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FTF’s project, 415 Natoma won the Engineering News-Record Best of the Best award in the Office/Retail/Mixed-Use category! Located in San Francisco’s (SoMa) District, 415 Natoma is a 25-story office tower and is part of the four-acre Fifth & Mission (5M) development. FTF served as the associate structural engineer working in collaboration with Swinerton, Brookfield Properties, […]
Repurposing the Past: Power Station It’s Spring, and FTF Engineering is excited to start a new project at the historic Potrero Power Station in Dogpatch. Collaborating with LMS Architects and Associate Capital on Block 7B of the 29-acre development, they will transform the post-industrial site last used in 1965 into a vital mixed-use space. The […]
FTF’s 415 Natoma was featured in The Construction Specifier’s article in the January 2023 Issue on the Carbon Paradox. “Brookfield Properties’ 415 Natoma in San Francisco, logistics centers in Bradenton, Florida, Adidas Fifth in New York, and many other projects have benefited from internal curing with liquid colloidal nano silica SCMs to increase quality, reduce […]
Author: John Dal Pino Contributors: Claire Hu, Elizabeth Bognar, and Hongxun Yang Below is an inside look at John’s full report on Ferndale. Introduction & Objectives Between Christmas and New Year’s, I led a small group of young FTF engineers on a long day trip to the California North Coast to learn from the December […]
FTF Celebrates 20 Years! FTF Engineering celebrates 20 years of creative solutions. With offices in seismically challenged San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, we focus on the safety, technical, and environmental aspects of construction as structural engineers. Collaborating with top architects and general contractors, we work on residential, commercial, hospitality, and historic projects in the […]
FTF Engineering’s Founder and Principal, Randy Collins, sat down with The Modern Architect host Tom Dioro, architect aficionado and principal of Accurate, to discuss the unique world of structural engineering. In this episode, Randy touches on his journey to becoming a structural engineer, what it was like starting his own firm just five years out […]
FTF was pleased to partner with Aleck Wilson Architects on this gorgeous home build in San Carlos. According to CA Home + Design, when tasked with designing a new ground-up home for former clients that were recent empty nesters, they spent considerable time on the hillside site, mapping the views and view corridors to site […]
FTF’s own Jillian van Enckevort, S.E. contributed this article on the challenging historical retrofit of The Printery in the Central California coastal town of Atascadero. The Printery is a 14,000 square foot unreinforced historic brick building, originally built in 1914. Severely damaged in an earthquake in 2003 and subsequently abandoned, we are working with local organizers […]