TL Wallace constructed the new Water Treatment Plant for Hillsdale, MS. This is the first plant in Mississippi to use a 24lb per day sodium hypochlorite generator.

TL Wallace provided design/build services in the planning and construction of a new sanctuary for Woodlawn United Pentecostal Church in Columbia, Mississippi. Identifying and meeting the needs of a growing 1,500 member congregation is no easy job, but TL Wallace was up for the task. “With TL Wallace Construction, our church building was built on time and with the highest quality” – Pastor James Carney, Woodlawn United Pentecostal Church

TL Wallace served as general contractor for the construction of a Microtel Inn and Suites in Columbia, Mississippi. The hotel is three stories and has 70 guestrooms. Amenities include a Business Center, breakfast bar, meeting facilities and pool.

In a joint venture partnership, Falkner-based Hill Brothers Construction and Engineering Co. Inc. and TL Wallace Construction Inc., two of the largest earth-moving companies in the state, were awarded a $25-million contract to construct the remaining two-thirds of the building pad. The contract called for excavation and placement of approximately two million cubic yards of embankment compacted in place, lime treatment of sub grade and other miscellaneous items of work. Falco Lime Inc. in Vicksburg is shipping dozens of truckloads, carrying 22 tons of lime at a time, daily to the site. In preparation for the tons of concrete that will be needed to build the two-million-square-foot auto assembly plant, concrete suppliers planning to open plants this spring near the Nissan site include Mississippi Materials Co. and Jackson Ready-Mix Concrete.

When Hurricane Ike pounded the Gulf Coast in September of 2008, it caused a great deal of destruction to U.S. Fish and Wildlife properties. Among the hardest hit in the area were Moody, McFaddin, Anahuac, and Texas Point Refuges which comprise the Texas Chenier Plains Complex. The damages to Service facilities in this popular area inspired plans for the Recovery Act funded Texas Chenier Plains Visitor’­s Center and Administration Building. This 15,000 square foot edifice to be built on 30 acres in Chambers County, Texas, is one of the largest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery Act projects in the country.

The $4.125 million dollar contract to build the center/administration building was awarded to TL Wallace Construction Inc. and will make copious use of green energy and recycled materials. It will be built to LEED-Silver building standards. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the green building program of the U.S. Green Building Council. Buildings are rated at various levels, starting with Certified, then Silver, then Gold and then Platinum, with the higher levels signifying better energy and environmental designs. We anticipate one of the green features will be solar panels and actually they are proposed to be placed on an overhang on the parking area, and one of the innovative features that we have specked out is that the solar panels are actually going to feed outlets at the time that there are rechargeable hybrids, or rechargeable cars, the solar panels will actually feed opportunities to recharge those besides feeding back into the building to support the lighting and electrical needs there. Service officials expect the project to be complete late this year.

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The Mississippi Alternative Housing Program is a pilot program implemented by FEMA and administered by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). The mission of the program is to develop, produce and test a safer and more comfortable temporary housing unit for use in future disasters. Additionally the mission is to assist homeowners with their transition from travel trailers and mobile homes to long-term housing they may also opt to purchase. The program is time-sensitive; specific goals to occur. TL Wallace Construction, Inc. competitively won the initial MEMA haul/install and repair/maintenance contracts and was instrumental in its success.

With the program nearing completion, MEMA issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for competitive sealed proposals for deactivation and transportation of cottage units, and TL Wallace Construction again was the winner.

The scope not only includes the deactivation of the temporary units in a safe and secure manner, but also included reactivation procedures to be followed in the permanent installation of such units as a State solution to long-term housing needs by disaster victims along the Gulf Coast, with various specific levels of rehabilitation of the temporary housing units such as:

Reactivation of the temporary housing units into permanent residency.

Transportation of the housing units to their permanent location and the affixation of the housing units to their permanent foundations.

Elevation of up to 5 feet, 7 inches of some units from their temporary installation to a permanent installation, depending upon flood map requirements.

As the first and only MEMA haul and install contractor, TL Wallace Construction, Inc. provides the benchmark for service in this industry for the State of Mississippi. This is our home! Our company was founded in Mississippi almost 40 years ago, and our employees live in the affected areas and have attended church and school here for generations. Disasters are never easy, and even though established procedures are in place, the impact on the effected individual can be devastating and have long term effects. Transitioning living quarters in the middle of disaster recovery is no less traumatic, and can be one of the most critical. These are our neighbors and their feelings and belongings will always be treated with respect. We will never forget the “human” element of this program and remain flexible in our approach to each and every situation.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, resulting in one of the most significant natural disasters in U.S. history. The Port of Gulfport’s (port) electrical power supply, roads, water, sewer, rail, small craft harbor fendering systems, navigational aids and lighting and security systems were all destroyed or damaged beyond repair by the storm.

