North Bay Business Journal

  • Winzler & Kelly, Australian company merge

    October 11th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Winzler & Kelly, the largest consulting engineering firm in the North Bay, today announced it merged with large Australia-based engineering, architecture and environmental consulting company GHD.

  • Hospital projects highlight local adoption of BIM

    September 12th, 2011

    NORTH BAY — In less than a decade, building information modeling (BIM) has become a major construction simulation and visualization process, and it’s being employed heavily on two large hospital projects now under construction in North Bay counties.

  • Winzler & Kelly expands offices

    November 8th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — After 30 years in the same location, consulting engineering firm Winzler & Kelly plans to relocate and expand its corporate offices early next year.

  • Winzler & Kelly establishes general contracting division

    July 19th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Engineering and environmental consulting firm Winzler & Kelly launched a licensed general contracting subsidiary.

  • Most Influential Leaders in the North Bay: Jim Adams, Rachel Dollar, Rob McMillan, Al Coppin, Daniel Duckhorn, Mark Ihde, Stan Mead, Dave Siembieda, Iver Skavdal

    February 8th, 2010

    Last August when we published our first group of Most Influential Leaders in the North Bay, we promised we would bring you more of their stories. We honor that pledge today and promise to bring you more of the inspiring stories of business people in future editions.

  • Most Influential Leaders: Iver Skavdal

    February 8th, 2010

    President and CEO, Winzler & Kelly

  • Construction: SMART railcar designer leases office; Whole Foods sets October opening

    December 21st, 2009

    LTK Engineering Services (www.ltk.com), which recently won the contract with Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District (www.sonomamarintrain.org) to design specifications for commuter cars on the forthcoming line from Cloverdale to Larkspur, leased office space in the same Santa Rosa building as the district’s planned project office. … Santa Rosa-based engineering and environmental consulting firm Winzler & Kelly acquired Norris-Repke, a municipal and civil engineering and construction management firm with offices in Santa Ana and Moreno Valley. … Whole Foods Market plans to solicit bids in January for interior improvements of its store in Coddingtown mall in Santa Rosa, according to Glen Moon, vice president of store development for the Austin-based grocery chain. … Associated General Contractors of America asserts that the data collected starting earlier this year under the mandatory reporting of nitrogen oxide (NOX) and soot (PM) emissions from off-road diesel equipment shows that the California Air Resources Board’s original 2000 estimate overstated emissions projections for 2009 by nearly 40 percent. … Clendenen Vineyard Management obtained an SBA loan through Wells Fargo Bank to build a 7,000-square-foot shop and offices at 555 Westside Road near Healdsburg, the site of a future animal shelter as well as a wine warehouse and tasting room. … Melvin and Karen Hahn decided to wind down their Hahn’s Window Center business at 365 Blodgett St. in Cotati after 23 years in business as home construction ebbed and retire to Oregon. San Rafael-based Conservation Corps North Bay, formerly Marin Conservation Corps (www.conservationcorpsnorthbay.org), purchased the 12,100-square-foot building for $1.69 million, backed by state bond money. … The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors postponed until Jan. 12 its deliberation on The Dutra Group’s proposed asphalt plant along the Petaluma River just south of the city to give the U.S. Coast Guard time to look into commercial and recreational traffic on the river. … Principal architects Colin Russell and Larry Davis, who started Russell & Davis Architects of San Rafael in 1998, are parting ways “amicably.”

  • Winzler & Kelly acquires Southern California firm

    December 15th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA — Engineering and environmental consulting firm Winzler & Kelly acquired Norris-Repke, a municipal and civil engineering and construction management firm with offices in Santa Ana and Moreno Valley.

  • SMART signs contracts; local firms included

    October 22nd, 2009

    NORTH BAY — Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit has signed off on two of the requests for qualification at its board of directors meeting Oct. 21.

  • Builders, communities get some early guidance on emissions

    May 18th, 2009

    NORTH BAY – As government policy evolves on all levels to cut human-caused emissions of what are considered climate-changing gases, state and Bay Area air-quality regulators recently released draft guidelines aimed at helping planning officials and the building industry gauge how much would be considered too much from a given project per environmental-protection laws.

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