About
Our Mission
Finngineering provides Southern California with innovative, straightforward, and sustainable structural engineering solutions that exceed our clients' expectations.
We strive to deliver exceptional, cost-effective designs through collaboration, expertise, and a commitment to safety and quality.
"An engineer can do for a dime what anyone else can do for a dollar."
-Anonymous
Our Philosophy
Finngineering utilizes a collaborative experience, working hand in hand with contractors, builders, architects, industry professionals, and building departments. Combining that with our 15 years of engineering experience, we deliver the simplest, yet most effective, engineering solutions possible.
Our solutions meet the highest safety and building code standards while enhancing the lives of those who use them, without breaking the bank or extending project timelines.
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible."
- Freeman Dyson. Disturbing the Universe, 1979
Our Services
We provide Orange County, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego Counties with the following structural engineering services:
- Residential: Single Family & Multi-Family
- Commercial
- Site Structures
- including retaining walls, enclosures, light poles, pads, etc.
- MEP Structural Support
- including Equipment Anchorage, Utility Bracing & Structural Support, Connections, Foundations, etc.
- Structural Inspections & Reports
- including SB 326 California "Balcony" EEE Inspections
- Remodels, Repairs, Additions
- ADU Conversions
- New Structures (Ground Up)
- Plan Check Submittal & Permitting
- Construction Support
“Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.”
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Elective Affinities, 1809
Meet the Engineer
Caleb Finn
Caleb received his BS in Structural Engineering from UCSD in 2007 and his Professional Engineers license in 2009. After working as a structural project manager for large engineering firms in Orange County, and as structural plan checker for UCI, in 2022 he began Finngineering to fill the need for hands-on collaborative structural services for growing construction fields in Southern California.