The restoration of the Port is crucial to the economy and long-term recovery of the State of Mississippi and to the Gulf Coast region in particular. Many products grown or manufactured in the State are exported through this port. Two of the top three exports, poultry and forest products, are produced in Mississippi. Furthermore, manufacturing companies located throughout the State depend upon the products imported through this port.

Program Management Services for the PGRP were initiated on May 6, 2008, with the competitive selection of the team of TL Wallace Construction and CH2M Hill as program manager, their mission being to facilitate the restoration of the Port’s infrastructure and facilities destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, mitigate against future damage and allow for the short-and long-term recovery of the operating capacity of the Port.

While the program management duties are all encompassing, Wallace specifically is focused on covering all Title II services in support of the rebuild, including:

• Acceptance
• Audits
• Constructability reviews
• Costs controls
• Dispute resolution
• Document management
• Estimating
• Field procedures
• Material documentation
• Meetings/reviews
• Nonconforming work identification, remediating/removal, and reporting
• Procurement/subcontracting/bid package preparation
• Quality assurance
• Quality checkpoints
• Safety
• Scheduling
• Shop and temporary construction drawings
• Supplemental drawings
• Testing
• Warranties
• Work and production plant inspections

The TL Wallace Construction and CH2M Hill Team is tasked with using their strength of knowledge and experience to apply a structured approach to managing this diverse and complicated program to ensure the PGRP objectives are achieved.

The time sensitive project was awarded to TL Wallace Construction, Inc. as a thirty-one calendar day contract to repair I-10 Bridge with a bid of $5.2 million. The contract called for $100,000 per day in potential damages (each day was divided into four, twenty five thousand dollar increments). The same metric was used as the basis for determining the reward incentive. The first order of business required the removal of two tugs and one barge that were precariously positioned under the bridge before the actual bridge demolition could begin. Next, we had to demolish and remove the existing bridge which was damaged by afore mentioned vessels that were blown into the bridge by Katrina. Due to the fact that normal communications and infrastructure were nonexistent immediately after Katrina, Wallace working directly off the remaining bridge deck as well as crane mounted barges relied on portable generators, pickups as offices and cell phones for communications. All work was scheduled on a continuous 24-hour rotation. Many hard working team members contributed to this high-profile and demanding work and the associated work schedule. It took everyone from the laborer to the home office to pull this off. We then drove 5 bent of piling in the Pascagoula River basin and immediately began pouring caps. After which we erected girders and then used the stay-in-place form system for the bride decks. The six span continuous deck unit was poured in one pour with high early strength concrete. Bridge rail was started within eighteen hours after completing deck pour. The project was complete and ready for traffic forty-eight hours after completing the deck pour. Entire project was completed in twenty-one calendar days, ten days ahead of scheduled completion.

In January 2007, TL Wallace Construction, Inc. began construction on the US 90 Bridge over the CSX Railroad Overpass and the Biloxi Bay. We performed demolition on the existing CSX bridge and completely rebuilt it. The CSX bridge design/construction was complicated  by the severe skew that the railroad intersected US Hwy 90. This problem was resolved by using post-tensioned concrete straddle bent caps that spanned the railroad that required extensive false-work and detailed false-work design in conjunction with steel plate girder bridge stringers. We also constructed 3 spans of each end of the Biloxi Bay Bridges, for a total of 12 spans. In addition, TL Wallace was responsible for all roadway items that included earthwork, drainage, MSE retaining walls, base, paving, curb and gutter, and all traffic control. This design/build project required us to coordinate with the railroad for construction over the tracks and with the Cities of Gulport and Ocean Springs concerning traffic control. TL Wallace Construction, Inc. worked on these project as a subcontractor to a Massman, Kiewit and Taylor Brothers Joint Venture, The project was completed ahead of schedule in December 2007.

These two separate but adjoining contracts in Harrison county, Mississippi were bid and awarded on the same date and worked as a single project. Project consisted of grading, drainage and bridges, Project consisted of eleven bridges including two, three thousand foot long bridges over The Biloxi River.