Forell | Elsesser Engineers has a diverse and creative engineering team with broad ranging talent spanning all aspects of structural engineering for the built environment. Our focus on designing resilient and sustainable buildings offers challenging and unique opportunities with our design team!
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Forell | Elsesser was fortunate to work on this exciting and challenging project. The East Palo Alto Youth Arts & Music Center is a 24,000 square foot facility. Read more about this project in the link below.
Forell | Elsesser got their feet sandy volunteering for the 36th Annual Largest Sandcastle Competition in Northern California – The Sandcastle Classic! This event takes place every year in the fall on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Money raised benefits LEAP Arts in Education, a program established in 1979 due to severe budget cuts to art programs in California schools. The program places professional artists in classrooms to teach elementary schools about music, dance, theatre, creative writing, visual arts, and architecture. For the Sandcastle Classic event – teams are mostly made up of architects, engineers, designers and contactors who come together to raise money and promote creativity with kids around the Bay Area by building giant impressive sand sculptures!
This year Forell | Elsesser teamed with Bay City Mechanical, HKIT Architects, Vanir Construction Management, Inc., Tipping Structural Engineers and our partnered school – Lawton Alternative School. The Sunset Shellebrators, our team name, created an amazing sand castle themed Atlantis and raised a total of $6,850! F/E Team Captain and Engineer, Andrew Salber volunteered at the event and thinks, “it’s great to see so many people show up to support the local community and have fun in the process. Being involved in events like this reflect well on our company and remind us how rewarding it can be to come together as a team and build things!”
Forell | Elsesser is committed to helping our community in any way we can by volunteering our time, becoming sponsors and raising money to programs for those in need. We have been involved in the LEAP Sandcastle Classic Event for ten years and are honored to support such a great mission and talented leadership.
On October 4, 2018 Mason Walters, a Principal at Forell Elsesser Engineers, was inducted into the University of California, Berkeley Academy of Distinguished Alumni’s: Class of 2018. UC, Berkeley has one of the top national rankings for civil and environmental engineering programs. The UC, Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) has thousands of successful alumni around the globe that they believe are noteworthy and have contributed greatly to the development both in the US and around the world. We believe this about Mason and so do others! Congratulations on the amazing honor!
Check out this exciting, state-of-the-art facility. The design is a multi-functional space providing a little something for everyone.
A new 49,000 sf Academic III building brings together the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences on the CSU Monerey Bay campus.
Cal Poly-SEAOC Structural Forum 2017
Steve Marusich and Qudsia Wahab had the opportunity to network with many Cal Poly San Luis Obispo students soon to be transitioning from an educational environment to a career in structural engineering. This year’s Structural Forum was suitably themed, “Framing the Future.” The Structural Forum attracts approximately 40 structural engineering firms and hundreds of students. This annual event is hosted by the student chapter of Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC), in conjunction with the Cal Poly Architectural Engineering Department.
Forell | Elsesser is proud to announce the promotion of three key personnel! Steve Marusich to Principal, Lindsey Maclise to Senior Associate, and Susan La Fore to Associate.
Steve Marusich joined Forell | Elsesser in 2002. Steve has participated in a variety of organizations including Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC), Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and Lean Construction Institute. Additionally, Steve is a Professional Affiliate of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Steve is currently working on multiple projects for Facebook, the SFSU Recreation & Wellness Center, and UCSF Clinical Sciences Building projects.
Lindsey Maclise joined Forell | Elsesser in 2006. In 2012, she became an EERI Housner Fellow and in 2013 a Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) Zacher Award Recipient. She is also a member of the UC Berkeley CEE Advisory Board. Lindsey has worked on a range of projects including higher education, athletic, and laboratory projects.
Susan LaFore joined Forell | Elsesser in 2007. She is active on the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) Structural Engineering Engagement and Equity (SE3) and the SEAONC Continuing Education Committees. Susan’s primary focus for the past few years has been in serving as Project Manager for several of Forell | Elsesser’s Facebook projects.
Lindsey Maclise, SE, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate
Steve Marusich, SE, Principal
Susan LaFore, SE, LEED AP BD+C, Associate
Leap Sandcastle 2015
Forell | Elsesser is fundraising and donating our time and skills for the 34th Annual Sandcastle Classic! The event will be taking place on October 15 from 11AM-4PM at Ocean Beach. F/E is part of the Sandy Warhols team with XL Construction, Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED), Bradley Concrete, Walter P. Moore, and the Diane Feinstein Elementary School. To view photos of our team competing last year, please click here.
The Leap Sandcastle Contest is a fundraiser to support arts education programs in local elementary schools. As part of the A/E/C industry, F/E understands the importance of students building skills to increase creativity and curiosity in the classroom. Leap’s programs serve over 6,000 students in more than 25 elementary schools throughout the Bay Area.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 for arts education! If you’re interested and available to donate to our team, please click here.
UC Berkeley BAMPFA
Forell | Elsesser is proud to announce UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive’s (BAMPFA) recent awards: Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) Excellence in Structural Engineering Landmark Project, Award of Merit; and the AIA New York Design Awards, Merit Award – Architecture.
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and EHDD Architects, this new museum and cultural center project totals approximately 80,000 sf. BAMPFA incorporates a new state-of-the-art theater facility with the rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of an existing art deco style former printing plant. This project will be seeking LEED Gold certification.
The Forell | Elsesser team included David Friedman, Mason Walters, Geoff Bomba, and Masume Dana. The design and construction team included Plant Construction (GC), BKF Engineers (Civil), Amec Foster Wheeler (Geotech), and Stantec (M/E/P).
For more information on the UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, please visit BAMPFA.
Posted May 2016