KPFF Consulting Engineers

With gratitude for our employees, clients, and partners, KPFF wishes you all a healthy and happy start to this holiday season! We are grateful for the opportunity to work together and look forward to another year of growth, innovation, and shared success. Whether your staying home or hitting the road, may your celebrations be full of joy, loved ones, laughter and of course....SIDES! What's your favorite side? #thanksgiving2025 #kpff #thankful

Continuing education and professional growth are core to Forefront — KPFF’s education philosophy that brings our teams together to learn from each other and build new skills.   Our Marketing Summit and PCA/OA Summit brought teammates from across KPFF to connect, share ideas, and invest in their own growth. Both groups also worked through Getting Things Done, a productivity framework focused on creating clarity and balance with everything we juggle in a day. Each summit included breakout sessions tailored to the group — designed for sharing ideas, learning new tools and processes, and upskilling in areas that support the work we do every day. Thank you to everyone who showed up curious, collaborative, and ready to learn. Your growth fuels our growth — and helps KPFF continue to do amazing work together. #KPFF #Forefront #ProfessionalGrowth #LearningCulture #Collaboration #BetterTogether

This Veterans Day, we pause to honor the service and sacrifice of our nation’s Veterans. To all who have served, we thank you.   KPFF is privileged to support VA projects that make a difference in the lives of Veterans. Our Special Projects and Los Angeles teams are working on the revitalization of the West LA Veterans Community, a 388-acre campus that will ultimately provide more than 900 homes for formerly homeless Veterans and their families. Through thoughtful infrastructure design and collaboration with dozens of local agencies, the project is helping create a safe, supportive environment where Veterans can thrive. We are proud to be ranked #4 in the Building Design+Construction Media Top 25 VA Facility Engineering Firms for the 2024 Giants 400.   #KPFF #Giants400 #VeteransDay #EngineeringExcellence #VAFacilities 

As part of our annual SE2050 Embodied Carbon Action Plan (ECAP), KPFF proudly hosted our third Structural Embodied Carbon Summit, bringing together passionate engineers from all 11 of our structural offices.   We kicked things off with a company-wide presentation by our Embodied Carbon Co-Champions, Shana Kelley, PE, SE (Seattle Structural) and Molly Seto, SE (San Francisco), titled “Reducing Embodied Carbon: Tools, Data, and Support at KPFF.” Their insights energized our Principals and Associates, showcasing the tools and resources available to help us drive meaningful change.   The summit’s goal was to connect our embodied carbon champions, foster knowledge-sharing, and collaboratively discuss company-wide goals. Each champion will bring this knowledge back to their local office, helping us organically grow our embodied carbon expertise across KPFF.   Throughout the summit, we: - Explored setting embodied carbon limits in specifications and drawings - Got hands-on with our new in-house Embodied Carbon Calculator - Shared LCA best practices and reviewed the new ASCE Pre-standard It was an inspiring time to connect, collaborate, and reaffirm our commitment to reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. We’re excited to continue supporting our clients in delivering more sustainable projects. #EngineeringExcellence #SustainableDesign #EngineeringOpportunities

WSDOT recently hosted a Fish Passage Peer Exchange, bringing together design and construction partners to collaborate on improving project delivery and strengthening cross-discipline decision-making. KPFF’s Don Oates, PE, D.PE moderated a panel discussion focused on one of the most impactful decisions on these projects: road closures. ▪️ Road closures can significantly reduce construction duration and cost ▪️ …but they also require thoughtful planning to minimize impacts to stakeholders and the traveling public The panel explored real examples, lessons learned, and strategies for evaluating and implementing road closures successfully—highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement and stronger collaboration across project teams. Proud to be part of meaningful work that improves fish habitat, stream connectivity, and project efficiency.   #WSDOT #FishPassage #Infrastructure #Collaboration #KPFF #DesignAndConstruction #ContinuousImprovement #EnvironmentalStewardship

