Comprehensive Solutions—Integrated Approach
Willdan Group, Inc. (Willdan) is a provider of professional technical and
consulting services that ensure the quality, value, and security of our nation's
infrastructure, systems, facilities, and environment. The firm has pursued two
primary service objectives since its inception in 1964—ensuring the success of
its clients and enhancing its surrounding communities. In doing so, Willdan has
gained a notable reputation for technical excellence, cost-effectiveness, and
client responsiveness in providing superior consulting services. The company's
service offerings span a broad set of complementary disciplines that include
engineering and planning, energy efficiency and sustainability, financial and economic consulting, and national preparedness. Willdan has crafted this set of
integrated services so that, in the face of an evolving environment—whether
economic, natural, or built—Willdan can continue to extend the reach and
resources of its clients.
Willdan has hundreds of employees operating out of offices located throughout California, as well as in New York, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and the District of Columbia.
Through our wholly-owned subsidiaries—Willdan Engineering, Willdan Energy
Solutions, Willdan Financial Services, and Willdan Homeland Solutions—Willdan
offers comprehensive services that are summarized below.
Willdan has been delivering skilled, integrated, cost-effective engineering and planning services to its clients for close to 50 years. Whether you need one on-site staff expert or a full project team that can tap our nationwide resources and expertise, Willdan combines multidisciplinary experience and expertise, technical excellence, and management proficiency to deliver flexible, practical solutions at the lowest possible cost.
Willdan has provided superior engineering and planning consulting services for close to 50
years. During that time, Willdan has earned an outstanding reputation as problem
solvers by successfully delivering comprehensive, yet tailored, solutions to
meet the specific needs of municipalities, counties, and special districts—as
well as state and federal agencies—throughout California, the Southwest, and
nationwide.
Combining an integrated approach with state-of-the-art technical resources,
depth of staffing, and services that are both wide ranging, yet complementary,
Willdan supports all phases of project development from concepts and financing
through final design and construction. Throughout these phases our emphasis is
on strong project management, cost effectiveness, timely performance, and
consistent reciprocal communication—both with our clients and among our internal
and external resources. Our experts
and engineering professionals are adept at communicating their practical
knowledge and technical expertise across disciplines in pursuing the most
practical and effective solution for each project.
Willdan's broad array of engineering and design capabilities encompasses city
and special district engineering, contract staffing, urban and regional
planning, environmental planning, plan checking, building and safety,
program/construction management, public works inspection, disaster recovery, and
infrastructure design including structural, roads and highways, traffic and
transportation, water and wastewater, flood control and drainage, survey and
mapping, GIS, geotechnical and earthquake engineering, and landscape architecture.
Specialties of particular interest to our municipal clients and public agencies
include grant application assistance, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) coordination and compliance, and American with Disabilities Act
(ADA) analysis and compliance.
Specialty areas within our engineering and planning sectors include:
Contract Staffing and Planning. Our understanding of the needs
and challenges facing public agencies is unmatched in the industry. Willdan's
professionals often serve to extend our clients' staff as city engineers and
other public agency positions ranging from full-time, in-house staffing to
interim or part-time assistance. Additionally, a significant portion of our
staff has served in public agency management positions prior to joining
Willdan, infusing our organization with an in-depth understanding of the issues driving
local governments. Regional and satellite
offices are specifically networked and strategically located to offer local, focused
service to the varied demographics of our public agency customers. Consequently,
Willdan's ability to develop innovative yet practical solutions specifically
adapted to the needs of individual communities remains unsurpassed.
Geotechnical. Willdan offers geotechnical engineering, engineering
geology, and construction material testing and inspection services. We also
maintain a full-service soil testing laboratory certified by the City of Los
Angeles and California Department of Transportation. Consulting engineering and
construction support services are provided to public agencies for capital
improvement projects, and to private developers for major civil and commercial/
industrial projects, or as third-party reviews.
Environmental. Willdan provides environmental consulting,
construction, remediation, and engineering services. Our highly experienced team
encompasses many technical disciplines and programs including human health and
ecological risk assessment, toxicology, chemistry, geochemistry, geology,
hydrology, hydrogeology, chemical engineering, environmental engineering,
environmental planning, hazardous materials and waste management, surface/storm
water management, and environmental compliance.
The world is shrinking, and water and energy resources must be cost-effectively and innovatively managed to serve local, national, and global needs. Whether we're helping a private company, local agency, utility, or government agency, Willdan has the requisite engineering expertise, program management skills, and marketing experience to deliver measurable results to our clients and the communities they serve. We are the original sustainability experts–offering next generation expertise in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation, and renewables.
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While globalization makes the world more inclusive, it wakes us to the
necessities of energy and water conservation, innovative resource management,
and sustainability practices at the local level. Willdan understands the
critical need to address these issues and can help your business or agency
achieve true sustainability.
Willdan offers proven expertise in designing, implementing, administering, and
managing energy efficiency and sustainability programs. As one of the pioneering
firms to work with national utilities and government entities on sustainability,
we understand what it takes to implement projects that produce measurable
results. Our suite of expertise and service offerings is founded on our core
specialties—program management, marketing and outreach, and engineering—and
designed to reflect our clients' specific needs. Consequently, we deliver
cost-effective, results-driven, custom solutions that draw from the experience
and talent of nationally recognized industry professionals.
