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Engineer, San Francisco License M33234

Randall Lamb Assoc

The city has issued 72 of the 81 San Francisco building permits that name Randall Lamb Assoc since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 6.6 months from filing to issue, 68% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, South of Market and Chinatown.

Also filed as
architect, designer
Issued by the city
72 of 81 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
6.6 mo city median 3.9 mo

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Randall Lamb Assoc on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 61 offices, 12 apartments and multifamily, 5 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

15% residential
85% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 55 of 61 issued 75% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 11 of 12 issued 15% of filings.
  3. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 3 of 5 issued 6% of filings.
  4. Restaurants and bars Commercial 2 of 2 issued 2% of filings.
  5. Retail and shops 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
2025
14 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
89% of 81 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 3, 2019: 13, 2020: 2, 2021: 4, 2022: 12, 2023: 10, 2024: 11, 2025: 14, 2026: 12. 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: 72 of 81 permits filed

89%

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. Randall Lamb Assoc has 8 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.

Randall Lamb Assoc, offices

6.6months

That is 68% slower than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Randall Lamb Assoc, offices: 6.6 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
6.6 months for offices, faster than 18 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 Mhc Engineers: 8.4 months Rivera Consulting Group Inc: 3.5 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 Randall Lamb Assoc 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 Mhc Engineers: 8.4 months Rivera Consulting Group Inc: 3.5 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 Randall Lamb Assoc

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. 77 Wmstructural 74
  2. 78 Sja Development Llc 73
  3. 79 Randall Lamb Assoc 72
  4. 80 Jian Huang 71
  5. 81 Mosswood Engineering 71

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 18 Mc Millan Electric 73
  2. 19 Grewal Engineering 58
  3. 20 Randall Lamb Assoc 55
  4. 21 Allied Heating & Air Condition 55
  5. 22 Degenkolb Engineers 53

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Randall Lamb Assoc 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 South of Market 204 engineers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 Chinatown 113 engineers count Chinatown 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?
Sheet
S-079 No. 79 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Randall Lamb Assoc
Engineer, San Francisco
License
M33234 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 Randall Lamb Assoc has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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