For the third year running, AEC manned a booth at Miss Mary's Ice Cream Crankin'. The annual event was held in the scenic Roswell Town Square, just around the corner from the AEC office. Featuring live music, hundreds of homemade ice cream flavors, and sugar-hyped kids, the event raised roughly $50,000 for the Drake House--a local organization dedicated to helping families recover from financial crisis. 

This year, AEC cranked out a mix of time-tested and nontraditional flavors. President Chris Finke delivered the classic "Cookies-N-Cream", while Victoria Myrick's "Cake Batter" was a hit with all ages. In addition to AEC's unparalleled signage, Landscape Architect Bradley Riffel whipped up "Blueberry Cobbler": a creamy mix of hand-picked blueberries and crunchy pastry bits. Keeping the team cutting edge, Eric Turner and his wife churned up a matcha-packed "Green Tea" ice cream. Sadly, Mark Van de Water's chocolate chip concoctions did not make an appearance as they have the previous two years.

Unlike in 2014, where we took home the prize for Best Chocolate (with the aptly named "Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate"), AEC left empty-handed this year. Now, if we can get our ice cream crankin' on level with our engineering, we'll sweep the 2017 awards.

AEC Inc. is proud to be a part of the Myrtle Terraces project in Gainsville, Georgia, which received the 22nd annual Charles L. Edson Tax Credit Excellence Award (Senior Housing catergory), honoring the most outstanding Low Income Housing Tax Credit properties nationwide. This project is one of the nearly 3 million Housing Credit properties across America which make up the majority of affordable rental houses. The award was presented at the Rayburn House Congressional Office Building in Washington, D.C. on June 8th, 2016, with members of Congress in attendance.  

Myrtle Terraces is a senior living facility with 84 apartments, a community garden, a fitness center, activity/game rooms, a landscaped courtyard with a water feature, a grilling area, and a picnic area, as well as many other amenities. AEC teamed up with Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Affordable Equity Partners Inc., the City of Gainesville,  Fairway Construction Co., and Beverly J. Searles Foundation to bring the project to life.  AEC was responsible for the civil engineering and landscape architecture of the project. 

Signaling an exciting expansion to the popular parks along Roswell’s piece of the Chattahoochee River, the groundbreaking ceremony for Phase IV of Willeo Trail on May 11, 2016 was a well-attended celebration of the three-quarter mile pedestrian project.

The AEC staff joined the Mayor of Roswell Jere Wood, Councilwoman Nancy Diamond, Councilman Jerry Orlans, and other City of Roswell staff, along with representatives from the Chattahoochee Nature Center and the National Park Service in celebration.  AEC was responsible for the planning, permitting, and design of the project.

The groundbreaking marked the beginning of construction on the three-quarter mile pedestrian trail.  The trail will wind along Willeo Road before passing over adjacent wetlands, connecting Willeo Road to Azalea Drive.  AEC is proud to be an integral part of this anticipated project and is looking forward to nearby leisurely strolls through the national park, located only two miles away from the AEC office.

​AEC, Inc. celebrated the groundbreaking of the new KeHE facility in Douglasville on Friday October 16, 2015.  In attendance at this event was the Developer- Scannell Properties, the contractor- Evans Construction, the architect- Randall Paulson, the Mayor of Douglasville Harvey Persons, several City officials and representatives of the end user KeHE. 
AEC provided Site Planning, Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture for the 450,000 s.f. office, warehouse and distribution center set in a wooded campus surrounded by several creeks and tree save areas.  Special care was taken by AEC in the site design and engineering of the site to preserve the existing creeks, respect the existing wetlands and preserve many of the large trees surrounding the site.
This new KeHE facility will serve much of the Southeast United States and will provide up to 300 jobs for the area.  AEC is proud to be a part of the design team and looks forward to the successful completion of this project.