KPFF Consulting Engineers

KPFF is thrilled to celebrate the grand opening of Community Development Partners newest affordable housing building in downtown Portland. As the structural engineer on this project, we’re especially proud that it now stands as the tallest mass timber building on the US West Coast — a milestone for low-embodied carbon design and urban resilience. This development brings much-needed, equitable housing to Downtown Portland. We're grateful to have partnered with Holst, CDP, and team partners on a project that supports our community and promotes sustainable building design.

KPFF is excited to lead the design of Saronic Technologies Franklin, Louisiana Shipyard. We're providing structural engineering, civil engineering, waterfront engineering, and project management services. We'd like to thank our partners at P2S, JacobsWyper Architects, and Anchor QEA.

We recently wrapped up our Leadership Spotlight series for 2025! The lunch hour chat, moderated by Molly Seto, SE, focused on Managing Principal Emily Brown, who leads our Sacramento team. We're grateful to Emily for sharing her inspiring story! Every connection and shared experience helps us grow stronger together and build the relationships that drive our business forward. #Teamwork #Community #Relationships #womeninengineering

With gratitude for our employees, clients, and partners, KPFF wishes you all a healthy and happy start to this holiday season! We are grateful for the opportunity to work together and look forward to another year of growth, innovation, and shared success. Whether your staying home or hitting the road, may your celebrations be full of joy, loved ones, laughter and of course....SIDES! What's your favorite side? #thanksgiving2025 #kpff #thankful

Continuing education and professional growth are core to Forefront — KPFF’s education philosophy that brings our teams together to learn from each other and build new skills.   Our Marketing Summit and PCA/OA Summit brought teammates from across KPFF to connect, share ideas, and invest in their own growth. Both groups also worked through Getting Things Done, a productivity framework focused on creating clarity and balance with everything we juggle in a day. Each summit included breakout sessions tailored to the group — designed for sharing ideas, learning new tools and processes, and upskilling in areas that support the work we do every day. Thank you to everyone who showed up curious, collaborative, and ready to learn. Your growth fuels our growth — and helps KPFF continue to do amazing work together. #KPFF #Forefront #ProfessionalGrowth #LearningCulture #Collaboration #BetterTogether

This Veterans Day, we pause to honor the service and sacrifice of our nation’s Veterans. To all who have served, we thank you.   KPFF is privileged to support VA projects that make a difference in the lives of Veterans. Our Special Projects and Los Angeles teams are working on the revitalization of the West LA Veterans Community, a 388-acre campus that will ultimately provide more than 900 homes for formerly homeless Veterans and their families. Through thoughtful infrastructure design and collaboration with dozens of local agencies, the project is helping create a safe, supportive environment where Veterans can thrive. We are proud to be ranked #4 in the Building Design+Construction Media Top 25 VA Facility Engineering Firms for the 2024 Giants 400.   #KPFF #Giants400 #VeteransDay #EngineeringExcellence #VAFacilities 

As part of our annual SE2050 Embodied Carbon Action Plan (ECAP), KPFF proudly hosted our third Structural Embodied Carbon Summit, bringing together passionate engineers from all 11 of our structural offices.   We kicked things off with a company-wide presentation by our Embodied Carbon Co-Champions, Shana Kelley, PE, SE (Seattle Structural) and Molly Seto, SE (San Francisco), titled “Reducing Embodied Carbon: Tools, Data, and Support at KPFF.” Their insights energized our Principals and Associates, showcasing the tools and resources available to help us drive meaningful change.   The summit’s goal was to connect our embodied carbon champions, foster knowledge-sharing, and collaboratively discuss company-wide goals. Each champion will bring this knowledge back to their local office, helping us organically grow our embodied carbon expertise across KPFF.   Throughout the summit, we: - Explored setting embodied carbon limits in specifications and drawings - Got hands-on with our new in-house Embodied Carbon Calculator - Shared LCA best practices and reviewed the new ASCE Pre-standard It was an inspiring time to connect, collaborate, and reaffirm our commitment to reducing embodied carbon in the built environment. We’re excited to continue supporting our clients in delivering more sustainable projects. #EngineeringExcellence #SustainableDesign #EngineeringOpportunities

WSDOT recently hosted a Fish Passage Peer Exchange, bringing together design and construction partners to collaborate on improving project delivery and strengthening cross-discipline decision-making. KPFF’s Don Oates, PE, D.PE moderated a panel discussion focused on one of the most impactful decisions on these projects: road closures. ▪️ Road closures can significantly reduce construction duration and cost ▪️ …but they also require thoughtful planning to minimize impacts to stakeholders and the traveling public The panel explored real examples, lessons learned, and strategies for evaluating and implementing road closures successfully—highlighting opportunities for continuous improvement and stronger collaboration across project teams. Proud to be part of meaningful work that improves fish habitat, stream connectivity, and project efficiency.   #WSDOT #FishPassage #Infrastructure #Collaboration #KPFF #DesignAndConstruction #ContinuousImprovement #EnvironmentalStewardship

Heading to the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in LA this week? Be sure to check out our Principals who will be presenting! At 10:30am on Thursday, 11/6 in Room 409AB, Luyao (Jeffrey) Zhang, SE, from our San Francisco office, will join Gregg Novicoff, AIA, LEED AP (LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects), Elizabeth Kuwada (Mercy Housing), and Benjamin Noggle (PAE) for the panel “Building a Community Hub: Design Strategies for Social Impact.” Together, they’ll share insights from our collaboration on The Hub Community Center, a new community anchor in San Francisco designed to foster healing, social connection, and inclusion. Also, at 10:30am on Thursday, 11/6 in Room 405, Stuart Finney, SE, from our Portland office, will join Tom Robbins and Crystal Sanderson of INTEGRUS for “From Displacement, Destruction and Disruption to Emergent Resilient Design Solutions.” The session explores how resilient design strategies can help communities prepare for and adapt to natural disasters and other emergencies through innovative, site-specific solutions. Two of our associates, Molly Seto, SE and Nicholas Miley, SE, will also be attending—be sure to say hello if you see them! We hope to see you there to learn more about our work and how thoughtful design can advance resilience and community wellbeing. #Greenbuild2025 #KPFF #StructuralEngineering #CivilEngineering #FutureEngineers #InnovationInEngineering