Engineer, San Francisco License S4716
Dpw
The city has issued 19 of the 20 San Francisco building permits that name Dpw since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Tenderloin and Mission.
- Also filed as
- architect, permit expediter
- Issued by the city
- 19 of 20 filed since 2018
- Rank for offices
- No. 85 of 375 by offices issued
- Overall rank
- No. 245 of 1,146 engineers
- Commercial share
- 95% last filing May 2026
What they work on
Every San Francisco building permit with Dpw on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 10 offices, 6 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial, 2 retail and shops.
Residential and commercial, by permits filed
- Offices Commercial 10 of 10 issued 50% of filings.
- Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 5 of 6 issued 30% of filings.
- Retail and shops Commercial 2 of 2 issued 10% of filings.
- Apartments and multifamily Residential 1 of 1 issued 5% of filings.
- Restaurants and bars Commercial 1 of 1 issued 5% 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
- 2018
- 11 permits filed
- Latest filing
- May 2026
- 95% of 20 issued
One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 2 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.
Issued by the city: 19 of 20 permits filed
All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data
1 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. Dpw has 1 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.
No median yet: fewer than 3 issued plan-review permits with usable dates.
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.
- 243 S & P Structural Engineers 19
- 244 Pramira 19
- 245 Dpw 19
- 246 Harrell Kane Struct Enginee 19
- 247 Allied Mechanical 19
All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking
- 83 Tuan + Robison 10
- 84 Bay City Mechanical Inc. 10
- 85 Dpw 10
- 86 Universal Structural Engineers 10
- 87 Rosendin Electric, Inc. 10
Offices issued, 375 engineers
Where they work
The neighborhoods where Dpw files the most permits, and how many engineers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.
- 01 Financial District/South Beach 386 engineers count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
- 02 Tenderloin 107 engineers count Tenderloin among their busiest neighborhoods
- 03 Mission 298 engineers count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods
- 04 Glen Park 50 engineers count Glen Park among their busiest neighborhoods
Questions for the first call
- Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
- How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
- Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?
Other engineers for offices
Firms ranked near Dpw by permits issued for offices.
- Sheet
- S-245 No. 245 of 1,146
- Drawing
- Permit record, Dpw
- Engineer, San Francisco
- License
- S4716 check with BPELSG
- Source
- San Francisco DBI building permits, since 2018
- Data as of
- Oct 2026
- Scale
- Not to scale
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 Dpw has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.
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