Dudek in Encinitas is a 100-percent employee-owned environmental, planning, and engineering firm founded in 1980 and headquartered on South Coast Highway 101. The ESOP-structured consultancy employs more than 900 planners, scientists, and engineers across eight national offices, delivering CEQA/NEPA compliance, biological resource surveys, and water-infrastructure design, environmental assessment work that intersects with the waste-diversion and sustainability programming at the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation. Dudek holds California contractor license #1129326 with A (General Engineering) and C-27 (Landscaping) classifications, enabling the firm to self-perform construction management on habitat restoration and stormwater projects along the 101 corridor. Wildfire prevention planning, urban forestry management, and cultural resource assessments round out a service portfolio that frequently overlaps with the native-habitat grading plans prepared by Grain Landscape Architecture for coastal revegetation. Highest-tier projects include multi-year environmental impact reports for California high-speed rail segments, regional groundwater basin modeling, and wetland mitigation banking under U.S. Army Corps Section 404 permits.