Our Company
About TLC Diversified
Overview
Who we are
Thurston Lamberson Corporation (TLC) Diversified, Inc. is one of Florida’s oldest and largest family owned and operated water infrastructure construction companies with our headquarters in Palmetto and two Florida satellite offices – Tampa and West Palm Beach. TLC began operations in Delray Beach in the Spring of 1985 primarily focusing on small treatment plant upgrades and lift station rehabs. Fast forward to today and we have grown to be a consistently ranked ENR Top 200 Environmental Contractor in the nation and one of the largest in the state of Florida. We pride ourselves on the highest degree of self-performance and have exceeded over 100,000 employee field man-hours per year for the last several years. Our exceptional financial strength has allowed us to offer our clients bonding capacities of $75 million per project and $200 million aggregate at the lowest rates in the industry. We have successfully completed over 900 individual Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build Projects totaling over $700 million for our clients. It is our group wide commitment to safety that has kept our EMR below industry averages, resulting in a secure, healthy, and competent workforce.
We are a diverse group of professionals that bring knowledge and experience to a wide array of segments in our industry. TLC Diversified takes advantage of the synergy between our ability to provide an outstanding and experienced project management team, a robust and strong group of self-performing crews, and a healthy pool of subcontractors around Florida, some of which we’ve been teaming with for over three decades. Coupled together it allows us to construct the most unique and challenging projects:
- Pipeline construction
- Water and wastewater treatment plants
- Water pumping stations
- Sewage pumping/lift stations
- Groundwater storage
- Grading and site preparation
- Concrete Flatwork and Structural
- Public and private utilities
- Utility, process and site piping
“Our heritage stems from two individuals who shared two separate passions for two different industries. The two cannot succeed without the other — construction and accounting. And as the old adage goes… the rest is history.”
OUR STORY
Building since 1985.
Where it all began
TLC (Thurston Lamberson Corporation) was founded in 1985 out of the garage of Thurston’s then longtime friend and co-worker, later to become wife and business partner, Joanne Lamberson. Thurston had a long history and passion for design, engineering and construction, while Joanne shared an equal level of interest in the field of accounting and finance. The merger between these two galvanized the company’s rise to prominence in Florida where TLC is highly revered as one of the best in the industry.
What started as nothing more than a dream, backed by a small personal loan and logo sketched onto a napkin, TLC has gone from a small utility contractor performing simple lift station rehabs and miscellaneous treatment plant infrastructure projects ranging in the $100,000 to $500,0000 range, to a full-service General Contractor specializing in water and wastewater infrastructure projects from $1,000,000 to north of $50,000,000.
Facing towards the future
TLC has grown leaps and bounds over the past 40 plus years, thanks to our expert construction professionals whom have formed a team that has become one of Florida’s largest General Contractors that serves the water and wastewater industry. Due to our diverse background of design, construction, and problem solving techniques, we have constructed more than $600 million worth of water and wastewater infrastructure projects since TLC’s inception and have been ranked among the top 100 largest construction firms in the Southeast by Engineering News-Record.
We continue to build on our strong foundation and are constantly improving our scope of services by delivering projects faster and more efficiently through our extensive pool of resources, aggressively sharing knowledge at an accelerated pace and demonstrating our willingness to change and adapt.