American Infrastructure (AI)
          
        
        
          announced that it has
        
        
          been renamed and branded as
        
        
          
            Allan Myers
          
        
        
          . In addition
        
        
          to AI, the change affects Independence Construction
        
        
          Materials and Allan A. Myers all of which are unified under
        
        
          the new name.
        
        
          
            Donohoe
          
        
        
          
            Construction
          
        
        
          
            Company
          
        
        
          received
        
        
          the
        
        
          “Outstanding Civil Engineering Project” award at the
        
        
          annual American Society of Civil Engineers-National Capital
        
        
          Section banquet for Tysons Corner Center-Residential
        
        
          Phase 1. The project is comprised of a 30-story apartment
        
        
          building with four levels of below-grade parking and a
        
        
          pedestrian bridge connecting the residence to the adjacent
        
        
          Metro station. Donohoe expects the project to achieve the
        
        
          minimum of a LEED Silver certification level.
        
        
          The company also announced that two other projects,
        
        
          VITA Tysons Corner and The Colonel, welcomed their
        
        
          first tenants. VITA Tysons Corner is a LEED Silver, 30-story
        
        
          building containing 429 units above 13,000 square feet
        
        
          of retail space and a direct connection to the Silver Line
        
        
          Metro station. The Colonel, on 9th Street in Washington,
        
        
          DC, features 70 luxury units within a five-story wood frame
        
        
          apartment building over a two-story concrete podium.
        
        
          Amenities include garage parking, a courtyard with a
        
        
          fireplace and a rooftop deck with fire pit, kitchen and
        
        
          theatre space.
        
        
          
            GeoStructures,
          
        
        
          
            Inc.
          
        
        
          announced
        
        
          the addition of Duane Bents to its
        
        
          team as the Southeast Regional
        
        
          Sales Engineer. Bents brings his 13
        
        
          years’ experience as a geotechnical
        
        
          consultant to the firm to assist
        
        
          industry engineers and clients in
        
        
          evaluating innovative technologies
        
        
          to overcome subsurface challenges.
        
        
          
            M. Davis & Sons, Inc.
          
        
        
          , a fifth-generation woman-owned
        
        
          industrial contractor and fabricator headquartered in
        
        
          Wilmington, DE, celebrates 145 years in business. M. Davis
        
        
          serves as an employer to many residents in Delaware,
        
        
          Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.
        
        
          Charlotte McGehee was promoted
        
        
          to the position of branch manager
        
        
          for
        
        
          
            Ruppert Landscape
          
        
        
          ’s new DC
        
        
          landscape
        
        
          management
        
        
          branch.
        
        
          A graduate of the University of
        
        
          Richmond, McGehee is responsible
        
        
          for the overall development and
        
        
          health of the branch. The company
        
        
          also announced the promotions of
        
        
          Joshua Araujo and Mike Lopes in
        
        
          the Alexandria, VA, landscape management branch. With
        
        
          more than nine years of industry experience, Araujo was
        
        
          promoted to area manager. Lopes, who joined Ruppert in
        
        
          2014, was promoted to enhancement manager.
        
        
          In addition,
        
        
          
            Ruppert Landscape
          
        
        
          added three new members to its
        
        
          team. Luke Alexander joined the
        
        
          firm as the national landscape
        
        
          construction division’s estimator;
        
        
          Wendy
        
        
          Hildebrand
        
        
          as
        
        
          the
        
        
          IT
        
        
          application development manager;
        
        
          and Dan Spruill as director of
        
        
          information technology.
        
        
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