Gulf Coast Rebirth Starts In Casting Yard One after another, piles and beams and girders are cast, loaded on barges and shipped to sites
The yard of Gulf Coast Pre-Stress Inc. in Pass Christian, Miss., now rumbles with more work than it has ever seen, a year after the company was brought to the edge of destruction by an 18-ft wall of water from Hurricane Katrina. Reborn, the yard has become the beating heart of reconstruction, the critical source of oversized prestressed columns and beams for infrastructure repairs throughout the region.
Gulf Coast Pre-Stress is a key player in the recovery because its waterfront location, which almost led to its demise, makes it the ideal womb for forming the big bones of reconstruction and floating them out to projects throughout the region, one barge load at a time.