I am an apartment owner/investor and want to let other apartment owners know about my experience…read morewith Reverence Engineering. Last year, I obtained an inspection of the deck and balcony at my family's 10 unit apartment complex in order to comply with Senate Bill 721. After learning that our cantilevered balcony needed structural work, I began calling engineering firms. I chose Reverence Engineering because I wanted to work with a smaller firm and I was impressed with my initial call with principal engineer Brett Sauers. During that conversation, he explained in simple terms how he would approach creating plans and seeking permits for a major retrofit of our balcony walkway. From there, I was kept well informed by email at every step of the way. Because I live out of state and was not able to be present for any site visits, Brett prepared an explanatory video for me so that I could see exactly what he was seeing and understand how we could solve the structural challenges. The draft plans were ready more quickly than I expected and Brett personally addressed all my questions with patience and precision. The City took longer than I had hoped to do its plan review, but Brett's staff sent me weekly updates. In addition, they walked me through all the forms that I needed to sign so it ended up being a pain-free process from start to finish. I really couldn't be happier with the attentiveness of Brett and his team, as well as the outcome. They deserve accolades for exceptional structural engineering work, at a very reasonable cost.

I have to give Brett the owner some credit here. On June 18, as soon as the negative review came…read moreout, he contacted me with a story about loosing my email and somehow falling through the cracks. He was very apologetic, we chatted via email, he said he had a few things to check on and would get back to me in a few days. Im going to assume that his interpretation of a few days is different from the status quo...It's been another month and he won't return my calls and still no follow up email.

Because we are in a historic district we are required to obtain a ridiculous amount of…read moredocumentation for any kind of work to the outside of our property. We reached out to Scott to assist in developing plans to provide to the city to get the new deck permitted. He was extremely helpful, provided a wealth of information, and we felt that he truly had our best interest in mind. While we didn't end up using his service at this time, due to a plethora of reasons, in the future we will definitely reach out if a similar service is needed. Thank you, Scott, for all the help!

Reached out to him to see what service he provides and if he would be a good fit to design the…read moreremoval of our load bearing wall / a beam to replace it. He never returned the phone call and just texted to say that he couldn't answer any questions without a $1600 site visit. Not even a call to discuss what services he provided and what the $1600 would include. I found another engineering / design company (Reverence Engineering) who called me back immediately. The owner spent 45 minutes on the phone with me teaching me about the process of permitting and what a site visit would look like. Needless to say, I went with reverence engineering.

Dana really saved my butt when buying a house. Another contractor got the address wrong and had…read moresomeone in San Jose instead of Chula Vista the day before our contingency was up. I called Dana in the morning and he was out there in the afternoon. He was very professional and friendly as he did his inspection and determined there was no need for the more expensive inspection. He charged a very low fee and gave my wife and me peace of mind. If you need someone to look at your foundation, I can't recommend Dakini Engineering enough.

This company is a very poor outfit from what i Can gather. They are doing a project in the front…read more area of this house and have holes 4 foot deep directly next to the sidewalk. They are halfway covered with thin plywood that isnt big enough to cover the hole. There are kids and dogs and older people walking by all day And could easily step in the holes as they are directly next to sidewalk edge. We even said something to the crew and owner and asked to put caution tape up and he gave us a smartass Comment and never did anything. He also had a 9-11 foot cut next to The walkway to backyard and refused to put any caution tape on that. We went and did it ourselves after a week. Beyond these issues the work is ok at best. He is supposed to be an engineer but the project has been shut down for 6 months because he can't engineer a set of front stairs the city will approve. The whole Neighborhood is fed up because hes been here so long. From my experience this guy is a total hack. If you cant follow basic safety principles to protect your client and the public from your work than you are unprofessional at best. I would Not recommend this company after seeing him operate for 6 months.

We hired ABL Construction & Engineering to widen our driveway apron and had a great experience. The…read morecrew was professional, punctual, and showed up on time every day. What impressed us most was how well they handled working with the City of Carlsbad to get permits approved, keeping everything moving smoothly. We're very happy with the results and would definitely recommend them.

They are a small, but mighty construction company withe a whole lots of quality work. They helped…read morewith my city of San Diego sidewalk program that I was forced to repair. It was a nightmare until Ivan came to my home and said he was familiar with this program. Immediately I felt some relief after he explained the process. Ivan took measurements and pictures to submit to the city. After getting quotes from other places Ivan and Isaac came back with a detailed work order that explained the whole project. I was comfortable withe the numbers and the knowledge in the city engineering process. The price and the peace of mind were both great. The sidewalk is back and the city is satisfied withe the work. Highly recommend family owned businesses.

The team at Paterson Engineering is very professional and easy to work with. They are helpful and…read moreunderstanding of budgets as it relates to design etc. Their drawings are very clear, and they seem to have a good reputation with the city plan checkers as well. I highly recommend them for all your structural engineering needs.

Very poor service. We contacted them and they never contacted us to give us an estimate of their…read moreservices or anything.

Did not provide constructible plans and calcs. we used…read moreAdriel and his team for our large permitted kitchen remodel which included removing a load bearing wall. unfortunately the architectural plans and calcs he provided were not constructible because he did not adequately survey our structure (plans showed a footing where there was none, and there was a load bearing beam in the house not shown on the plans). He declined to correct these errors without additional payment. Having lost trust in ARC, we sought the help of another engineer, who was great and was able to correct these errors so construction could proceed. Sadly the whole ordeal caused months of delay, during which time we couldn't live in our house.

We built an ADU in Poway and asked ARC Engineers to draw up the plans. They designed a great house…read more All of the contacts at ARC are so knowledgeable and so easy to work with. They get back to you in a timely manner, which isn't always common in the industry. When the city requested changes they quickly got them out to us. We've done a few of these types of projects and by far ARC Engineers has been the best to work with and they are reasonably priced.

Great communication and followed idea as set up 10/10 Professional Engineers . Thank youread more

My HOA had retained Sumit for a structural beam replacement with calculations as well as a report…read more Site visit was conducted, deposit was sent, measurements were sent, and then we were told we would have the report soon. After deposit was received we got nothing. Kept emailing with no response for 3 weeks. HOA member then reached out over phone and was told would be sent report within one week. One week passed and still nothing. We want our deposit refunded in full. We had to hire another structural engineer and this set us back a month and a half. Sumit was sent everything he needed by June 10th and we still don't have anything since. He seemed to know what he was talking about but unfortunately he couldn't deliver anything in any reasonable amount of time. Very disappointed. We will be pursuing legal action to recover our deposit back as htk/sumit aren't willing to refund it even though he didn't produce anything of value.