TREKK Design Group

About Us

About TREKK

We’re improving lives by providing direction to enable community and personal growth.

TREKK was built around passionate, trustworthy difference makers. Our relaxed, flexible environment brings smart people together to make a difference in the world around us. We like being different. Our entrepreneurial culture empowers us to engineer holistic, commonsense solutions that support the growth and restoration of the communities we serve. Innovation, creativity and free thinking are encouraged to deliver quality solutions that match our clients’ needs. We derive success and fulfillment from the impact our work has in the communities we call home and the people we serve. We call this IMPROVING LIVES, and we’ve been proud to do so since 2002.

The heart of our company

Our Core Values

Collaboration

We foster an environment where diverse perspectives, skills and experiences are valued and leveraged to accomplish our shared goals. Collaboration isn't just a process; it's our foundation, driving innovation, trust and mutual support in all that we do.

Passion

We display an authentic and genuine intention and passion for our work, our clients and our community. We show this through our engagement with our clients and connection to their problems, as well as our commitment to improving the lives we touch around us.

Trust

We place great importance on being responsive, reliable and always keeping our promises. The quality of our work speaks for itself, as does our unwavering commitment to doing what's right.

Relaxed and Flexible

We believe in working hard and playing hard. We think problem solving should be fun. And while we do not take ourselves too seriously, we do take our client’s problems and challenges to heart and are committed to solving them in ways that are creative and pragmatic.

Smart

We use our intellect, intuition and common sense to solve problems. We look for the best solution, not just what fits a standard protocol or system. We are thought leaders, but we share our knowledge in a way that is practical and easy to understand.

Innovation

Our vision to be THE technology-based civil engineering firm requires imagination, ingenuity and creativity. We love solving problems in unique ways by using new tools and technologies to deliver innovative solutions that help our clients work faster and smarter.

Being Different and Making a Difference

We're different, and we're making a difference in the lives of our clients, communities and families. We embrace authenticity and encourage diversity in our people, services and communities. We're not different just for the sake of being different, but rather by being different we're making a difference in the lives around us.

Service and Leadership

We encourage free thinking and entrepreneurship. We openly share ideas, respect our differences and appreciate creativity and initiative. Every day, we commit to serving those around us because that's who we are and what it means to be a servant leader at TREKK. Our goal is to eliminate our clients’ obstacles, while bringing out and expecting the best in each other.

Holistic, Commonsense, and Quality Solutions

We rely on common sense and an intrinsic understanding of what works and what doesn't. We devise quality solutions that look at the big picture, not one piece of the puzzle. Our goal is to put our clients at ease by offering complete solutions in an easy-to-understand way.

Improving Lives

Our History

TREKK’s entrepreneurial spirit starts with our founders, Kimberly and Trent Robinett, who decided to follow their dreams to serve others.

In 2002, they launched TREKK Design Group in their basement. TREKK initially offered civil engineering and lighting design services across the Kansas City area, quickly gaining a reputation for quality client service. Seeing an opportunity to better help the communities they served, Kimberly and Trent expanded the firm’s capabilities to include survey and wastewater services. TREKK also became certified as a Disadvantaged/Women-Owned Small Business, and our growing firm moved from the basement to a room above the Robinett’s garage.

TREKK’s early projects focused primarily on transportation and site development work across Kansas City. But in the mid-2000s, as cities across the Midwest began focusing on deficiencies in their sanitary sewer systems, Kimberly and Trent saw an opportunity to create a new niche for TREKK – wastewater field services. That niche led us to open TREKK’s first regional office in Omaha, Nebraska to assist with that city’s combined sewer overflow program.

Now 23 years later, TREKK continues to IMPROVE LIVES in our communities and for our clients, offering comprehensive engineering design and consulting services, as well as technology offerings that help our clients work smarter.

You can find TREKK’s more than 230 employees in 11 offices, solving problems all over the country.

Honorable Mentions

A brief snapshot of our Company

TREKK is humbled and honored to be recognized by our peers

2020, 2022, 2024

Champions of Business

 Kansas City Business Journal

2020, 2022, 2024

Hall of Champions

Kansas City Business Journal

2023, 2024, 2025

Best Places to Work

St. Louis Business Journal

2023, 2024, 2025

2024

Business Excellence Award – Innovation Category

Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce

2024

2022

Vanguard Award, Company of the Year

UMKC School of Science and Engineering

2022

2019, 2021

Best Places to Work

Kansas City Business Journal

2019, 2021

2019

Mr. K Award Small Business of the Year

Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

2019

2019

Ripple Effect Award

Blue River Watershed Association

2019

2017

Employer of the Year

WTS Greater Kansas City Chapter

2017

2015, 2017

Burns & McDonnell Community of Inclusion Award

2015, 2017

2017

Cornerstone Award Finalist

Kansas City Economic Development Corporation

2017

2016

Women of Influence

Kansas City Business Journal

2016

2016

Tuck School of Business Minority Business Entrepreneurs Program

2016

2014

UMKC Alumni Achievement Award

2014

2012

Certificate of Agency Recognition

Kansas Water Environment Association

2012

2011

Outstanding WBE Contractor in Professional Services

City of Kansas City Government Contracting and Procurement

2011

Work with Trekk

Contact the team at TREKK to learn more about our approach to impacting lives through clean water and safe roads.