Services

Home Remodling Plans

We prepare residential remodeling plans to secure City permit for: Wall removal design (open concept space) Interior space reconfiguration (redesign interior walls) Adding or enlarging slider windows, standard or custom made Kitchen remodeling.

Room Addition and Ground Up Construction:

Want to increase your home space and value? We also design second floor addition, room over garage, ADU rental units, wood patio, deck addition, etc.

We make it easy for you to add space to your house. We will prepare the permit package for any home size or age. Our design package includes:

• As-Built plans
• Design drawings
• Structure plans, Structural analysis and details
• Structure calculations

Structural Design:

We do structural design for various projects including ground up new construction, Room Additions, and Remodeling projects.
We provide the following structural design service:

Pre-Escrow Structural Inspection

Rest assured that you will provide the “whole picture” for your future home.
We provide pre-escrow structural inspection at your convenience. We will coordinate with your realtor, buyer or seller to provide precise and focused inspection that enable you to reduce your risk and make the right decision. Our inspection service is performed only by registered engineers in the State of California.
Inspection services includes:

• Only licensed engineers perform our structural inspection walk through
• Pre-escrow structural inspections
• Repair, cracks inspections
• Foundation inspection
• Sinking house walls inspection
• Retaining walls inspection

Geotechnical Inspection

We dedicate our time, and knowledge to serve our clients and deliver the findings in a clear, manner, that enables the client to make the right decision. Our inspection service is performed only by registered engineers in the State of California.
Inspection services includes:

• Geotechnical inspection and evaluation for backyard slopes and effect of foundation problems.
• Settlement assessment
• Slope creep assessment
• Hillside home slope inspection
• Location specific evaluation

Civil Engineering

SME provides comprehensive civil engineering services with expertise in midsize to small residential and commercial developments projects.

Civil Plans

Water Quality Management Plans (WQMP)

We will design commercial and industrial WQMP site plans to comply with the State Wide NPDES permit requirement for clean stormwater compliance. We have expert stormwater engineers that will save you big during the planning phase of your project.

• Infiltration studies for onsite containment of stormwater for WQMP, SUSMP/LID compliance
• Design commercial and industrial projects Stormwater BMPs and LID stormwater treatment to comply with Water Quality Control Board NPDES regulations
• Provide Preliminary and final WQMP for CUP process compliance
• Economical design of Treatment BMPs to minimize Site Impacts

Topography Survey (Topo)

We provide cost-effective topo survey that supports your project civil plans and hillside design.

Geotechnical Engineering

We specialize in soil investigation for new construction, remodeling, room additions, retaining wall foundation, swimming pools on a hillside, liquefaction analysis, septic system design, and more. Our soil engineering service includes:

• Prepare Soil reports for Room Addition, remodeling plans, retaining walls, and new homes
• Prepare soil reports for foundation retrofit, such as Push Piers and Helical Piers.
• Subsurface geotechnical exploration, laboratory testing, engineering analyses and report preparation for single-family residences, new subdivisions, commercial and industrial projects.
• Geotechnical Evaluation reports for small projects such as: New wood decks, retaining walls in a backyard, new swimming pools
• Prior to purchasing geologic and geotechnical evaluations of real estate, and existing structures
• Compaction testing for new homes pad grading and foundation, swimming pool backfill and retaining walls.
• Geo Memo and field memo for projects in construction
• Urgent site verification and advice