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.