MBM Engineering

About MBM structural engineering

MBM, Inc is a Los Angeles based Structural Engineering firm offering Structural Engineering consulting services of the highest quality to Architects, Owners, Developers and Contractors. The firm has achieved this goal as evidenced by the many successfully completed projects in Southern California and elsewhere during the past Fifty years.

MBM, Inc was founded in 1971 with Hasan Mulla and Bob Mehta, as principals. They combine over one hundred years of structural design experience using construction materials concrete, steel, masonry, wood, optimally and appropriate for structural systems.  

This extensive experience record includes the following expertise:

  • Preparation of structural plans and specifications for new buildings.
  • Rehabilitation and strengthening of existing structures, including seismic & vertical load carrying capacity retrofitting.
  • Revit and AutoCAD drafting of structural plans and details.
  • Plan checking and getting building permit ready plans by working very closely with authority having jurisdiction.
  • Providing structural observation on the projects and resolving field issues effectively and in a timely manner by working with General Contractors, Subcontractors, City Inspectors, and other discipline personnel.

Building Types

  • Type I – Office Buildings, Residential and Medical Buildings, Parking Structure.

  • Type III – Mixed-Use Apartment Buildings with subterranean up to four levels underground concrete structures and up to three levels of above grade Type I concrete shell, supporting 3 to 5 levels of wood framed apartment units and in addition accommodating lofts.

  • Type V – Office Buildings, Apartments and Townhouses. Two/Three/Four story wood structures on Concrete Podium Deck.          
              
  • Community Centers, Senior Housing, Low-income housing, Hotels and Banks.

  • Retrofitting & upgrade of existing old concrete, masonry, steel, and wood buildings to current building codes for earthquakes, including VA Buildings, old hotels in skid row in L.A.

  • Numerous office Buildings and Parking Structures in Long Beach, Santa Monica and San Fernando Valley with post tensioned and Reinforced concrete floor systems with special moment resisting ductile frames & shear walls, including the iconic “Colorado Place” at 2600 Colorado Ave Santa Monica, 350,000 sq. ft. of 4 story offices over 300,000 sq. ft. of 3 level garages, Landau partnership, The Architect.