Palo Alto Visa Building Eccentric BRB
Palo Alto, CA | Visa | Commercial
Design of the first-ever eccentric buckling-restrained brace frame to meet architectural and structural performance goals.
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ZFA Structural Engineers
Santa Rosa, CA
The best solutions begin with the right people asking the right questions.
- Services
- 13
- Offices
- 4
- Projects
- 4
- Leaders
- 2
- Founded
- 1974
- Size Estimate
- 10-99 employees
Overview
With nearly 100 professionals across five offices, ZFA delivers structural engineering for new construction, renovation, seismic evaluation, historic structural rehabilitation, and post-disaster assessment. ZFA Structural Engineers serves school districts, municipal jurisdictions, and state institutions, holding professional engineering licenses across 20 states.
- Founded
- 1974
- Size Estimate
- 10-99 employees
Services
Structural Design
Comprehensive structural design for diverse building materials and complex structural geometries.
Seismic Engineering & Advanced Analysis
Sophisticated analysis and engineering to ensure structures are resilient to seismic demands.
Conceptual Design & Feasibility
Early stage services that help guide project development and optimize budgets.
Historic Structural Rehabilitation
Preserving and strengthening historic assets while analyzing historical construction materials.
Post-Disaster & Emergency Structural Assessment
Rapid structural damage evaluation and safety screening following earthquakes and other hazard events.
Peer Review & Plan Check
Third-party technical verification and regulatory compliance reviews, including OSHPD and DSA services.
Industries
Firm type
Projects
85 Bluxome Resilient Design
San Francisco, CA | Commercial
Structural engineering and seismic design for San Francisco's first USRC-rated commercial building, maximizing leasable area and resilience.
View project sourceCathedral Parish of Saint Eugene Baldacchino Sculpture Preservation
2014 | Santa Rosa, CA | Cathedral Parish of Saint Eugene | Religious
Preserving a century-old, 80,000-pound antique Baldacchino marble sculpture in a high-seismic zone using an innovative small-scale base isolation technique.
View project sourceProof Load Testing of Historic Wood Framing
Historic Preservation
Structural assessment and unconventional proof load testing of existing wood framing to preserve historic materials in a century-old Naval building.
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Leadership
Kevin Zucco
Executive Principal
Mark A. Moore
Executive Principal
Testimonials
By far, ZFA is the best structural engineer I have ever worked with in my over 40 years in the design and construction industry.
ZFA starts from the perspective of understanding the client's goals and priorities - and they work very hard to find creative, yet practical ways to meet those goals.
Thank you so very much for the amazing work you performed on Saturday to benefit the homeowner. The homeowner's home health and safety are of course so much improved, but just as important, his sense of being a person of value has shot through the roof. When we visited afterward, the homeowner that we met was a changed man, flushed with exuberance and pride. You all made a difference that will last a long, long time.
Offices
Santa Rosa, CA
HeadquartersSanta Rosa, CA
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento, CA
Napa, CA
Napa, CA