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For the past four years, we have been actively working with the LBE (Local Business Enterprise) Advisory Committee to build consensus among business leaders and convince political leaders that these revenue limit increases – the first in 23 years – will enable San Francisco small businesses to grow, prosper, and successfully graduate from the program. Thanks to […]
In July of 2020, we received word that one of our most important projects was completed – the Children’s Academy, high on a hill above Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Together with BAR Architects and their team, we developed and coordinated the design of a 2,700 square foot earthquake- and hurricane-resistant expansion to the school by adding a […]
The Second Studio (formerly The Midnight Charette) is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different creative professionals in unscripted conversations that allow for thoughtful takes and personal discussions. This week David and Marina are joined by Randy Collins S.E., Founder and Principal of FTF Engineering, […]
When the infamous San Andreas Fault runs directly through the driveway of your new home site, you might consider spending a little extra money on the best structural engineer to come up with a creative and effective solution to ensure you and your investment survive the next Big One. Check out an excerpt from an […]
FTF’s own John Dal Pino, S.E. and Larisa Enachi contributed this article to the Engineer’s Notebook on the ability to determine approximate answers to complicated problems, which comes in handy in the real world of engineering, how approximate analytical techniques are the foundations of structural engineering. Click to read full article in STRUCTURE Magazine
FTF Featured in Dwell Magazine When the surf-loving client’s main ask is to “see the waves from wherever you are,” we deliver — including turning the third floor into a spacious communal living area that features a wall of windows that would hold up to a seismic event and bear the force of the daily […]
This past year, despite all odds, we helped get over 75 kids out on beautiful Mount Tamalpais in Marin County through FTF’s sponsorship of the Redwood High School Mountain Bike Team
La Cocina’s new 7,000-square-foot marketplace has taken over the vacant post office, previously owned by the Federal government, at 101 Hyde Street, on a block that former Supervisor Jane Kim has called “one of the toughest intersections in the Tenderloin.” For the next four years, it will operate in the space in an interim capacity before a […]