Heading to the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in LA this week? Be sure to check out our Principals who will be presenting! At 10:30am on Thursday, 11/6 in Room 409AB, Luyao (Jeffrey) Zhang, SE, from our San Francisco office, will join Gregg Novicoff, AIA, LEED AP (LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects), Elizabeth Kuwada (Mercy Housing), and Benjamin Noggle (PAE) for the panel “Building a Community Hub: Design Strategies for Social Impact.” Together, they’ll share insights from our collaboration on The Hub Community Center, a new community anchor in San Francisco designed to foster healing, social connection, and inclusion. Also, at 10:30am on Thursday, 11/6 in Room 405, Stuart Finney, SE, from our Portland office, will join Tom Robbins and Crystal Sanderson of INTEGRUS for “From Displacement, Destruction and Disruption to Emergent Resilient Design Solutions.” The session explores how resilient design strategies can help communities prepare for and adapt to natural disasters and other emergencies through innovative, site-specific solutions. Two of our associates, Molly Seto, SE and Nicholas Miley, SE, will also be attending—be sure to say hello if you see them! We hope to see you there to learn more about our work and how thoughtful design can advance resilience and community wellbeing. #Greenbuild2025 #KPFF #StructuralEngineering #CivilEngineering #FutureEngineers #InnovationInEngineering

KPFF’s Orange County Civil Engineering team celebrated a ribbon cutting ceremony at Carl E. Gilbert Elementary School, where we partnered with Studio W Architects for Buena Park School District’s Transitional- and Pre-Kindergarten (TK & PK) and Early Learning program! The expansion to the campus included three new classroom buildings that house nine new classrooms with restrooms, an Early Learning workroom with waiting area, new storage and utility rooms, and a separate building for TK/PK administration and staff. Outdoor amenities for the TK/PK program included new concrete walkways and shade trees, three new play areas with new interactive early-learning playground equipment with overhead shade structures, small amphitheater-style seating, and perimeter fencing. Other improvements required to support the project included a 50-stall expansion to the existing parking lot, new student drop-off areas, new trash and utility enclosures, an extended fire lane, new fire-water service for new fire hydrants, and driveway and storm drain improvements along the school frontage road. #kpff #civilengineering #orangecounty #constructionindustry #engineering #civilengineering #buenapark #buenaparkschooldistrict #bpsd #california

We’re proud to celebrate that the Portland International Airport Main Terminal has received a 2025 Holcim Foundation Award for Sustainable Construction — one of the world’s most respected awards in sustainable design. As structural engineer, KPFF helped bring this vision to life through: ▪️ Mass timber engineering for one of the largest clear-span timber roof structures anywhere ▪️ Seismic-resilient structural systems designed for long-term performance ▪️ Use of locally sourced materials, including regional timber within 300 miles of PDX Phase I opened to passengers in August 2024 and reflects a shared commitment to building responsibly and collaboratively. Congratulations to the Port of Portland and the entire project team: ZGF Architects, Hoffman Construction, Skanska, Timberlab, PAE, Terrapin Bright Green Proud to be part of a project redefining what sustainable aviation infrastructure can be. 

We’re proud to see the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement at Caltech featured in Engineering News-Record! KPFF Los Angeles/ Orange County collaborated with HOK and Charles Pankow Builders, to deliver this cutting-edge facility. It is among the most advanced research buildings in the nation. With state-of-the-art vibration isolation, electromagnetic shielding, and precision engineering, it will provide Caltech’s scientists an ultra-stable environment to explore the frontiers of quantum physics. This project reflects our commitment to advancing innovation through collaboration. We’re excited to continue contributing to the next generation of quantum science facilities that shape the future of research and discovery.   #KPFF #StructuralEngineering #Caltech #QuantumScience #ResearchFacilities #DesignCollaboration #HOK #PankowBuilders #EngineeringNewsRecord #LosAngeles #OrangeCounty