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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Marin City Health and Wellness Clinic Expanding in Marin When the Marin City Health and Wellness project started in late 2018, I was excited to partner with Quezada Architecture to expand free healthcare services and provide much-needed affordable housing in southern Marin. At the time I didn’t know about the racial segregation laws of the […]
Join FTF Engineering on October 18, 2019 for the “Bike to Hope” cycling event in Penngrove, CA to put an end to cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Click the link below if you are interested in participating or would like to know more.
SFO C3C Project – one of FTF’s Largest – is Nearing Take-Off FTF is in plan check for the 100,000 square foot Courtyard 3 Connector (C3C), a $165 million design-build project at San Francisco International Airport. Design-Build partners include Hensel Phelps, Magnusson Klemencic Associates and HOK and MEI Architects. The Courtyard 3 Connector (C3C) at […]