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From student intern to Chief Growth Officer, Jeanne Hornsby brings two decades of perspective to Fenstermaker’s next chapter. Fenstermaker is proud to announce the promotion of Jeanne Arceneaux Hornsby, M.S., P.E., to Chief Growth Officer, a newly established executive leadership position created to advance the firm’s strategic ambitions. Jeanne joined Fenstermaker in 2006 as a student intern while pursuing her graduate degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Across her career, she has seen firsthand how Fenstermaker’s capabilities work in concert to solve complex challenges—and how much more is possible when those disciplines are fully integrated. As the firm continues to diversify its markets while strengthening its historic leadership in the energy sector, Jeanne will lead an enterprise-wide strategy designed to bring greater intention, alignment, and focus to how Fenstermaker cultivates opportunity. “I’ve had the opportunity to watch incredible leaders build the company into what it is today,” Jeanne said. “They established a strong foundation, and I’m excited to help build upon it so Fenstermaker continues growing for the next 75 years.” Read more about Jeanne’s journey and her vision for Fenstermaker: https://lnkd.in/g9VftHwT

Winning changes the conversation. That shift in posture says a lot about what's happening in Louisiana right now. In Episode 5 of FUELED Season 6, Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bonnett Bourgeois makes the case for a state competing from its strengths—and building the systems to move opportunity from interest to investment. 🎥 Watch the full conversation with Secretary Bourgeois: https://lnkd.in/g9GZcBx9 The assets are already here: ‣ abundant natural gas ‣ pipeline and transmission infrastructure ‣ ports and industrial capacity ‣ a deeply experienced workforce The differentiator is execution. Site readiness. Power. Permitting. Infrastructure. Speed to operation. As Susan puts it, speed to market is the driver. The larger ambition is to make this level of investment, job creation, and economic opportunity something Louisiana can sustain—not a blip, but a new normal. That is what makes this conversation worth revisiting. It is a discussion about competitiveness, certainly. But it is also about expectation: what Louisiana should demand of itself, the opportunities our children should be able to find here, and what becomes possible when a state decides to position itself to win. 🎙️ Stream FUELED on your favorite podcast app ‣ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e9WB5ATq ‣ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gkD7GS2G ‣ Fenstermaker.com: https://lnkd.in/eJA35cM .    .    . #Energy #EconomicDevelopment #Infrastructure #Louisiana

The design is what gets built. The data is where the work begins. Across the Mermentau Basin, surveyed elevations, water levels, flow patterns, and tidal influence help engineers understand a system that extends far beyond any single channel or structure. For the Mermentau Basin Inundation Relief Project, that information helped Fenstermaker’s coastal engineering team evaluate how water moves through the basin—and how a proposed improvement in one location could influence conditions elsewhere. Field observations. Survey data. Hydraulic modeling. Each adds another layer of understanding. In this field conversation, Daniel Dehon, P.E., explains how that information moves through the engineering process—from understanding existing conditions to developing practical designs that can be constructed in the field. The process helps engineers: ‣ define how the system behaves today ‣ evaluate potential improvements ‣ understand how one decision may affect another part of the basin ‣ translate model results into plans that can be built A model does not make the decision. It gives engineers a clearer foundation for making one. Because in a connected water system, no structure stands alone. The design is only as strong as the understanding behind it. .    .    . #CoastalEngineering #HydraulicModeling #WaterManagement #Infrastructure #Louisiana

