EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK

We invited industry and construction leaders to share their organizations’ perspectives on the challenges and opportunities they anticipate in 2023 and the lessons they have learned in the past year.

Issue Date: Spring 2023 Ad proof #4

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ANDRE SMITH PRESIDENT Five-S Group

REACHING MILESTONES ARE on the horizon for Five-S Group in 2023 with ten years in business this July. Five-S provides turnkey civil solutions to help our client’s plans become reality. We are the #dirtmafia and have achieved a diversified portfolio of civil site construction services and construction material supply projects. We broke into the petrochemical market following our work at Sempra’s Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry. Since then, Five-S has supported the development of numerous US LNG Export facilities to supply clean energy around the world. Change is happening in the Gulf South Region. We have been at the forefront of expanding our fleet, portfolio, and our services. With the renewable energy market expanding, Five-S identified and prepared for this change when the petrochemical market was disrupted by the pandemic. We are currently performing a wide range of civil construction capabilities on solar farm infrastructure projects in Texas and Louisiana. We anticipate an unprecedented amount of opportunities to come in 2023. History is being made as many Flood Risk Reduction projects are underway. We have contributed with our own efforts on the Comite Diversion Canal and the West Shore Lake Ponchartrain projects with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, excavating and embanking millions of yards of material for these critical infrastructure missions. Supporting both the private and public sectors, Five-S continues its mission of building better people and better projects from the ground up.

Issue Date: Spring 2023 Ad proof #3

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Carefully

Matt Arabie President

Premiere Corrosion Solutions

CUSTOMERS NEED A CHANGE in the way they are supported moving into 2023 and beyond.

Having served the corrosion solutions industry for the past 15 years, my ultimate goal has been to make my clients job easier by advising them on and providing the best solutions to their corrosion problems. This hasn’t changed today but the face of my customer landscape has and is rapidly changing.

With the baby boomers increasingly leaving the workforce, a new generation of employee is taking over the industrial landscape, and they’re counting on solutions providers to be the subject matter experts.

It’s our responsibility to guide them to the right solution rather than offering a menu of choices.

Knowing and asking the right questions to gain a holistic view of the problem is what customers are looking for moving into the future.

Being a trusted advisor is the new face of solution providers. Premier Corrosion Solutions (PCS) with our strategic group of Principals is armed and ready with the right questions to ask to help solve our clients most difficult corrosion problems.

PCS is the gulf coast’s trusted and preferred corrosion solutions provider.