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“The professional expertise and reputation that comes with the Pacheco Koch brand is a great boost to Westwood’s land initiatives. Pacheco Koch and Westwood complement each other. Our cultures and values are a great fit,” says Westwood’s COO, , PE. “This acquisition mutually expands the unique professional services we offer in and outside of Texas, and the end result is a team of top professionals unmatched in the region.”

By purchasing Pacheco Koch, Westwood expects to enhance its service capabilities to clients across Texas, Powell says, “The public infrastructure and private development talent we gain will help us to better serve our clients, and our new team and clients from Pacheco Koch gain new services such as environmental, renewables, and drone technologies, to name a few.”

Pacheco Koch was founded in 1990 and has since provided engineering, surveying, and landscape architecture solutions for public infrastructure and private development projects. Pacheco Koch has received several awards for being a Best Place to Work, and Founder,Mark A. Pacheco, PE, RPLS, takes pride in the team he and his Founding partner, James A. Koch, Jr., PE, RPLS have built.

Pacheco says, “Our team has developed a long-standing reputation of providing high-quality service with an emphasis on client care and satisfaction, which is a direct reflection of our team. We put our people first and know that we all benefit by supporting them and their success. The high-quality work we’ve done across the state of Texas for the past 30 plus years is proof of that.” Pacheco sees joining the Westwood team as a unique opportunity to continue their success “by being able to provide a wider range of services to our clients while, at the same time, offering more avenues for growth for our team.”

Westwood’s Vice President, Randall P. Pogue, PE oversees strategy and operations for the firm’s Land Division South Region. Having started his career with Pacheco Koch, Pogue has great respect for both Mark Pacheco and Jim Koch and the business they built. When the acquisition opportunity presented itself, Pogue felt it was too great to pass up. He says, “Integration is a challenging undertaking, but it’s worth the opportunities for growth waiting on the other side. The expertise combined by both companies will create synergies to advance our teams, while continuing to provide high-quality services for our clients. This is an exciting time for all of us.” Pogue’s company, Pogue Engineering, was acquired by Westwood in 2015.

Pacheco Koch will operate as, Pacheco Koch, a Westwood company, for 12-24 months and continue to serve clients from their current locations.

About Westwood Professional Services, Inc. (Westwood)
Westwood is a leading and award winning, full-service, multi-discipline professional civil engineering firm specializing in  public infrastructure, private development, wind, solar, and power delivery projects. Westwood was established in 1972 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Through a focus on its people, culture, and clients, Westwood has quickly expanded to serve clients across the nation from multiple U.S. offices. View more Westwood facts.

Awards
In 2021, Westwood placed #4 and #21 respectively on Zweig Group’s national Hot Firms’ and Best Firms to Work for Lists, and received two 2^nd place awards for Zweig’s Marketing Excellence. Westwood also ranked consistently higher four years in a row on the Engineering News Record (ENR) list as a leading design firm in the country. The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on award-winning projects nationwide.

About Pacheco Koch Consulting Engineers
Founded in Dallas in 1990, Pacheco Koch has been providing full-service civil engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture services throughout the state of Texas. Pacheco Koch is a mid-size firm providing small firm responsiveness with a focus on providing tailored solutions for public infrastructure and private development clients.

Awards
Pacheco Koch has been recognized not only for the quality of its services and growth of its business, but also for its engaging work culture. In the last five years alone, Pacheco Koch has earned 39 project awards for exceptional work quality and customer service. Additionally, Fort Worth Inc. and Fort Worth Business Press listed Pacheco Koch on their “Fastest Growing Companies” and “Top Engineering Company” lists, respectively. The firm has also consistently been top-ranked for “Best Places to Work” from publications like the Dallas Business Journal, Fort Worth Business Press, and Fort Worth Inc.

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In a major and potentially fatal setback for plans to build the largest dam in the Bay Area in more than 20 years, the price tag to construct a new reservoir in southern Santa Clara County near Pacheco Pass has nearly doubled, from $1.3 billion to $2.5 billion.

The project, proposed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a government agency based in San Jose, calls for a 319-foot-high dam to be built along Pacheco Creek in the rural canyons just north of Highway 152 near Henry W. Coe State Park.  For the past three years, the district has considered the dam to be a key part of the future water plans for 2 million people in the South Bay.

But studies by a contractor earlier this year found the area has unstable rock. About 130 test borings found that crews would have to dig down at least 30 feet deeper to hit bedrock than previously thought. That will add three years to construction — from five to eight years — and add least $1 billion or more in additional costs, water district engineers estimate.

“You want to put your foundation on bedrock, solid granite,” said Chris Hakes, the water district’s deputy operating officer for dam safety and capital delivery. “There are historic slides in the area, loose material that is subject to movement. You don’t want to put your foundation on that obviously because if there is any sort of seismic event, or even heavy rains or mudslides, it could undermine the foundation.”

On Jan. 12, the district’s board is scheduled to consider alternatives to the project. Most of the costs would be funded by water rate increases.

The project, if it is ever built, would construct a reservoir that holds 140,000 acre feet of water — nearly as much as all 10 existing dams the water district currently operates. It would be the largest new reservoir built in the Bay Area since 1998 when the Contra Costa Water District built Los Vaqueros Reservoir in eastern Contra Costa County.

Members of the water district’s board know the high price tag could be fatal. They say they are trying to learn more about why the costs have soared.

“I would not vote for going ahead with the project until there is a deeper look at the cost,” said board member Gary Kremen, chairman of the district’s water storage committee. “It has to be done. We do need the emergency water supply. But I’m not sure it makes sense at $2.5 billion.”

