Marx Okubo welcomes Angela Stewart, P.E., Associate, Gustavo G. Chaves, LEED AP, CPMP, Associate, to its Atlanta office, Curtis B. Wayne, AIA, NCARB, Senior Associate, to its Northeast office, Michael R. Hirsch, Senior Associate, to its San Francisco office, and Michael Spassoff, Associate, to its Orange County office. Angie Stewart is responsible for preconstruction project re...

Marx Okubo welcomes Bradley S. Wolf, P.E. to its San Francisco office, Linda Waterhouse, AIA, NCARB, PMP, LEED GA and Thomas W. Hartmann, P.E. to its Denver office, Neal F. Dominick, P.E., LEED AP to its Houston office, and Marcus R. Guizar to its Orange County office. Brad Wolf, Senior Associate, has over 25 years of experience in facilities engineering, mechanical engineering...

Lake Forest, California celebrates the closing of escrow of four affordable-housing units at the Saguaro Open House. Learn more at HomeAid Orange County

On September 19, 2015, Families Forward held its annual "The Art of Giving" gala to celebrate 31 years of service to local families in crisis. The event was held at The Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach, and at the event, Families Forward's former families in need shared their personal story about how the organization helped them through homelessness while trying to support two y...

Marx Okubo welcomes Allen Dedels, AIA, to its Atlanta office and Richard P. Milstead, NCARB, and Simon Yavari, PhD, P.E. to its Southern California office. Allen Dedels, Senior Associate, has over 27 years of experience in the design and construction industries, including all project phases for retail, higher education, healthcare, commercial, and mixed-use projects. Working th...

Marx Okubo welcomes Samantha Gragg, AIA, LEED AP, Linda Fu, RA, LEED AP, Richard P. Martin, CBCP, LEED AP BD+C, and Henry T. Leung, R.A., to its Southern California offices; James M. La Terza, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, O+M, to its New York office; David B. Noma, AIA, R.A., to its San Francisco office; and John Kundak, P.E., to its Atlanta office. Samantha Gragg, Associate, has been i...

Marx Okubo proudly welcomes Daniel J. Peterson, AIA, to its Houston office, Linda V. Kade, AIA, to its San Francisco office, Paul Oxenreider, P.E., LEED AP, to its Dallas office, Steven Yi, P.E., to its Seattle office, and Christopher E. Ruehl, R.A. LEED AP, to its New York office. Daniel Peterson, Senior Associate, has over three decades in experience in design development, co...

Marx Okubo prides itself on not only creation, but renovation.  We have garnered a respectable reputation as a top firm for renovations country-wide.  Most recently, Marx Okubo has finished renovating the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, California, which received high praise from the likes of Conde Naste, who rated it as one of their top five best new design hotels in the w...

Marx Okubo proudly welcomes Craig Brenner, R.A., Alan Willig, R.A., and Giulia Alimonti, R.A., LEED AP to its White Plains Office and Dan Yntema, Jr., AIA to its Atlanta Office. Craig Brenner, Senior Associate, brings to Marx Okubo over 18 years of architectural, construction, and real estate experience managing residential, academic, hospitality, ski resort, assisted living, a...

The Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles was recently included in Condé Nast's 2014 List as one of the five best new design hotels in the world.  The hotel and restaurant are receiving rave reviews from press and patrons for their innovative design and service.  The property sits approximately one mile south of the Downtown Los Angeles Civic Center, near the arts, fashio...

California has adopted Senate Bill (SB) No. 407, which has been enacted into the state civil code for purposes of ensuring that the water supply in the state continues to be reliable and continues to support the economic and environmental health of California.  The bill applies to single-family residential, multi-family residential, and commercial properties built prior to...

It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Fred Zanghi, AIA, LEED AP, to Assistant Vice President of the Northeast region and Paul Reginato, PE, to Assistant Vice President of the San Francisco office. Fred Zanghi joined us in February of 2013 and has brought a wealth of knowledge to the company in a short period of time.  Mr. Zanghi has over 25 years of architectur...

If you owned a home, residence, building, or other structure in the United States as of September 30, 2013, on which specific CertainTeed products were installed on or before September 30, 3013, you may be entitled to receive funds from the class action settlement that was approved on March 20, 2014. The settlement will resolve allegations that CertainTeed sold defective Weathe...

The California Building Standards Commission recently published the 2013 Edition of the California Building Code (CBC).  This code replaced the existing 2010 CBC standard and went into effect on January 1, 2014.  Several changes have been made to the code that will affect Marx Okubo's core services. As we work to represent property owners and lenders, Marx Okubo refer...

Christopher Lilley, Associate, brings 20 years of experience in the design and construction industry, including work on all phases of commercial, corporate, education, hospitality, multi-family, mixed use, and industrial projects. Project responsibilities include construction project management, property condition assessments, pre-construction project reviews, and owner’s repre...

The hotel market has been heating up, and Marx Okubo worked hard to support our clients in that sector in 2013. Marx Okubo condition assessment teams worked on over 65 hotel acquisitions for 23 different clients. The projects were distributed all across the country in 20 different states and represented over 6.5 million square feet of building area. The teams faced varied envir...