Engineering Stories of the Day “Out of college, I was working nights as a field engineer for the Mass Department of Transportation, and when winter came and paving operations were slowing down, I was given the option to move to days and help out in the design office for the season. I really enjoyed my… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week – Day 2!
Engineering Story of The Day “I was designing a hydraulic asphalt lined overflow pond for a sanitary sewer lift station. The pond area already existed as a decommissioned WWTP lagoon. It supposedly had a clay liner (found out from the geotech that it did not…). It had an old lift station that came on when… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week – Day 1!
Engineering Story of The Day “When I was planning and engineering a 1,100-acre resort project in Costa Rica, a local employee of Baseline and I set out to find 2-3 wells on the property to use as our water source. One step in the process is sampling and testing the groundwater to know what technology… Read more »
Surveyors Complete UAV Pilot Licensing
In January, Aaron Demo, Doug Lancaster, Jayme Hobin, and Danielle Bustos braved the cold to complete drone flight school each earning their Part 107 certification which allows them to legally pilot an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) for commercial use under FAA regulation. The flight school our team participated in was administered by an… Read more »
Infrastructure Report Card for Better Quality of Life
Last week, the Colorado Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released a report card for Colorado’s infrastructure—the first since 2010 — garnering a C- grade for the state. Baseline Engineering Corporation Division Manager and ASCE Colorado Section President, Kim Swearingen, PE, MBA, attended and emceed the Infrastructure Report Card release on January… Read more »
Angel Tree at Baseline
B4C 2019 Angel Tree Event Through the Salvation Army, Baseline for Community (B4C) brought Angel Trees to our lobbies in Golden, Loveland, and Colorado Springs. The Angel Tree program provides Christmas gifts to children from less fortunate families who might not be able to celebrate the holidays. Tags are displayed on the trees with a… Read more »
CSU’s Florencio Guzman Diaz Receives 2019 Baseline Engineering Scholarship
Baseline is proud to support future engineers at Colorado State University’s (CSU) College of Engineering. This year, the Baseline Engineering Scholarship was awarded to Florencio Guzman Diaz who is a junior from Trinidad, CO and majoring in environmental engineering. “The scope of my intended major environmental engineering is wide and vast. The areas of specialization… Read more »
Baseline for Community’s Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive
In November, Baseline for Community (B4C) sponsored our second company-wide Thanksgiving Food Drive — resulting in donating 876 lbs of non-perishable items to four different food bank programs: Food Bank of the Rockies, Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado, Food Bank for Larimer County, and LiftUp Routt County — surpassing last year’s food… Read more »
Celebrating National Planners Week – Day 5!
Planning Story of the Day “Back in 1999, I was the planning manager for the City of Lakewood. I was asked by the mayor and city manager to provide an entire day tour for a gentleman coming in from New Jersey who was considering buying 100 acres in Lakewood to develop (his first development project… Read more »
Celebrating National Community Planners Week – Day 4!
Planning Story of the Day “As planners, we are routinely asked to facilitate neighborhood meetings. Development proposals are presented to neighboring property owners to inform and to identify potential compatibility concerns. We are particularly adept at active listening, and creative problem-solving whenever we can. On one occasion, at particularly well-attended neighborhood meeting for a housing… Read more »
Celebrating National Community Planners Week – Day 3!
Planning Stories of the Day “I left my former City position due to a disagreement with the City Manager who told me I could not require public sidewalks (ADA requirement) in a big, downtown project. Public infrastructure for all!” — Andrew Baker, Associate Planner “At the Colorado APA Conference this year, one of the workshops… Read more »
Celebrating National Community Planners Week – Day 2!
Planning Story of the Day “When I worked for the City of Janesville, one of my tasks was to develop a parks and trails map. It was rewarding to create something that the public used to learn about the great and abundant public amenities available to them – to help them get outside and be… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Community Planners Week
Planning Story of the Day “My favorite planning story is a cautionary tale about maintaining perspective. Pretty early in my career, I was the case planner for a variance on a single-family residential property and we recommended that the Board deny the variance. During the public hearing, when it became clear that Board would not… Read more »
Baseline’s 2019 Summer Outings
Another fantastic summer where our Baseline offices took a break from the heat and had some fun outside the office. Given our varied geographic locations, each office had the opportunity to decide what they wanted to do for their own fun summer outing. The Golden and Denver offices pulled together and applied their untapped skills at… Read more »
Baseline Pedals the Plains
On September 13th, thousands of cyclists, including Baseline’s own Steve Batchelder, PE, set off to bike over a hundred miles of Colorado’s flat country for the Denver Post’s Pedal the Plains event. Pedal the Plains is the shorter, flatter counterpart to the Ride the Rockies that takes place in early summer. It takes riders through three… Read more »
Baseline Wins 2019 Best Project Award from ENR!
Baseline was recently awarded one of two merit awards from the Engineering News Record (ENR) for the 2019 Best Project Awards. Winners were selected out of a seven state “Intermountain” region and were divided into multiple disciplines with each having one winner and one to two merit awards. This year they had the largest number of… Read more »
2019 Marketing Excellence Award Winner for Website
Baseline Engineering Corporation has won a 2019 Marketing Excellence Award from Zweig Group for its new website! Baseline’s website went through a total transformation last year, adding a team and project portfolio to the forefront along with an appealing overall visual presentation. o2 Group completed the design and DaGama Web Studio Inc. provides SEO services.… Read more »
Baseline Rides the Rockies
This year, Baseline was a partner of the Denver Post Community Foundation’s Ride the Rockies, a 400-plus mile bike ride throughout Colorado’s most beautiful scenery that takes place over seven days. The ride has taken place every year since it began in 1986, and… Read more »
Empowering Women Engineers – International Women in Engineering Day
Empowering Women Engineers – International Women in Engineering Day June 23, 2019 was International Women in Engineering Day! This day promotes international awareness to raise the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities to girls in this exciting industry. At Baseline Engineering Corporation, we have three outstanding engineers, who… Read more »
Baseline Ragnarians 2019!
Baseline Ragnarians 2019! Over the weekend of June 7 and 8, members of our staff completed the Ragnar Snowmass Trail Race which sounds easy until you learn that the Ragnar Trail Races aren’t simply a one-time trail that ends after a couple miles, but three-day running relay extravaganzas. These races take place over the course… Read more »
