The Keith Companies, Inc. Appoints Public Works/Infrastructure Segment President

The Keith Companies, Inc. Appoints Public Works/Infrastructure
Segment President 


IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Keith Companies, Inc.
(NASDAQ:TKCI), an engineering and consulting services firm, announced today
that it has hired Mr. Robert Ohlund to manage its Public Works/Infrastructure
(PWI) segment.  The PWI segment of the Company focuses on providing various
services to public and quasi-public clients including cities, counties, state
and federal governments, special districts, schools, hospitals, and others.

Mr. Ohlund's primary expertise is in management of water resources engineering
projects and construction management of water and transportation public works
projects.

The Company's Chairman and CEO, Aram Keith added, "We are very excited to have
Bob join us.  His twenty years of experience and knowledge of the industry will
support his full-time focus on growing and enhancing our public
works/infrastructure related business."

Mr. Ohlund's primary office will be located in the Company's Orange County, CA
headquarters.

About The Keith Companies

The Keith Companies, Inc. is a fully integrated, multi-disciplined engineering
and consulting services company, with offices located throughout the Western
and Midwestern United States.  The Keith Companies' professionals provide a
wide spectrum of skilled resources including land planning, engineering,
surveying, mapping, environmental studies, and water and cultural resources
that are needed to effectively plan, engineer, and design state-of-the-art
private and public facilities.  Additionally, the Company provides mechanical,
electrical, chemical, power/energy engineering, and other industrial
engineering services to design and improve the efficiency and reliability of
automated and manufacturing processes, production lines, and fire protection
systems.  The Keith Companies benefits from a diverse public and private client
base varying from residential and commercial real estate projects to
institutional, manufacturing, and processing facilities.  For more information
visit the Company's website at http://www.keithco.com/.

Certain statements in this news release may include forward-looking statements
that express our expectation, prediction, belief, or projection. These
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors
that may cause the actual results, performance, and achievement of The Keith
Companies to be materially and adversely different from any future results,
performance, or achievement expressed or implied by these forward- looking
statements.  Factors that may cause actual results to differ from the
forward-looking statements contained in this release and that may affect the
Company's prospects in general include, but are not limited to: our ability to
fully implement our plan for diversification, difficulty in identifying
suitable acquisition candidates to enhance our public works/infrastructure or
other segments, the ongoing financing of public works and infrastructure
enhancements and refurbishment, changes in the economic growth in the United
States (especially in California) and other major international economies
(especially Brazil), our ability to sustain our growth and profitability, our
ability to implement our acquisition strategy and to successfully close and
integrate acquired companies on a timely and cost-effective basis, changes in
the carrying value of our goodwill and other long-term assets, our failure to
accurately estimate costs on fixed-price contracts or contracts with
not-to-exceed provisions, the uncertain timing of awards and contracts, the
ability to maintain acquired companies' profit margins and/or client base,
outcomes of pending and future litigation, our ability to attract and retain
employees, the demand for electricity and the impact on power providers' plans
for expanding generation facilities, increasing competition by foreign and
domestic companies, a downturn in the real estate market, risks inherent in
doing business outside the United States, including the difficulty of enforcing
contracts, political instability and foreign currency fluctuations and
potential exchange restrictions, the short and long-term impact of terrorist
activities and resulting political and military policies, and other factors as
are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.  The forward-looking information set forth in this press release is
as of the date.

For further information, please contact:  Aram Keith, CEO of The Keith
Companies, Inc., [phone], or fax, [phone]; or Tricia Ross,
Investor Relations of Financial Relations Board, [phone], for The Keith
Companies, Inc. 

DATASOURCE: The Keith Companies, Inc.



CONTACT:  Aram Keith, CEO of The Keith Companies, Inc., [phone],

or fax, [phone]; or Tricia Ross, Investor Relations of Financial

Relations Board, [phone], for The Keith Companies, Inc.



Web site:  http://www.keithco.com/ 

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