In 2019 U&R celebrates 41 years in business. I’ve been with the company for 35 years. Others with more than 10 years: Valerie Doyle – 26 years Vince Quach – 20 years David Tabuchi –18 years Chris Rudd – 16…
Category President’s Message
Well, I can say it now: 2015 has been a boom year for U&R! After seven years of economic recession, this year is proving to be a welcome change. With 130 new projects started since January 1st and more than…
Back in 1999 I pondered, “What else can I do with this company to make a difference?” With my love of the outdoors, and knowledge of topographic surveys and their place in the land planning process, I set out to…
An ever-evolving land development industry has put pressures on all civil engineers and land surveyors to learn new standards and ways to do things. At Underwood & Rosenblum, Inc., we have maintained our commitment to keeping up with all the…
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,…