Category
5 Hurricane Proof Building Technology
Leading a Consortium
of Hub Zone and 8-A Certified Firms
Introduces
Omega Paving’s Comprehensive Sustainable Recovery
and Reconstruction
Plan for Jobs, Homes, Churches, Schools in New Orleans
and the Gulf Region
Category 5 Hurricane Proof Building
Technology for Homes and Churches, Commercial and Industrial
Construction
Statement of
Need
Omega’s plan as a private company
with a community mission is to utilize an enterprise
approach to deploying the best possible sustainable
solutions to the problem facing evacuees and communities
impacted by recent natural disaster. Omega’s solutions
are for the long-term, not quick fixes and can provide
a viable asset-base for family self-sufficiency and
community building – essential for preserving
human dignity and fostering prosperity in the region.
Establishing the Manufacture and Construction
of ThermaSAVE Panel Buildings
Omega is also seeking assistance to develop a $3.5 million
2 housing manufacturing plants and a future 3 state
plant housing development of $6-7 million over 3-5 years
to bring the requisite assets online to mass produce
hurricane proof housing, church, commercial and industrial
construction panels sufficient to build more than 50,000
homes, hundreds of churches, businesses and job generating
plants and to organize and arrange for the training
and development of evacuee plant workers, construction
crews and subcontractor businesses.
Thomas C. Settles, President, CEO
555 Ralph McGill Blvd
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 213-1887-Office
(404) 393-7181-E-Fax
email: Tsettles15@aol.com
A Strategy for
Sustainable Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction
Category 5 Hurricane Proof Building Technology
for Residential & Commercial Construction
The Company
Omega Paving & Construction Management Group,
LLC has positioned its company as a sustainable
solutions provider and is particularly versed
in applications that are cost-effective and contribute
to community building/rebuilding in low-wealth
areas. The areas chosen by Omega include: the
Southern Black Belt of the United States, the
Caribbean and Africa.
Of particular concern to Omega and
its partners is the impact Hurricane Katrina, and future
storms have on a region already impacted by a significant
low-wealth populations and underdevelopment. The cycle
of destruction temporary fixes and rebuilds, without
using sustainable approaches, will degrade the social
and economic viability of the region and affect national
progress and security.
Omega believes that a good portion
of the massive investment of recovery funds to be spent,
must be allocated in a manner that provides sustainable
solutions and offers asset-based responses that generate
permanent, long-term self-sufficiency among the evacuees
dislocated by the Katrina Disaster.
The Plan
Omega Paving & Construction Management
Group, LLC has a plan that (1) provides sustainable
building technology that mitigates loss of life
and property from future events, (2) promotes
personal asset-building affordable homeownership
replacement and development for residents who
have lost homes due to natural disaster; (3) spur
the development of affordable rental multi-family
housing, reconstruction of churches, businesses,
schools and public and commercial facilities to
re-establish governments and renew places of employment;
and (4) train workers and promote small business
development enterprise-based employment for evacuees
and returnees to sites of devastation in New Orleans
and the Gulf Region.
The Approach
Omega has already assembled a consortium
of Hub Zone 8-A Certified companies that have the engineering,
construction and community development capacity to launch
the comprehensive program described above. We are presently
seeking sufficient investment to develop the first stage
capacity of being able to produce the specialized building
technology that drives the entire plan.
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