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Engineer, San Francisco License 4127

Kpff

The city has issued 66 of the 74 San Francisco building permits that name Kpff since 2018. The work is a mix of residential and commercial, led by apartments and multifamily. Their median plan-review permit for apartments and multifamily took 10.1 months from filing to issue, 62% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Mission Bay and Bayview Hunters Point.

Also filed as
architect, designer
Issued by the city
66 of 74 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, apartments and multifamily
10.1 mo city median 6.2 mo
Rank for apartments and multifamily
No. 46 of 516 by apartments and multifamily issued
Overall rank
No. 87 of 1,146 engineers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Kpff on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 29 apartments and multifamily, 16 offices, 15 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

42% residential
58% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Apartments and multifamily Residential 27 of 29 issued 39% of filings.
  2. Offices Commercial 13 of 16 issued 22% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 14 of 15 issued 20% of filings.
  4. Retail and shops Commercial 8 of 8 issued 11% of filings.
  5. Restaurants and bars Commercial 3 of 4 issued 5% of filings.
  6. Home remodels Residential 1 of 2 issued 3% 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
11 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
89% of 74 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 9, 2019: 10, 2020: 5, 2021: 9, 2022: 8, 2023: 5, 2024: 6, 2025: 11, 2026: 11. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

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: 66 of 74 permits filed

89%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

8 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. Kpff has 38 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for apartments and multifamily, their most filed type, where 3,633 of 59,927 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.

