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Collaboration in Santa Barbara FTF Engineering is excited to announce our collaboration with Van Sande Structural Consultants (VSSC) in Santa Barbara. FTF’s San Luis Obispo team is currently supporting VSSC on a 2-story addition to the iconic Lobero Theatre, California’s oldest theater in continuous operation. The partnership is a natural fit, with both firms bringing […]
FTF in the Community The Seismic Outreach program is inspiring the next generation of engineers through hands-on learning and mentorship. Through this initiative, engineering students visit elementary schools to teach students about earthquakes, structural engineering, and seismic design, then leave them with K’NEX kits to build their own model “skyscrapers.” The experience concludes with a […]
Congratulations to FTF’s Jillian van Enckevort for being elected as a new member of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) Board for the term 2023-2025! Bravo! “Jillian’s structural engineering journey began when she was a young girl accompanying her father, a general contractor, to his work sites. Her exposure to the construction industry […]
FTF Founder and Principal Randy Collins recently returned to his alma mater, UCSD, where he attended an all-day Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Industry-Academia Workshop and visited the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.
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 […]
Happy New Year from all of us at FTF! 2021 was quite a year, and we were proud to have worked with our partners at HOK Group and Hensel-Phelps to complete the beautiful new Courtyard 3 Connector at SFO (pictured above). Featured Projects Hospitality — Amy’s Drive-Thru, Corte Madera, CA Size: 4,170 sf | Architect: […]
We are thrilled to announce our commitment to the #SE2050 Challenge to work toward net-zero embodied carbon structural systems by 2050! FTF Designer, Josefine Olsson, LEED Green Associate, will be leading this effort to educate our staff on embodied carbon, run Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), implement embodied carbon-reducing strategies in our projects, and has created a comprehensive Embodied Carbon […]
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 […]
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