Consilium Design’s continued participation at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) shines at the 2020 International Builders Show in Las Vegas, NV.

Craig Karn, President, has been appointed to the Environmental Issues Committee along with continuing his service on the Land…

It was an exciting week in New Orleans.  A few things I learned at my Land Development Committee meeting and other sessions:

Paul Emrath of the NAHB staff has been helping develop an Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) calculator. This tool will be useful in demonstrating the feasibility (or infe…

Consilium Design is proud to announce that Senior Landscape Architect, Julie Hendricksen has recently completed the requirements to become an accredited Green Roof Professional (GRP). Julie is now one of only six people to earn this certificate in Colorado. As a Senior Landscape Architect …

Industrial Development Professionals,

We hope you enjoyed the afternoon at the recent CREJ Industrial Summit and Expo and took away some valuable insights about this rapidly growing segment of the Colorado real estate market. We certainly did.

As a follow up to the event, we would li…

Total hydrology planning is a methodology that we have developed to identify and utilize all water resources on a project site. This customized, holistic, insightful approach maps all water as a basis for site design. This process maximizes and manipulates all on and off-site water flo…

A few things I learned last week at the Land Development meeting and other Spring NAHB meetings:

The HBA of Greater Chicago commissioned a report on affordability. The report revealed that proposals for housing development within ARO Pilot areas have come to a virtual standstill due to …

Consilium Design congratulates our client, the Colorado Village Collaborative (CVC) on its approval to move the Beloved Community Village to the Globeville neighborhood in Denver. We are proud to be a small part in helping CVC design the new site and create opportunities within the site fo…

Join Us for a Special Panel hosted by Consilium Design
to discuss Resilient and Equitable Community Development
 at the Rocky Mountain Green Conference!
When: April 10-12, 2019
Where: Embassy Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown
Hosted by USGBC Mountain Region, Rocky Mountain Green annu…

What was the most unexpected thing to come out of our trip to Las Vegas for the International Builders Show?  A snowstorm! Thanks to Mother Nature, our trip to Las Vegas and those of many other Coloradoans was extended by two days due to a very rare winter storm that struck Wednesday nigh…

The National Home Builders Association International Builders’ Show is upon us!  We hope to see you at the show and don’t forget to attend Craig’s presentation on the 21st! He and Phil Stuepfert from HR Green will be presenting an exciting and informational session in the Design Stu…

Hello Friends of Consilium Design!
The 2019 NAHB International Builders’ Show will be here before we know it!  We want to invite you to see Craig’s presentation on the 21st! He and our friend and client Phil Stuepfert from HR Green will be presenting an exciting and informational sessi…

Consilium Design welcomes Landscape Architect, Julie Hendricksen to the team
Denver CO – Consilium Design is proud to announce that Landscape Architect, Julie Hendricksen has joined their growing team!  Julie brings over 15 years of experience in residential, commercial and community …

‘Tis the season! Oh wait, not THAT season…it’s MOVING season! At least for Consilium Design!

As of Friday, November 16th, our new office address is:
2755 South Locust Street, Suite 236, Denver CO 80222
We are now located just off of I25 and Yale…if you are in the neighborhood,…

For Immediate Release:
Date: October 30, 2018
Consilium Design Announces Unanimous Approval of Haskins Station in Arvada, Colorado
Centennial CO – Consilium Design is proud to announce that the Arvada City Council has unanimously approved the preliminary development plan for Haskins S…

In the most recent edition of The Meyers Edge Ali Wolf, Director of Economic Research told us that affordability is driving the deceleration of the housing market. The first of four things Wolf noted to consider in responding to the changing market was:
“Be strategic. There hasn’t bee…

Consilium Design invites you to attend Growlers & Grapes, a craft beer and wine tasting event benefiting HomeAid Colorado.
You’ll enjoy a selection of wine, beer and appetizers, an auction and entertainment, all of which will benefit HomeAid Colorado’s homeless housing and communi…

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2018
Centennial CO – Judges for the 2018 Gold Nugget Awards have named Consilium Design and the team who worked on Stanley Marketplace (Workshop8, White Construction and Flightline Ventures) as one of their Award of Merit winners for their work on Stanley…

Centennial CO – Consilium Design is proud to announce that Landscape Designer Katie Laughlin has joined their growing team!  Katie is a Colorado native with a passion for natural systems, social engagement, and human-environmental interaction.  She has a Master’s Degree in Landscape …

For Immediate Release: April 4, 2018
Centennial CO – Consilium Design is proud to announce that Stanley Marketplace has been awarded the 2018 U.S. Green Building Council Mountain West Leadership Award for Outdoor Environments.  The honor is awarded to a project that demonstrates innova…

Consilium Design’s Barnabas Kane, one of our Senior Landscape Architects and a hydrology expert will be conducting two workshops in Prescott, Arizona in April.

