Statement of Qualifications - Garfield County, Colorado

Statements of Qualifications River Edge Colorado, Garfield County, Colorado

P R O J E C T T E A M S TAT E M E N T S O F Q U A L I F I C AT I O N S RIVER EDGE COLORADO GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO I.

CIVIL ENGINEER/PLANN ER 8140 Partners, LLC 8140 Partners LLC (8140) is a uniquely collaborative logistics, planning and engineering design firm specializing in challenging projects located in sensitive environments including brownfields. 8140 provides complete consulting services from feasibility studies, master land use and community planning, entitlements, detailed design and documentation, contract administration through to site supervision. The Partners’ at 8140 have over 40 years expertise that embraces resort and residential development, brownfield redevelopment, master planning, permitting and entitlements, traffic and transportation engineering, flood mitigation, remediation, water resources planning, reservoir and earthworks design, construction oversight, environmental impact analysis, and water, wastewater and stormwater system design for both the private and public sectors. 8140 has offices is Eagle and Golden, Colorado.

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LEGAL Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (BHFS) is a unique law firm with extensive and well trained and experienced resources in all areas of land development and water law. BHFS Development Group is a committed partner in all facets of real estate development. BHFS works with clients throughout the entire process, handling matters of due diligence, land use, entitlements, environmental concerns and financing. They help clients sort out their objectives and secure contracts for their deals. They resolve title issues, mineral issues and utility service access. Their experienced attorneys understand the complicated entitlement process and wield the requisite skills to ensure that clients are buying properties with the assumed rights intact.

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Zehren and Associates, Inc. Zehren and Associates located in Avon, Colorado and in Santa Barbara, California was founded in 1983 and is a full service interdisciplinary design and planning firm. Professional services provided by Zehren and Associates include comprehensive planning, land use studies, master planning, community design, architecture, landscape 1


architecture and interior design for both domestic and international clients. Zehren and Associates currently employs eighteen people, including registered architects, landscape architects, land planners, and interior designers, several of whom are also LEED Accredited Professionals. By providing a full range of services that bridge planning, architecture and interior design, Zehren’s team can accomplish projects from “vision” to reality, with emphasis on the integration of disciplines and delivery of highly efficient and environmentally sensitive solutions. Over the past twenty-eight years, Zehren and Associates has focused on a special expertise — the planning and design of residential resort communities, including some of the nation’s most prestigious ski and golf communities. The firm has taken a key design role in leading mountain resorts throughout the northeast United States, the Rocky Mountains, the west coast, and internationally. Examples include ski resort villages and key buildings at destinations such as Stowe, Vermont; Loon Mountain in New Hampshire; Peek’n Peak in New York, Beaver Creek, Vail, Keystone, The Broadmoor, Mount Crested Butte, Telluride, Winter Park, and Steamboat in Colorado; Solitude and Deer Crest at Deer Valley in Utah; Mount Hood Meadows in Oregon; Schweitzer and Tamarack in Idaho; Island Lake in Canada; Yong Pyong and Muju Resorts near Seoul, Korea; Changbaishan in China; and Himalayan Ski Village in India.

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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Oddo Engineering, Inc. Oddo Engineering, Inc.’s qualifications are based on its extensive 16-year history of providing exceptional and complete structural engineering and project management. The company’s qualified and diverse staff is skilled and proficient in providing structural design services related to custom residential, commercial buildings, bridges, and industrial engineering, in both the public and private sectors. With combined experience of over 90 years, Oddo Engineering provides economic designs and accurate details using state of the art technology and software to meet the needs of a variety of clients.

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TRAFFIC Fehr & Peers Transportation Consultants Fehr & Peers (F&P) specializes in providing transportation planning and traffic engineering services to public and private sector clients. F&P emphasizes the development of creative, cost-effective, and results-oriented solutions to planning and design problems associated with all modes of transportation. Rather than trying to offer a multi-disciplined approach, F&P chooses to focus on being the best traffic engineering and transportation planning consulting firm. They offer specialized expertise within transportation including: 

Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning

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Traffic Engineering 2


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Land Use & Transportation Planning

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Traffic Operations & ITS

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Sustainable Transportation

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Travel Demand Forecasting

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Transit Planning

Maintaining this singular focus on transportation enables them to provide state-of-thepractice expertise to our clients. F&P are nationally-recognized experts in these areas as evidenced by the fact that they routinely publish many professional papers, serve on national committees, and teach courses to others in the industry.

