East Bay HQ · Oakland, CA Now serving Los Angeles County and Sacramento Region

Founder & Principal

Kent Ferre, P.E., S.E.

Founder and Principal of KSF Structural. Mr. Ferre founded the firm in Oakland in 1988 and has personally trained the KSF team that carries out inspections and projects today across the East Bay, Los Angeles County and the Sacramento Region. Registered Civil and Structural Engineer in the State of California with over 35 years of experience — from conceptual planning and feasibility studies to design and project management, residential remodels to industrial structures.

In the field

Three decades in the field

The Philosophy

Engineering as a service, not a product.

Mr. Ferre built KSF around four convictions. He trained every KSF engineer in them, and they guide every project the team takes on today.

01

The engineer is accessible

Clients should be able to talk to the licensed engineer on their project. Not a project manager. Not an associate. The person who stamps the plans answers the phone.

A relationship, not a transaction.
02

Pragmatism over perfection

Engineering exists to solve a real problem in a real building for a real budget. The right answer is the buildable one — not the academic ideal.

Plans that get built, not plans that get debated.
03

Multi-disciplinary by training

A structural problem rarely lives in one discipline. KSF was founded as a multi-disciplinary practice because the answers usually live at the intersection.

Engineering that integrates, not isolates.
04

The family is the client

When we engineer a home, we’re engineering for the family that lives in it. That changes the questions we ask and the priorities we set.

The work serves the people, not the spec.

Credentials & Experience

The credentials behind the team.

Mr. Ferre’s credentials are the foundation underneath KSF — the reason a stamp on a KSF report carries weight with cities, insurers, lenders, and buyers across California.

Registered Civil Engineer

State of California

Registered Structural Engineer

State of California

35+ years of practice

Residential & industrial fields

Founder, KSF Structural

1988 – present