Women’s History Month Women’s History Month is a month-long celebration in March, acknowledging women’s accomplishments and contributions throughout history and now. This month, we provide a few highlights from the ladies at Baseline. Julie Esterl, Principal Planner – When I was hired as a planning technician in 2015, one of the first clients I began… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week 2021!
When Baseline Engineering Corporation (Baseline) was founded by John McLain, PE, in 1998, the company’s foundation rooted from its expertise in civil engineering. From there, various different specialties have been added to the company’s services such as planning, surveying, landscape architecture, and more. Undoubtedly, John’s passion for the engineering industry, and the people within it,… Read more »
Streetscapes – Attractive and Functional Aspects
Streetscapes play an important role in forming the visual aspects, function, and identity of a built environment. Streetscapes help with traffic calming, accessibility, character, a sense of history or community, urban public life, moving people safely and efficiently, and supporting land use function and aesthetics. When designing streetscapes, a deep… Read more »
Chris Manning Promoted to Division Manager and Operations Partner
Chris Manning, PE, Baseline’s Water/Wastewater (W/WW) Division Manager for the past five years, was officially promoted in January to Division Manager and Operations Partner. Through this transition of roles, Chris hopes to continue focusing on the big picture of the company; he plans to use the experience and knowledge he has gained over the years… Read more »
Working from Home – Staff Highlight
As employees worldwide were forced to transition into working remotely full-time, everyone adjusted to this unfamiliar territory in different ways. Many have found comfort in relating to or learning from others’ experiences as people navigate through the unknown and accept this virtually-based environment as the new norm. Michael Lujan, one of Baseline’s engineering project managers,… Read more »
Baseline’s Steamboat Springs Office is Growing with Additional Staff
Steve Batchelder, one of Baseline’s most tenured project engineers, is transitioning from the Golden office to the Steamboat Springs office. Steve brings over 20 years of experience to Baseline and has provided high-quality designs while also maintaining efficiencies in his work which has benefited both the company and its clients. The Steamboat Springs office was… Read more »
Baseline’s New Service – Public Information Management
Baseline is proud to announce a new service category in public information management (PIM) for CDOT construction. For each project, we work with the contractors to develop a strategy for engaging with the public and ensuring that the community is notified of any disruptions as well as communicating project information through CDOT. We develop initial… Read more »
Working from Home – Staff Highlight
Working from home can be both a blessing and a challenge. Baseline transitioned to full remote work in a span of weeks in late March to protect employees during the pandemic. With a majority of our employees normally working in office, this was quite the transition for many. Learning how to operate entirely online has… Read more »
Exciting Baseline Projects Make Headlines
Recently, two Baseline projects were showcased on various news sites. One new design project is located in Broomfield, CO, and is a 600,000-sf business park and includes two multi-story office buildings, five single-story office buildings, six R&D and flex buildings, a retail building, and four retail pad sites. You can read more about this exciting… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week – Day 5!
Engineering Story of the Day “About three years into my engineering career, I found myself lying face-down on a skateboard 15 or so feet underground in a newly installed 42” sanitary sewer trunk. I had a smart level in one hand and used the other hand to pull myself along a rope that two engineers… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week – Day 4!
Engineering Stories of the Day “I was blessed to have great mentors and great internships when I was younger. This really helped me to establish my skills and learn the engineering trade at an accelerated pace. This would set me up to be a better engineer in the future. So my advice to others would… Read more »
Baseline Celebrates National Engineers Week – Day 3!
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
CDOT ESB-Certified, Prequalified Engineering Company
Baseline Engineering Corporation is a CDOT Emerging Small Business (ESB) certified company, as well as a prequalified contractor with CDOT and we hold a master pricing agreement (MPA), all of these mean that it’s easier for Baseline to enter into a CDOT project contract. Infrastructure is the backbone of our society. We often take things… Read more »