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FISCAL IMPACT Economic & Planning Systems, Inc. Economic & Planning Systems (EPS) is a land economics consulting firm experienced in the full spectrum of services related to real estate development market analysis, public/private partnerships, and the financing of government services and public infrastructure. Founded in 1983, the firm has three offices located in Berkeley and Sacramento, California, and Denver, Colorado, and EPS's team of 35 consultants serves clients throughout the country and abroad. Cities and regions are complex and dynamic systems, subject to cycles of growth, stability, decline, and regeneration. Their work addresses the needs of places at all phases of their life cycle. As places grow, EPS is involved in building the financial structures, infrastructure, and organizations that growth demands. As places mature, EPS is involved in sustaining the physical, financial, and political systems that allow people and businesses to operate efficiently while maintaining the qualities that first made the place successful. And as places evolve or decline, EPS is involved in restoring their vitality by finding new uses for old properties, new functions for declining districts, and new economic opportunities for growing cities and regions. EPS strives to help our clients create and maintain places that are socially, economically, and ecologically healthy. Every day, assignments require them to find creative solutions to complex challenges in the arenas of land use policy, real estate investment, and governmental organization. They integrate their skills and perspectives with those of other professional disciplines such as urban design, architecture, civil engineering, and legal services, in addition to the objectives and abilities of our public- and private-sector clients. The ability to understand complex interrelationships and apply their integrated expertise to find solutions has been a hallmark of our practice for thousands of clients for more than 25 years.

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WATER RESOURCE Resource Engineering, Inc. Resource Engineering, Inc. (RESOURCE) is a water resource engineering company located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Headquartered in the administrative center of the Colorado River, the Company specializes in water right engineering investigations, water quality assessments and water supply planning. RESOURCE's staff is comprised of six primary professionals with expertise in water resource engineering and water right investigations. RESOURCE personnel have been extensively involved in water supply planning and water resource investigations in Colorado since 1975. They have completed water resource engineering analysis for major ski area developments, reservoir facilities, transbasin diversion projects, mining operations, hydropower projects and municipal developments. Water resource investigations have been completed in the Colorado, Blue, Fraser, Eagle, Roaring Fork, Gunnison, Uncompahgre, San Miguel, Dolores, White, Yampa and Arkansas River basins. Through this work RESOURCE has developed a thorough understanding of water rights administration and issues in Colorado. RESOURCE is fully qualified to provide service in the following areas: 

Engineering for water right transfers including complex plans for augmentation

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Stream channel assessment and restoration

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Municipal water supply and facilities planning

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Water quality assessment and surface and ground water quality monitoring

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Hydrologic studies in surface and ground water

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Flood hydrology and flood plain delineation

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Small dam and reservoir design

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River basin modeling and reservoir operation studies

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GIS mapping and database development

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Water right appraisals

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Wetland evaluations

Since 1975 RESOURCE personnel have completed hundreds of water supply and water quality studies for various municipal, residential, industrial and recreational clients.

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WILDLIFE/ENVIRONMENTAL Rocky Mountain Ecological Services, Inc. Rocky Mountain Ecological Services (RMES) is a small business based in the Rocky Mountain West with a strong commitment toward providing top-quality environmental consulting services. RMES is dedicated to scientific objectivity and sound scientific techniques to produce reliable data in a most efficient manner. From these reliable data, management decisions and conscientious project design are generated with respect to both business and the environment. They have demonstrated innovative and cost-effective solutions to assist with judicious land management choices. RMES's enthusiasm and effectiveness in our work can be seen through our successful relationships with a wide variety of clients ranging from non-profit stewardship organizations to industrial corporations.

