Office Spotlight: Shreveport, Louisiana

Check out the latest office spotlight on Halff’s office in Shreveport, Louisiana!

Halff has offices in multiple states, each providing a unique experience for its employees. Discover what makes the Shreveport office stand out.

About Halff’s Shreveport Office

Halff’s presence in Shreveport was established ten years ago when top leaders at Halff sensed an opportunity to support the engineering design needs of the City of Shreveport. Operations Manager Brandon Aillet was tasked with growing the local office and continues to lead the office today.

Halff’s Shreveport office offers services primarily from three practices:

• Public Works
• Land Development
• Water Resources

Working on projects alongside offices across the company has allowed the Shreveport teams to gain regional and multi-team project experience in residential and commercial site development, gas main replacement, GIS database development and many other areas.

A few notable projects from the Shreveport office include the following:

1. Rapides Area Planning Commission (RAPC) Transportation Resiliency Project

Halff was contracted by the RAPC to provide planning, design and survey services for the Transportation Resiliency Through Storm Water Mitigation in Alexandria/Pineville Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Urbanized Area project. The purpose of this project is to integrate stormwater mitigation/flood prevention into land use and transportation planning. Halff developed detailed 2D RAS models to accurately depict fluvial and pluvial flood risks inside the MPO.

2. The Resort on Eagle Mountain Lake

The Resort on Eagle Mountain Lake is a multi-phased subdivision development for over 650 residential lots, varying in size and density. The overall development includes an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse, a resident-only boat dock, lake access lots and canal access lots. This phase of the subdivision design included 108 lots, with associated residential roadway, sidewalks, water, and wastewater mains and laterals, storm drain, rough and final grading, retaining wall layout and design, platting and construction staking. Shreveport staff prepared the design plans for the 108-lot addition.

3. Louisiana Watershed Initiative Region 4 Modeling Contract

Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (LaDOTD), together with Halff and C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates LLC, initiated a project to improve flood risk management in Louisiana using watershed-based solutions. The Region 4 watershed is located primarily along the Texas-Louisiana border, encompassing major streams like the Sabine River and the Calcasieu River. The project included study prioritization, data gap analysis and the planning of detailed hydrologic and hydraulic studies for Phase 2. Halff was responsible for project management, modeling and outreach efforts.

Fun, Service and Volunteerism

Shreveport employees maintain an ideal balance between work and play. While there’s never a dull moment, they manage to stay actively involved and committed to the communities they serve.

• • • Marcus Taylor serves as ASCE president for Louisiana.
    • Victor Bivens and Sabrina Kelly serve in the ASCE Shreveport Chapter as president and treasurer, respectively.
    • Victor also serves as the Region 7 representative of the Louisiana Floodplain Management Association.

This past summer, Amanda Gordon, Ann Marie Pozniak and Brandon Aillet volunteered to judge the national AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition hosted by Louisiana Tech University.

The Shreveport office knows how to keep the good times rolling with fun team building events like crawfish boils, pottery painting and even glassblowing classes!

They’re also into all things sporty. Pickleball, basketball, frisbee, disc golf, hockey, you name it—they’ve played (or watched) it!

There’s one thing Shreveport does best and that’s celebrating holidays! Their favorite: Christmas. Shreveport employees are full of Christmas cheer, with events happening almost every day leading up to the holiday, from ugly sweater day to decorating gingerbread houses.

The Shreveport office loves having fun as much as they love getting involved with Halff Community Initiative. Volunteers in Shreveport consistently find opportunities to give back to their community by participating in the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program, coordinating trash pickups, donating supplies and food to local organizations, and much more.

If you learn anything about the Shreveport office from this spotlight, it’s that they truly know how to have a great time.

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