SOUTHLAND
INDUSTRIES
In 1949, six employees bought a furnace branch in Long Beach for twenty-four thousand dollars. Every system they install gets a record set. This is theirs.
PLATE G-000.1How to read this set
This is an independent record. Every number on screen traces to a source and an evidence class. Where we don't know, the set says so.
Class A — primary/official source (company filings, press releases, official pages).
Class B — strong independent reporting or named vendor documentation.
Class C — corroborated (case studies, conference sessions, social posts).
Class D — for reference only (aggregators; treated as discovery, never fact).
V.I.F. — Verify In Field. The value is not published. Rendered as a revision cloud, never zero-filled.
VOID — excluded by the entity guard. A similarly named public infrastructure company (a different entity) never enters this set; see the guard log for what was thrown out.
Published projects of an unknown total. The website index reports 154; this record set carries the source-verified subset. The full extraction is logged in the deficiency report.
Seventy-seven years, lit
Milestone revenues appear as discrete labeled points — never a trend line. The 2026 figure is a projection and is labeled as one. Same metric type, different certainty.
PLATE M-100.1- 1949RECORD · A
Founded as Southland Heating — six employees buy the Payne Furnace Long Beach branch for $24,000 (Jun 17)
- 1953RECORD · A
Pasadena office; renamed Southland Heating and Cooling
- 1966RECORD · A
HQ to Long Beach; shift to commercial
- 1968RECORD · A
First design-build project (Oxnard mall)
- 1975RECORD · A
In-house engineering department started
- 1979$11MRECORD · A
Debut in Contracting Magazine 'Book of Giants'
- 1988RECORD · A
Renamed Southland Industries (Mike Moore, CEO)
- 1993$103MRECORD · A
Reno + Las Vegas offices; Ted Lynch joins as first intern
- 1996RECORD · A
Denver, Portland, Houston offices
- 2001RECORD · A
Jim Collins strategy session; pivot to design-build / design-assist
- 2004$258MRECORD · A
Revenue milestone
- 2011$407MRECORD · A
Ted Lynch (first intern, 1993) becomes CEO; enters IPD
- 2015RECORD · A
Launched Envise (controls); added electrical engineering
- 2018$1BRECORD · A
Reached the $1 billion revenue goal
- 2019RECORD · A
Converted S-corp → C-corp to expand employee ownership
- 2020RECORD · A
Acquired Burns Mechanical (Philadelphia); Penn Medicine Pavilion
- 2022RECORD · A
Acquired The Brandt Companies — largest MEP contractor in Texas (Apr 4)
- 2026~$8.5B· PROJECTIONRECORD · A
Projected annual revenue disclosed with CEO succession
- 2026RECORD · A
Jim Meacham becomes CEO; Ted Lynch → Executive Chairman (Oct 1)
Published projects, of an unknown total
The website index reports 154 projects. This set carries the source-verified subset. Each mark keeps its identity as the layout reorganizes.
PLATE M-200.1By completion year, stacked by sector. The 2015–2026 data-center + healthcare wave reads at a glance.
Tap any mark for its submittal. Marks sized by published sq ft only; projects without a published size render uniform, never faked.
Who they build with
Repeat general contractors and owners across the verified census. This loom carries 7 threads.
S3 GRAVITY (constellation view) gated on ≥5 repeat projects — currently 0 attractors, so the loom stays a thread diagram.
PLATE M-300.1#24 → #13
ENR Top 600 Specialty Contractors national rank, inverted so up is better. 2020's national rank is UNKNOWN and drawn as a cloud, not guessed. No revenue appears here.
PLATE E-400.1ENR survey metric, not audited financials. ENR-reported revenue dollars per year are UNKNOWN and listed in the deficiency log. No revenue appears on this sheet.
What they build off-site
PLATE P-500.1Piping · Plumbing · Sheet metal · Electrical assemblies · Multi-trade racks
Mechanical · Piping · Plumbing
Fabrication facilities near each divisional office (size not published)
Fabrication facilities near each divisional office (size not published)
Fabrication facilities near each divisional office (size not published)
The tools of record
A submittal log of the marketed VDC/BIM stack. This sheet records the estate; it does not evaluate it.
PLATE T-600.1What disagrees, on the record
Dulles / Sterling, VA (website metadata, press datelines)
Garden Grove, CA (Glassdoor, Datanyze, aggregators)
Rule · Treat as dual-HQ: Garden Grove is the historical/legal home; Dulles VA is the executive/press base.
~$8.5B (company 2026 forward projection)
$2.1B–$3.5B (aggregator estimates)
Rule · Prefer company-stated forward figure; flag aggregator lag. Never plot with milestone revenues.
5,000+ (company) · 10,000+ (Glassdoor bucket)
~4,500 (LeadIQ) · 2,232 (RocketReach)
Rule · Report four separate labeled facts. Never merge into one number.
390,000 sf (Fort Worth, 2026)
100,000 sf (Dallas) · '140,000 combined' (Facebook, pre-expansion)
Rule · Different facilities / time points, not a true contradiction.
Headcount — four separate facts, never merged
Entity Guard Log
A record you can trust is one that logs its disagreements and what it threw out.
What's still rising
Active entries are drawn wireframe. The "100+ active projects in Texas" claim renders as a labeled Class C statement — not as 100 marks.
PLATE M-700.1
PLATE M-700.2Intern to CEO, twice
On October 1, 2026, a CEO who started as an intern hands the company to another CEO who started as an intern. Southland is a 100% employee-owned C-corporation (converted 2019).
of employees say it's a great place to work (vs 57% at a typical U.S. company). Certified 5 consecutive years.
2 million hours without a recordable incident, through 213 days over 100°F (North Texas data-center project)
What they say about themselves
This sheet records Southland's own public profile — captured from southlandind.com in 2026-09. It is their statement, dated to capture, not ours. Where their site disputes itself or another source, the disagreement is filed as an open RFI — not resolved here.
Five capabilities
Collaborating for constructability — we engineer innovative MEP systems that meet your performance goals.
Transforming design into reality — prefabricated, modular, and custom systems with expert craftsmanship.
Revolutionizing construction — first-of-kind modules for fast-paced, hyperscale megaprojects.
Better building performance and management — mechanical service, building automation, and controls.
Optimizing your building through energy efficiency — performance-based energy solutions.
Twelve markets
Delivery methods
Named acquisitions
Envise was launched in-house (2015), not acquired.
Office footprint — as published
California & Pennsylvania rows verbatim from live state pages. V.I.F. regions are secondary-sourced counts — verify against live /contact/locations/<state> before treating as firm.
A system isn't finished when it's installed. It's finished when it runs.
PLATE CX.1Coverage by division
Coverage by decade
Deficiency log — what this set does not yet hold
- Full 154-project census extraction from southlandind.com/projects
- CSLB (California) license number + classifications
- OSHA and Cal/OSHA establishment records; EMR
- Litigation docket (PACER + TX/CA state)
- ENR-reported revenue dollars per year (behind ENR paywall)
- State license numbers (NV / OR / WA / VA / MD / TX)
- Wayback snapshots 2010–2026 for division / leadership history
- Prefab shop sizes for CA / VA / NV / OR / PA / AZ (published: 'near each divisional office')