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Engineer, Pleasant Hill License E21097

Decker Electric

The city has issued 459 of the 468 San Francisco building permits that name Decker Electric since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 3.6 months from filing to issue, about the same as the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Chinatown and Mission Bay.

Also filed as
architect, contractor, designer, permit expediter
Issued by the city
459 of 468 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
3.6 mo city median 3.9 mo
Rank for offices
No. 1 of 375 by offices issued
Overall rank
No. 10 of 1,146 engineers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Decker Electric on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 407 offices, 27 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial, 20 apartments and multifamily.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

4% residential
96% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 401 of 407 issued 87% of filings.
  2. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 24 of 27 issued 6% of filings.
  3. Apartments and multifamily Residential 20 of 20 issued 4% of filings.
  4. Retail and shops Commercial 11 of 11 issued 2% of filings.
  5. Restaurants and bars Commercial 3 of 3 issued 1% of filings.

Permits over time

Permits filed each year, drawn as a street with one building per year, and how many of all their permits the city has issued.

Busiest year
2025
84 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
98% of 468 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 29, 2019: 36, 2020: 32, 2021: 38, 2022: 73, 2023: 58, 2024: 34, 2025: 84, 2026: 84. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 20 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 459 of 468 permits filed

98%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

9 not issued as of October 20, 2026. Source: SF Department of Building Inspection permits via DataSF.

How fast their permits come through

Filing to issue for permits that went through plan review. Decker Electric has 13 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for offices, their most filed type, where 1,360 of 26,216 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.

Decker Electric, offices

3.6months

That is about the same as the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Decker Electric, offices: 3.6 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
3.6 months for offices, faster than 32 of 40 other engineers ranked for offices that have a median for it Each circle is a firm's median for its plan-review permits for offices. Dashed line: the median of all San Francisco plan-review permits for offices, 3.9 months. Shaded: the middle half of those permits, 1.8 to 8.1 months.
0 3 6 9 12+ months Ar&B, Inc.: 4.5 months Amit Wadhwa & Associates: 2.6 months Levi Abarte: 9.1 months A G E Consulting: 3.8 months Murphy Burr Curry Inc.: 3.5 months Glumac: 13.6 months Mhc Engineers: 8.4 months Rivera Consulting Group Inc: 3.5 months Randall Lamb Assoc: 6.6 months Allied Heating & Air Condition: 2.6 months Degenkolb Engineers: 2.5 months Acg Engineers Inc: 8.9 months Streamline Engineering: 6.8 months Alfatech: 2.9 months Pragmatic: 6.6 months Tipping Structural Engineers: 4.0 months Interlocity: 5.0 months Nabih Youssef Associats: 4.0 months Pae: 6.0 months Salas O'brien: 6.6 months Randall Lamb Engineers: 12.6 months Meyers+Engineers: 8.1 months Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: 9.5 months Zfa Structural Engineers: 11.7 months Kpff: 8.1 months Aj Miller And Associates: 3.3 months Gfds Engineers: 9.4 months Erwin O'toole: 4.7 months Sfdpw: 11.7 months Kris Johnson: 5.5 months Skidmoe Owings & Merrill: 4.6 months Bkf Engineers: 6.5 months Summit Engineering Inc: 7.5 months Mahmoud Maamouri: 3.7 months Edci Engineers: 9.4 months Cmt: 9.4 months Nexius Solutions Inc: 8.4 months Colebreit Engineeering: 9.4 months Arcadia Inc: 5.5 months Freyer And Laureta: 1.0 months Decker Electric 0 3 6 9 12+ months Ar&B, Inc.: 4.5 months Amit Wadhwa & Associates: 2.6 months Levi Abarte: 9.1 months A G E Consulting: 3.8 months Murphy Burr Curry Inc.: 3.5 months Glumac: 13.6 months Mhc Engineers: 8.4 months Rivera Consulting Group Inc: 3.5 months Randall Lamb Assoc: 6.6 months Allied Heating & Air Condition: 2.6 months Degenkolb Engineers: 2.5 months Acg Engineers Inc: 8.9 months Streamline Engineering: 6.8 months Alfatech: 2.9 months Pragmatic: 6.6 months Tipping Structural Engineers: 4.0 months Interlocity: 5.0 months Nabih Youssef Associats: 4.0 months Pae: 6.0 months Salas O'brien: 6.6 months Randall Lamb Engineers: 12.6 months Meyers+Engineers: 8.1 months Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: 9.5 months Zfa Structural Engineers: 11.7 months Kpff: 8.1 months Aj Miller And Associates: 3.3 months Gfds Engineers: 9.4 months Erwin O'toole: 4.7 months Sfdpw: 11.7 months Kris Johnson: 5.5 months Skidmoe Owings & Merrill: 4.6 months Bkf Engineers: 6.5 months Summit Engineering Inc: 7.5 months Mahmoud Maamouri: 3.7 months Edci Engineers: 9.4 months Cmt: 9.4 months Nexius Solutions Inc: 8.4 months Colebreit Engineeering: 9.4 months Arcadia Inc: 5.5 months Freyer And Laureta: 1.0 months Decker Electric

2 firms with medians over 12 months are drawn at the right edge.

Where they rank

Ranked by permits the city has issued since 2018, first across every project type, then for offices alone.

  1. 8 Lawrence Liao Str. Eng 529
  2. 9 Ice Design Inc. 488
  3. 10 Decker Electric 459
  4. 11 Innovative Const 428
  5. 12 Rs Engineering 417

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 1 Decker Electric 401
  2. 2 Ar&B, Inc. 365
  3. 3 Amit Wadhwa & Associates 298
  4. 4 Ajp Associants Inc 258
  5. 5 Levi Abarte 195

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Decker Electric files the most permits, and how many engineers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.

  1. 01 Financial District/South Beach 386 engineers count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
  2. 02 Chinatown 113 engineers count Chinatown among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 Mission Bay 120 engineers count Mission Bay among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 South of Market 204 engineers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods

Questions for the first call

  1. Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
  2. How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
  3. Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?

Other engineers for offices

Firms ranked near Decker Electric by permits issued for offices.

  1. 2 Ar&B, Inc. 365 offices issued · 4.5 mo median for offices
  2. 3 Amit Wadhwa & Associates 298 offices issued · 2.6 mo median for offices
  3. 4 Ajp Associants Inc 258 offices issued
  4. 5 Levi Abarte 195 offices issued · 9.1 mo median for offices
  5. 6 Innovative Mechanical 163 offices issued
  6. 7 Acco Engineering Systems 144 offices issued
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Permit record, Decker Electric
Engineer, Pleasant Hill
License
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Data as of
Oct 2026
Scale
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Built only from public San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records (permits, permit contacts), updated 2026-10-20. It is not a review or an endorsement, and Decker Electric has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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