Community Investment
Engineering change for our communities.
The PBS Community Investment Initiative donates professional services and capabilities for non-profit causes in the neighborhoods in which we operate. As a core component of our Sustainability Action Plan, this initiative fosters the planning, design, or construction support process for projects that positively affect our communities. Projects are nominated by PBS staff and reviewed by our Sustainability Team for their long-term impacts, opportunities for engagement, positive social changes, and support by the local community.
Our mission is to use our professional services and resources to create new opportunities and address the challenges our communities face through pro bono work.
To date, PBS has donated tens-of-thousands of dollars in professional services to community projects under this program.
Estacada Trail Renderings
The City of Estacada is developing a lakeshore trail and community water access facility along the Clackamas River. To support promotional and funding opportunities, PBS provided landscape architecture services including renderings and a simulated fly-through of the project.
NARA Depave Ceremonial Garden
PBS has worked with Depave and the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (NARA) to convert a parking lot into a ceremonial space, including a sweat lodge, fire pit, and healing garden. PBS provided landscape design, civil, and survey services.
Gateway Green Bike Skills Area
Gateway Green is Portland’s first park dedicated primarily to off-road cycling, located in an area historically underserved by public parks. PBS supported the Northwest Trail Alliance and the City of Portland to generate renderings used to promote awareness and publicity for the project.
Historic Providence Academy
The Historic Trust and PBS are working together to help preserve the former school. PBS provided landscape redesign and tree protection plans to create a space that respects the site’s history, provides a welcoming public environment, and better connects downtown and Officers Row.
Pioneer Park Play Area
The City of Walla Walla is redesigning the Pioneer Park Play Area to be an engaging, open, and accessible space for children and adults of all abilities. PBS worked with the City to create a video simulation and renderings of the future park to be used for promotional and funding purposes. PBS also provided survey, UAS support, and landscape architecture services.
Bend FC Timbers Field
PBS donated geotechnical engineering survey services to identify adverse subsurface conditions for a new athletic field in Bend, Oregon. The services were provided in support of the Build It Forward Capital Campaign, with the goal of bringing a world-class athletic complex to Bend.
Girl Scouts of Western Washington
PBS donated services to complete a critical areas (wetland and stream) delineation, including pre-application services with Snohomish County, and preparation of a critical areas report to be used for future permitting needs.
Gateway Green & The Dirt Lab
PBS supported the creation of a community park and bike trail with ongoing feasibility, engineering services, and project donations over the course of five years. PBS provided survey services to facilitate design of on-site stormwater facilities.
Coos County Fairgrounds Wetlands
PBS supported this community-driven effort to construct a new building and enhance the local fairgrounds, including wetland consulting and delineation report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Madrone Wall Park
PBS donated landscape architecture and design services to support the restoration of recreational access at this amazing civil treasure just east of Carver, Oregon in Clackamas County.
HB Fuller Ball Field
PBS provided volunteer services for a multi-use ball field in Clark County, Washington. PBS provided civil engineering services to connect the concessions building to public sewer, as well as an as-built topographic survey.
Rex Putnam Batting Facility
PBS provided pro-bono civil and geotechnical engineering design in support of the construction of a new high school batting facility and sports field in Milwaukie, Oregon. PBS staff additionally provided community outreach and volunteer efforts for the fundraising process.
Walla Walla WWII Memorial
PBS donated land and UAS drone surveying, geotechnical engineering, and engineering design for the development of a WWII Memorial in Walla Walla, Washington, honoring at least 90 local service members who died during the war and 3,800 regional members who served during the conflict.
Deschutes County Landfill
PBS donated UAS aerial mapping using state-of-the-art drone technology for a landfill project in Deschutes County, Oregon.