Willdan Group, Inc., incorporated on February 13, 2006, is a holding company. The Company provides professional technical and consulting services to utilities, private industry and public agencies at all levels of government, primarily in California and New York. The Company enables its clients to provide a range of specialized services without having to incur and maintain the overhead necessary to develop staffing in-house. The Company operates through four segments: Energy Efficiency Services, Engineering Services, Public Finance Services and Homeland Security Services. The Company assists its clients with a range of complementary services relating to energy efficiency and sustainability, engineering and planning, economic and financial consulting, and national preparedness and interoperability. The Company serves public and governmental agencies, including cities, counties, public utilities, redevelopment agencies, water districts, school districts and universities, state agencies, federal agencies, a range of other special districts and agencies, private utilities and industry and tribal governments.
Energy Efficiency Services
The Company's Energy Efficiency Services segment consists of the business of its subsidiary, Willdan Energy Solutions (WES), which offers energy efficiency and sustainability consulting services to utilities, public agencies and private industry. WES's energy efficiency services include surveys, program design, master planning, benchmarking analysis, installation, alternative financing, and measurement and verification services. It provides energy efficiency consulting and engineering services, including program design, management and administration; marketing, customer outreach, and project origination; energy audits and feasibility analyses; retro-commissioning; implementation, training and management; data management and reporting; retro-commissioning services, and measurement and verification services. It assists utilities and governmental clients with the design, development and implementation of energy efficiency plans and programs, which include energy efficiency design, outreach implementation, water conservation, renewable and Green House Gas (GHG) reduction strategies. It assists clients, including utilities, schools and private companies, in developing and managing facilities and infrastructures through a practical approach to facility management. Its services cover audits, local compliance, operations and maintenance review, renewable energy planning, master plans, infrastructure analysis, engaged in energy and environmental design (LEED) certification for buildings, and energy spend and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies. It provides turnkey/design-build facility and infrastructure improvement projects to a range of public and private clients, including municipalities, county governments, public and private K-12 schools, and higher education institutions. Its services cover preliminary planning, project design, construction management, commissioning and post-project support, and measurement and verification services.
Engineering Services
The Company's Engineering Services segment includes the operations of its subsidiaries, Willdan Engineering, Willdan Infrastructure and Public Agency Resources (PARs). Willdan Engineering provides civil engineering-related and city planning services, geotechnical and other engineering consulting services to its clients. Willdan Infrastructure provides engineering services to rail, port, water, mining and other civil engineering projects. PARs provides staffing to Willdan Engineering. Its engineering-related services include building and safety, city engineering, code enforcement, development review, disaster recovery, environmental engineering, geotechnical, landscape architecture, planning, program and construction management, contract staff support services, structures, survey, traffic, transportation and water resources. The Company's building and safety services range from managing and staffing an entire municipal building department to providing specific outsourced services, such as plan review and field inspections. Other related services that it offers include performing accessibility compliance and providing disaster recovery teams, energy compliance evaluations, permit processing and issuance, seismic retrofitting programs, and structural plan review. Its city engineering services range from staffing an entire engineering department to carrying out specific projects within a municipality, such as developing a pavement management program or reviewing engineering plans on behalf of a city.
The Company's code enforcement and neighborhood preservation services include reviewing, studying and analyzing existing programs, developing and implementing community educational programs, developing ordinances and writing grant proposals, and providing project managers and/or supervisors. It offers development plan review and inspection services, including Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, preliminary and final plats (maps), grading and drainage, complete infrastructure improvements for residential site plans, commercial site plans, industrial developments, subdivision and master planned developments. Its disaster recovery services include assisting communities in the disaster recovery process following earthquakes, firestorms, mudslides and other natural disasters. Its environmental services encompass technical disciplines and programs, including environmental assessments and audits, environmental characterization and assessment, soil and groundwater investigations, and information technology services. Its geotechnical and earthquake engineering services include soil engineering, earthquake and seismic hazard studies, geology and hydrogeology engineering, and construction inspection. Its services in the area of landscape architecture include design, landscape management, urban forestry and planning.