Kpff, apartments and multifamily

10.1months

That is 62% slower than the citywide median for apartments and multifamily.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Kpff, apartments and multifamily: 10.1 months. San Francisco, apartments and multifamily: 6.2 months. Middle half of city permits: 2.7 to 12.3 months.
10.1 months for apartments and multifamily, faster than 39 of 106 other engineers ranked for apartments and multifamily that have a median for it Each circle is a firm's median for its plan-review permits for apartments and multifamily. Dashed line: the median of all San Francisco plan-review permits for apartments and multifamily, 6.2 months. Shaded: the middle half of those permits, 2.7 to 12.3 months.
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21+ months Unicorn Consulting: 9.0 months Ecr Engineering: 4.1 months Double D Engineering: 10.8 months Altos Engineering: 4.4 months Atrium Structural Engineer: 12.8 months Rs Engineering: 17.9 months Enertia Designs: 13.9 months Lawrence Liao Str. Eng: 8.5 months Mercury Engineering Group: 9.4 months Ice Design Inc.: 17.9 months Kevin O'connor Inc.: 5.2 months Innovative Const: 20.2 months Design Consultants Group, Inc: 9.4 months Sia Consulting Corp: 17.7 months Mhc Engineers: 5.0 months Murphy Burr Curry Inc.: 6.9 months Hom & Pisano Engineering Inc.: 8.3 months Base Design: 13.1 months One Design: 17.3 months Erwin O'toole: 4.8 months Rei Build Up Design: 11.9 months W. Charles Perry & Assoc.: 20.1 months Yuflux Engineering Llc.: 8.1 months Acies Engineering: 3.4 months Kung Kay Chiu: 1.2 months Zfa Structural Engineers: 8.5 months Hcg Associates, Inc.: 13.3 months Telesis: 6.1 months Doug Lee: 22.9 months Q Architecture: 12.2 months Streamline Engineering: 5.3 months Nabi Const. & Engineering: 3.4 months Bkf Engineers: 13.5 months Smith Engineering, Inc.: 9.4 months Ftf Engineering Inc.: 4.6 months Degenkolb Engineers: 7.6 months Acg Engineers Inc: 6.8 months Ny Engineering Consulting: 14.8 months Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: 13.2 months Dci Engineers: 3.5 months Semco Engineering Inc.: 9.7 months Ashley & Vance Engineering: 9.2 months Edesignc Incorporated: 7.5 months Sergio Mayorga Assc: 31.8 months Mk Engineers Inc.: 12.7 months Engineering 350: 5.8 months A & J Design Associates Inc.: 9.2 months Interlocity: 5.6 months Dolmen Structural Engineer: 5.5 months Smw Associates: 26.1 months Access System & Solutions Inc: 7.8 months Bahman Ghassenmzadeh: 11.4 months Dominguez Associates: 13.3 months Wmstructural: 6.7 months Holmes Culley: 6.1 months Aj Miller And Associates: 2.8 months Interface Engineering: 3.3 months Emerald City: 5.9 months Thomas Podesta Engineer: 30.9 months Hohbach-Lewin, Inc: 13.1 months Soha Engineers: 9.8 months Optimal Design Group: 18.5 months Imeg: 6.5 months Spi Consulting Engineers, Inc.: 11.2 months Julia Y. Chen Design Inc.: 2.2 months Luk And Associates: 6.3 months Integrand Structural Engineer: 13.4 months Duquette Engineering: 8.5 months Kpff Consulting Engineers: 4.5 months S & P Structural Engineers: 33.0 months Framework Engineering: 11.9 months Lx Engineering: 6.8 months Pae: 8.8 months Powell And Associates: 16.6 months Tipping-Mar Structural Eng: 6.5 months Geissler Engineering: 46.9 months D H Charles: 2.2 months Urban Design Consulting Eng: 6.5 months Tommy Siu & Associates: 7.7 months Hc Structural Engineering Inc: 4.3 months Tuan & Robinson Str. Engineer: 8.4 months Gregory Miller Structural Eng.: 8.4 months Drill Tech: 2.8 months Meyers+Engineers: 5.2 months Bay City Mechanical Inc.: 10.4 months Jaime Neilson, P.E., S.E: 4.5 months Trylon Tsf: 5.6 months Edward C. Robinson, Pe: 4.9 months Brierley Associates: 2.7 months Mcginnis & Assoc Consulting: 8.2 months O'brien Mechanical Inc Ii: 6.5 months W.H.Yang Structural Engr: 30.1 months Ficcadenti Waggonen & Castle: 2.8 months Nishkian Menninger: 2.2 months J.W. Mcclenahan Co.: 19.9 months Nexius Solutions Inc: 10.3 months Tuan & Robinson Structural: 4.3 months Condon - Johnson & Assoc.: 8.7 months Calvin Abshier: 14.1 months Craig M. Horner: 17.0 months Desmond Blake: 0.9 months Earthbound: 8.9 months Rde Structural Engineering: 5.6 months Zeiger Engineers Inc.: 13.8 months Wm Tucker Associates: 3.0 months Gary L Hennings: 13.9 months Kpff 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21+ months Unicorn Consulting: 9.0 months Ecr Engineering: 4.1 months Double D Engineering: 10.8 months Altos Engineering: 4.4 months Atrium Structural Engineer: 12.8 months Rs Engineering: 17.9 months Enertia Designs: 13.9 months Lawrence Liao Str. Eng: 8.5 months Mercury Engineering Group: 9.4 months Ice Design Inc.: 17.9 months Kevin O'connor Inc.: 5.2 months Innovative Const: 20.2 months Design Consultants Group, Inc: 9.4 months Sia Consulting Corp: 17.7 months Mhc Engineers: 5.0 months Murphy Burr Curry Inc.: 6.9 months Hom & Pisano Engineering Inc.: 8.3 months Base Design: 13.1 months One Design: 17.3 months Erwin O'toole: 4.8 months Rei Build Up Design: 11.9 months W. Charles Perry & Assoc.: 20.1 months Yuflux Engineering Llc.: 8.1 months Acies Engineering: 3.4 months Kung Kay Chiu: 1.2 months Zfa Structural Engineers: 8.5 months Hcg Associates, Inc.: 13.3 months Telesis: 6.1 months Doug Lee: 22.9 months Q Architecture: 12.2 months Streamline Engineering: 5.3 months Nabi Const. & Engineering: 3.4 months Bkf Engineers: 13.5 months Smith Engineering, Inc.: 9.4 months Ftf Engineering Inc.: 4.6 months Degenkolb Engineers: 7.6 months Acg Engineers Inc: 6.8 months Ny Engineering Consulting: 14.8 months Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: 13.2 months Dci Engineers: 3.5 months Semco Engineering Inc.: 9.7 months Ashley & Vance Engineering: 9.2 months Edesignc Incorporated: 7.5 months Sergio Mayorga Assc: 31.8 months Mk Engineers Inc.: 12.7 months Engineering 350: 5.8 months A & J Design Associates Inc.: 9.2 months Interlocity: 5.6 months Dolmen Structural Engineer: 5.5 months Smw Associates: 26.1 months Access System & Solutions Inc: 7.8 months Bahman Ghassenmzadeh: 11.4 months Dominguez Associates: 13.3 months Wmstructural: 6.7 months Holmes Culley: 6.1 months Aj Miller And Associates: 2.8 months Interface Engineering: 3.3 months Emerald City: 5.9 months Thomas Podesta Engineer: 30.9 months Hohbach-Lewin, Inc: 13.1 months Soha Engineers: 9.8 months Optimal Design Group: 18.5 months Imeg: 6.5 months Spi Consulting Engineers, Inc.: 11.2 months Julia Y. Chen Design Inc.: 2.2 months Luk And Associates: 6.3 months Integrand Structural Engineer: 13.4 months Duquette Engineering: 8.5 months Kpff Consulting Engineers: 4.5 months S & P Structural Engineers: 33.0 months Framework Engineering: 11.9 months Lx Engineering: 6.8 months Pae: 8.8 months Powell And Associates: 16.6 months Tipping-Mar Structural Eng: 6.5 months Geissler Engineering: 46.9 months D H Charles: 2.2 months Urban Design Consulting Eng: 6.5 months Tommy Siu & Associates: 7.7 months Hc Structural Engineering Inc: 4.3 months Tuan & Robinson Str. Engineer: 8.4 months Gregory Miller Structural Eng.: 8.4 months Drill Tech: 2.8 months Meyers+Engineers: 5.2 months Bay City Mechanical Inc.: 10.4 months Jaime Neilson, P.E., S.E: 4.5 months Trylon Tsf: 5.6 months Edward C. Robinson, Pe: 4.9 months Brierley Associates: 2.7 months Mcginnis & Assoc Consulting: 8.2 months O'brien Mechanical Inc Ii: 6.5 months W.H.Yang Structural Engr: 30.1 months Ficcadenti Waggonen & Castle: 2.8 months Nishkian Menninger: 2.2 months J.W. Mcclenahan Co.: 19.9 months Nexius Solutions Inc: 10.3 months Tuan & Robinson Structural: 4.3 months Condon - Johnson & Assoc.: 8.7 months Calvin Abshier: 14.1 months Craig M. Horner: 17.0 months Desmond Blake: 0.9 months Earthbound: 8.9 months Rde Structural Engineering: 5.6 months Zeiger Engineers Inc.: 13.8 months Wm Tucker Associates: 3.0 months Gary L Hennings: 13.9 months Kpff