The world is making billion-dollar bets on Louisiana. Companies that had virtually no presence here just a few years ago are now making transformational investments across the state. In Episode 5 of FUELED Season 6: Powering Louisiana’s Future, Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bonnett Bourgeois explains why. 🎥 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g9GZcBx9 Abundant natural gas. Extraordinary pipeline infrastructure. A workforce with generations of experience in energy and industry. And a state increasingly aligned around the opportunity to grow. Louisiana has built those advantages over generations. Now, the world is looking for exactly what we have. Behind each of those major announcements lies a much larger story: Louisiana is building the systems that make investment at this scale possible. And one thing sits at the center of it all: POWER. In the full conversation, we discuss: ‣ why reliable, abundant power has become central to winning major investment ‣ how Louisiana’s existing energy infrastructure has become a competitive advantage ‣ what Meta, Hyundai Motor Company and other transformational projects mean for future electricity demand ‣ how utilities, regulators, economic developers and state leaders are coordinating around growth ‣ how Louisiana can support transformational growth while protecting existing ratepayers ‣ and why winning this moment ultimately has to translate into jobs, higher wages and stronger communities Episode 5 widens the lens on Louisiana’s power future. Generation, transmission and grid capacity now sit at the heart of economic development strategy. Economic development and energy policy have become inseparable. Together, they shape where companies invest, where jobs are created, how communities grow and how Louisiana competes for the industries defining the next economy. Thank you, Susan, for bringing such energy and conviction to this conversation, and for helping us understand what it will take to position Louisiana to win. 🎙️ Stream FUELED on your favorite platform. .    .    . #Energy #EconomicDevelopment #Infrastructure #Louisiana

Treat every line like it’s a live line. On an active construction site, that mindset can save a life. Along Petroleum Parkway, where Fenstermaker is supporting a total roadway reconstruction for St. Martin Parish Government, crews are working within an active utility corridor—including around a high-pressure gas pipeline crossing the roadway. In this field conversation, Civil Engineer Josh Laborde, P.E., and Construction Inspector Aaron Hungerford discuss one of the most critical—and sometimes unpredictable—elements of roadway construction: utility conflicts. Coordination begins long before crews break ground, but even with careful design and planning, field conditions do not always match what is expected. An unmarked line. A utility that isn’t where records say it should be. When that happens: stop work, verify, and never assume. As Aaron puts it, rushing the job is never worth the risk: “I treat every line like it’s a live line.” It’s a simple principle with serious implications. Every design decision, construction schedule, and infrastructure investment carries a responsibility to protect the people doing the work. On Petroleum Parkway, safety is part of the engineering. .    .    . #Safety #Engineering #Infrastructure #Construction #Louisiana

From the marshes of SWLA to NYC for the Meta Wearables Community Summit Fenstermaker Remote Sensing Scientist Coy LeBlanc, M.S., GISP, PWS recently joined developers, researchers, innovators, and fellow AI Glasses Impact Grant recipients for three days of conversation centered on an important question: What can AI-enabled glasses make possible when placed in the hands of people who deeply understand the problems they are working to solve? For Coy, that question leads directly back to the coast. Growing up in a South Louisiana coastal community shaped both his connection to these environments and his determination to find better ways to understand them. Today, that perspective informs his work developing environmental data-collection tools for scientists and field professionals working in demanding conditions. “The ability to build tools that provide real-time information and capabilities in a truly hands-free environment is a game changer,” Coy said. “Technology like this has the potential to transform how we collect data, make decisions, and operate safely in the field.” Through Fenstermaker’s AI Glasses Impact Grant project, Coy is collaborating with the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at UL Lafayette to explore applications that can help identify and document bird species, counts, behaviors, locations, and other environmental observations in real time. The technology is emerging. The coastal expertise behind its application has been built over decades. What makes this opportunity so compelling is the chance to apply new technology to a landscape we know deeply—and to the real challenges our field teams encounter there every day. We’re proud to have Fenstermaker represented in this community—and to bring a distinctly South Louisiana perspective to the larger conversation shaping the future of environmental fieldwork. .    .    . #coastalrestoration #environmentalmonitoring #environmentalscience #remotesensing #wearabletechnology #emergingtechnology #artificialintelligence #innovation

Ten years later, the August 2016 Flood still shapes how Livingston Parish prepares for flood risk. The memories are deeply personal. Families left home with what they could carry. Boats moved through streets where cars had been inundated and submerged. At the water’s edge, neighbors turned toward the flood to help bring others to higher ground. Remembrance also carries responsibility. Today, Livingston Parish is developing its first parishwide Drainage Master Plan—not to react to one problem at a time, but to better understand the system as a whole and establish a roadmap for the investments that follow. That work begins with understanding what exists on the ground. As part of the larger project team, Fenstermaker’s Survey & Geospatial professionals visited more than 200 drainage structures across Livingston Parish, collecting survey data, dimensions, photographs, and existing-condition information. Those observations help build the infrastructure inventory and ground the model in the drainage system that actually exists. The model may be digital. The reality behind it is measured in the field. That field data supports the broader engineering and modeling effort underway with Livingston Parish, Halff, and project partners—helping the team evaluate drainage as a connected system and make future recommendations from evidence rather than reaction. We cannot change what happened in August 2016. What we can do is carry its lessons forward in the work being done now. The goal is larger than a model or a report. It is about doing the work today so future generations can keep calling Livingston Parish home—continuing to learn, adapt, and prepare for whatever the future holds. Ten years later, that work continues. Remembering where we’ve been. Building toward what comes next. Come what may. Learn more about the Livingston Parish Drainage Master Plan: https://lnkd.in/e974B4mD .    .    . #Surveying #GIS #Drainage #Infrastructure #Resilience

