Himmati Engineering

I have been working with Fareed for 12 years. He has always produced prompt and great work. He has also helped me out in many emergency and short notice jobs.

The last 6 months I have used Himmati engineering services for 3 projects in San Francisco. Fareed and Naheed have always been helpful and prompt to delivery the plans or solve any problem. Great work.

Thank you Fareed and Naheed at Himmati Engineering for finishing our project
We met Fareed during an urgency to locate a formal engineer.
He took charge of the project without a problem. From the first day we meet, it felt like we had been doing business for years.
He provides outstanding work for a very fair price. Moreover, He is a very honest man who did a fantastic job for us. He is very knowledgable, quick, and efficient.
He knows what he is doing and is so Great to work with.
I Highly Recommend, and look forward to continuing business with Himmati Engineering, they are the Best! Thank You Fareed and Naheed!!!
Nina

I cannot say enough good things about Fareed Himmati and his sister, Naheed, who backstops him in the office. I am a contractor in San Francisco and have been working with them both for about 8 years now. I work with a lot of other engineers too, but Himmati Engineering has always stood head and shoulders above others, many of whom I also respect and enjoy working with.
As a breed, Engineers can often be difficult to work with. They can be «bookish», impersonal, and sometimes severely lacking in «people skills». What I like most about Fareed is that he is personable, practical, and can discuss structural aspects of a project in terms that just about anyone can understand. He is solutions oriented.
Fareed is not the best when it comes to communications. Like many engineers, he is very very (very!) busy and could do a better job of setting expectations for his clients, returning emails, phone calls, etc. But I know this about him and adjust to his work mode. He always comes through for me and my clients.
The work that I do is on the smaller side of residential construction (projects under $ 500,000), and Fareed excels in this arena, where a lot of larger firms have little interest. He provides invaluable expertise when it comes to pulling permits. Sometimes this a role that architects or contractors play, but when you want to get an over-​the-​counter permit quickly, there is no better investment than having the engineer get the ball over the goal line for you (Engineering plan checkers can be very difficult to navigate if you don’t know what you are doing). Fareed has played this role for me on countless occasions. He knows how to build in San Francisco and is always a welcome addition to my project team.

Well Himmati Engineering was a complete bust.
Wasted over 2 weeks of my time and came in at 2.5−3x the agreed budget.
I have a very simple modification on my loft here in San Francisco for an over the counter permit and Mr. Himmati was suggested as a person who would be willing to work within my limited budget.
I waited 3 days for him to visit the site. He shows on time (positive sign) and I did my homework and was able to give him all the structural drawings for the building including all material specs and drawings of existing and new project components in CAD format. I ask for a quote for just a basic weight calculation (to confirm the plan is safe) and a quote for the requirements to get a full permit and inform him of by budget limitations. He says that should be no problem and will have the quote to me in a couple of days.
Over a week later I call about the quote. He responds that he was waiting on my feedback on window safety (I had emailed him immediately after the visit that I wanted to proceed regardless of window safety which could be addressed at a later date). I remind him of both the email and that the window was not an issue based on SF building department. He apologizes and says he will have the quote to me by end of that day.
Four full business days later I call about the quote. More apologies and says there was an office mistake and he will have quote to me BY THE END OF THE DAY, PROMISE!
The next day mid morning I get the quote at 2.5−3x the discussed budget. When I called, his response was simple. Take it or leave it.
Had he simply said on day 1 he was not interested in the project, I would have thanked him for his time that would have been that… Stay away from this guy, seems to be gifted in the old bait and switch.