33-Story Tower Headed for the Historic Core

4th & Hill designed by TCA Architects, Inc. will stand tall at 4th and Hill streets and bridge across the existing Metro Station. Englekirk’s structural work utilizing Performance Based Design will bring 428 residential units, a pool court, balconies, club and fitness space, roof top amenities and 8 levels of above grade as well as…

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Opening of Engineering VI complex at UCLA

After 3 years of construction, we are excited to see the opening of the newly completed Engineering VI complex at UCLA. The 60,000 sf facility will house UCLA Engineering’s Institute for Technology Advancement, which commercializes student and faculty research. It’s always gratifying to see our completed designs, especially when it enables engineering students to showcase…

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Tom Sabol Keynote speaker at Cal Poly Structural Forum

This spring we met lots of soon to be alumni at the ‪UCLA‬ Career Fair, SEAOSC-Structural Engineers Association of Southern California Scholarship Night & Job Fair and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) Structural Forum. While at SLO Principal, and UCLA Adjunct Professor, Tom Sabol addressed students on ‘The Promise and Reality of Performance Based…

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Mayor Garcetti Welcomes Oceanwide Plaza at Groundbreaking

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke to a standing room only crowd at the morning groundbreaking of the megaproject Oceanwide Plaza. ‪ DTLA‬’s Financial District will soon become home to our design and collaboration with RTKL Associates architectural gem of a 47-story and two 40-story towers located across from the Staples Center.  

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Viewpoint School Phase III Construction Underway

Construction at Viewpoint School is underway once again with Phase III of their expansion plans! Teamed with Jeffery M. Kalban & Associates, we completed the school’s Cornerstone project in 2005, the library building in 2009, and the high school classroom and gymnasium building in 2012 and have embarked on two new classroom buildings, a food…

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Del Amo Phase 2 underway

Phase two of our work on the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, CA is underway and the new building with a spectacular clerestory and skylights is looking chic. Totaling 560,000 square feet, the structure’s gravity system uses concrete over metal deck with steel columns and beams. The lateral systems consist of buckling restrained brace…

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Tokai University builds West Oahu campus

Aloha! The Tokai University – West Oahu campus is located in Ewa on the island of Oahu and consists of four campus buildings; a two-story classroom building, two-story dormitory building, one story multi-purpose building, and one-story maintenance building. The structural systems for all four buildings are slightly different—the classroom building uses a composite structural steel…

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G8 + Whole Foods coming to 8th & Grand in downtown LA

G8 at 8th and Grand in downtown LA is bringing a much anticipated Whole Foods to the Financial District. The 1.1 million square foot mixed-use residential and retail development rises 7 stories to include a 6-story, 700-unit residential apartment building totaling 557,420 square feet. 50,000 square feet of commercial space and 8,995 square feet of…

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