The company is also giving back to the industry by hiring and training young masons and has established a masonry scholarship with the Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute to ensure that talented young people will continue to enter the trade.

The firm, which did nearly $5 million in revenue in 2011 and also performs work outside the state, owns the majority of its own equipment and maintains a modest storage yard populated with piles of stone and brick from historic buildings around the state—ready to be reused at some point.

“What we do helps to protect the architectural legacy of places,” Maas says. “This is not a disposable world. Treasures are treasures and must be treated that way.”

Notable Local BRS Projects

Emerson School


Lucky Pings

FCI Silverton


Bird World, Denver Zoo


Equitable Building 


McNichols Building 


1660 17th Street condos


U.S. Mint


Merrill Middle School

Coors Field (various projects)


Denver Botanic Gardens


Museum of Outdoor Arts (Englewood)


Red Rocks Plaza and Loading Dock


City and County Building


Cheesman Gate


Avery Building (Ft. Collins)


Byron White Courthouse


Denver Athletic Club parking garage


Monte Vista Methodist Church