Contractor, San Francisco License 000092
Swinerton Builders
The city has issued 417 of the 440 San Francisco building permits that name Swinerton Builders since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 3.4 months from filing to issue, 13% faster than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, South of Market and Mission.
- Issued by the city
- 417 of 440 filed since 2018
- Median plan-review time, offices
- 3.4 mo city median 3.9 mo
- Rank for offices
- No. 14 of 94 by offices issued
- Overall rank
- No. 14 of 226 contractors
What they work on
Every San Francisco building permit with Swinerton Builders on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 200 offices, 105 apartments and multifamily, 68 retail and shops.
Residential and commercial, by permits filed
- Offices Commercial 192 of 200 issued 45% of filings.
- Apartments and multifamily Residential 100 of 105 issued 24% of filings.
- Retail and shops Commercial 61 of 68 issued 15% of filings.
- Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 53 of 54 issued 12% of filings.
- Restaurants and bars Commercial 9 of 9 issued 2% of filings.
- Home remodels Residential 2 of 4 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
- 2018
- 107 permits filed
- Latest filing
- Aug 2026
- 95% of 440 issued
One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 20 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.
Issued by the city: 417 of 440 permits filed
All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data
23 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. Swinerton Builders has 85 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.
Swinerton Builders, offices
3.4months
That is 13% faster than the citywide median for offices.
3 firms with medians over 9 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.
- 12 Sure, Inc. 529
- 13 Sabah International Incorporated 517
- 14 Swinerton Builders 417
- 15 Gil Construction & Assoc Inc. 374
- 16 Field Construction Inc. 373
All permits issued, 226 contractors Full ranking
- 12 Pribuss Engineering Inc 210
- 13 Dpr Construction 194
- 14 Swinerton Builders 192
- 15 Dome Construction Corp 192
- 16 Everon Llc 191
Offices issued, 94 contractors
Where they work
The neighborhoods where Swinerton Builders files the most permits, and how many contractors count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.
- 01 Financial District/South Beach 49 contractors count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
- 02 South of Market 35 contractors count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods
- 03 Mission 86 contractors count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods
- 04 Tenderloin 20 contractors count Tenderloin among their busiest neighborhoods
Questions for the first call
- Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
- How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
- Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?
Other contractors for offices
Firms ranked near Swinerton Builders by permits issued for offices.
- 11 Richlen Construction 294 offices issued · 5.3 mo median for offices
- 12 Pribuss Engineering Inc 210 offices issued · 1.3 mo median for offices
- 13 Dpr Construction 194 offices issued · 7.6 mo median for offices
- 15 Dome Construction Corp 192 offices issued · 6.2 mo median for offices
- 16 Everon Llc 191 offices issued
- 17 Convergint Technologies Llc 159 offices issued · 3.8 mo median for offices
- Sheet
- C-014 No. 14 of 226
- Drawing
- Permit record, Swinerton Builders
- Contractor, San Francisco
- License
- 000092 check with CSLB
- Source
- San Francisco DBI building permits, since 2018
- 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 Swinerton Builders has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.
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