Most commercial projects that go wrong do not go wrong during construction. They go wrong in the ground — old fill nobody disclosed, drainage that works until the first real storm, or something in the soil that turns a footing excavation into a regulatory conversation.
Licensed for commercial work
S&L Construction holds a Tennessee BC-B commercial contractor licence. Under the Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, that classification covers construction, erection, alteration, repair or demolition of buildings and structures for use and occupancy by the general public — including residential construction above four units or more than three stories.
We also hold BC-A for residential work, which matters on mixed-use projects: the scope does not have to change contractors partway through.
What we do
- Ground-up commercial builds — retail, office and light industrial.
- Site development — earthwork, grading, drainage and utility coordination.
- Property improvements for commercial owners and property managers.
- Municipal site work for agencies who already know our environmental compliance side.
The difference that actually matters here
S&L Construction is a division of S&L Environmental, a water and wastewater compliance firm. That is not a marketing adjacency — it changes how a site gets assessed before anyone mobilises.
Questionable soils, undocumented fill, unclear drainage patterns, a neighbouring use with a history: these are things our environmental side reads for a living. A standard general contractor prices what is on the drawings. We tend to ask what the site was doing for the forty years before the drawings existed.
The same applies to hazardous materials. Lead and asbestos handling is built into how we scope a renovation, rather than becoming a change order and a three-week delay when something turns up behind a wall.
Working with GCs and owners
We work directly for owners and developers, and as a subcontractor to general contractors who need site work done by a crew that understands drainage and regulatory exposure. We are comfortable coordinating with design teams, other trades and municipal inspectors — our compliance division deals with agencies every week, so permitting conversations are familiar ground.
Service area
West Tennessee, Northern Mississippi, and Eastern Arkansas.
Getting a number
Send us the scope, the location and your timeline. If drawings exist, send those. If the project is still at the “is this site even viable” stage, that is a useful conversation too — and an earlier one to have than after closing.
Related: residential construction and site prep, and our environmental compliance division.