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Engineer, San Francisco License SE5062

Murphy Burr Curry Inc.

The city has issued 226 of the 258 San Francisco building permits that name Murphy Burr Curry Inc. since 2018. The work is a mix of residential and commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 3.5 months from filing to issue, 10% faster than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Chinatown and South of Market.

Also filed as
architect
Median plan-review time, offices
3.5 mo city median 3.9 mo

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Murphy Burr Curry Inc. on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 98 offices, 78 apartments and multifamily, 31 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

40% residential
60% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 84 of 98 issued 38% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 75 of 78 issued 30% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 25 of 31 issued 12% of filings.
  4. Retail and shops Commercial 22 of 22 issued 9% of filings.
  5. Home remodels Residential 17 of 17 issued 7% of filings.
  6. New homes Residential 0 of 8 issued 3% of filings.
  7. Restaurants and bars Commercial 3 of 4 issued 2% 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
2021
39 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
88% of 258 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 25, 2019: 37, 2020: 28, 2021: 39, 2022: 37, 2023: 29, 2024: 20, 2025: 20, 2026: 23. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 5 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 226 of 258 permits filed

88%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

32 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. Murphy Burr Curry Inc. has 57 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.

Murphy Burr Curry Inc., offices

3.5months

That is 10% faster than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Murphy Burr Curry Inc., offices: 3.5 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
3.5 months for offices, faster than 33 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 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 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 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 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 Murphy Burr Curry Inc.

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. 24 One Design 237
  2. 25 Sia Consulting Corp 229
  3. 26 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 226
  4. 27 Design Everest Consulting 226
  5. 28 Yuflux Engineering Llc. 219

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 11 A G E Consulting 95
  2. 12 Donald D. Dammen, P.E. 91
  3. 13 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 84
  4. 14 Glumac 81
  5. 15 Mhc Engineers 80

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Murphy Burr Curry Inc. 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 298 engineers count Mission 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?
Sheet
S-026 No. 26 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Murphy Burr Curry Inc.
Engineer, San Francisco
License
SE5062 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 Murphy Burr Curry Inc. has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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