EXHIBIT 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

The Keith Companies, Inc. (Nasdaq NM:TKCI), among the fastest growing
engineering and consulting services companies in the western U.S., today
announced that it has acquired privately held Hook & Associates Engineering,
Inc. (Hook).  Headquartered in Phoenix, Hook is a consulting engineering firm
providing a full range of services to clients in an array of industries
including telecommunications, public works/transportation and real estate
development.  The acquisition expands The Keith Companies' pool of high-caliber
professionals, broadens its geographic operations into three additional western
states and enhances the Company's expertise in the fulfillment of contracts in
high growth sectors such as telecommunications and wireless infrastructure
industries.  Hook's unaudited gross revenues for 2000 were approximately $7
million.  Further details were not disclosed.

"The completion of the Hook acquisition furthers our strategy of establishing a
strong local presence in a number of the fastest growing regions of the U.S.
The combination of our staff with that of Hook provides us with a talented and
experienced team approaching 650 professionals," commented The Keith Companies
Chairman and CEO Aram H. Keith.  "The added experience of the Hook team and its
presence in several strategic western states positions us to attract a greater
number of engineering contracts related to the rapid expansion of our nation's
telecommunications infrastructure."

Hook was founded in 1983, employs approximately 100 people, and has offices in
Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming.  In addition to providing services to companies
such as Western Wireless, Arizona Department of Transportation, City of Phoenix,
BF Goodrich Aerospace, Phillips Petroleum Company, and U.S. Home Corporation,
Hook has designed hundreds of residential, commercial or industrial
subdivisions, more than 200 miles of major transportation corridors, minor
arterial streets and roadways, and numerous telecommunications and wireless
projects.

     ABOUT THE KEITH COMPANIES

The Keith Companies, Inc. is a multi-disciplined engineering and consulting
services company.  The Keith Companies employs approximately 650 professionals
(including Hook) and has operations throughout the western United States.  The
Keith Companies' professionals provide a wide spectrum of skilled resources
including land planning, engineering, surveying, mapping, environmental, and
water and cultural resources that are needed to effectively plan, engineer, and
design state-of-the-art facilities.  Additionally, the Company provides
mechanical, electrical, chemical, 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,
commercial, and real estate projects to institutional, manufacturing, energy,
and processing facilities.  For more information visit the Company's website at
www.keithco.com.


Any forward-looking statements made in this release represent management's best
judgment as to what may occur in the future.  The Company cautions that a
variety of factors, including but not limited to the following, could cause
business conditions and results to differ materially from what is contained in
forward-looking statements:  changes in the rate of economic growth in the
United States and other major international economies, changes in investment by
the energy, power, environmental and telecommunication industries, the uncertain
timing of awards and contracts, the ability to obtain additional or follow-on
contracts, changes in regulatory environment, changes in project schedules,
changes in trade, monetary and fiscal policies world-wide, the ability to
successfully implement our acquisition strategy, the ability to successfully
integrate an acquired company, outcomes of pending and future litigation, the
ability to attract and retain employees, changes in the real estate market,
increasing competition by foreign and domestic companies, our ability to sustain
our growth and profitability and other risks detailed from time to time in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.