Company Profile
Volkert, Inc.
Company Overview
Company Overview
Volkert, Inc. is an employee-owned infrastructure engineering firm serving state and federal agencies, local and municipal governments, private industry and select international clients. Founded in 1925, Volkert has grown from a regional engineering firm to include a national and global client base. The company consistently ranks among the top 100 engineering firms in the United States.
The firm’s staff of more than 1,500 includes planners, multi-disciplinary engineers, construction engineers, environmental specialists, program managers, construction managers, real estate specialists, and landscape architects.
With its corporate office in Mobile, Alabama, Volkert is active in dozens of states and the District of Columbia, with experience and/or professional registrations throughout the United States.
Company History
Volkert, Inc. began in February of 1925 with the firm’s founding as Doullut & Ewin in New Orleans, Louisiana. The leadership of the firm’s founders, Paul Doullut, Jr. and James P. Ewin, quickly propelled the company to become one of the largest construction and engineering firms in the South. Following a productive partnership with Waterman Steamship during World War II, the firm was acquired by Southern Industries, a Waterman subsidiary. Military test pilot and engineer David Volkert was named president, and he acquired the firm in 1954. Under his leadership, and beginning in 1963, his name, Volkert expanded its reach, growing into a multidisciplinary powerhouse with hundreds of employees in multiple states.
In 1975 Volkert established its Employee Stock Ownership Plan, making the company 100% employee-owned and giving every employee a stake in the firm’s success. In the 1980’s Volkert expanded its services to include environmental, utilities, program management, bridge inspection, and construction engineering and inspection. Volkert’s development continued in the 2000s with the addition of services to support the energy sector and emphasizing sustainable growth. In the last decade of its first century in business, Volkert nearly doubled its geographic reach.
Volkert has been in Illinois since 2004 providing engineering, survey and land services.
Basic Information
• Parent: David Volkert and Associates, Inc.
• Founded: 1925
• Employees: 1500
• Company Type: For Profit
• CEO: Thomas Hand
• Industry: Engineering
• Location: Mobile, Alabama, United States
Company History
Volkert, Inc. was founded in 1925 in New Orleans as Doullut and Ewin, Inc. It relocated to Mobile in 1946 and was reorganized as J. P. Ewin, Inc. It was renamed as the Ewin Engineering Corporation in 1950. David G. Volkert took possession of the company in 1954.The company was renamed as David Volkert & Associates, Inc. in 1963. An employee stock ownership plan was begun in 1975. New subsidiaries, Volkert Construction Services, Inc. and Volkert Environmental Group, Inc. were created in 1984 and 1985. It was again renamed in 1999, this time as Volkert & Associates, Inc. David G. Volkert died in 2001. The firm was inducted into the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 2003. It was renamed as Volkert, Inc. in 2009. Its purchase of Allied Engineering and Testing Inc. of Fort Myers, Florida was announced in October 2012. Allied Engineering and Testing Inc. employed 90 people in five Florida-based offices at the time of acquisition. The company announced that there were no immediate plans to modify the operations or staffing levels of the acquired company.