AMECO opens Louisiana operations center

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Greenville-based site services company AMECO has opened a new facility near Baton Rouge, La., to address increasing demand for its services in the Gulf Coast area.  

AMECO has long-time roots as a service of Fluor Corp. It grew to become its own entity in 2009 and was sold last summer to a private equity firm.

Located in Prairieville, La., the new facility provides a geographic hub to increase support of capital construction, operations and maintenance, shutdown and turnaround and disaster relief efforts to owners and engineering, procurement and construction contractors. AMECO said in a news release this week that the new location better positions the company to support projects along the entire Gulf Coast. AMECO also has an operation in Texas.

AMECO is currently pursuing work on capital construction projects worth $12 billion in total installed cost from the new facility, a combined 8,000 square feet of office and warehouse space positioned on 6.5 acres, according to the news release.

“This expansion comes as AMECO is celebrating its 75^th year in the industry, applying construction support expertise, historical project information, system generated intelligence and a human touch to improve project execution,” the company announcement said. “The unique approach results in reduced site labor requirements, lower overall project cost, schedule certainty and enhanced site safety.”

Services and solutions delivers to the customer site include pre-construction planning, managed fleet services, integrated scaffolding, site tool and supply solutions, and mobile assets such as vehicles, construction equipment and specialty rentals, the release said.

“As a site services company, AMECO goes onsite to support projects across North America, and with the density and rapid growth of projects in the oil and gas, energy and chemicals industries in Louisiana, having a dedicated base of operations in the heart of the region enables us to mobilize quickly to support our clients in the Gulf Coast,” AMECO Vice President of Operations Morgan Tiller said in the release. 

 CEO Gary Bernardez said the company if finding opportunities as the country works its way through the pandemic.

“Our focus every day is earning the opportunity to be an effective partner and trusted adviser to our clients,” Bernardez said in the release. “There is tremendous growth occurring in and around Baton Rouge, and a lot of these projects are coming out post-COVID with owners trying to figure out how fast they can ramp up quickly in a post-COVID world full of labor and construction supply shortages. Our unique site services approach can help businesses of all kinds meet their goals and perform the work at-hand in an efficient, sustainable and cost-certain way.”

AMECO will celebrate the grand opening with a ceremony at the operations center March 10.