Services

The full spectrum, managed to RTI.

NAXA is a design, engineering, and project management firm. Rather than handing you a stack of disconnected consultants, we run every discipline a project needs and drive it to Ready to Issue, the point where your plans are approved and ready to permit. Then, through the TESH integrated group, we can carry the project all the way to the keys.

Why one managed team

You manage one relationship. We manage the rest.

Architecture, structural, civil, MEP, geotechnical, energy, fire, and the city plan-check process, coordinated under a single accountable team, on one schedule, to one finish line: RTI.

Coordinated

Every discipline, one team

We bring in and direct the full spectrum of consultants so nothing falls between the cracks.

Accountable

Schedule & cost certainty

We hold the timeline and the budget, with value engineering built in from day one.

Connected

From RTI to keys

As part of the TESH group, we can fabricate and build what we design and engineer.

Feasibility & Densification

Know what a site can become.

Before you commit, we study zoning, unit count, and highest-and-best-use so owners and developers see the real potential and the real cost of a property.

  • Highest-and-best-use and unit-count analysis
  • Zoning and densification feasibility
  • Vesting and entitlement services, securing your right to build
  • Development projects, from raw land to approved plans
  • Value engineering and early cost certainty
Aerial of a NAXA project site: steel delivery and framing underway on the lot
Design & Architecture

From ADUs to mid-rise.

Residential and commercial design built to permit and built to be built, including approaches that flow straight into the group's light-gauge steel and modular construction.

  • Single and multi-family residential, and commercial
  • ADUs, single and multi-family
  • Modular and volumetric design
  • Mid-rise, renovation, and densification
  • Also: hotel development and commercial office conversions
A NAXA-designed home taking shape in light-gauge steel
Specialties & focus areas

What we are known for.

Beyond the core disciplines, NAXA has deep, repeatable experience in the project types Southern California needs most.

Housing

New homes & residences

New single-family and custom homes, additions, and major remodels, designed to permit and built to be built.

Housing

Single & multi-family ADUs

Detached, attached, garage conversions, and multi-ADU lots, from one unit to a full backyard development.

Off-site

Modular & volumetric construction

Designs built for factory fabrication and fast on-site assembly.

Steel

Light-gauge steel experts

Cold-formed light-gauge and structural steel, the modern, non-combustible way to frame.

Attainable

Affordable housing

Density bonus, efficient unit plans, and value engineering that make it pencil.

Developers

Development projects

New multi-family and mid-rise, from raw land through approved plans.

Planning

Vesting & entitlement services

Tentative and vesting maps, zoning, and the approvals that lock in your right to build.

Commercial

Commercial & mixed-use

Commercial buildings, office conversions, and mixed-use projects.

Structural engineering

Structural engineering, where value engineering lives.

Structural is the core of what we do, and the discipline where we save clients the most. The right framing system for each condition, efficient load paths, and tight coordination with architecture turn an approvable design into one that is genuinely cheaper and faster to build, without ever cutting safety.

  • New homes, additions, and major renovations
  • Load-bearing wall removal, foundations, and floor and roof loads
  • Light-gauge steel, structural steel, wood, concrete, and masonry
  • Seismic retrofit engineering: brace-and-bolt and soft-story analysis and design
  • Decks, patios, and exterior elevated elements
  • Value engineering that holds the budget on every project
Aerial of a completed light-gauge and structural steel frame
Construction Administration & Structural Observation

Our engineering doesn't stop at the permit.

RTI is a milestone, not the finish line. As the engineer of record, we stay with your project through construction, so the building that gets built is the one we engineered, and so it clears inspection. Where the code requires structural observation, we observe the work at each major phase and file the reports the building department needs to keep the job moving, and we are available to do this on any project.

  • Structural observation reports at foundation, framing, and key phases, filed with the city
  • Review of special-inspection and materials-testing reports
  • RFIs, field-condition clarifications, and deferred-submittal approvals
  • Coordination through final inspection and Certificate of Occupancy
  • One engineer of record, from the first calculation to the last sign-off
A crane sets a structural steel beam during construction as the engineer of record observes the work
Civil & MEP engineering

The rest of the engineering, coordinated.

Permit-ready civil and MEP engineering, kept in lockstep with the structural design so the whole set works as one.

Civil

Soils review, grading and drainage, stormwater compliance, retaining walls, driveways, and excavation and fill.

MEP

Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire suppression, and low-voltage coordination.

Energy & code

Title 24 energy compliance and the documentation each permit requires.

Specialty consultants, coordinated

The rest of the team, managed by us.

A project needs more than design and engineering. We bring in and direct the specialists, so you do not have to.

Geotechnical & soils

Reports, recommendations, and coordination with the structural design.

Title 24 energy

Energy compliance and documentation for permit.

Fire & life safety

Sprinkler and fire-protection coordination where required.

Acoustical & lighting

Specialty consultants brought in as the project demands.

SB-721 & SB-326 Balcony Inspections

Compliance, on every cycle.

Licensed inspections of exterior elevated elements for HOAs, owners, and property managers, with a clear report in two weeks and repair design if we find a problem.

Balcony inspection services

Tell us what you are building.

One managed team, from feasibility to RTI to keys.