Every once in a while a project of ours unexpectedly becomes infamous. This was the case for one particular custom home in Los Altos Hills that U&R engineers and surveyors have painstakingly been working on for years. In February of
It was 1978, “Saturday Night Fever” was showing at the Moffet Drive-in and “Staying Alive” was the number one song playing on eight-track tape players. Gas prices had just climbed to $0.80 per gallon and words such as Yahoo, Cisco,
During the second week of September, U&R’s Theo Martinez and I had the opportunity and honor to attend the third biannual Walk/Bike California 2007 Conference in Davis, California. This weeklong conference was attended by hundreds of walking and bicycling advocates
I am proud to say that Underwood & Rosenblum now employs five California-licensed civil engineers and two California-licensed land surveyors. Dave Voorhies, Terence Garvey, Mark Sorenson, and Lisa Steffens are all licensed civil engineers. Mike Crowell is a licensed land
People often ask me how U&R got into volunteering. In 1999, I decided to write letters to the Superintendents of our California National Parks to find a volunteer project for our company. A few days of camping and surveying in
Since ancient times, towns and cities throughout the world have been built so that residents could walk wherever they needed to go. Today we call them “walkable” communities. California in the 1950s changed this by introducing the first freeway. Eventually,
We are excited that U&R has grown. Recently I hired Dave Voorhies, PE, to serve as an additional Principal Engineer and to provide business development services. In anticipation, I added more staff and office space to better serve all of
Soaring land prices affect the landscapes of our communities. Vacant fields, small plots of land and oddly shaped properties that previous generations ignored have become prime sites for building. It’s called “infill” because builders are “filling in” spaces between developed
I remember a time when civil engineers provided not much more than grading and drainage plans for projects. Over the years, regional land planning, environmental protection, legal responsibilities and the role of governmental agencies increased dramatically. As a result, civil
It’s the “civil” that makes “civil engineering” different from other types of engineering in the construction field. Civil engineers address not only the laws of nature (such as physics), but also the nature of the community. Certainly, civil engineers need