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T. Baker Smith, LLC (TBS) is a fully integrated, professional consulting firm committed to delivering successful project outcomes for our clients in the public works, exploration and production, pipeline, industrial, and land development markets we serve. TBS’ disciplined professionals serve as trusted advisors to our clients by engaging their challenges, framing innovative solutions, and providing responsive service during all phases of project delivery.
When it comes to buried utilities, what you don’t know can really hurt your budget and schedule. TBS’ Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) team of expert engineers, surveyors, and technicians delivers reliable buried utility data to keep clients’ projects on track and within budget. Our Utility Risk Management solutions start with uncovering what is buried under your proposed project site, minimizing utility-related risks and uncertainties. TBS works closely with clients to arrive at the appropriate quality level(s) for each project and performs SUE services in accordance with the ASCE 38 guideline and industry standards. This is achieved by collaboratively determining specific project and client needs, then employing an iterative approach in pursuit of each quality level. With decades of experience and an extensive in-house equipment suite, we achieve all four quality levels of utility depictions.
LA 811 provides the safety that is needed for excavators and the community daily, and TBS has those same safety standards. Ensuring everyone goes home safe is one of our core behaviors and foundational pillars. Thank you, LA 811, for your help keeping those in the industry safe. www.tbsmith.com, 225.228.5611.
We are a Security and Advanced Communications systems integrator providing a broad range of services to include Video Management Systems (VMS), Access Control, Structured Cabling, Perimeter Detection (Gates/Turnstiles). We service the Gulf South mainly and Pan Handle, but have projects from Nashville, TX
to Kansas City if needed. We are in Harahan, LA for our division, but have other offices in Metairie, Covington, and Texas. Some commercial services include: Data/Network Structured Cabling, CATV/MATV Cable (RF TV Signals), Fiber Optic Cabling, Access Control, Burglar/Intrusion
Alarm, CCTV Cameras/Video Management Systems, Networks, Audio/Visual, Intercom Systems, Public Address – such as mass notification, emergency phones & poles, and radio. Other services include Sound Making, Wi-Fi Distribution Networks, Distributed Antenna Systems, Cell-Fi Boosting Signals from carriers outside to indoor commercial/industrial/large venue facilities, and RFID
/ Asset Tracking. Services that we partner together with sub-contractors include Electronic/Physical Gates for Perimeter Access, VoIP/Phone System, Building Controls such as AC Lighting, and Electrical Services.
Markets that we focus on but are not limited to are Energy/Utility • Oil/Gas • Petro-Chemical • Education (K-12/Higher Education) • Healthcare • Municipal – Court Houses • Large Venues/Arenas • Commercial Buildings • Warehousing • Food Storage • Manufacturing • Industrial Space • Financial Services • Transportation
We are a division of M S Benbow & Associates (1978 Established) and the Construction side of the business. MSB side (Engineering and Procurement) has an engineering department for Wi-Fi, Cellular, and Distributed Antenna Systems design and Implementation. We also have a Project Controls Division on the parent side of the house. We usually handle the installation on these projects, and they do parts and smarts.
I know my MSB side of the house uses LA One Call before projects at Refineries or Chem Plants. TruConnect has installed LA811’s office’s new CCTV/Video Management System for visual evidence of certain instances that may warrant detection. This platform will allow us to take over the Access Control that is currently in place at a later date with our Partner Avigilon (the product they are using for security). We also were awarded the Gate project at their office. We have physical Avigilon server in the office for their cameras and viewed on a monitor for the administration or remotely on an application for the phone, cameras around the perimeter, also the capability to handle the card readers at doors for permissions, and the access to the parking lot. Also, the two gates will be at the parking lot with (2) card readers and Video Intercoms for the front of house staff to allow access into the gates if they are closed. www.Tru-Connect.net, 504-262-4500
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