Structural Engineering

Led by John Labib and David Funk, Labib Funk + Associates offers a wealth of structural engineering experience in a variety of market sectors, including multifamily, hospitality, office buildings, retail, parking, institutional/commercial, higher education, sports, hospitality, high-end single-family residences, and renovation/seismic retrofit. We handle projects of all sizes ranging from homes with intricate hillside conditions to 600 unit multifamily projects to mid to high rise buildings. We also offer Feasibility studies, Value Engineering Services, and Structural Analysis of existing buildings. Some of our most notable projects include the upgrade of the historical Pershing Square in DTLA, Lakers Training Facility, West Edge [Martin Expo Town Center], and the new MGA campus project, a transformation of the former LA Times Printing Facility in Chatsworth.

Peer Review

LFA’s peer review services in various forms and include both evaluations of project designs for various stakeholders including owners, contractors, and other parties, as well as formal peer reviews for institutions and public agencies and municipalities. LFA’s peer review process is intended to both enhance the safety of the projects we review by probing for technical errors in addition to implementation of good engineering practice consistent with the requirements and spirit of the code, as well as invoking our decades of experience in providing valuable input on interdisciplinary coordination, construction methods, and potential gaps in scope to name a few. Reviews are more reliable when performed by peers with the same professional background and expertise. Engineering peer reviews may be performed by quality insurance, risk management, constructability, cost, or code compliance.

Seismic Retrofit

Labib Funk + Associates has over a century of combined personnel experience with Renovations and Retrofits of existing buildings, including evaluations of various levels of complexity to comply with lender, institutional and municipal requirements, renovations ranging the full gamut of intervention, as well as comprehensive seismic retrofit and upgrades. LFA Principals, David Funk, was a contributing member to the Design Guide for the Los Angeles Non-Ductile Concrete and Soft Story Retrofit Ordinances. The firm has designed and constructed hundreds of successful retrofit projects in the Southern California area, including Non-Ductile Concrete and Soft Story Retrofits as required by local ordinances.

LFA and its Principals have extensive experience in complex seismic retrofit of buildings where it has employed various state-of-the-art technologies such as base isolation, passive energy dissipation systems (viscous dampers), and fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) on private and public projects including those with high value contents, hospitals, federal buildings, housing office, military, and General Services Administration occupancies. Many of these projects utilized Performance Based Earthquake Engineering employing non-linear pushover and non-linear response history analyses. Such projects require detailed knowledge of state-of-the-art documents including UC Seismic Safety Policy Guidelines, GSA Progressive Collapse Guidelines, ASCE 7-10, ASCE 31, ASCE 41, ATC-58, ICCSC RP8 and other NIST documents.

Risk Analysis

LFA’s risk analysis services entails the use of models, and PML [probable maximum loss] evaluation reports to be able to determine possible risks for hazard mitigation, such as property damage, explosions, earthquakes and hurricanes, and performance of structures including buildings, dams, bridges, and offshore platforms according to building codes. LFA emphasizes risk analysis services in older buildings and industrial facilities such as manufacturing facilities that potentially uses hazardous materials.