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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 […]

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 […]

A Bay Area Home Ideal for Lockdown   The house in Orinda, Calif., was designed for entertaining. But it turned out to be just as good for living through a pandemic. FTF collaborated closely with the architect from the early stages of design to achieve an economical and robust structural system by complementing the architectural […]

Beauty meets brawn in the Bay Area. FTF Engineering applied an advanced seismic structural design of steel braced frames with viscous dampers to a modern residential architectural vision, achieving the following goals without compromising on design or safety.

FTF partnered with Studio VARA to renovate this 1908 cottage into a modern dwelling. From ArchDaily: A research scientist with an eye for detail approached us with a modest vision and a couple of basic practical needs:  First, transform a 1908 Noe Valley cottage– with a history of subpar alterations – into a cohesive modern […]

With the San Andreas Fault line running through the front yard—which contained liquefiable soils—FTF presented options to the project team that would make the house more disaster-resistant than code regulations required. Given the geotechnical and geological challenges of the site, this resulted in the recommendation of a 12” thick concrete mat slab foundation, further reinforced […]