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Engineer, San Francisco License M19582

Mhc Engineers

The city has issued 263 of the 298 San Francisco building permits that name Mhc Engineers since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 8.4 months from filing to issue, 114% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Mission and South of Market.

Also filed as
architect
Issued by the city
263 of 298 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
8.4 mo city median 3.9 mo
Rank for offices
No. 15 of 375 by offices issued
Overall rank
No. 21 of 1,146 engineers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Mhc Engineers on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 86 offices, 85 apartments and multifamily, 56 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

31% residential
69% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 80 of 86 issued 29% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 75 of 85 issued 29% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 47 of 56 issued 19% of filings.
  4. Restaurants and bars Commercial 34 of 38 issued 13% of filings.
  5. Retail and shops Commercial 20 of 24 issued 8% of filings.
  6. Home remodels Residential 4 of 5 issued 2% of filings.
  7. Home additions Residential 1 of 2 issued 1% of filings.
  8. New homes Residential 2 of 2 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
55 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
88% of 298 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 21, 2019: 51, 2020: 27, 2021: 21, 2022: 55, 2023: 18, 2024: 30, 2025: 40, 2026: 35. 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: 263 of 298 permits filed

88%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

35 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. Mhc Engineers has 63 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.

Mhc Engineers, offices

8.4months

That is 114% slower than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Mhc Engineers, offices: 8.4 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
8.4 months for offices, faster than 12 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 Levi Abarte: 9.1 months A G E Consulting: 3.8 months Murphy Burr Curry Inc.: 3.5 months Glumac: 13.6 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 Mhc Engineers 0 3 6 9 12+ months Decker Electric: 3.6 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 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 Mhc Engineers

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. 19 Design Consultants Group, Inc 272
  2. 20 Base Design 268
  3. 21 Mhc Engineers 263
  4. 22 Semco Engineering Inc. 255
  5. 23 Zfa Structural Engineers 244

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 13 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 84
  2. 14 Glumac 81
  3. 15 Mhc Engineers 80
  4. 16 Diseno 75
  5. 17 Rivera Consulting Group Inc 74

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Mhc Engineers 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 298 engineers count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 South of Market 204 engineers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 Tenderloin 107 engineers count Tenderloin 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 Mhc Engineers by permits issued for offices.

  1. 12 Donald D. Dammen, P.E. 91 offices issued
  2. 13 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 84 offices issued · 3.5 mo median for offices
  3. 14 Glumac 81 offices issued · 13.6 mo median for offices
  4. 16 Diseno 75 offices issued
  5. 17 Rivera Consulting Group Inc 74 offices issued · 3.5 mo median for offices
  6. 18 Mc Millan Electric 73 offices issued
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S-021 No. 21 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Mhc Engineers
Engineer, San Francisco
License
M19582 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 Mhc Engineers has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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