The Company assists communities with a range of planning services, from the preparation of long-range policy plans to assistance with the day-to-day operations of a planning department. For several cities, it provides contract staff support. It provides environmental documentation services (including National Environmental Policy Act, California Environmental Quality Act, and Environmental Impact Report compliance and document preparation), mitigation monitoring programs and third party environmental review. It also provides urban planning and design services focused on investigation of specific planning and design issues and the formulation of plans, policies and strategies for communities as a whole or for specific study areas. It provides program and construction management services include construction administration, inspection, observation, labor compliance and community relations. It provides cities and counties with both interim and long-term contract staff support services, including capital improvement planning, contract administration and code enforcement management. Its structural engineering services include bridge design, bridge evaluation and inspection, highway and railroad bridge planning and design, highway interchange design, railroad grade separation design, bridge seismic retrofitting, building design and retrofit, sound wall and retaining wall design, and planning and design for bridge rehabilitation and replacement. Its surveying and mapping services include construction layout, design survey, topographic survey, aerial mapping, geographic information systems and right-of-way engineering. Its traffic engineering services include serving as the contract city traffic engineer in communities, as well as performing design and traffic planning projects for its clients. Its transportation engineering services cover a full spectrum of support functions, including right of way, utility relocation, landscape, survey and mapping, geographic information systems, public outreach and interagency coordination. It assists clients in addressing the facets of water development, treatment, distribution and conservation, including energy savings, technical, financial, legal, political and regulatory requirements. It designs open and closed storm drain systems and detention basin facilities, for cities, counties and the Army Corp of Engineers.
Public Finance Services
The Company's Public Finance Services segment consists of the business of its subsidiary, Willdan Financial Services, which offers economic and financial consulting services to public agencies. It supplies support for the various financing techniques employed by public agencies to finance their operations and infrastructure. It also supports the mandated reporting and other requirements associated with these financings. Its services in this segment include district administration, financial consulting and federal compliance. District administration includes administering special districts on behalf of public agencies. The types of special districts administered include community facilities districts in California, Mello-Roos districts, assessment districts, landscape and lighting districts, school facilities improvement districts, benefit assessment districts, fire suppression districts and business improvement districts. Its administration services include calculating the annual levy for each parcel in the district; billing charges directly or through a county tax roll; preparing the annual Engineer?ÇÖs Report, budget and resolutions; reporting on collections and payment status; calculating prepayment quotes, and providing financial analyses, modeling and budget forecasting. It also includes a software package, MuniMagic, a database management program that maintains parcel data; calculates special taxes, assessments, fees and charges; manages payment tracking; maintains bond-related information in a single, central location, and provides reporting, financial modeling and analysis at multiple levels of detail.
Financial consulting includes economic analyses and financial projects for public agencies, including fee and rate studies, such as cost allocation studies and user fee analysis; utility rate analysis for water, wastewater and stormwater; fiscal and economic impact analysis; strategic economic development and redevelopment plans; real estate and market analysis associated with planning efforts, and development fee studies; proposition 218 studies, assessment balloting, and re-engineering; special district formation, and other special projects. Federal compliance offers federal compliance services to issuers of municipal securities, which can be cities, towns, school districts, housing authorities and other entities that are eligible to issue tax-exempt securities. It provides arbitrage rebate calculations and municipal disclosure services that help issuers remain in compliance with federal regulations.
Homeland Security Services
The Company's Homeland Security Services segment consists of the business of its subsidiary, Willdan Homeland Solutions, which offers national preparedness and interoperability services, and communications and technology solutions. Its services include emergency preparedness planning, emergency preparedness training, emergency preparedness exercises, communications and technology, and water security. Emergency preparedness planning services includes designing, developing, implementing, reviewing and evaluating public and private agencies' emergency operations and hazard mitigation plans, including compliance and consistency with federal, state and local laws and policies. It also provides command and control and emergency response training for all types of unusual occurrences. Emergency preparedness training includes designing customized training courses for all aspects of disaster, unusual occurrence and emergency responses. Emergency preparedness exercises conduct planning sessions and exercises, including those relating to weapons of mass destruction, events, mass casualty transportation disasters, terrorism incident response, natural disaster response and recovery, and civil disorder events. Communications and technology services include homeland security, public safety, and emergency response capabilities for government and corporate clients that focus on integrating local resources and assets within federal, state and local systems. It offers National Incident Management System (NIMS) and incident command system courses specific to water and wastewater agencies.
The Company competes with Lockheed-Martin, DNV Group, Clear Result, Franklin Energy, ICF International, Inc., Nexant, Inc., Charles Abbott & Associates, Inc., Harris & Associates, RBF Consulting, Tetra Tech, Inc., Stantec, Inc., Michael Baker Corporation, TRC Companies, Inc., AECOM Technology Corporation, CH2M Hill, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., David Taussig & Associates, BLX Group, Arbitrage Compliance Specialists, Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc., FCS Group, the NBS Government Finance Group, Leidos and IEM, Inc.
2401 E Katella Ave Ste 300
The company trades on NASDAQ exchange. The company headquarter is located in California, CA. The company was established in the 1964.| Ticker | WLDN |
| Long Name | Willdan Group, Inc. |
| Short Name | Willdan |