Western Specialty Contractors gains disaster recovery experience

According to Western Specialty Contractors, its branch offices in the Southeastern U.S. offer services gained from its experience in helping rebuild and repair nonresidential buildings damaged by natural disasters.

“Losing a structure or building to an unforeseen natural disaster such as recent Hurricane Beryl, tornadoes or floods can be devastating to the owner and its tenants,” the company says.

St. Louis-based Western Specialty says its branch offices in Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are among those with experienced staff members who understand what it takes to undertake such projects to “get the job done correctly and efficiently.”

Western Specialty Contractors’ are willing and ready to help rebuild and repair nonresidential buildings when disaster strikes.

Describing itself as a leader in the restoration of commercial, institutional and industrial concrete and masonry structures and buildings, Western says it has been helping businesses recover from natural disasters in the Gulf Coast region for more than 50 years.

“Bringing a building or structure back to life in the case of a natural disaster takes a certain level of experience and skill,” says Chet Scott, Atlanta branch manager for Western Specialty. “Special skills are needed to properly assess the damage, develop a recovery plan and initiate the restoration or take steps to mitigate further loss.”

Such services can include some combination of emergency building enclosure,; general cleanup; window boarding, repair and replacement; building exterior stabilization; roofing repair and replacement; masonry and concrete repair; and historic restoration.

One of the firm’s more sizable projects involved work done on behalf of South Shore Harbor Marina near New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.

Western Specialty Contractors crews worked to remove any remaining damaged panels and purlins and completely replaced the outer skin of the boat slips and replaced the guard house that overlooked the harbor with a new modular version and made renovations to the public restroom and oil containment facilities, which all suffered severe wind and flood damage during the hurricane.