About Us
Huntington & Associates was founded by Bert G. Huntington in 1949 as structural engineering consultants for Bay Area industry and architects. His background in steel fabrication and contracting provided the basis for the firm’s longstanding reputation for buildable and economical designs. Craig G. Huntington joined with him in 1983, bringing experience in innovative tensioned fabric structures from Geiger Berger Associates in New York City and in complex concrete structures from T.Y. Lin International in San Francisco. Now practicing as Huntington Design Associates, Inc., the firm has gained wide recognition for the design of unusual and specialized structures.
Contemporary construction involves exacting technical requirements, satisfaction of myriad regulatory agencies, and coordination of complex teams of designers, consultants, and contractors. In this demanding environment, Huntington Design Associates has established a reputation based on 70 years of thorough and reliable structural engineering design. We provide the skill and attentive service that make a project successful. Moving into the future, Huntington Design weds parallel legacies of constructible design and innovation.
Craig G. Huntington, S.E.
Craig G. Huntington, has been President of Huntington Design Associates, Inc. since 1983. Previously, he worked in the San Francisco office of T.Y. Lin International, a firm renowned for innovative work in prestressed concrete and in bridge and transportation structures. Prior to that, he was an engineer at the New York City office of Geiger Berger Associates, where he participated in the design of the 4,500,000 sq. ft. Jeddah Hajj Airport Terminal and other major fabric tension structures.
In 2012, Huntington was named a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The published notice of his election stated that “Huntington’s designs are notable not only for technical excellence but also for visual elegance derived from the clear expression of structural action in form and detail.” His engineering work has received awards from the California Preservation Foundation, the Industrial Fabrics Association International, and other organizations, His work was lauded in a 2013 Structural Engineer magazine cover story.
Huntington’s professional achievements include publications on tensioned fabric structures, reinforced concrete, fascia, aesthetics, and professional issues. He authored the book The Tensioned Fabric Roof, and is editor and co-author of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s report Tensile Fabric Structures: Design, Analysis, and Construction, and a chapter on recent North American developments for the book Fabric Structures in Architecture. He has served is a member of the Editorial Board of Fabric Architecture magazine, and was chair of both the Committee on Aesthetics of Design and the Tensioned Fabric Structures Task Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Huntington is licensed to practice civil and structural engineering in the State of California, and is a registered professional engineer in 21 other states. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture and a Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering.