Fenstermaker

Gators, great company and lively conversation. 🐊
It’s a pretty Louisiana way to pass a good time.

We were proud to spend time in the Atchafalaya Basin for Governor Jeff Landry’s 16th Annual Alligator Hunt—a uniquely Louisiana gathering where culture, relationships and a shared vision for the future come together.

Between the gators, Cajun hospitality and time with friends old and new, the Hunt creates the kind of setting where relationships deepen and meaningful conversations happen—about business, infrastructure, investment, jobs and what it will take to keep Louisiana moving forward.

Sixteen years in, the continued growth of this tradition is worth celebrating.

We applaud Governor Jeff Landry, the organizers and everyone who has helped build and sustain an event that brings people together in a way that is unmistakably Louisiana.

And there is a lot to talk about right now.

Louisiana is experiencing tremendous economic momentum. Major investments are being announced across the state, alongside a renewed focus on the infrastructure, site readiness, workforce and partnerships needed to turn opportunity into lasting growth.

We appreciate the urgency Governor Landry’s administration, Louisiana Economic Development and leaders across the public and private sectors are bringing to making our state more competitive and positioning Louisiana as a land of opportunity.

Our team is proud to be part of that work.

The best growth creates opportunity beyond any one company, project or community.

When we invest in the foundations for growth, strengthen partnerships and create more ways for Louisiana people and businesses to participate in what comes next, a rising tide really can lift all boats.

Congratulations on another successful Alligator Hunt.

We’re grateful for the hospitality, energized by the conversations and proud to keep building Louisiana’s next chapter together.
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Modern mapping is changing what we can solve.

Fenstermaker GIS Specialist and Team Lead Mike Donlon recently joined Out to Lunch Acadiana to talk maps—but the conversation quickly became about much more than cartography.

It was a look at what GIS makes possible when spatial data, technology and real-world problem solving come together.

One powerful example: work Mike and our team completed with Lafayette 911 to create standardized, floor-aware mapping for approximately 70 Lafayette Parish schools. Using LiDAR and three-dimensional scanning, the team captured buildings room by room and translated millions of data points into detailed mapping that can now be accessed by first responders through their dispatch systems.

As Mike explains in the conversation, that’s only one application.

At Fenstermaker, GIS intersects with surveying, engineering, environmental work and advanced technologies—helping teams capture field conditions, organize complex information, understand infrastructure and turn data into something people can actually use.

For a company that began as a surveying firm in 1950, there’s a natural throughline. The tools have changed dramatically. The underlying work of understanding where things are, what they mean and how that information can help solve a problem continues to move forward.

We’re proud to see Mike sharing that expertise—and proud of a team that keeps asking what else these technologies can do.

🎙️ Listen to Mike’s conversation on Out to Lunch Acadiana:
https://itsacadiana.com/2026/09/12/you-are-here-now/
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Growth has a power requirement.

Opportunity is economic. Ex*****on: electrical.

In the Season 6 finale of FUELED, Entergy Louisiana President and CEO Phillip May describes what it means to operate in what he calls a “power-first world”—one where, for major projects evaluating Louisiana, power has become a threshold question from the earliest site-selection conversations through final decision-making:

How quickly can I get power?

🎥 Watch the full conversation on YouTube:
https://lnkd.in/gtZ_Dg3D

The scale has changed.

Projects that once added incremental demand can now reshape the system around them. Meeting that demand means planning generation, transmission and resilience together at a scale and speed that match the opportunity.

Phillip sees that growth as an opportunity to build a stronger grid for everyone.

One principle anchors the approach:

Growth must pay for growth.

New investment has to carry the costs and risks it creates while strengthening the broader system and protecting the customers already depending on it.

In the full conversation, we discuss:

‣ why “speed to power” has become a competitive advantage
‣ how Entergy plans for demand arriving faster than infrastructure can be built
‣ how costs and risks are allocated when new loads reshape the grid
‣ why generation, transmission and resilience have to scale together
‣ what getting this moment right could mean for Louisiana communities and families

Again and again, Phillip brings the conversation back to people.

