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.
San Francisco’s future Dianne Feinstein Elementary School is named after a California senator. While located on a sloping and undersized site, with careful planning, it still offers the full range of amenities. Construction is scheduled for completion in spring 2006.
Once plans for a construction project have been approved and finalized, U&R land surveyors mark the ground where construction will take place. It’s called staking. Unexpectedly, the contractor needs a change in the construction stake placement. Will the project be
U&R received the “Association of the Year Award 2005” from California State Parks, Monterey District. We were honored at their annual awards banquet held in May 2006. Our company was recognized for providing volunteer land surveys and digital maps for
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
Preparing students for business, medical, and technical careers, the Mission Valley Regional Occupation Program (MVROP) plays a major role. Serving Fremont, Newark, and New Haven Unified School Districts, it provides an excellent example of how to stretch budgets through partnerships.
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,
Challenges: For decades, five high schools shared the Tak Fudenna Stadium of the Fremont Unified School District (FUSD). Fortunately, when the stadium needed to be revamped, the public voted for a school bond measure. Yet, few community members attend bond