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Changes at WDP & Associates

Whitlock Dalrymple Poston & Associates, P.C. (WDP), a consulting engineering firm based in Manassas, Va., promoted J. Eric Peterson, P.E., to senior associate. Peterson has led a variety of large-scale repair projects during his 11 years with WDP. He has worked primarily with forensic investigations of structural and architectural deficiencies in buildings and other structures.

The firm has also promoted Keith Kesner, Ph.D., P.E., to associate. Kesner, who was recently named an ACI Fellow, is a structural engineer with more than 15 years of professional experience and is the author/co-author of more than 80 publications and presentations on a variety of structural engineering topics.

WDP opened a new corporate headquarters at 10621 Gateway Blvd. in Manassas, Va., to allow for the continued expansion and growth of its northern Virginia office. The two-story, 30,000-square-foot building was designed by Loveless Porter Architects of Manassas and built by Costello Construction of Maryland Inc. of Columbia, Md.
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