Clean water is essential infrastructure. For major industry, so is the system behind it. In Iberia Parish, a new water treatment facility is helping deliver the reliable water supply needed to support First Solar’s manufacturing operations. But what actually happens inside the plant? Fenstermaker Engineer Colten Dore, P.E., takes us inside the filtration process, where groundwater moves through five open-air filters designed to remove naturally occurring iron, manganese, and other impurities before the finished water moves into storage. Along the way, you’ll see:  ‣ how water moves through multiple stages of filtration ‣ how filter media helps remove impurities from the raw water ‣ why filters eventually need to be cleaned ‣ how automated controls initiate the backwash process when needed It’s one piece of the infrastructure supporting First Solar’s investment in Iberia Parish—and an inside look at the engineering that keeps water moving where it needs to go. .    .    . #CivilEngineering #WaterTreatment #Infrastructure #EconomicDevelopment 

When power demand accelerates,  speed becomes strategy.    In Episode 4 of FUELED Season 6: Powering Louisiana’s Future, Georges Antoun, Chief Commercial Officer of First Solar, brings a systems-level perspective to one of the defining questions facing American growth:    How do we build enough power, fast enough, to meet rising demand?    🎥 Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g7tgKF_V    From AI and data centers to advanced manufacturing and electrification, demand is reshaping the conversation around generation, reliability, supply chains, and speed to market.    For Georges, utility-scale solar is not a standalone answer.    It is part of the mix.    Part of the urgency.    And part of the industrial foundation America needs to keep building.    In the full conversation, we discuss:    ‣ where First Solar fits in the power ecosystem  ‣ why rising demand is changing the conversation around generation  ‣ how utility-scale solar fits into a reliable, diversified power portfolio  ‣ why power readiness can make or break major industrial projects  ‣ what interconnection and supply chain readiness mean for getting projects built  ‣ how American-made manufacturing connects to energy security  ‣ and why Louisiana has a meaningful role to play in the next era of energy investment    Throughout the episode, Georges connects utility-scale solar to a broader question of readiness: power that can be built, connected, supplied, and delivered at the speed growth now requires.    Episode 4 expands the FUELED Season 6 conversation from generation to readiness—showing how power, manufacturing, infrastructure, and economic development are converging at a critical moment for Louisiana and the country.    🎙️ Stream FUELED on your favorite platform.    .    .    .    #SolarEnergy #Infrastructure #Louisiana #Manufacturing

ENR Best Projects Award of Merit 2.4 million square feet. $1.1 billion invested. Fenstermaker is proud to have played a hand in transforming a Louisiana sugarcane field into a state-of-the-art solar manufacturing facility. As the project's lead civil engineering firm, our team provided ALTA and topographic surveys, site civil engineering and design, and high-level coordination among First Solar, Iberia Parish, and other project stakeholders—keeping this historic investment moving forward. We're grateful that our involvement extended beyond the award-winning civil and sitework package. Our team also designed the two-million-gallon-per-day water treatment facility supporting First Solar's manufacturing operations—another critical piece of infrastructure essential to the facility's long-term performance and success. Projects of this magnitude are never the work of one company. Congratulations to LEMOINE, Rudolph Libbe Group, First Solar, Iberia Parish President M. Larry Richard, and every partner whose collaboration made this recognition possible. We're honored that Fenstermaker's surveying, engineering, and project leadership helped establish the foundation for the largest capital investment in Iberia Parish's history. .    .    . #civilengineering #economicdevelopment #infrastructure #manufacturing