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Engineer, San Francisco License S4639

Skidmoe Owings & Merrill

The city has issued 10 of the 11 San Francisco building permits that name Skidmoe Owings & Merrill since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 4.6 months from filing to issue, 17% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Nob Hill and North Beach.

Also filed as
architect
Issued by the city
10 of 11 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
4.6 mo city median 3.9 mo
Rank for offices
No. 138 of 375 by offices issued
Overall rank
No. 408 of 1,146 engineers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Skidmoe Owings & Merrill on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 7 offices, 2 apartments and multifamily, 2 restaurants and bars.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

18% residential
82% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 6 of 7 issued 64% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 2 of 2 issued 18% of filings.
  3. Restaurants and bars Commercial 2 of 2 issued 18% 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
2019
2 permits filed
Latest filing
Jan 2026
91% of 11 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 0, 2019: 2, 2020: 2, 2021: 2, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 0, 2025: 2, 2026: 1. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 1 permit; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 10 of 11 permits filed

91%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

1 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. Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 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.

Skidmoe Owings & Merrill, offices

4.6months

That is 17% slower than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Skidmoe Owings & Merrill, offices: 4.6 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
4.6 months for offices, faster than 26 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 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 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 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 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 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 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 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill

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. 406 John Yadegar Structural Eng. 10
  2. 407 Rbhu 10
  3. 408 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 10
  4. 409 Douglas Forslund 10
  5. 410 Drill Tech 10

All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking

  1. 136 Teh Cbr Group, Inc. 6
  2. 137 Flace & Kurtz 6
  3. 138 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 6
  4. 139 Miyamoto 6
  5. 140 Paul R. Kiley 6

Offices issued, 375 engineers

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Skidmoe Owings & Merrill 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 Nob Hill 94 engineers count Nob Hill among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 North Beach 67 engineers count North Beach 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 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill by permits issued for offices.

  1. 133 Next Edge 6 offices issued
  2. 136 Teh Cbr Group, Inc. 6 offices issued
  3. 137 Flace & Kurtz 6 offices issued
  4. 140 Paul R. Kiley 6 offices issued
  5. 141 Douglass Street 6 offices issued
  6. 142 Acco 6 offices issued
Sheet
S-408 No. 408 of 1,146
Drawing
Permit record, Skidmoe Owings & Merrill
Engineer, San Francisco
License
S4639 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 Skidmoe Owings & Merrill has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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