Business View Magazine | October 2020

44 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 ASTRUCTURE, INC. C W & Sons Infrastructure, Inc. is an underground utility company specializing in the installation and maintenance of conduit, manholes, and box tunnels for the public and private sectors. It was established in 2009 by Christopher Welch, who, at the time, was working as a superintendent for another utility contractor in the Washington, D.C. area. “We got our first contract in November of that year, working for Gaghan Mechanical at the DOJ (Department of Justice) building on Pennsylvania Avenue,” Welch recounts. “In the beginning of 2010, D.C. got back-to-back, one-foot snowstorms within a week of each other, and at that point, we were given a bunch of snow contracts. In mid-2010, with the money I had saved with all the snow work and the DOJ job, I left my employer and went to work for myself, full-time.” “As of today, we’re at 105 employees,” says General Manager, Dusty Harbaugh. “Our main office is located in Washington, D.C, and we have small job site yards around the District – they come and go depending on contracts - and we also have a shop in Upper Marlboro, A CONTRACTOR OF CHOICE Leadership Team of CW & Sons, led by Chis Welch & Wife Cynthia (center)