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Engineer, San Francisco License E17622

Levi Abarte

The city has issued 208 of the 217 San Francisco building permits that name Levi Abarte since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 9.1 months from filing to issue, 132% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Chinatown and South of Market.

Also filed as
architect, designer
Issued by the city
208 of 217 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
9.1 mo city median 3.9 mo
Rank for offices
No. 5 of 375 by offices issued
Overall rank
No. 31 of 1,146 engineers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Levi Abarte on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 204 offices, 8 apartments and multifamily, 3 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

4% residential
96% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 195 of 204 issued 94% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 8 of 8 issued 4% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 3 of 3 issued 1% of filings.
  4. Retail and shops Commercial 1 of 1 issued <1% of filings.
  5. Restaurants and bars Commercial 1 of 1 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
2022
46 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
96% of 217 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 8, 2019: 13, 2020: 16, 2021: 30, 2022: 46, 2023: 20, 2024: 24, 2025: 32, 2026: 28. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 10 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 208 of 217 permits filed

96%

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. Levi Abarte has 5 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.

Levi Abarte, offices

9.1months

That is 132% slower than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Levi Abarte, offices: 9.1 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
9.1 months for offices, faster than 9 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 Decker Electric: 3.6 months Ar&B, Inc.: 4.5 months Amit Wadhwa & Associates: 2.6 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 Levi Abarte 0 3 6 9 12+ months Decker Electric: 3.6 months Ar&B, Inc.: 4.5 months Amit Wadhwa & Associates: 2.6 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 Levi Abarte

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. 29 Tim O'sullivan Structural Eng 216
  2. 30 Erwin O'toole 213
  3. 31 Levi Abarte 208
  4. 32 Doug Lee 205
  5. 33 Innovative Mechanical 185

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 3 Amit Wadhwa & Associates 298
  2. 4 Ajp Associants Inc 258
  3. 5 Levi Abarte 195
  4. 6 Innovative Mechanical 163
  5. 7 Acco Engineering Systems 144

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Levi Abarte 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 South of Market 204 engineers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Mission Bay 120 engineers count Mission Bay 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 Levi Abarte 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. 6 Innovative Mechanical 163 offices issued
  5. 7 Acco Engineering Systems 144 offices issued
  6. 8 Jg Engineers 140 offices issued
Sheet
S-031 No. 31 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Levi Abarte
Engineer, San Francisco
License
E17622 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 Levi Abarte has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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