Engineering in San Luis Obispo

Services in San Luis Obispo

MEP engineering

• Winery process MEP: crush pads, barrel halls, and tasting rooms needing humidity control, glycol systems, and food-grade ventilation
• Cal Poly campus-adjacent institutional work — labs, classrooms, and housing with Title 24 compliance and high-occupancy ventilation
• Historic downtown adaptive reuse: integrating modern HVAC and electrical into masonry buildings without compromising historic fabric
• Seismic bracing of MEP systems per CBC — the Hosgri and Los Osos fault systems put the region in elevated seismic design categories
• Hospitality and restaurant MEP in a tourism-driven downtown with commercial kitchen exhaust and make-up air design

Structural engineering

• High seismic design categories — Hosgri fault offshore and Los Osos fault demand robust lateral systems and nonstructural anchorage
• Winery barrel-hall and production-building design for heavy live loads from stacked barrels and process equipment
• Historic unreinforced masonry retrofit in the downtown core under the city's seismic safety programs
• Expansive clay soils in valley areas require foundation designs that tolerate seasonal moisture movement
• Hillside residential construction with slope-stability and retaining-wall coordination on the city's fringe slopes

Civil engineering

• Stormwater management under the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board — LID and post-construction requirements
• Creek-setback and riparian constraints along San Luis Obispo Creek through downtown development sites
• Grading for winery and vineyard facilities on rolling terrain with erosion control for agricultural-adjacent sites
• FEMA floodplain mapping along creeks and low-lying corridors — elevation certificates and flood-proofing design
• Caltrans coordination for Highway 101 frontage and interchange access for commercial sites