7 firms with medians over 21 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 apartments and multifamily alone.

  1. 85 Pctc Engineering 69
  2. 86 Ca H. Voong, Pe 67
  3. 87 Kpff 66
  4. 88 Thomas Podesta Engineer 65
  5. 89 Dominguez Associates 64

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 44 Acg Engineers Inc 31
  2. 45 Jo Kon 29
  3. 46 Kpff 27
  4. 47 Abdelkader 27
  5. 48 Michael Chan Company 26

Apartments and multifamily issued, 516 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Kpff 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 Mission Bay 120 engineers count Mission Bay among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 Bayview Hunters Point 149 engineers count Bayview Hunters Point among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Potrero Hill 93 engineers count Potrero Hill 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 apartments and multifamily

Firms ranked near Kpff by permits issued for apartments and multifamily.

  1. 41 Ftf Engineering Inc. 33 apartments and multifamily issued · 4.6 mo median for apartments and multifamily
  2. 42 Degenkolb Engineers 32 apartments and multifamily issued · 7.6 mo median for apartments and multifamily
  3. 44 Acg Engineers Inc 31 apartments and multifamily issued · 6.8 mo median for apartments and multifamily
  4. 47 Abdelkader 27 apartments and multifamily issued
  5. 48 Michael Chan Company 26 apartments and multifamily issued
  6. 49 Ny Engineering Consulting 26 apartments and multifamily issued · 14.8 mo median for apartments and multifamily
Sheet
S-087 No. 87 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Kpff
Engineer, San Francisco
License
4127 check with BPELSG
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 Kpff has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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