Pendo Solutions Pendo Solutions (PENDO) is an employee-owned company of policy, permitting, technical, and natural resource experts delivering timely and cost effective solutions to clients in both the public and private sectors. PENDO has successfully assisted clients in the natural gas, energy, recreation and tourism, real estate, land planning, architecture, and engineering industries with natural resource assessments, land use planning, environmental permitting, and compliance. Located on the western slope of Colorado, employees at PENDO have over 30 years of combined professional experience. PENDO's areas of expertise are environmental planning, policy, and permitting. They combine scientific and technical knowledge and experience with an ability to foster relationships and earn the trust of our clients in the public and private sectors. Pendo Solutions is a multi-disciplinary firm that provides technical, scientific, and management knowledge and expertise to assist our clients in finding balanced solutions to complex issues. They are committed to helping you foster a relationship with the agencies and environment around us from planning to permitting and implementation. Offering NEPA compliance services, from facilitating public involvement to drafting decision documents, they have successfully assisted numerous clients in the natural gas, energy, recreation and tourism, real estate, land planning, architecture, and engineering industries obtain necessary permits for project implementation.

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GEOLOGIST/GEOTECHICA L ENGINEER RMG Engineers, LLC RMG Engineers Group (RMG) is a multi-disciplinary engineering firm specializing in Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architectural Design, Construction Material Laboratory and Field Testing and Building Code Development. With this array of services, RMG provides clients a single source for their professional needs. RMG support their project from design concept through construction. With RMG's 5


comprehensive services they know their product will meet the appropriate codes and standards to achieve long term performance. RMG's experts are licensed over 14 states and foreign countries. These professionals are committed to providing services focused on technical quality, innovation, efficiency, practicality and professionalism. RMG's staff is well educated, continuously trained and have years of experience in their expertise. RMG emphasizes strong communication skills. Consultation in any form has little value unless it is communicated clearly and completely. The industries RMG serves include Governmental, Commercial, Religious, Educational, Residential (single and multi-family), Telecommunications, Medical and Manufacturing facilities. Our multidisciplinary approach and familiarity with new construction, reconstruction and forensic investigations, gives RMG a unique perspective in understanding the full life cycle of structures and the importance of appropriate Codes and Testing Procedures.

Hepworth-Pawlak Geotechnical, Inc. Hepworth-Pawlak Geotechnical (HP) is a geotechincal engineering firm where our staff experience and extensive testing capabilities in our offices allow them to provide effective services on a wide variety of projects. These include soil investigations for building foundations, mining facilities, roads, airfields, pipelines, transmission towers, earthworks, dams, and other civil works. Geologic hazard assessment experience includes slope stability, debris flow, snow avalanche, rockfall, sinkhole and mine subsidence. HP believes it is important to follow through with construction observations and testing and, therefore, HP offer construction quality control which includes earthwork, concrete, steel, fireproofing and asphalt testing, laboratory materials testing and site observations by engineers.

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SURVEYOR Tuttle Surveying Services, Inc. Tuttle Surveying Services, Inc., owned by Jeffrey Allen Tuttle, has been offering surveying services in the Roaring Fork Valley since 2000. Jeffrey has been surveying in the area for the last 30 years. Tuttle Surveying Services offers G.P.S. and conventional survey capabilities along with AutoCAD Drafting. Specializing in: Construction surveying, Topographical Surveys, Boundary Surveys, Improvement Surveys, Marketing Maps, AutoCAD drafting.

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ARCHITECT Axxe Group, LLC AXXE Group, LLC was founded in July 2008 by Principal Mr. Iain Butler as a vehicle to provide ‘Client focused’ Project Management and Architectural Design services. The primary core value of AXXE Group is its ability to “Listen, Understand, Focus, Deliver, Meet and Exceed” the client's needs, objectives and events. This ‘core value’ was consistently observed to be lacking within the existing design professional services arena, and as a consequence, AXXE Group was conceived and launched to fill the void. An overview of the Project Management and Architectural Design Services AXXE Group provide encompasses, but is not limited to the following: 

Review, Analysis and Evaluation of client objectives and events;

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Architectural Design of client objectives and events;

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Planning the work according to the objectives;

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Owner representation;

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Estimation, procurement, consultants/resources;

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Task assignment and direction;

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Coordination and direction of the consultant team;

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Controlling project task execution; and

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Tracking and reporting project tasks, conformity and accuracy.

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In order to best serve the needs of a variety and multitude of individual clients, AXXE Group has formed strategic alliances with other like-minded Architectural, Design and Engineering professionals. These alliances serve to tailor and expand the resources and knowledge base to suit each and every project type precisely. As a consequence, AXXE Group has the unique ability to offer, provide and deliver efficient and cost-effective design solutions. One of the inherent benefits is that the client no longer has to “fund” the operation of a mid/large size professional design practice in order to achieve their design and development goals.

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