About KSF
The team behind every plan we stamp.
KSF Structural is a multi-disciplinary practice of licensed engineers, scientists, and technicians — founded in Oakland in 1988, serving the East Bay ever since, and now Los Angeles County and the Sacramento Region. We look at your home the way you do: as the place your family lives — then we apply the engineering that keeps it safe, code-compliant, and standing for the next generation.
Our practice
A dedicated team of licensed engineers.
KSF is a dedicated team of licensed engineers, trained and led by our founder, Kent Ferre, P.E., S.E. Our field team inspects your site, licensed engineers stamp your plans, and we take your calls mid-construction and answer the inspector’s questions. One accountable engineering team per project — no project-manager middle layer.
Multi-disciplinary by design, licensed by training.
Our staff is multi-disciplinary by design — highly qualified and experienced professionals, scientists, and technicians who bring civil engineering, structural engineering, and construction knowledge to the same project.
That mix matters when you’re solving a real problem: a foundation that’s settled, a soft-story building that has to meet a city deadline, a remodel that uncovered something the previous engineer missed. The answer is usually at the intersection of two disciplines, not deep in one.
We bring that intersection to every project we take.
Our capabilities
Eleven capabilities. One licensed engineering team.
These are the services we deliver in-house — never outsourced. If it’s on this list, KSF’s own team is doing the work.
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Construction Document Preparation
- Residential Remodels and Seismic Upgrades
- New Residential Structural Design and Analysis
- Multi-Unit Soft-Story Evaluation and Seismic Upgrade Design
- Industrial Equipment Foundation and Anchorage Design and Analysis
- Industrial Structure Design and Analysis
- Unreinforced Masonry Building Seismic Upgrades
- Concrete Tilt-up Structure Seismic Upgrades
- Grading and Drainage Designs
- Earthquake Risk Assessment and Management
Why homeowners choose KSF
Four things every client gets.
Regardless of project type, these four constants apply.
Licensed P.E.
Every report stamped by a licensed KSF engineer
Since 1988
Founded in Oakland, now in Los Angeles County and the Sacramento Region too
Family-first lens
We look at your home the way you do
Your own engineering team
One accountable team, start to finish
Get in touch
Ready to bring us into your project?
Whether you’re early in design, mid-permit, or trying to figure out what’s really going on with your home, we’d like to hear about it.