MHP’s work contributes to safer, thriving communities across California. Our civic experience includes city halls, community gathering spaces, libraries, cultural centers, police and fire stations. Our clients rely on our design, renovation, seismic retrofit, and on-call engineering expertise to serve the community.

MHP is a key partner within the healthcare field, from design of medical buildings, seismic strengthening, tenant improvement modernizations, and equipment installations. Experienced with HCAI and local jurisdictions, our projects include more than 250 general acute hospitals, pediatric centers, behavioral health clinics and skilled nursing facilities.

MHP is trusted for its familiarity with the design needs and criteria for projects on active campuses. Serving higher education architects and on-call relationships with several universities, MHP provides new design services as well as seismic risk evaluations, assisting campuses make important capital program decisions for safer student environments.  Our university portfolio includes student resource centers, instructional buildings, music studios, recital halls, and award-winning net-zero and sustainability leading projects.

MHP has particular expertise with community college projects including multiple project delivery methods. We have completed over 20 major new buildings on various California campuses in the past 5 years alone. Our recent work includes student housing, classrooms, laboratories, gymnasiums, science, and technology buildings. MHP’s extensive experience coupled with our DSA plan review contract make MHP uniquely qualified to provide structural engineering services to community college districts.

As one of the most experienced and responsive K-12 structural engineering firms in Southern California, MHP has designed dozens of new school buildings, supported modernization projects, and completed district-wide seismic assessments for six districts over the past decade, encompassing over 1,000
buildings. MHP is engaged with DSA through a multi-year contract for plan review services which ensures our knowledge of codes and regulations. This relationship, in conjunction with our active projects, ensures our ability to support student success.

With hundreds of completed projects, MHP’s multi-family work includes student housing, senior living, affordable housing, and hospitality projects with developers and owners for ground-up, adaptive reuse, value-add, and seismic upgrades. MHP’s residential experience includes light-framed construction over
podium and subterranean parking, as well as full-height structures with conventional or post-tensioned concrete.

MHP’s due diligence team supports the acquisition of industrial portfolios in the billions of dollars. Working with owners after acquisition we help reposition properties with seismic strengthening and other upgrades. Our industrial experience also includes new ground up and tenant improvement projects including cold-storage, heavy equipment requirements, and automated storage systems.

MHP has provided thousands of due diligence evaluations for low-rise buildings to high-rise towers with complex hybrid lateral systems. Our evaluations and retrofits include significant modeling for non-linear analyses incorporating complex geotechnical ground motion parameters and time-history records. MHP’s office retrofit portfolio includes expertise with mid- to high-rise buildings of steel and concrete with fluid-viscous damper solutions.

Our hospitality and retail experience includes hotel renovations and tenant improvements, big box stores, strip malls, shopping malls, mixed use, stand alone, and anchor stores. MHP has lasting relationships with national retail chains in support of their development of new stores and refresh projects.