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,…
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On September 9th, Underwood & Rosenblum tragically lost one of its beloved employees. Terri Stanley unexpectedly passed away in her sleep at her home in Los Altos. Terri had worked as U&R’s exuberant receptionist for the past three years. She…
One of the most famous scenic vistas in the world is the Tunnel View Overlook on Highway 41 in Yosemite National Park. Almost anyone who has ever visited Yosemite Valley has a photo taken from this scenic road stop. Located…
It’s a nice, warm, and sunny spring lunch hour, and the U&R engineers are gathered in a darkened company conference room watching a vendor’s slide presentation about stormwater treatment and passing around a crazy-looking filter gadget. What’s going on here?…
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…
The challenges of protecting the natural landscape while preserving historic cultural resources are numerous at Henry Coe State Park in Santa Clara County. With hundreds of square miles of ranch lands and wilderness, Henry Coe is the second-largest state park…
By combining the digital detail of Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) and the high speed and accuracy of robotic total station surveying, U&R has created the “World’s Largest Dimensionally Accurate Map of California.” As part of the Fremont Unified School…
On February 14, 2007, the long-awaited Cadence Design System’s Building 10 got a well-deserved groundbreaking ceremony. Attended by San José’s Mayor Chuck Reed and other local dignitaries, the event celebrated the start of construction of the five-story, 208,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art…
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…
Visitors who walk to the beach at scenic Andrew Molera State Park will be one step closer to accessing it year-round instead of only seasonally. This is because, for U&R’s annual volunteer project, we provided a pro bono land survey….