For him, the larger measure of success is what this growth makes possible: careers worth building, communities that can grow, families with reasons to stay and Louisiana’s children having the opportunity to come home and thrive.

That is what all of this infrastructure is ultimately meant to support.

A fitting place to close a season spent exploring the people, infrastructure and decisions powering Louisiana’s future.

🎙️ Stream FUELED on your favorite podcast app:

‣ Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e9WB5ATq
‣ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gkD7GS2G
‣ Fenstermaker.com: https://lnkd.in/eJA35cM
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Big things are taking shape across Louisiana and the Gulf Coast—and we're growing with them.

New investment, infrastructure and technology are changing the scale of what's possible. For 75 years, Fenstermaker has built its expertise alongside that progress, bringing together engineering, surveying and advanced technologies to solve consequential, real-world challenges.

Today, we're hiring for 11 positions across Engineering, Survey, Technology and Leadership.

Explore current opportunities on our website:
https://www.fenstermaker.com/careers/

We're looking for people ready to contribute—with meaningful projects, real responsibility, advanced tools and room to grow.

The next chapter of growth across our region will require skilled people to help shape it.

Your next move starts here.
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LegisGator 2026 put Louisiana’s future center stage.
Conversation builds momentum.

For more than 75 years, Fenstermaker has worked alongside the communities, industries, and leaders investing in Louisiana. That experience has shown us how closely sound infrastructure is tied to economic opportunity and long-term growth.

This year in Lake Charles, leaders from across the state exchanged ideas around the priorities shaping Louisiana’s economic future—

from infrastructure and energy to
education and workforce development.

LegisGator creates space for the kind of dialogue that strengthens relationships and gives shared priorities greater momentum.

We are grateful to the SWLA Economic Development Alliance and Greater Lake Charles Chamber for the thoughtfulness and commitment behind LegisGator,

and for creating a forum that continues to bring important voices to the same table.
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Ask Jean-Paul Coussan his priority:
“Jobs, jobs and jobs.”

He learned why firsthand: knocking on thousands of doors across Lafayette, Jean-Paul heard from people who had lost oil and gas jobs and needed work to support their families.

That experience still shapes how he approaches one of Louisiana’s biggest questions:

How does Louisiana move fast enough to capture this moment without asking existing customers to carry the costs and risks?

As Vice Chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Commissioner for District 2, Jean-Paul Coussan sits at the center of that question.

🎥 Watch the full Episode 6 conversation: https://lnkd.in/gYcfw-x3

Jean-Paul describes Louisiana as being on the “precipice of breaking out.” As the opportunity grows, the decisions before the Commission are becoming larger, more complex and more consequential.

New generation has to be proven necessary.
Major investments have to be prudent.
Extraordinary new demand has to carry its own risk.
And moving faster cannot mean lowering the standard.

Jean-Paul puts one of those principles plainly: “Our commitment is for the data center growth to pay their full freight.”

In the full conversation, we discuss:

‣ how months of technical review shape a single Commission vote
‣ why regulatory accountability continues long after a project receives approval
‣ how Louisiana can prepare for extraordinary demand without leaving customers responsible for infrastructure the system may not need
‣ why transformative projects should produce measurable benefits for the broader power system
‣ how accelerated regulatory review can move Louisiana faster without lowering standards or surrendering scrutiny
‣ and how natural gas, solar, nuclear, transmission, and long-term planning fit into a reliable and defensible power strategy

Louisiana’s path forward demands both growth and accountability. The opportunity is extraordinary, and so is the responsibility to make decisions today that will still serve Louisiana 10, 20, 30 and 40 years from now.

Thank you, Jean-Paul, for taking us inside that responsibility—and for helping make the work behind some of Louisiana’s most consequential power decisions more understandable.

🎙️ Stream FUELED on your favorite platform.
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