Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC) is a consulting engineering firm focused exclusively in the area of water resources. We are proudly celebrating our 50^th year providing these services to a variety of public and private clients. NHC is an employee-owned firm made up of dedicated engineers and geoscientists who specialize in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering, water resource engineering, river engineering, sedimentation engineering, coastal engineering, fluvial morphology, aquatic habitat restoration, and numerical and physical modeling.

NHC’s California offices are in Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe, and Pasadena. NHC’s North American offices are in Seattle, Olympia, and Bellingham, Washington; North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Squamish, and Kamloops, British Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Montreal, Quebec; and international offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our staff includes approximately 150 water resources and design specialists, and a total staff of 230.

NHC opened our first California office in 1994 and has applied our technical expertise in understanding physical processes in both natural and man-made settings to assist in protecting and restoring natural functions in watersheds, rivers, creeks, floodplains, wetlands, and coastal regions. NHC’s specialists work closely with teams of other professionals, in conjunctions with landowners and regulatory agencies, to develop flood and sediment

management, water management, hydropower, water supply, and fish passage restoration projects from conceptual alternatives to fully implemented designs. NHC provides unique hydrologic and hydraulic services to support multi-discipline design projects through our expertise in multi-dimensional numerical modeling (CFD), hydraulic transient analysis, and physical hydraulic modeling capabilities through our four full-service laboratories.

Example of recent projects shown in the photos above include CFD modeling of the Oroville Dam spillway repair alternatives for California DWR; field data collection on the Pajaro River to support our ongoing flood management work with Santa Cruz County; and physical modeling of the Arroyo Trabuco fish passage project near San Juan Capistrano for Trout Unlimited.

For more information on NHC, visit our website at www.nhcweb.com

Contact:

Brady McDaniel, P.E.
Principal/Branch Manager
bmcdaniel@nhcweb.com

Y&C Transportation Consultants, Inc. (Y&C) is a transportation engineering consulting firm with offices in Sacramento, Fremont, and Milpitas.  It specializes in traffic signals, lighting, transportation electrical system, signing, pavement delineation, and work zone traffic control.  Y&C has served the Sacramento Metropolitan Area since its establishment in 1997 and completed traffic/electrical engineering plans, specification, and estimates (PS&E) for more than 1,000 transportation projects in over 100 jurisdictions throughout Northern California.  The quality of Y&C’s engineering design is evidenced by more than 50 award-winning projects,  from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Public Works Association (APWA), American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), and California Transportation Foundation (CTF).

Some of Y&C’s projects in Sacramento Area include:

• US 50/Watt Avenue Interchange in Sacramento County

  

• City College Pedestrian Overcrossing at UPRR in the City of Sacramento
• Folsom Boulevard Streetscape Enhancement in Rancho Cordova
• Sheldon Road/Waterman Road and Sheldon Road/Bradshaw Road Roundabouts in Elk Grove
• Auburn Boulevard Complete Streets in Citrus Heights
• Scott Road Realignment in Folsom
• Regional Transit South Sacramento Corridor Extension

  

Y&C has a staff of 14, including nine transportation engineers and five supporting staff members.  The engineering staff includes four licensed Civil Engineers and one licensed Traffic Engineer.

GHD is a global professional services firm comprised of industry leaders in five major markets: transportation, environment, water, energy & resources,

and property & buildings. We have been operating in California since 1984 and globally for over 90 years.  With 3 offices in the Sierra region, 14 across California, and over 350 employees, our diverse portfolio and focused geographic presence allows us to be connected to our clients and provide sustainable solutions for generations to come.

As an employee-owned company, we are committed to the role we play in communities where we live, work, and play. Our Sierra region offices are home to forward-looking professionals within all five of our market sectors. Our team provides imaginative thinking and innovative designs to solve our clients’ challenges during any phase of the project delivery cycle, from conception and analysis through to construction and permitting.

GHD ranks #10 in international design firms operating in the US, according to Engineering News-Record. These rankings reflect the size and significance of our sustained and growing business in the US. In addition to the delivery of extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are focused on building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from planning, design and engineering to program and construction management, even financing and operations. Locally, in Sacramento and across California, we have more than 100 years of experience through our

legacy company’s delivering transportation, buildings, water, energy and environment infrastructure projects for public- and private-sector clients. Our planners, designers, engineers, consultants and program and construction managers, are driven by a common purpose, to deliver a better world through our unrivaled breadth and depth of technical expertise and innovation, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. The full scope of our global expertise is available to anyone who needs it, wherever they are based.