Participants will learn about local landscape planning and water use at the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG), at the Gran…

For our first installment of the Consilium Interview Series, we will be conducting staff interviews to give you a chance to meet some of the incredible members of our team. We recently conducted the following Q&A with Barnabas Kane, Senior Landscape Architect of Consilium Design.

…

On The Boards:
Boulevard One is a new community in Denver’s award-winning Lowry neighborhood, formerly the end of Runway One at the Lowry Air Force Base.

Consilium Design is pleased to be working again with Peter Kudla, CEO at Metropolitan Homes, on their contribution to this new com…

Cloud City Farm sits on a two-and-a-half-acre property within walking distance from the Community Field and every 3rd through 12th grade classroom in Lake County, Colorado.

The complex includes: a 1,300-square foot growing dome, a 2160-square foot high tunnel, outdoor raised beds, commu…

For our first installment of the Consilium Interview Series, we will be conducting staff interviews to give you a chance to meet some of the incredible members of our team. We recently conducted the following Q&A with Craig Karn, Principal of Consilium Design.

Where d…

This article was printed in the Colorado Real Estate Journal on January 23, 2018. Click here to read the original article.

With the passage of the Denver Green Roof Initiative, it has become very clear to me that those of us in the business of building sustainable cities have some w…

Back from the freeze-in Florida!
While it turned out to be a sunny and warm week, the 2018 IBS started out much like last year in Orlando — cold! My service on the Land Use Committee, Land Use Policy Subcommittee takes me to the show early, but it was warming up by Sunday morning. H…

Consilium Design, in partnership with Real Earth Design, is honored to be a part of the renovation of EarthDance Organic Farm School. This is a special project that allows us to apply our expertise in storm water management, rainwater strategy and land planning.

As an ever-growing peri-…

This article was included as the Inside & Out(side) feature in the December 2017 Edition of the Colorado Real Estate Journal’s Building Dialogue Magazine, Colorado’s Premier Commercial Development, Design and Construction Magazine.
–

1

2

3

We …

There are nearly 18,000 homeless men, women, and children on any given night in Colorado.
From now until November 16th, Consilium Design’s office will be proudly serving as a drop-off location for the HomeAid Essentials Care Kit Drive. We invite you to stop by and drop off any unused, t…

Centennial CO – Consilium Design is proud to announce the hiring of Kim Ketchel as their new Director of Business Development. Kim brings a breadth of talent in all aspects of business development, marketing and client relationship management to the team.

Kim has 20 years of experience …

How does design translate to dollars? The value of design commences at the origination of the project, not at the middle or the end.

Dollars – Hard costs, soft costs, impact fees, development fees, square foot costs etc. – they drive the entire project from land acquisition to design …

Hello Candidates:

 Consilium Design is an uncommonly respectful international, award-winning, land planning and landscape architecture firm located in Centennial, Colorado.

Making great places for living is our mission.

What’s a great place? A great place must be contextual, ad…

Adaptive Reuse – not just for the Great Indoors!
(as originally printed in the Colorado Real Estate Journal)

What is the hype over the buzzwords “Adaptive Reuse”? Some of it stems from the need to reduce urban sprawl. Some of it may be because as designers, engineers and consulta…

Consilium Design earns unanimous approval for Remington Homes latest patio home neighborhood at Whisper Creek

On April 4, 2015, an amendment to the Whisper Creek Overall Development Plan and a

Preliminary Development Plan/Preliminary Plat for patio homes to be built by Remington Home…

Doing Simple Well

By Craig Karn, Principal, Consilium Design

In over 30 years of practice, we have seen trends come and go in planning and landscape architecture. In the 80’s we experienced times of great growth and some down times. In the 90’s times were good and growth was stro…