JP Hymel
President/CEO
Gallo Mechanical
Celebrating 76 years in business, Gallo Mechanical’s footprint runs from Louisiana (New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette) to the Florida Gulf Coast and up toward the Carolinas. In the New Orleans region, projects include: The Four Seasons Hotel & Residence, Children’s Hospital, Superdome, New Orleans Convention Center Central Plant and Tulane National Primate Research Center. The company is also at work on Lafayette General Hospital and with Iredell Health in Charlotte, North Carolina.
What are you most excited about for the coming year? We have seen significant growth across our family of companies. For example, Construction and Service in each of our offices throughout the Southeast has added 100 people since May 1, 2021, and has created incredible opportunities for our team. We are also getting started on several New Orleans projects that include: Charity Hospital Redevelopment, Laitram Northshore Expansion, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, the Superdome and Xavier University, along with Isle of Capri Casino in Lake Charles, an Amazon facility in Baton Rouge, Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, and several projects in Raleigh, North Carolina.
What is the biggest challenge facing your industry today? Some of the challenges we face are price escalation and availability of materials, over which we have no control. We choose to focus on what we can control: recruiting and retaining the best people in the business who, time and time again, regardless of the challenge, will deliver for our clients. During the toughest days of the pandemic, we stayed focused on our values: family, service and performance, knowing that if we continue to provide opportunity through growth and empower our employees, we are staying true to these values and setting up Gallo Mechanical to thrive for many decades to come.