D&B Engineers and Architects, a leading engineering and consulting organization headquartered in Woodbury, NY, that specializes in water supply, wastewater management and environmental engineering, has promoted three key employees to Associate: Brittany A. Gaddy of Bayville, NY, Daniel S. Root of Lindenhurst, NY and Carl J. Schmidlapp IV of Glen Cove, NY.

In her new position as Associate, Ms. Brittany A. Gaddy of Bayville, NY, will continue to manage day-to-day activities for many projects within the Environmental Remediation and Multimedia Environmental Compliance Division in D&B’s Woodbury, NY office. Joining the firm in 2014, she currently has over seven years of engineering experience in environmental design, remediation and investigation projects, environmental assessments, multimedia environmental compliance, as well as petroleum and chemical bulk storage tank design, compliance and permitting. Ms. Gaddy began her career with D&B as an engineer and currently serves as project manager for numerous public/private sector client projects including the Town of Brookhaven, Town of Oyster Bay, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and Clean Water of New York. Ms. Gaddy earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Science with a specialization in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Ms. Gaddy is a New York State Engineer-In-Training as well as a Certified Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector.

Mr. Daniel S. Root of Lindenhurst, NY has assumed his new position as Associate at D&B Engineers and Architects where he will continue to manage a number of environmental design and investigation projects within the Environmental Remediation and Multimedia Environmental Compliance Division in D&B’s Woodbury, NY office. Mr. Root who joined D&B in 2014 as an engineer after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University, is an environmental engineer with more than seven years of experience working on a variety of environmental design and investigation projects, including preparation of contract documents for the design and construction of soil vapor mitigation systems, implementation of petroleum spill remediation and UST closure projects, oversight of milestone inspections, management of the water disinfection and boiler and gas conversion projects.

In his new role as Associate with D&B Engineers and Architects, Mr. Carl J. Schmidlapp of Glen Cove, NY will continue to manage day-to-day activities on a number of ongoing projects within D&B’s Environmental Remediation and Multimedia Environmental Compliance Division and he will also focus on the growth of D&B’s Drone Division in the Woodbury, NY office. Mr. Schmidlapp joined D&B in 2012 and currently has more than nine years of experience working on a variety of environmental projects including implementation of site characterization, environmental assessments, investigations and remediation projects for brownfield and petroleum contaminated sites, as well as in multimedia environmental compliance. He began his career with D&B as an environmental scientist and currently holds project manager positions for numerous public/private sector client projects including several New York State Superfund Remediation projects with the NYSDEC as well as remediation projects for the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.  Mr. Schmidlapp earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies from Hobart College.  He is a Certified Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector and licensed FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot.

D&B Engineers and Architects President Steven A. Fangmann, P.E., BCEE commented, “Ms. Gaddy, Mr. Root and Mr. Schmidlapp have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the firm and to the clients D&B serves. They are true assets to D&B and I wish them many more years of success in their new positions.”