With a foundation built on its people-first culture and commitment to fostering authentic, lasting relationships, LEMOINE is celebrating 50 years of business in 2025.
AT A GLANCE
Top executives: Leonard “Lenny” Lemoine, Chief Executive Officer; Seth Lemoine, Chief Operating Officer, Disaster Services; William Lemoine, Chief Operating Officer, Construction Services; Leon Foster, Chief Performance Officer; Will McCulloch, Chief Financial Officer; Greg Landry, Vice President, Safety; Amanda Messa, General Counsel
Phone: 225.383.3710
Address: 1200 Brickyard Lane, Suite 300, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Website: 1lemoine.com
Founded in 1975, the company’s roots were planted in the small town of Cottonport in Avoyelles Parish, when founder Tim Lemoine carved out some space in the back of his father’s lumberyard and retail hardware store for the first office. Tim was joined a few years later by his younger brother and current CEO Leonard “Lenny” Lemoine. The early years, Lenny says, were spent learning how to build the business, learning best practices, and building relationships with customers. By 1985, LEMOINE had carved out a regional market from San Antonio to Atlanta, establishing the foundation of the company that currently exists today.
When Tim exited the business in 2000, LEMOINE reevaluated its strategy, placing a stronger emphasis on specialized markets like healthcare, which require unique construction services, all while fostering a people-centric, continuous improvement culture.
“We wanted to be more focused on growing and developing people,” Lemoine says. “We felt like those people could then develop better relationships with the customers and design firms they worked with, and that the wheel would begin to self-generate.”
While LEMOINE had dabbled in disaster response work since the 1990s, the company established a full-service disaster business line in the wake of Louisiana’s 2016 Great Flood.
“It has enhanced our ability to service large custom customers like health care systems, who, when they undergo the unfortunate experience of dealing with a major hurricane or ice storm, we can do more than just show up and be there for the first week or so,” Lenny says. “We can be with them until everything’s just like it was, if not better, than before they experienced that disaster.”
The company’s response to recent storm-driven disasters in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida demonstrates the people-first collaborative culture LEMOINE is known for—a very proud moment for Lenny.
“It was a pretty amazing thing to see—the commitment to each other, the commitment to the customer, the respect they have for each other, and the attitude of ‘everybody has everybody else’s back’,” he says.
A significant investment from Bernhard Capital Partners in 2019 allowed LEMOINE to continue expanding the business, offering emergency fuel and water through the acquisition of Macro Companies, and advancing the firm’s infrastructure and program management offerings. The company currently provides services in 26 states.
Some of Lenny’s favorite projects over the years include the renovation of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and Louisiana State University’s South Stadium End Zone Expansion—both places that allow people to experience significant milestones and community.
“We truly believe that we have a moral responsibility to leave everything better than we found it, whether that be people, the environment, and certainly the customer,” he says.
“We truly believe that we have a moral responsibility to leave everything better than we found it, whether that be people, the environment, and certainly the customer.”
Lenny Lemoine
While relationship-building is the bedrock of the commercial construction business, Lenny says the secret to LEMOINE’s success lies in the project planning process with relentless attention to each detail.
“During preconstruction, we control most of the risk and create our greatest opportunity for success before we ever put a shovel in the ground,” Lemoine says. “When we do that as well as we are capable of doing it, we have about a 99% success rate.”
Turning 70 this year, Lenny plans to begin the succession process in several critical positions. Due to the company’s robust leadership development program, the next generation of company leaders are ready to step forward.
“LEMOINE will be in a great position to continue to be successful because of that people-focused culture,” he says. “Projects are becoming larger, schedules are becoming compressed, and you’re going to have to be better tomorrow than you were yesterday.”
