Treasurer John Kennedy. "These projects position East Baton Rouge for even further developments and improvements."