22 | September/October 2014
The Big Picture
News from Davey's corporate office.
F
rom everyday, onsite interaction at Davey's
adjacent, Chantilly-based R/C and CLS
offices, to new project opportunities from one
of the company's most recent acquisitions,
there's no doubt a melting pot of Davey
services exists in and around the U.S. capital.
In fact, several service lines had office spaces
and project sites to highlight during The Davey
Tree Expert Company's board of directors'
visit to the area in mid-July—with the purpose
of introducing directors to Davey managers
and crewmembers, as well as the range of work
they complete on a daily basis.
Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI),
first welcomed the directors to its Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED)-certified facility in Gainesville, Virginia,
for a guided building tour and an introduction
to the services and projects in which its team
is involved. From the facility's Low Impact
Development (LID) stormwater management
strategies to its solar energy system, the direc-
tors learned a lot about WSSI's efforts
in sustainability.
To become more familiar with Davey's
typical daily operations, the directors visited
the Northern Virginia R/C and Dulles CLS
offices in Chantilly, where several managers led
them through the property and shared their
capabilities and collaborative opportunities.
The Northern Virginia R/C team specifically
highlighted climbing capabilities at the tour's
next stop, a residential property in Vienna,
Virginia, where crewmembers removed a large
oak tree from the edge of the property—
unassisted by equipment.
Representatives from three different entities—
Davey, The Care of Trees and WSSI—then
greeted the directors at Arlington National
Cemetery, where they described how individual
services have contributed to one common goal:
To help preserve the landscape surrounding
sacred gravesites of thousands of Americans.
For example, Davey's CLS team mows 620
acres, trims 320,000 headstones and prepares
and sods 7,800 gravesites each year, and WSSI
prepared a stream restoration design for the
27-acre Millennium Project—all while more
than 30 daily funerals and 500 annual special
ceremonies occur at the cemetery. In addition
to Davey's and WSSI's contributions, The Care
of Trees has performed tree removal, stump
grinding, mulch installation, root pruning, tree
planting and supplemental watering for the
Potomac interceptor project, and its crews are
contracted to root prune along construction
limits to minimize root damage during the
Millennium Project.
As the directors entered American
Horticultural Society's property at River Farm
Collaboration stands strong—and continues
to grow—within Davey's Mid-Atlantic region.
Mike Ronayne deep-root fertilizes a Kentucky
coffee tree at the American Horticultural Society
headquarters at River Farm in Alexandria, Virginia.
Destination:
Washington, D.C.
