CONTACT US SEARCH CLIENT SIGN-IN YOUR SECTOR YOUR GOAL OUR WORK OUR FIRM YOUR CAREER OUR FIRM / OUR HISTORY OUR HISTORY Since 1980, Dudek has grown from a two-person, Southern California-focused engineering firm to a 700-person, national, multidisciplinary environmental and engineering firm. With projects in 44 states, Dudek is ranked as one of the Top 120 U.S. Environmental Firms (Engineering News-Record, 2021). LEARN MORE ABOUT US REFLECTIONS Frank Dudek, Founder “From my 41 years as founder and leader at Dudek, I have three basic takeaways. First, experiencing tremendous satisfaction in helping build a successful, sustainable, and growing consulting firm throughout California—and now well beyond. Second, achieving an early goal I set for myself: to assemble such a diverse and competent management and professional staff that it renders its founder non-essential to the continued success of the firm. And third, accomplishing this with a simple management philosophy: to provide unwavering trust and support, along with meaningful rewards and opportunity for ownership, with minimal bureaucracy.” Joe Monaco, President and CEO “I joined Dudek in 2000. What I remember most clearly from those early days is a feeling of opportunity—but also, that we had a lot of work ahead of us to reach our aspirational goals! I never would have imagined back then that we would have achieved so much today: a nationwide presence, successful ownership and leadership transitions, a robust corporate culture that reflects our strong core values, and financial growth to a record and milestone level of $100M in gross revenue. Reflecting on my time here, my feeling of opportunity has only grown and now encompasses the retrospective and the prospective. We have seen great success by identifying and leveraging opportunities throughout the years. By doing so, we continue to create more and better opportunities to work on interesting projects, to develop our careers, to be an industry leader, and to have fun doing it.” Read more reflections from some of our longest-serving Dudekians Dudek History 1980 Dudek Founded Dudek opens its doors in downtown Encinitas, California as a small civil engineering consulting practice working for municipal wastewater agencies and private land developers in San Diego County. 1985 Construction Management Practice Started The firm launches its construction management practice focused on Southern California developments and infrastructure. 1986 District Management Practice Launched The District Management practice is launched, widening the scope of services offered to our water district clients. 1990 Environmental Practice Started The Environmental practice is launched to help clients navigate projects through California’s complex environmental regulatory permitting and documentation processes. 1992 Hydrogeology/Hazardous Waste Practice Launched Dudek’s hydrogeology practice is launched to tackle projects requiring the extraction and treatment of contaminated groundwater/soils and recharge of water/treated wastewater. 1995 Central Coast Expansion Dudek opens its first regional office in Santa Barbara, expanding into California’s Central Coast, with a focus on local development and permitting. 1996 Orange County Office Opening Office is established in Orange, California, expanding our geographic reach for water district and city clients. 1997 Staff Grows To 50 50 Dudekians work in 3 offices across California. Inland Empire Expansion Dudek moves into Palm Desert, California to focus on civil engineering and habitat conservation planning throughout the vast and diverse Coachella Valley. 2000 Staff Expands To 100 100 Dudekians work in 3 offices across California. 2003 ESOP Created The firm creates an ESOP to protect and further develop employee ownership. 2004 HRS Founded HRS (Habitat Restoration Sciences), our habitat restoration construction subsidiary is founded, branching out from and complementing our habitat restoration design practice. 2006 Northern California Expansion Dudek moves into Northern California with an office in Auburn focused on preserving and planning for the Sierra foothills and surrounding regions. 2007 Staff Grows To 200 200 Dudekians work in 5 offices across California. 2010 Sacramento Office Opening Sacramento office opens adding planning and environmental regulatory experts proximate to our state agency clients. 2013 Bay Area Expansion The firm opens two Bay Area offices in Larkspur and San Francisco to service a diverse set of clients spread geographically around the Bay. LA Metro Area Expansion Dudek establishes Pasadena office, positioning the firm to service Los Angeles County clients on large infrastructure and planning projects. Staff Expands To 300 300 Dudekians work in 8 offices across California. 2016 Pacific Expansion The firm goes west, expanding into Hawai’i to establish our UAS (drone survey) practice. Santa Cruz Office Opening Dudek widens its Central Coast presence with the opening of an office in Santa Cruz focused on local agency and statewide education system clients. Northwest Expansion Dudek adds a Portland office to serve as a base for the multifaceted needs of our Pacific Northwest clients. 2017 Oakland Office Opening Dudek’s Bay Area presence continues to evolve to suit the needs of city and agency clients around the bay, consolidating into a single office in downtown Oakland, California. Joe Monaco Named President The firm transitions leadership for the first time with the appointment of Joe Monaco, AICP, who serves as President and CEO. Staff Grows To 400 400 Dudekians work in 12 offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaiʻi. 2018 Staff Expands To 500 500 Dudekians work in 12 offices across the western United States. 2019 Bakersfield Office Opening The firm opens an office in Bakersfield to service Central Valley clients. Eastern Expansion Dudek crosses the nation, opening our first eastern office in Lake Worth Beach, Florida to service our renewable energy clients. San Diego Office Opening An office in San Diego proper is established in close proximity to some of our biggest and oldest hometown clients. 2020 Virginia Office Opening Dudek establishes an office in downtown Norfolk, Virginia to serve our ever expanding energy clients as they work to meet new and growing renewable portfolio standards. Dudek Celebrates 40th Anniversary Dudek serves clients in every resource and infrastructure-related sector. Our team consists of 15 major practice groups. Our 600+ employees work in 16 offices nationwide. Our projects span more than 40 states. 2021 Mountain West Expansion The firm opens an office in Denver, Colorado to further service clients in the Mountain West and beyond. Staff Expands To 700 700 Dudekians work in 17 offices across the United States. YOUR SECTOR Water Energy Transportation Cities Education Development Resource Management Port and Harbor Healthcare YOUR GOAL Environmental Planning Lasting Infrastructure Human Placemaking Reliable Power Streamlined Construction Digital Innovation OUR WORK Services Projects Insights OUR FIRM Our History Our Culture Practice Leaders Operational Leaders Locations YOUR CAREER Open Positions Join Talent Community CONTACT US Newsletter Signup © 2021 Dudek. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use