About the author  ⁄ Steven B. Tipping, S.E.

Steven B. Tipping is founding Principal at Tipping Structural Engineers in Berkeley, CA, and has many of the firm’s award-winning innovations. He can be reached at s.tipping@tippingstructural.com.

It is not often that a new building’s structural engineer is also its developer – and the synergies arising from this pairing are equally rare. How can seemingly opposing priorities and objectives combine positively? How can a developer’s challenges transform into innovative seismic engineering opportunities? The Tipping Structural Engineers (TSE) mixed-use project at 1908 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, CA, is that unique result of the interdependence between creative engineering and real-estate development strategies.

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