In December of 1969, Thomas E. Doster starts Doster Construction Company, Inc. in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. In the beginning, the new company was a one-man show that was sometimes operated out of the trunk of Mr. Doster’s car. In the early days, the family company consisted of three employees with Mr. Doster managing projects and his wife, Sissy, managing payroll, accounting and the back house of the business.