About

Established in 2002, FTF Engineering is a structural engineering professional services firm with offices in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California. We are certified as a California Small Business and City of San Francisco Local Business Enterprise.

MISSION

FTF Creates Value by Designing Safe and Enduring Structures with Integrity

VISION

FTF - Managing Risk for Life

We build in an evolving world to ensure communities are safe and businesses prosper.

Our engineers collaborate to understand values and define resilience goals for safety, damage, and recovery.

We provide flexible and creative solutions that are sensitive to constrained resources and changing demands.

Our team is committed to be responsive, to invest in our profession, and to serve our clients and communities in order to thrive.

VALUES

FTF’s Values Result in Shared Success

We build lasting relationships with clients and each other:

• Listening to forge connection
• Building positive rapport and embracing feedback
• Relating through our diversity

We have a can-do attitude and collaborative spirit:

• Considering possibilities not limitations
• Thinking creatively and exploring options
• Anticipating and adapting

We embrace practical and innovative solutions:

• Recognizing project objectives
• Employing smart, efficient strategies
• Maximizing benefit by considering the whole context
• Offering insights and alternatives

We are responsive and accountable:

• Holding to Owner’s objectives
• Investing in our growth and development
• Communicating openly and honestly

CULTURE

FTF Company Culture

• Hard-working engineers who enjoy a challenge, take initiative and ownership of project, are fully engaged and passionate, value honesty and integrity, follow through on commitments, are eager to listen and learn, and strive to succeed – Be the example.
• Friendly, supportive working environment that balances work and family, professional growth and free time, and encourages open communication to ask questions, and think outside the box – Inspire one another.
• Team-oriented active collaboration to build on each of our strengths, encourage growth in our weaknesses, respect diverse opinions and perspectives, and see value in every member – Together we succeed.
• Exceptional service that delivers technically excellent engineering solutions in a cooperative, creative and flexible manner that is responsive to project needs and client priorities – Build Quality Relationships.