Cordoba is a civil engineering and construction management company that plans, designs, and builds schools, utility projects, public transit lines and roadways, wastewater treatment plants, and other public works in California, as well as internationally. CEO George Pla owns the company, which he founded in 1983 as an urban planning and consulting firm for community projects in the Los Angeles area, where it is now one of the largest minority-owned businesses. Its clients have included the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART), Long Beach Community College, Oakland Unified School District, the Southern California Metropolitan Water District, and other municipal, state, and federal entities.