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At Dudek, we want to build good relationships, effective collaborations, and successful projects; that is, we want happy, satisfied clients and staff.

Complying with today’s complex and interdependent regulatory laws is difficult and frustrating. To get projects approved and built requires an experienced professional team that understands each client’s needs and goals, and those of the regulatory community. The Dudek team carefully listens to and collaborates with our clients, public officials and regulators, and often the public to achieve successful results. It requires knowledge, energy, patience, responsiveness and technical know-how.

Founded in California in 1980, we have accumulated and honed our professional skills in one of the world’s largest and most stringent regulatory environments. Expanding now in the western United States, we repeatedly apply those skills to help our clients manage, repair, restore, build, maintain, and operate their infrastructure and natural resources.

We understand concerned citizenry, environmental goals and constraints, overlapping political jurisdictions, and unique technical and regulatory challenges. Our team will make your job easier and your project a success.

Thank you all for your continued and growing support.

We find solutions for our clients that are scientifically sound, legally compliant, and practical in implementation. And, we equip and empower our project managers to find a clear path in the face of regulatory challenges. That focus is in line with our passion to deliver results, and to make our clients successful.

One thing that attracted me to a career in environmental planning was a fascination with the interplay between science and policy. Where the objective of science is discovery, the outcome of policy needs to be a decision. We Americans have a proud tradition of balancing economic and technological progress and growth with a cautious consideration of the consequences of that growth.

I am fortunate to be part of a team of experts that understands such a balance, and more importantly, understands how environmental laws and regulations are developed, interpreted, and applied.

Exploring, innovating, and questioning have always come naturally to me. I am a problem solver and I love science. I find that building relationships, seeking common ground, and celebrating success have honed my entrepreneurial spirit as well as my desire to build better communities. No wonder it is so easy, every morning, to come work at Dudek, a place that shares and reinforces my values.

We have a saying at Dudek – “more isn’t better, better is better!” This applies to more than our day-to-day work. It speaks to how we are structured, how we conduct business, and how we interact with our clients. As a result:

You’ll enjoy working with our team – we only hire employees that align with our culture of providing high-value service with a positive attitude. I’m always amazed what people can accomplish when you allow them to focus on what they do best, provide them with the tools they need to be successful, and get out of their way!

You won’t find unnecessary bureaucratic layers at Dudek – we value operational efficiency, transparency, and individual accountability, eliminating the need for middle managers and wasteful processes. As an employee-owned firm, we are all invested in our client’s success.

You’ll always get knowledgeable, responsive, and practical solutions – we emphasize the importance of rigorous analysis in successful problem solving and understand that accurately defining a problem is the crucial foundation to solving it.

Problems are my passion. Whether figuring out how to design a treatment system that is both robust and economical, or how to balance staffing to assure that we will be responsive and meet our deadlines, while providing a high quality work product, I embrace the opportunity to solve problems.

We provide exceptional engineering service; we are also a business, and I love the challenges that presents. Whereas engineering may appear to be two dimensional, a business has three dimensions. People are the third dimension. Ronald Reagan was known to surround himself with the best people possible, and I’ve been blessed to work for the best clients along with exceptional fellow Dudekians.

Trust, persistence, and laughter––that’s my ‘secret sauce’ of being successful. Email me your secret sauce for success. I’d enjoy hearing from you.

I like solving mysteries. Uncertainty is inherent in working with groundwater; there is always much more that we do not know about the subsurface than we do know. The trick is to remain flexible in our thinking to understand what new data have to tell us. Generally, there are no anomalous data, only data that do not fit our preconceived notions. Conceptual models are meant to evolve with new data.

Curious people can find any problem interesting. If you give them a light rein while working on the problem, they come up with a good solution. As my old foreman used to say, “Pete, do you know why I like to hit myself on the head with a hammer so much? Because it feels so good when I stop.” Taking a step back and looking at the problem from a different angle might reveal a better way to do things.

We have the privilege to construct native habitat for our clients’ projects that may have spent years in the permitting, design, and funding stages, and we specialize in navigating the regulatory agency compliance process while building successful projects.

Our projects take us from saltwater marshes and coastal dunes to Sierra intermountain streams to desert dunes and habitats. Being a part of a team of expert tradesmen, engineers, biologists, architects and regulatory experts that can utilize our large fleet of specialized low-ground pressure equipment allows us to successfully construct diverse native habitat in California and the Western United States.

We are driven by our mission statement: “Redefining mitigation to better serve our clients and nature”. Our focus is on establishing long-term collaborative relationships with our clients while successfully achieving cost-effective regulatory agency sign-off criteria. Helping our clients be successful is directly linked with HRS’ success in being a zero-debt, employee-owned, design-build general engineering construction firm.