Services

Engineering for Every Stage of a Building's Life

Historic Preservation & Restoration

Southern California has many historic buildings. For over 25 years, we have provided structural engineering services for the repair, preservation, and renovation of buildings built as far back as the 1830s.

Seismic Evaluation & Retrofit

From century-old warehouses and landmark theaters to active university campuses, major studio lots, and commercial office buildings, our team has evaluated and retrofitted hundreds of buildings.

Ground Up Design

From private residential estates to multi-building studio campuses, cultural venues, and creative office buildings, our team has designed new ground-up structures across Southern California.

Tenant Improvement

From media studios and corporate campuses to individual offices and retail projects, our team delivers structural solutions that make tenant improvement projects work.

Adaptive Reuse

Our team has converted warehouses, packing houses, post offices, and industrial buildings into creative offices, cultural institutions, and housing across Southern California.

Structural Peer Review

Whether a project requires a jurisdiction-mandated independent structural review, a complex structural system analysis, or a voluntary preconstruction quality review, our team brings the technical depth that meaningful peer review demands.

Accelerated Building Re-occupancy (ABR) Programs

Our team established the first Accelerated Building Re-occupancy (ABR) program in Southern California, allowing building owners to create post-disaster structural inspection plans—before disaster strikes.

Structural Due Diligence Studies

Before you commit to changing or purchasing an existing building, we tell you exactly what to expect—structurally, seismically, and financially.

Historic Buildings

Southern California has many historic buildings. For over 25 years, we have provided structural engineering services for the repair, preservation, and renovation of buildings built as far back as the 1830s.

Media & Technology

From ground-up sound stages and post-production facilities to campus-wide studio modernization programs, our team has engineered the spaces where Hollywood's stories are made.

Theatres & Auditoriums

From the historic first red-carpet premier movie theater to outdoor amphitheaters and performing arts centers, our team has helped shape the venues where Southern California gathers, performs, and celebrates.

Commercial & Office

From ground-up corporate headquarters to adaptive reuse of century-old warehouses, our team has delivered commercial and office projects across Southern California.

Multi-Family

From new apartment buildings and university housing to the adaptive reuse of historic buildings into mixed-use and affordable housing, our team designs a range of housing structures.

Educational, Cultural & Community Facilities

Our team has designed and strengthened universities, independent schools, museums, libraries, theaters, and other gathering places defining civic life across Southern California.

Adaptive Reuse

Our team has converted warehouses, packing houses, post offices, and industrial buildings into creative offices, cultural institutions, and housing across Southern California.

Civic Institutions

From county-owned cultural facilities and city-owned theaters to transit hubs and museums, we've served as structural engineers on civic structures across Southern California.

Hospitality

Our team has delivered structural engineering for some of Southern California's most distinguished hotels, from historic landmark renovations and four-star ground-up additions to exclusive members-only properties.

Custom Residential

We engineer single-family homes and private estates ranging from contemporary Bel-Air estates to the restoration of early 1900s Craftsman, Mid-Century Modern and Spanish Colonial Revival landmarks.

Laboratories

Our team designs laboratory environments where enhanced seismic performance, vibration control, and cleanroom coordination are engineered into the structure from the start.

Strengthening Southern California

Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Animation Headquarters
The Reserve
Agensys Laboratories

Structural Focus provided structural engineering services for Phase 2 of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music's Campus Master Plan, which ARG developed.

Pasadena, CA
Pasadena Conservatory of Music | Structural Focus

Structural Focus worked with Gensler to create the new Animation Headquarters space in two existing office buildings.

Burbank, CA
Animation Headquarters | Burbank, CA | Structural Focus

Formerly a U.S. Post Office distribution center, The Reserve is a multi-tenant campus with a central courtyard, creative office spaces, and volleyball courts.

2015
SEAOC Award of Merit, Retrofit/Alteration
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2014
LABJ Commercial Real Estate Awards, Best Office Project
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Playa Vista, CA
The Reserve | Playa Vista, CA

After years of occupying multiple buildings throughout Santa Monica, Agensys, a leading cancer research and pharmaceutical firm, decided to consolidate on one site.

2013
LABC Architectural Award of Excellence
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Santa Monica, CA
Agensys Laboratories