About Us

Brad Dybel is one of the most versatile engineering consultants in the construction management and geotechnical industries. He has been licensed in the state of California for 25 years as a civil engineer, geotechnical engineer, engineering geologist,and engineering consultant, providing a variety of specialty services for A/E firms, land developers, public agencies, and insurance companies. He also holds licenses as a civil engineer in Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. Brad is also a licensed contractor in California.

CONSTRUCTION QUALITY CONTROL INSPECTION OF WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES 

Mr. Dybel performed continuous, full-time inspection of the following projects in 2023 through 2025: 1) rehabilitation of Sewer Lift Station S-25 in the City of Long Beach, California; 2) rehabilitation of the Dove Canyon Sewer Lift Station in the Trabuco Canyon (California) Water District; 3) Acacia Parkway Sewer Main Replacement (1,600 linear feet) in the City of Garden Grove, California. 4) Sewer Main Replacement Project No. 4 (2,000+ linear feet) in the City of Garden Grove, CA; and 5) Stearns Street Large Valve Replacement (13 valves), in the City of Long Beach, California.The rehabilitations of the pump stations consisted of 1) construction of a temporary bypass well; construction and continuous operation of a bypass sewer pumping system; 2) demolition and replacement of multiple pumps and all suction and discharge piping, all controls, and the backup diesel generator; 3) construction of a temporary communication PLC system with the City’s SCADA system; and 4) demolition and re-construction of the liner in the wet well. The valve replacement project included hot-tapping, line-stopping, and disinfection of pipes at three street intersections. Duties included observation and photo-documentation of construction activities; preparation of daily reports of construction; explanation of progress of construction at bi-weekly progress meetings of designers, contractors, and construction managers; and 5) intermittent personal communication with engineering consultants and various other involved parties for coordination of construction activities.

EXPERIENCE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY

Municipal Services

Brad has decades of experience in serving municipal building departments as an engineering consultant. He has performed over 1,000 third party reviews of geologic and geotechnical reports and other documents in numerous cities in Southern California, including Irvine, Anaheim, Laguna Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, and Palos Verdes Estates. He was the de facto City Geotechnical Engineer in the City of Palos Verdes Estates for several years in the late 1990’s.  

The following are comments from clients at municipal building departments:

“As the Building Official for several affluent cities in the Los Angeles area, I relied on Brad Dybel for advice in literally hundreds of projects in Palos Verdes Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes over a period of six years that involved issues in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, some of which were high public profile. Brad performed field investigations, performed review of technical reports submitted to the cities, and wrote concise and effective technical memoranda on behalf of the cities. Brad attended numerous meetings with property owners, land developers, architects, other geologists and geotechnical engineers, engineering consultants, and various City representatives. Brad came to these meetings well prepared with multiple ideas for resolution of technical issues, always representing the cities in an effective, professional way.” – Bryan P. Zuppiger, CBO, Senior Building Inspector, City of Redondo Beach

“Brad provided excellent on-call geologic and geotechnical engineering services to the city of Irvine for more than 15 years. I requested Brad‘s assistance on review of more than 50 projects, consisting of large housing developments, office campuses involving high-rise structures, and multifamily residential buildings. In reviewing geotechnical reports, Brad consistently provided clearly written and technically sound documents always within established time frames. He also attended meetings and provided effective input to project owners and engineering consultants, helping to resolve challenging technical issues in the most professional manner.” – Tom Polson, Engineering Geologist, City of Irvine

“Brad Dybel provided excellent service as an on-call geotechnical engineering consultant to me in a municipal development services department for several years. I would recommend Brad for geotechnical engineering consulting.” – Anson So, PE, Senior Plan Check Engineer, City of Santa Ana and City of Anaheim

Forensic Investigations

Brad has provided geologic and geotechnical services as an engineering consultant on hundreds of forensic investigations on behalf of attorneys in California and Nevada. Brad has personally inspected and assessed, from a geotechnical perspective, hundreds of residences in California, and over 1,000 residences in the Las Vegas, Nevada area alone.

Brad authored and presented the following two technical papers at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America:

“Guidelines for Qualifications for Practitioners for Residential Geologic Evaluations,” Paper 26-10, 

“How Will Nevada’s ‘Homeowner’s Protection Act’ of 2015 Affect the Ethical Standards of Forensic Geologists?” Paper No. 61-4.    

EDUCATION

Brad’s education includes an AA degree with honors in Mathematics from Los Angeles Valley College; a BS degree with honors in Geology from California State University Northridge; and an MS degree in Civil Engineering from UCLA.

Brad won the “Student Body President’s Award for Service” in 1987 for his revitalization and management of the Associated Student Union Tutoring Program, while serving on the Associated Student Union Executive Board as Commissioner of Scholastic Activities.   

In his academic career, Brad was an author or co-author of the following technical papers:

“Petrologic Character of the Willows Plutonic Complex, Santa Cruz Island, California,” Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 1992 – Co-Author.

 “Whole Rock Geochemistry of the Willows Plutonic Complex, Santa Cruz Island, California,” Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 1990 – Author.

 “Newly Recognized Paleozoic Eugeoclinal Strata in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California” Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 1988 – Co-Author.