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The secret to successfully completing a difficult project on time and within budget is due as much to the proper prior planning that you invest in a job as to the actual execution of the job,” says Shannon Elliot.

The senior vice president of H&S Construction Co., Lafayette, LA, says that a case in point would be a 2,000-ton Superpave airport project they recently completed in an isolated portion of Cameron Parish. In a post-

project analysis, Elliot said that the firm had invested twice as much time in planning as they did doing the actual work.

When the owner and management team of an exclusive private hunting lodge encountered a problem that needed to be resolved, they contacted H&S Construction – not only an experienced asphalt paving contractor but a firm that owns and flies some of its own aircraft. Both President Gerald Hanchey and Elliot are FAA licensed pilots with many flying hours logged in various aircraft. So they had actual experience in flying in and out of similar airports.

The lodge is situated on an isolated island in the marshland south of Cameron Parish and is accessible only by boat or air. There are no roads to it from the mainland. The lodge is positioned on a natural ridge on Little Pecan Island, and because of it’s location and sturdy construction it was spared from the major ravages of Hurricane Rita in 2005.