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Five-S Group is defined by its people. Any customer will tell you that they’re an honest, experienced, forward-thinking, professional and hard-working group. Team members form collaborative relationships with owners, developers, design teams, subcontractors, and vendors to assist in delivering the most desirable and economical solution to the construction goal.
AT A GLANCE
Top executives: (As pictured above) Trey Folk, Vice President of Projects; Aaron Elgiar, Vice President of Fleet and Technology; Danielle Hosch, Vice President of Administration; André Smith, President; Brandon Ashley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Phone: 225.749.5867
Address: 15555 Airline Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70817
Website: fsgrp.com
As an industrial civil construction firm, Five-S Group—aka the #dirtmafia team—develops innovative solutions to help a client’s plans become reality. They provide turnkey solutions by combining their ability to perform site construction services, provide construction materials to projects and transport or handle materials via multiple modes of logistics. They service the Gulf Coast region from Texas to Alabama, and about 100 miles inland, in the energy, public works and infrastructure sectors.
The big differentiator … they’re ambitious in their pursuit of projects and opportunities, innovative in their solutions and plans, and they perform those plans efficiently from preconstruction to completion. “Our motto is that we build better people and projects from the ground up,” says Brandon Ashley, vice president of sales and marketing. “In my 12 years of construction experience, I’ve never worked for a company that was more committed to success.”
Now celebrating their 10th anniversary, Five-S has never shied away from change and is always on the lookout for new business opportunities. After they landed their first large civil job at the Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry, they used that experience to penetrate the petrochemical market.
And when the COVID pandemic seriously disrupted the market in 2020-21, they proved resilient by diversifying and expanding into the renewables market, specifically solar fields, and the public sector by working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In fact, they’ve done the lion’s share of the excavation of the Comite Diversion Canal for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including the placement of the erosion control riprap to line the channel. More recently, they’ve tapped into the forestry production market offering site development for Canfor Southern Pine’s first sawmill plant in Louisiana.
“We faced many challenges in 2021, as all businesses did, but now we’re looking at new highs in the next one to two years,” Ashley says. The quick turnaround can best be attributed to Five-S Group’s unparalleled passion for what it does.
