Engineer, San Francisco License E13918
Flace & Kurtz
The city has issued 10 of the 12 San Francisco building permits that name Flace & Kurtz since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Mission Bay and South of Market.
- Issued by the city
- 10 of 12 filed since 2018
- Rank for offices
- No. 137 of 375 by offices issued
- Overall rank
- No. 400 of 1,146 engineers
- Commercial share
- 92% last filing Aug 2026
What they work on
Every San Francisco building permit with Flace & Kurtz on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 7 offices, 2 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial, 1 apartments and multifamily.
Residential and commercial, by permits filed
- Offices Commercial 6 of 7 issued 58% of filings.
- Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 2 of 2 issued 17% of filings.
- Apartments and multifamily Residential 1 of 1 issued 8% of filings.
- Retail and shops Commercial 1 of 1 issued 8% of filings.
- Restaurants and bars Commercial 0 of 1 issued 8% 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
- 4 permits filed
- Latest filing
- Aug 2026
- 83% of 12 issued
One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 1 permit; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.
Issued by the city: 10 of 12 permits filed
All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data
2 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. Flace & Kurtz has 3 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.
- 398 Rcl Structural Engineers 10
- 399 Element Structural Engineers 10
- 400 Flace & Kurtz 10
- 401 Sarah Leong Consulting 10
- 402 Seto & Associates 10
All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking
- 135 Brierley Associates 6
- 136 Teh Cbr Group, Inc. 6
- 137 Flace & Kurtz 6
- 138 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 6
- 139 Miyamoto 6
Offices issued, 375 engineers
Where they work
The neighborhoods where Flace & Kurtz 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 Mission Bay 120 engineers count Mission Bay among their busiest neighborhoods
- 03 South of Market 204 engineers count South of Market 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 Flace & Kurtz by permits issued for offices.
- Sheet
- S-400 No. 400 of 1,146
- Drawing
- Permit record, Flace & Kurtz
- Engineer, San Francisco
- License
- E13918 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 Flace & Kurtz has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.
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