Just outside the Rocket City of Huntsville, Alabama, Costco’s newest warehouse is now on the launch pad. According to Project Manager Byron Hood, this 172,327-square-foot project is on its way to a smooth takeoff. “So far, this project is one where everything has gone according to plan. The site work was straightforward and the parking...Continue Reading

In Louisiana, Letting The Good Times Roll. Covington is on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. And while Mardi Gras is a long time from now, the New Orleans suburb has a new reason to celebrate with a 161,144 square-foot Costco opening in late August. And we at SEI are making it happen. According to...Continue Reading

SEI Gives Back With Backpacks At SEI, we’re proud of all our construction projects. But nothing compares to building a brighter future for children. Over the past 17 years, Tennessee Food on Foot Foundation has helped schoolchildren get the right start on the academic year. How? By providing new backpacks filled with all the supplies...Continue Reading

SEI Unleashes Support For Local Humane Society Animal welfare is so important. At SEI, you might call it our pet project. So when the Morristown-Hamblen Humane Society (MHHS) hosted Wags To Wishes to kick off fundraising for its proposed shelter, we helped kick things off with a $5,000 donation. “The Humane Society does amazing things...Continue Reading

SEI Gets Rolling In Aurora, Colorado What makes Costco deliver for its 129 million members? Logistics. This means its fleet of trucks needs to be kept in tip-top shape. One big part of that? Costco’s Maintenance Facility in Aurora. Situated next to its existing depot, this new 50,000-square-foot facility will be on 15.5 acres, promising even...Continue Reading

GFL Project Finishes Up With the end of 2023 came the end of a landmark project for SEI. That’s because we put the finish touches on GFL’s new recycling in Apex, North Carolina, on December 23. “This was a new kind of project for us,” Bryan Weatherford, Project Manager offers. “So we were definitely eager...Continue Reading

Another Day, Another Costco.  Trust us. When Costco calls, we never take a project for granted. Maybe that’s why most of our efforts go incredibly smoothly. Take the new 164,844 sf warehouse store we just finished in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This is one that, looking back, Bryan Weatherford found to be as successful as projects get. “As...Continue Reading

Easy Cheesy. New Costco Opens In Clermont, Florida  When mapping out a project, any project, we always plan for the unpredictable. Weather, delays in material delivery, problems with the site’s geology, you name it. Let’s just say we like to think through every contingency. Our biggest surprise when building the new Costco in Clermont, Florida? That there...Continue Reading

Jessica Francis And The Philosophy Of Construction. It’s not often you meet a philosophy major in the construction business. Then again, you haven’t met Jessica Francis. She’s our newest Project Engineer, having joined us in April, bringing a solid decade of experience in construction. And Jessica often gets asked if her field of study comes...Continue Reading