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 »
