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to deliver innovative design while meeting architectural demands.

Our passion is realizing elegant and meaningful structures by creating thoughtful, constructible engineering.

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Structural Engineering Services

  • Commercial and Educational Facilities
  • High-End Residential
  • Seismic Retrofit and Evaluation
  • Performance-Based Building Design and Non-Linear Analysis
  • Non-Ductile Concrete Building Retrofitting
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About Us

Garcia Structural Design recognizes the necessity for collaboration between architect, contractor, and owner.

Although we are structural engineers at heart, we are passionate about how things get built and all of the “stuff” that goes into buildings from mechanical systems to architectural elements.

We believe that in addition to great structural design, strong collaboration is essential to make all of a building’s elements work as a whole. We also understand that the structural elements of a building are often in service of other design disciplines and need to be designed accordingly.

Our ultimate goal is to deliver creative and economic structural design solutions for projects that are beautiful, functional, and meaningful.  

About Erik
Erik Garcia, P.E., Principal

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

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Pierson Jones, PhD
Technical Director

Pierson graduated with a Bachelor’s of Environmental Design in architecture from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  After working for 9 years as a draftsman and a carpenter for an architect and a design-build company in the San Francisco Bay Area he obtained a Master’s of Science and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Irvine.

Pierson’s graduate research work focused on computational seismic modeling of tall steel buildings for performance based seismic design; his professional experience in structural engineering includes 8 years of structural design work in steel, concrete, and wood buildings. As well he has focused on making advanced seismic analysis practical for real-world applications and using energy dissipation devices such as viscous dampers in seismic design.

Erik Garcia, P.E.
Principal & C.E.O.

Erik is a registered Civil Engineer and graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering and specializes in steel, concrete and wood structures. His main focus is working closely with architects and contractors to understand the intent behind their designs and provide elegant buildable structures. 

He has extensive experience in structural analysis, project management and structural design with an emphasis in:

  • Evaluation, recommendation and implementation of structural improvements in existing buildings
  • Performance-based seismic building design
  • Implementing more sustainable building practices in structural design such as mass timber and the reduction of concrete usage.