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About Baillie & Associates
Geoffrey L. Baillie,
P.E. established Baillie & Associates, Inc. in 1998 after nearly 30
years as a professional in the planning, design, construction
management, and project management of transportation, industrial,
institutional, infrastructure, and resource development capital
projects. In addition to his experience in delivering capital projects,
Mr. Baillie is an experienced trainer, having trained over 3,500
professionals in project management related topics since 1977.
Mr. Baillie has over 30 years of experience in planning, environmental
studies, design, and construction of capital projects of all types. He
began preparing NEPA EISs for highway projects in 1971 and over the last
30 years has managed/prepared over 100 EISs on highways, local roadways,
bridges, transit, rail, and airport projects, as well as institutional
and waterfront projects. He is a recognized expert on the practical
application of NEPA documentation requirements to unique, challenging,
and controversial projects and was involved in two of the Washington
State pilot projects for reinventing NEPA. He is a member of the
National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP) and serves on
the Association’s NEPA Working Group committee.
Since 1991, he has been the consultant project manager for the
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) SR 509/I-5 Freight
and Congestion Relief Project, a $1 billion extension of the SR 509
freeway around and to Sea-Tac International Airport. Other projects of
note include the NEPA EIS for the $1 billion coal gasification complex
in Four Corners, New Mexico, engineering design of major portions of the
supporting infrastructure for the $440 million Downtown Seattle Transit
Project, and SEPA EISs for the extension of Canyon Road North across the
Puyallup River (Pierce County), the Grand Ridge Development in Issaquah,
and the Tacoma to Lakewood section of the Sound Transit Commuter Rail
Project. He also managed the environmental assessment and preliminary
engineering design (design report) for five miles of SR 542, the Mount
Baker Highway near Bellingham, Washington.
He has developed and conducted training courses for engineers and
managers for Advanced CADD Management (University of Wisconsin),
Administering Consultant Contracts (WSDOT), Managing
Consultants and Measuring Project Performance
(University of Washington), Managing and Administering Contracts
(Washington State Transit Training Coalition) and energy conservation
(U.S. Department of Energy, American Management Associations, the
Northwest Food Processors Association, and others). He developed and
currently conducts trainings in project management for ODOT and the
League of Oregon cities and has been retained by the administrative
services departments for the states of Oregon and Washington to provide
similar project management training classes. He has developed project
management training manuals and related training courses for two major
national engineering consulting companies, and was a special project
management consultant to General Motors and the Saturn Corporation
during the developmental stages of the Saturn car and the company.
Mr. Baillie is a trained facilitator and a Licensed Professional
Engineer, Civil Discipline, in Washington State. He has published
numerous articles on the subjects of project management, NEPA, and
related subjects and recently published a series of articles in the
national newsletter of the National Association of Environmental
Professionals on Reinventing NEPA in Washington State. In addition to
NAEP, he is an active member of the Washington State Chapter of the
American Consulting Engineers Council and the Project Management
Institute. He is a frequent presenter at professional society and
association meetings, a past president of the Seattle Engineers Club and
Vice President of the Peninsula School Board of Directors. |