We’re committed to managing our business with the upmost responsibility and to always strive for better —reducing emissions, creating social value, or diversifying our senior leadership and workforce. We understand both the urgency of the challenges facing our society and our responsibility to act in an impactful and enduring way. We’re leading the change towards a more sustainable and equitable future, and partnering with those who want to make a positive difference in the world. We’re listening to clients and the communities we serve in order to improve lives and livelihoods, and to create sustainable

legacies for generations to come.

We are proud to be ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record’s 2020 “Top 200 Environmental Firms” and #1 in Transportation and General Building in Engineering News-Record’s 2020 “Top 500 Design Firms”. We’ve excelled in our

industry to be named one of Fortune magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” for the sixth consecutive year, and one of 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies for our commitment to integrity and making a positive impact by Ethisphere. Working throughout the project lifecycle, we’re one team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc. is a leading, award-winning California structural engineering firm that provides design, consulting, project management and construction management services. Biggs Cardosa has been reshaping California highways and skylines for over 35 years through innovative and effective design of bridges, transportation structures, buildings and hydraulic facilities. The firm specializes in the design, seismic retrofit, modification and rehabilitation of these structures.

Biggs Cardosa is known for the quality of its work, active principal involvement, responsiveness to clients’ needs, and innovative solutions to complex project issues. The firm is

staffed with over 115 professional and technical personnel, which includes over 50 registered Civil and Structural engineers.

Biggs Cardosa’s projects include vehicular, rail and pedestrian/bicycle bridges, roadway and highway structures, high-end structural analysis, complex bridges, and all types of building projects. Since 1986, Biggs Cardosa has designed or managed the construction of over 15,000 structures, representing over $30 billion of infrastructure. Every day, over two million people use the bridges and structures that we designed. We have state-of-the-art in-house graphics and rendering capabilities, which prove invaluable to convey complex engineering concepts to the clients and the public during the design process.

Biggs Cardosa has six California offices located in Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno and Orange. While Biggs Cardosa is a California-based firm, we have completed projects in several other US States including Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Hawaii. Our diverse personnel have worked on numerous engineering projects throughout the country as well as internationally.

Our projects have recently received a CMAA National award, an APWA National award, and two ACEC California Golden State Awards in the past two years.

Kent Cordtz, PE, SE is the head of our Sacramento office. Kent brings over 40 years of diverse structural engineering experience on major and complex projects including highways, railroads and pedestrian bridges. He is experienced in traditional project delivery methods as well as design-build and public-private partnerships.

Contact Info:

Kent Cordtz, PE, SE, Associate
Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc.
8880 Cal Center Drive, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA 95826
916.302.9612

Ardurra Group, Inc. Firm History and Resources

With 604+employees in 38 offices across the country, Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Ardurra 23 in their Top 500. ENR selects elite firms based on their track record of successfully delivering quality professional services. We focus on seven key service areas, including public works and transportation, water, environmental, land development, emergency management, structural engineering, survey, construction management and inspection.

With roots dating back to 1950, Ardurra specializes in multi-disciplined engineering and consulting services for public agency and private clients nationwide.

The Public Works Division of Ardurra specializes in project delivery for cities and counties throughout California. With an emphasis on practical, proven, and cost-effective solutions, we focus our work on planning and designing roadway and utility improvements. We also manage multi-project capital improvement programs for public agencies.

Professional Competence of Key Personnel

Our public works staff are professionals with extensive experience working directly for public agencies. We have provided engineering and municipal services for 61 public agencies throughout California. We are growing throughout the nation with an emphasis on our Northern California offices to serve the Bay Area and the Central Valley with local and familiar staff.

Our clients get successful projects and services, well-managed budgets, and thoroughly satisfied stakeholders because we work side-by-side with local and regional agency staff. This close working relationship develops collaboration with community and business stakeholders, and partners effectively with state and federal regulatory agencies. Local agencies get our unique management approach, which carefully monitors program effectiveness and closely tracks work quality and cost. With these abilities and proven processes, our clients get a partner that routinely delivers multiple public works capital improvement projects under aggressive schedules and provides careful management, administration, and project development team oversight from inception to completion.