Karl W. Franklin, PE-PLS-EXW

Karl, a proud native of Colorado, hails from Littleton. He attended Heritage High School before heading to the University of Colorado at Boulder to study Engineering. He is the self-proclaimed number 1 Bronco fan still convinced that Pat Bowlen after Super Bowl 32 said, “This one is for Karl”. Karl has always been big into bowling, boasting a 215 average for the past few years, and also picked up golf. Furthermore, he is a fan of traveling, fortunate enough to have visited some exotic locations. He is a devoted father of two; a boy (2007) and a girl (2012).  Engineering has pretty much always been in Karl’s nature. His application of the scientific method has worked for project design, project management, business management, and general problem-solving.

Karl has a broad technical background in Civil Engineering and Land Surveying related to land development projects. His areas of expertise in civil engineering include sanitary sewer collection systems, storm-water infrastructure design, water quality design and reporting, drainage analysis and reporting, roadway design, parking lot design, earthwork volumetrics, finished grading designs, grading, and drainage conformance certificates, retaining wall design, cost estimation, project management, development planning, and entitlement applications. His areas of expertise on the land surveying side, as they relate to streetscapes, include cadastral surveying, ALTA/ACSM surveys, land survey plats, improvement survey plats, topographic mapping, aerial mapping, legal descriptions, easements, construction staking, as-built mapping, and improvement location certificates.