Working with a growing list of clients that includes utilities, state and local
governments, federal agencies, hospitals, schools, and private companies, our
nationally recognized experts bring innovative, sustainable and proven solutions to complex resource
challenges.
Energy Efficiency. Willdan has a proven track record of helping
clients throughout the country reduce energy consumption and meet their energy
goals. We provide complete energy efficiency services, including comprehensive
surveys and audits, marketing services, implementation services, program design,
benchmark analysis, metering, and partnering with local governments and
utilities. We have delivered a broad array of project types and sizes to homes and preschools, commercial
office buildings and hotels, medical facilities, data centers, laboratories and municipal
facilities.
Sustainable Solutions. Central to Willdan's business model is
providing our clients with sustainable solutions that deliver effective green-house gas reduction projects that integrate community development, quality of life, and
economic development priorities.
Water Conservation. As a
recognized leader in water and wastewater management, and offering a full
collection of water and wastewater services, Willdan provides comprehensive
audits and aggressive follow-ups to ensure that project installations result in
actual, measurable conservation savings.
Renewables. Renewables and self-generation projects—including
solar (photo-voltaic), wind, and micro turbines—represent a significant capital
outlay. Willdan will help your organization, public or private, to understand
the complexities surrounding self-generation and demand-response programs. We
are experts in the utilities' incentive and rebate programs, as well as
lease/bond and other low-cost financing options.
Information Technology. Willdan has created award-winning
proposal tracking, project tracking, and reporting applications for the energy
industry. Willdan works with local government and utility customers to tackle IT
challenges ranging from custom software development, support, and maintenance to
uncovering more efficient and cost-effective approaches for running and
implementing data centers of all sizes.
Public agencies at every level are being challenged to deliver enhanced services to a growing population—even while confronting budget constraints and meeting a tangle of reporting and compliance requirements. Willdan can enhance your efficiency, effectiveness, and credibility by helping you to both generate revenue and optimize its administration.
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Willdan is known throughout the country for our revenue
generation, enhancement, and district administration services to public
agencies. For decades, we have delivered high quality services in financial consulting, federal
compliance, and district administration to public agencies and, ultimately, to
the public. Our clients often utilize us as an extension of their staff,
augmenting existing personnel by providing specialized expertise. Our custom
solutions include a proprietary database management program that helps clients
administer specific special charges and parcel taxes, and IT infrastructure
solutions focused on improving staff productivity, reducing user stress, and
providing cost-effective recommendations.
Our financial services team supports clients in more than 800 cities, counties,
state agencies, port authorities, housing agencies, special districts, school
districts and health care agencies in more than 35 states. We further support
our clients by conducting year-round workshops and on-site training to assist
them in keeping current with the latest developments in our areas of expertise,
which include:
September 11, 2001, lent a new urgency to the growing need for national preparedness, homeland security, public safety, and emergency response services. But even before that turning point in national awareness, Willdan had accumulated decades of experience helping clients prepare for the technical, operational, and human challenges that define crisis management. Our experts have helped enhance security measures and readiness at the local, state, and national level.
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Willdan provides national preparedness, homeland security consulting, public safety, and emergency response
services that focus on integrating local resources and assets within state and
federal systems.
What differentiates Willdan is
our staff's uniquely credible and practical expertise. With extensive
hands-on experience in local, state, and federal law enforcement, as well as
fire and related public safety organizations, our outstanding professionals have
served as incident commanders, emergency managers, first responders, and
investigators. Willdan has worked closely with state and federal officials on
many varied aspects of homeland security and public safety, and can provide our clients
with the most effective means of meeting the challenges they face.
Willdan serves a wide variety of clients nationwide, ranging from
municipalities, counties, and state and federal agencies to the private sector
and non-profit organizations. Included among our clients are utilities, water
companies, school districts, port authorities, police and fire departments, and
transit agencies. We are fortunate to be able to call upon Willdan's 48
years of experience and our highly regarded engineering, planning, project
management, financial analysis, and environmental expertise to enhance our
homeland security services.
Communications & Technology. Government agencies face ongoing
challenges that involve conflicting missions (operations issues), jurisdictional
concerns (governance issues), and incompatible systems (technology issues). The
mission of our team is to ensure that emergency responders can communicate, in
support of incident objectives.
Emergency Preparedness Planning. The act of writing an emergency plan
serves as a catalyst for improved safety and security to reduce the risk of an
emergency or disaster. The professionals at Willdan have extensive hands-on
experience and offer services in reviewing, evaluating, designing, and
implementing a multitude of emergency plans, including Emergency Operations,
Hazard Mitigation, Continuity of Operations, and Business Continuity and
Recovery.
Emergency Preparedness Training. Willdan offers a variety of practical
training courses for comprehensive disaster, unusual occurrence and emergency
response. Our Emergency Response
Trainers all have over 20 years of actual experience in emergency
preparedness and response at the local or state level, and are experts in the
integration of local, state, and federal resources during response actions.
Emergency Preparedness Exercises. Customized HSEEP-compliant exercises
include WMDs, terrorism, transportation and natural disasters. Our exercises can
be tailored for single or multi-agency involvement and are fully compliant with
NIMS and the National Response Framework, the Homeland Security Exercise and
Evaluation program, and SEMS (California).
