Employee number 008, Jason Smith is a steady, respected and solid practitioner for the KNA Structural Engineers team. Since 1997, Jason has been known for his outstanding communication and forward-thinking practice, and has worked on dozens of KNA’s largest and award-winning projects including the Del Norte ... Read More
Culture
Yoshi Fights Hunger with KNA’s Helping Hands
Recently, KNA engineers Awaaz Patel, Emily Jahansouz and Tyler Poucher lent their structural design and “fight against hunger” services to support fellow colleagues of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (Little) to build “Yoshi, Lashing out at Hunger” for the 2017 Canstruction Orange ... Read More
It’s Not All Work and No Play for KNA!
We took time off recently to celebrate our annual summer party at Forest Lanes in Lake Forest. KNA employees and family took over five bowling lanes in friendly competition, as seasoned engineers joined with summer interns to try to outdo each other. Family members cheered on the competitors from the ... Read More
KNA Awards Cal Poly SLO Senior Project Grant
For the eighth consecutive year, KNA has awarded a Senior Project Grant to students in the Architectural Engineering (ARCE) program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. The official ceremony was held on June 8th at the university. The annual award is given to students who have the ability to advance the art of the ... Read More
KNA Supports Inland Empire ACE Mentor Program
One of our core values is “a commitment to our industry,” an easy one to fulfill when it comes to a full day playing golf in support of the ACE Mentor Program. On June 9th, KNA principal Ben Pitts and Project Engineer Jason Smith grabbed their golf bags and gloves and headed to Sierra Lakes Golf Club to ... Read More
KNA Supports Cal Poly Team to Place 3rd in National Steel Bridge Competition
Each year, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo sends a team to compete in the National Steel Bridge Competition held by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Steel Bridge Team members collaborate to plan, design, fabricate and construct a one-tenth-scale model ... Read More
KNA March Madness Winner – Awaaz Patel
KNA takes their love for the NCAA games very seriously - even going so far as to set up a friendly competition to see whose teams fared best in the March Madness tournament this past month. Our Design Engineer Awaaz Patel took first place, and was awarded our home made ... Read More
We’re Growing: KNA Structural Engineers Promotes Both Kevin Westervelt and Ben Pitts to Principals
KNA Structural Engineers has recently promoted Kevin Westervelt, S.E. and Ben Pitts, S.E. to Principals. Kevin and Ben have been with us for over ten years, and will continue to bring their expertise, leadership and experience to their new positions. Kevin joined the firm in 2004 after graduating from Cal ... Read More
Building on our Legacy of Integrity, Trust and Responsibility
For the past several months, we’ve been developing our new brand beginning with a number of strategic planning sessions to survey our firm and see where we want to evolve over the next decade. We had discussions of our namesake, noting that most often our clients refer to us as KNA, which we like. Now our new ... Read More
KNA Presents to Cal Poly, SEA of California
Ben Pitts, one of KNA’s structural engineers, recently made a presentation to the monthly meeting of the Cal Poly SLO Structural Engineers Association of California. The presentation was on “The ‘Realities’ of Construction,” which showed how things designed and detailed are often misinterpreted and/or ... Read More