type corporation industry engineering fate acquired by ghd group founded 1951 defunct october 2011 headquarters santa rosa california key people iver skavdel president & ceo steve cox coo revenue 44 million usd 2007 number of employees 300 2008 website www.w and k.com winzler & kelly was an engineering and environmental services firm based in santa rosa ca with offices in california oregon washington guam and saipan . it was recognized as a best multidiscipline a e services firm to work for by ce news in 2010 . winzler & kelly was acquired by ghd group in october 2011 . contents 1 notable projects 2 mergers and acquisitions 3 references 4 external links notable projects edit surface transportation pier san nicolas island ca winzler & kelly was the lead design firm for this design build project to construct a surface transportation pier and shore side support facilities at san nicolas island in the channel islands off the southern california coast . this project is the first open ocean roll on roll off cargo pier in the world . the project was managed by southwest division for the navair weapons division at point mugu ca.this project was the recipient of the 2005 design build institute of america design build excellence award for transportation projects under 50 million . 1 mission bay redevelopment san francisco ca winzler & kelly provided the services to plan permit and construct the infrastructure to support this large development in san francisco . the 300 acre 1.2 km2 development area is adjacent to the san francisco bay and the at & t park baseball stadium . the mixed use development contains residential commercial institutional and light industrial activities . this project won the 2004 consulting engineers and land surveyors of california large firm merit award . 2 mission bay san francisco california mokelumne river project woodbridge ca the new 167 foot 51 m long fish passage facility on the mokelumne river in northern california is a model for fish passages worldwide . for decades the river was a well known coho salmon and steelhead migratory stream . a series of irrigation dams built since 1910 contained crude fish ladders to mitigate migration that over time became less and less effective . by 1995 no steelhead were counted and the salmon run was nearly non existent . the project team designed the new facility to include pneumatically operated steel gates and three state of the art high and low water fish ladders . in the facility s first year of operation over 16 000 salmon passed through the new ladders and 180 steelhead returned to their upstream hatchery beds . this projects was the recipient of the american council of engineering companies 2007 engineering excellence grand award . 3 mergers and acquisitions edit in december 2006 winzler & kelly merged with sjo consulting engineers inc. in december 2009 winzler & kelly acquired norris repke . references edit http www.dbia.org about awards national award2005.htm http www.celsoc.org userdocuments file winterspring % 202004.pdf http www.acec.org awards 2007grandaward.pdf external links edit engineering news record s top 500 design firms w & k volunteer interview 2010 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title winzler % 26 kelly & oldid 660955362 categories construction and civil engineering companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 may 2015 at 14 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view