特朗普总统打算提名华盛顿大都会机场管理局高级工程经理J. Brett Blanton，担任国会大厦的下一位建筑师，白宫拥有宣布。
The AOC's office is responsible for design, construction, maintenance and operations of the U.S. Capitol, and such other nearby landmarks as the Library of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court building and Senate and House office buildings—more than 18.4 million sq ft of facilities in all.
先前的AOC Stephen T. Ayers于2018年11月退休。代理AOC是该办公室11年的老将Thomas J. Carroll III。
参议院规则和行政委员会正在迅速发展：它计划于12月12日为布兰顿举行确认听证会。
根据白宫12月9日的宣布，布兰顿在海军的职业生涯漫长，在2015年退休之前已有22年的时间，并且是海军土木工程师军团的成员，他在那里监督了主要的基础设施项目。新利18备用网址
根据布兰顿的LinkedIn页面, he has held his present post at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) since January 2017. Before that, he was a vice president with ATCS PLC, an engineering firm based in Herndon, Va.
Roger Natsuhara, the authority's senior vice president of engineering, said in a statement to ENR that Blanton "is a valued member of the airports authority team, overseeing a number of key projects."
Jeff Urbachuk, a spokesman for the American Council of Engineering Companies, said in an email, "Our members in the greater Washington, D.C., area have worked with Brett in the past and we've heard he is smart, fair, professional and comes to the table with an inherent understanding of the client-consulting engineer relationship."
The LinkedIn page also says Blanton, a Naval Academy graduate, was the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Joint Engineer from 2011 to 2014. Before that, he was executive assistant to the Navy's assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment.
Story updated on 12/10/19 with comments from MWAA and ACEC.
