IBA Consultants Launches San Francisco Office to Serve Growing Northern California Market

San Francisco, CA, October 06, 2008 --(PR.com)-- IBA Consultants, one of country’s foremost building envelope consulting firms, announces the opening of its San Francisco office. This marks the eighth regional office for the Boca Raton-based company.

“While single-family home construction remains stagnant, high-rise building construction for housing and office space remains strong in this region,” states Mark Baker, president, IBA. “With our San Francisco office joining our Las Vegas and Seattle locations, we are nicely positioned to grow throughout the West Coast by providing architects, developers and contractors with unique building envelope expertise.”

The San Francisco office will coordinate IBA’s acclaimed services that include glass, glazing and waterproofing consultation for new construction and building renovations; forensic and diagnostic services related to building envelope failures; jobsite testing; and third party inspections.

According to Dave Ellwanger, IBA business development manager, the services and national team IBA has assembled for the region have already secured contracts for the following Northern California projects:

San Francisco
· 178 Townsend Street
· 45 Lansing
· 851 California Timeshares
· Candlestick Cove

Mountain View
· Domain Mountain View

Sacramento
· Thunder Valley Casino

While new to the Bay area, IBA has grown into one of the country’s foremost high-rise building envelope authorities since its launch in 1996. With offices in Miami, New York City, Tampa Bay, Boca Raton and Pensacola, the company has worked on some of the most prestigious projects in the U.S., Mexico and Caribbean, such as MGM Residences (Las Vegas), Torre Mayor (Mexico City), the Atlantis (Nassau), Four Seasons (Miami), Ten 20 Tower (Seattle), Turnberry Towers (Arlington, Va.), and the Diplomat Resort (Hollywood, Fla.).

IBA’s new office is located at 425 Market Street, Ste. 2200, San Francisco. The phone number is 415-821-4422.

With eight offices located throughout the United States, IBA Consultants (www.ibaconsultants.com) is the country’s foremost building envelope consulting firm, specializing in the identification and elimination of potential and existing wall cladding, glazing, glass, roofing, and waterproofing system failures. Founded in 1996, with more than 4,000 successful projects to its credit, IBA has earned a reputation for excellence throughout the world through a highly trained staff with world-class qualifications.

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