Engineer, Oakland License S6802
Wmstructural
The city has issued 74 of the 91 San Francisco building permits that name Wmstructural since 2018. The work is mostly residential, led by home remodels. Their median plan-review permit for home remodels took 8.4 months from filing to issue, about the same as the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Castro/Upper Market, Mission and West of Twin Peaks.
- Also filed as
- architect
- Issued by the city
- 74 of 91 filed since 2018
- Median plan-review time, home remodels
- 8.4 mo city median 8.9 mo
- Rank for home remodels
- No. 57 of 491 by home remodels issued
- Overall rank
- No. 77 of 1,146 engineers
What they work on
Every San Francisco building permit with Wmstructural on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 51 home remodels, 19 apartments and multifamily, 10 home additions.
Residential and commercial, by permits filed
- Home remodels Residential 43 of 51 issued 56% of filings.
- Apartments and multifamily Residential 15 of 19 issued 21% of filings.
- Home additions Residential 7 of 10 issued 11% of filings.
- Offices Commercial 4 of 5 issued 5% of filings.
- Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 4 of 4 issued 4% of filings.
- ADUs Residential 1 of 2 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
- 2025
- 15 permits filed
- Latest filing
- Oct 2026
- 81% of 91 issued
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: 74 of 91 permits filed
All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data
17 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. Wmstructural has 26 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for home remodels, their most filed type, where 3,361 of 93,498 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.
Wmstructural, home remodels
8.4months
That is about the same as the citywide median for home remodels.
4 firms with medians over 18 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 home remodels alone.
- 75 Harrell Kane S.E. Inc. 75
- 76 Interlocity 75
- 77 Wmstructural 74
- 78 Sja Development Llc 73
- 79 Randall Lamb Assoc 72
All permits issued, 1,146 engineers Full ranking
- 55 Degenkolb Engineers 44
- 56 S & A Engineering Design 43
- 57 Wmstructural 43
- 58 Barringer Design 39
- 59 Benchmark Engineering 39
Home remodels issued, 491 engineers
Where they work
The neighborhoods where Wmstructural files the most permits, and how many engineers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.
- 01 Castro/Upper Market 141 engineers count Castro/Upper Market among their busiest neighborhoods
- 02 Mission 298 engineers count Mission among their busiest neighborhoods
- 03 West of Twin Peaks 234 engineers count West of Twin Peaks among their busiest neighborhoods
- 04 Sunset/Parkside 220 engineers count Sunset/Parkside 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 engineers for home remodels
Firms ranked near Wmstructural by permits issued for home remodels.
- 54 Bill Lau 45 home remodels issued
- 55 Degenkolb Engineers 44 home remodels issued
- 56 S & A Engineering Design 43 home remodels issued
- 58 Barringer Design 39 home remodels issued
- 59 Benchmark Engineering 39 home remodels issued
- 60 Julia Y. Chen Design Inc. 38 home remodels issued · 18.1 mo median for home remodels
- Sheet
- S-077 No. 77 of 1,146
- Drawing
- Permit record, Wmstructural
- Engineer, Oakland
- License
- S6802 check with BPELSG
- 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 Wmstructural has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.
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