History of Owner

Dwight H. Snead, Founder and President

Mr. Dwight H. Snead was introduced to the landscaping industry by his father, Grievous Snead, Sr., who supported his wife, eight sons and six daughters by doing small landscaping jobs. After gaining a wealth of experience and knowledge by working full-time in the summer months for his father's business, Mr. Snead decided to apply to the University of Massachusetts to major in landscape operations at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. After graduating from college, he stayed in the New England area and worked in the landscaping business for a sodding company. During his days off, he picked up small landscaping jobs, which resulted in his leaving the sodding company to go into business full-time. With the financial help of his father, he bought a used truck and equipment, and started performing residential landscaping jobs. In 1967, five years after starting his small firm, he decided to enter into the commercial landscaping arena. Subsequently, he brought his equipment to Virginia and rebuilt his customer base.

In the early 70's, Mr. Snead was awarded a major contract by the City of Richmond. This contract provided for the clean-up of water and mud residue resulting from two major floods in the south Richmond area. By the 1980's, Mr. Snead had built his company into one of the area's leading grading and paving subcontractors performing work for some of the largest general building and highway construction firms.

In 1991, Mr. Snead gained admission into the U.S. Small Business Administration's 8(a) program. This enabled him to solidly position the company by building ongoing relationships with an array of federal government agencies. He has since established DSCC as a sought after industry leader with long-term contracts serving many of the area's most prominent public agencies and private companies.

Mr. Snead has received innumerable local, regional and national awards in him more than thirty years of providing exemplary professional leadership in the construction industry. He continues to be active in several construction and minority business organizations, including the Virginia Regional Minority Suppliers Development Council, the Metropolitan Business League, and the Central Virginia Business Contractors Association.

Email Dwight at dwight@sneadconstruction.com