WBK Engineering is a team of civil, water resources, transportation, and structural engineers, infrastructure specialists, land planners and urban designers, environmental scientists, and ecologists. We are a Tribally-Owned, 8(a), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise (ISBEE) company, offering sustainable solutions to complex design, engineering, restoration, and maintenance challenges. WBK is part of the Bodwé Professional Services Group of Mno-Bmadsen, the investment enterprise and a wholly owned instrumentality of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We offer full-service architecture and engineering services nationwide, as well as a variety of contract support services for federal agencies.
We are mediators. We create bonds between communities of people and the places we shape and form, the infrastructure serving those communities, and the land, water, and habitats we protect and restore.
WBK Engineering has been providing civil and transportation engineering services and related environmental consulting to public and private sector clients for more than 25 years. Our focus is delivering the personal service of a local firm coupled with a high degree of experience and the depth of resources found in large engineering organizations.
WBK works side-by-side daily with our colleagues in the Bodwé Building Services branch on full-service A-E projects for Indigenous, federal, and community client partners, with specialization in healthcare, education, and housing. Our multi-discipline approach provides seamless teamwork from site planning through construction oversight and occupancy.
As a tribally-owned, certified 8(a) company, WBK works with the Bodwé Federal Support Services branch to provide services across many roles and agencies. This is a significant and expanding focus for Bodwé Group, helping to fuel our mission to grow the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band while helping U.S. federal agencies deliver on theirs.
Wholly owned by the Pokagon Band since 2019, WBK is honored to serve tribal organizations. We are designing and repairing roadways, solving long-standing water drainage and flooding issues, assessing school facilities, engaging in community planning, and developing site plans for health clinics, community centers, schools, and government buildings.
WBK is increasingly partnering with federal agencies including the USACE, VHA, BIA, and NPS. Key to this work is our site planning and transportation design capabilities, as well as our water and environmental resources expertise. From trail system rehabilitation to dam assessments to ecosystem restoration, our federal past performance record is filled with projects that protect the earth.
Foundational to WBK from the beginning, our municipal and civil engineering team is honored by its long-term relationships with townships, cities, and counties. Often working as an extension of our client team, we are partners in creating and maintaining municipal site, utility, and stormwater infrastructure.
The transportation team at WBK Engineering are specialists in designing and permitting roadway reconstruction and rehabilitation projects, from local roads to complex highways. Whether we are modeling traffic, analyzing alternatives, designing roundabouts, or overseeing construction, we keep things moving.
Working with Bodwé transportation and water resource engineers, our structural team embraces their responsibility for human safety and for the protection of natural ecosystems. We understand the dynamics between built structures and potential impacts to people and planet. We design efficient, effective, and durable solutions that fit the context of the community and environment.
With recognized industry expertise in stormwater and flooding as well as natural riverine and manmade conveyance, Bodwé provides waterways analyses, flood studies, dam improvement and removal, and stormwater management design. And with every project, our team takes responsibility for protecting communities and natural ecosystems.
For decades, WBK Engineering has partnered with municipalities and private clients in northeast Illinois to improve infrastructure and create community. As part of Bodwé, today our planning and development work crosses the country, serving local, federal and Indigenous clients as well, with an approach that integrates people, place, and planet.
We are mediators. We create bonds between communities of people and the places we shape and form, the infrastructure serving those communities, and the land, water, and habitats we protect and restore.
We foster generosity and reciprocity with the communities we work in, Indigenous communities across the country, and with each other.
We support an environment where we all succeed when there is intentional focus on learning and one generation mentors the next.
We commit to a culture that benefits our staff through flexible scheduling, hybrid opportunities, parental leave, and unlimited PTO.
If you are interested in beginning a new project, you are a potential teaming partner, or you just want to chat about great architecture and engineering, please drop us a note.
Locations
St. Charles Office
116 W Main Street, #201
St. Charles, IL 60174
630-443-7755
Battle Creek Office
68 E. Michigan Ave.
Battle Creek, MI 49017
269-224-3182