Critics of the project, including several environmental groups, say the district should instead focus on other more realistic projects, like helping fund a project to raise the height of the dam at Los Vaqueros Reservoir, expanding the use of recycled water, and boosting conservation by paying more to residents to remove lawns and replace old, inefficient appliances like toilets, washing machines and dishwashers.

“The water district board should recognize that this is the death knell for that project,” said Jonas Minton, water program manager for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental group based in Sacramento. “There are several much more cost-effective ways of increasing water reliability for their customers.”

Under the current plan, the water district would replace a small, existing dam and reservoir on the site and build the new Pacheco Dam about half a mile upstream.

The existing reservoir was built on the North Fork of Pacheco Creek in 1939. It holds only 5,500 acre-feet of water behind an aging 100-foot-high earthen dam, while the new reservoir would hold more than 23 times as much. The district hopes to take water it now stores in nearby the massive San Luis Reservoir and pipe it into the new Pacheco reservoir, filling it during wet years.

In addition to storing more water — something the district made a priority after the recent 2012-16 drought — district officials say that the project also would have environmental benefits. It would provide a more regular supply of water downstream for endangered steel head trout, they note.

The water district received a huge boost in 2018 when the administration of former Gov. Jerry Brown awarded it $485 million from Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond passed by voters in 2014. But to get that money, it must complete draft environmental studies by Dec. 31 and show how it will pay for most of the rest of the costs.

Complicating those tasks, in February, AECOM, an engineering firm based in Los Angeles, drilled down to 340 feet on the site and found problems. The water district staff now is working on five alternatives, including building a smaller dam, or moving it upstream. That would likely would submerge some parts of Henry Coe State Park. Decades ago, the water district considered the same site, and withdrew plans after controversy over impacts to the state park.

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The issue highlights the difficulty of building large new dams in California, where the geology is tricky and many of the best sites are already taken.

“I don’t want to see this thing go under,” said board member Dick Santos at a recent meeting. “I want to see it survive. What can we do to try to save this project?”

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A job – any job – is generally thought of as better than no job at all. Consequently, low-paid work is often considered a “stepping stone” to a higher-paid job. But how easily do low-paid workers climb up the pay scale, really?

Our new research suggests past studies may have considerably overstated the chances of moving from low to higher pay. This has significant implications for understanding labour market behaviour.

Given the NZ$3.3 billion increase in welfare payments announced in New Zealand’s recent budget – dubbed the “biggest lift in a generation” – and the ongoing focus on inequality and minimum wage rates, how we measure income mobility is increasingly important.

In particular, what are some of the characteristics of the low-paid workforce? How likely or unlikely is it that an individual can transition from low to higher pay?

Past research has described low-paid work as a stepping stone if there is a greater chance of moving to higher pay relative to someone who is unemployed.

Furthermore, the data has suggested relatively high likelihoods of making the transition from low to higher pay — estimates range from 47 per cent to nearly 90 per cent, based on studies from the UK, Australia and Germany.

However, this research has mostly had to rely on survey data based on individual responses to an annual set of questions. This means we can only observe a snapshot of any given labour market once a year.

When determining whether an individual is unemployed, low paid or higher paid, a lot of information between those annual surveys falls into the unknown.

What traditional research misses

Why does this matter? It helps to imagine three different individuals, with different labour market experiences, answering a survey about their employment status in October 2019 and again in October 2020:

One was low paid in the first survey and remained in low pay every month until the second survey.

The second oscillated between low and higher pay between surveys but happened to be in low pay at each survey point.

The third regularly moves between low pay and unemployment but is also in low pay at the time of each survey.

Because of the lack of information between survey time points, all three individuals will fall into the same category. In turn, this may influence estimates of movement out of low pay.

What more detail reveals

In New Zealand we have the advantage of the integrated data infrastructure (IDI), a large research database published by Stats NZ.

As well as being population-wide, this provides monthly administrative tax records that reveal labour market states at a much higher frequency.

Our research uses these detailed data to look at the male low-paid workforce aged between 21 and 60 in New Zealand. The results are illuminating.

First, we mimicked conventional earlier research by looking at the labour market from only one month each year. Through this lens, New Zealand looks similar to Australia, with the probability of moving from low pay to higher pay estimated to be 74 per cent.

When we use the detailed monthly income records, however, it is clear the picture is not as rosy. Most importantly, the likelihood of moving from low pay to higher pay is much lower than traditional methods suggest.

In fact, for those who have been in low-paid work for all of the prior 12 months, we found the likelihood of them moving into higher pay in the following month was only 28 per cent. Being continuously in low-paid work, it seems, means it isn’t easy to climb out.

A limited stepping stone

On the other hand, our research confirms the stepping-stone effect does exist in the New Zealand labour market: compared to being unemployed, you’re more likely to move into higher pay from being low paid.

Specifically, someone unemployed for the previous 12 months has only a 1 per cent probability of moving into higher pay in the next month. That compares to 28 per cent for those in low-paid employment for all of the previous 12 months.

Overall, our research highlights the value of detailed, high-frequency, integrated data in assessing the nuances in the labour market landscape.

On top of that, it illustrates the real difficulty in climbing the wage ladder for those in long-term low-paid work. This suggests policymakers should focus on pathways to wage growth, as well as on job creation itself.

• Alexander Plum is a Senior Research Fellow in Applied Labour Economics at the Auckland University of Technology

• Gail Pacheco is a Professor of Economics, Director of the NZ Work Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology

• Kabir Dasgupta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Auckland University of Technology

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