How it works

Free Consultation

To start, a Design Everest associate schedules a consultation with you to fully understand your needs.
Quick Turnaround

Once we understand your needs, we deliver plans and drawings for your project. We have quick turnaround time, with the option to track your project in real time.
Easy Permit Process

We will provide a set of drawings that you may submit to the city to obtain the required permits. Our fixed fee includes addressing all city comments (if any) on our plans until the permit is approved. Next, we can connect you with reputable contractors in your area, so you can get started with your project right away.

Residential Engineering Services Foundation Engineering

Regardless of where your home or resident is or how new or old it is, it won’t last very long if it isn’t built on a solid foundation. The foundation is what your home stands on and any foundation can be susceptible to cracks and damages due to a variety of reasons including wear and tear and imperfect soil conditions.

Fortunately, structural engineers know how to evaluate foundations and prepare engineering plans to repair and strengthen them economically. Whether you are looking to buy a new home and want an evaluation of the foundation, or you’re concerned about cracks, settling or sloping in your existing home, Design Everest’s structural engineers can come onsite at your home for an evaluation and prepare your foundation plans so that you can get your home building permits and proceed with a foundation contractor. Design Everest can even refer you to partner foundation contractors who can do the construction work per our plans and recommendations.

A foundation serves multiple purposes

Transfer the weight of the building to the soil
Anchor your building against wind and earthquake forces
Protect your building against imperfect soil conditions
Protect your building against ground moisture

Select Projects

Fire Rebuild, Santa Rosa, CA

New custom house after wildfire damage
Wooden construction
Delivered the full architecture permit set and Title 24 calculations

Fire Rebuild, Santa Rosa, CA

New custom house after wildfire damage
Wooden construction two story house
Delivered the full architecture permit set and Title 24 calculations

Fire Rebuild, Santa Rosa, California

Fire rebuild of a large single story house with concrete and wood construction
Performed the architectural, engineering and title 24 portion and also the project required attention to lot of custom details in a quick 4 week turnaround

New custom home, Aptos, CA

Delivered the engineering, architecture (via a partner), and energy permit (Title 24) calculations

3 new custom homes, Imperial Beach, CA

Delivered the architecture (via a partner) and energy permit (Title 24) calculations

Why choose Design Everest?

Highly experienced & value engineering

We are a true one-stop engineering shop with expertise in a wide range of specializations in providing Foundation Engineering Services as listed above. Our experienced engineers design efficient structures and are always looking for value engineering solutions so that customers pay less in construction, materials costs etc.
Responsiveness and quick turnaround

Unlike most firms, we leverage technology, and make every effort to get high-quality plans delivered in weeks -- not months. Hey, who said construction has to be painful?
Ability to take on a project
anytime

Our proprietary data system ‘The Design Hub’ allows us to efficiently forecast and optimize our resources. This means we can take on a project of any size at any time while maintaining quality and schedule.

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My husband and I were referred to Design Everest for our foundation retrofit to make sure our house is safe for an earthquake. They came out promptly, prepared a set of plans that were approved by the building department, and promptly answered any questions our contractor had during construction. Highly recommend.

- Linda D. San Francisco, CA rating

I worked with Josh at Design Everest to schedule a residential foundation assessment and report.
Josh had great follow through, great communication, and was able to schedule an engineer's visit in just a few days.
The engineer was professional and had the completed report back to me in 3 days flat.
The price was very fair compared to other estimates I received.

- Vanessa C Glendale, LA

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Residential Foundation Engineering Services

Residential Engineering Services Foundation Engineering

A foundation serves multiple purposes