DVIDS – News – MIDLANT Employee Selected as NAVFAC Architect, Landscape Architect, and Interior Designer of the Year for 2023

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From Naval Services Engineering Units Command Mid-Atlantic Public Affairs

NORFOLK, VA – Naval Services Engineering Techniques Command (NAVFAC) a short while ago declared Geoff Malia, R.A., as their range as the NAVFAC Architect, Landscape Architect, and Inside Designer of the Calendar year for 2023.

“Please be part of me in congratulating Geoff Malia from NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic on his variety as the 2023 NAVFAC Architect, Landscape Architect, and Interior Designer (ALAID) of the Calendar year,” reported NAVFAC Commander/Chief of Engineers Rear Adm. Dean VanderLey. “Being an engineering command, the relevance of architecture, landscape architecture, and inside structure in the delivery of our jobs and amenities can from time to time simply go disregarded and be underappreciated. That is why I am particularly proud to be the inaugural presenter of this new yearly award!”

Malia, who is now serving as the Deputy General public Performs Officer at General public Is effective Division (PWD) Terrific Lakes, Illinois, served as the undertaking manager and engineering department head there, main a team that done $80 million of style and design, building, and facilities administration get the job done throughout six states. In 2022, he managed NAVFAC MIDLANT’s greatest structural inspection software, conducting many inspections in-household and finishing them in advance of program. He also lent his knowledge to the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers all through the COVID-19 pandemic, handling jobs to generate subject hospitals and beds for individuals in just an expedited delivery timeframe.

Malia was to start with chosen as the NAVFAC MIDLANT (Echelon IV) ALAID of the Yr for 2023, late previous year, prior to likely on to compete for this larger-level award. All nominees ended up evaluated in the locations of achievements in their respective discipline, civic and humanitarian actions, expert registration, continuing education and learning, awards and honors, and experienced/complex modern society involvement.

“This award speaks volumes to Geoff’s expertise and allows shine a gentle on the terrific contributions he tends to make each working day at NAVFAC MIDLANT and inside the Style and Building local community at-large,” reported NAVFAC MIDLANT Commanding Officer Capt. Matt Riethmiller. “He was chosen from an amazing record of certified candidates, and I’m honored to join Rear Adm. VanderLey in saying ‘Congratulations’ on his assortment. I search forward to additional fantastic contributions from Geoff and our Good Lakes Community Functions group.”

Malia, who was born in Toledo, Ohio and at the moment resides in Arlington Heights, Illinois, retains a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a Grasp of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Engineering in Chicago, Illinois. His mothers and fathers, Steve and Mary Malia, are living in Maumee, Ohio.

“I’m ecstatic this award was established for the technological communities. Never ever would I have anticipated to be chosen, allow by itself the first recipient, but I’m amazingly humbled,” claimed Malia, who arrived to function for NAVFAC MIDLANT at PWD Terrific Lakes in 2012. “This award is the consequence of a number of incredible groups leaning forward to execute incredible perform, and I could not be prouder of their efforts. I continue to be impressed by the level of commitment, can-do spirit, and specialized competency of our individuals.”

NAVFAC MIDLANT delivers services engineering, general public operates and environmental products and solutions and solutions throughout an space of duty that spans from South Carolina to Maine, and as significantly west as Michigan, and down to Indiana. As an integral member of the Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic team, NAVFAC MIDLANT presents management by way of the Regional Engineer firm to guarantee the region’s amenities and infrastructure are managed efficiently and proficiently.

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