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Nishkian<\/span> & Associates<\/span>\u00a0now IMEG\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>100 years old! The\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0family established the San Francisco-based Nishkian engineering firm in 1919.<\/span><\/p>\n

The firm was founded by President Levon Nishkian\u2019s grandfather, Leon Nishkian, a Turkish-Armenian immigrant and talented engineer. Leon Nishkian received his bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering at University of California Berkeley in 1906, only weeks after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured along the San Andreas Fault. The earthquake left 3,000 people dead, San Francisco in ruins and a massive amount of rebuilding to do. Under his guidance, the company worked on major reconstruction projects as well as several famous projects in its hometown including the old Orpheum and Castro Theaters, the Palace Hotel, and much of San Francisco\u2019s large office buildings. During World War II, Leon Nishkian served as an engineer for many large projects undertaken by the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and the Maritime Commission. Nishkian was part of the statewide committee that drew up the state\u2019s building codes, and he also served on the committee of engineers rehabilitating San Francisco schools for earthquake stability in 1933.<\/p>\n

By the time Leon\u2019s son, Byron\u00a0Nishkian, graduated from UC Berkeley in 1940 also with a bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering, his father had established a reputation as an inventive thinker to whom people would consult when traditional solutions failed. One of Leon\u00a0Nishkian\u2019s\u00a0most notable achievements was the development of a unique flotation system to \u201cright\u201d the USS Arizona battleship sunk in Pearl Harbor in 1941, allowing the Navy to retrieve the remains of the sailors on the ship.<\/p>\n

Byron\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0took over the firm after his father died in 1947. He too presided over a series of well-regarded tall building projects, and the company continued designing many Bank of America branches in the West, an engineering center at Stanford University and an earth science building at the University of California Berkeley. Following Byron\u00a0Nishkian\u2019s\u00a0death in 1987, the company reins passed to his son,\u00a0Levon\u00a0Nishkian. The company at this point had gone through a pair of corporate mergers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Levon<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian<\/span>\u00a0enjoyed working for this merged version of the firm but said he \u201chad other responsibilities and there were times I needed to do other things. So, I just had to move on and start our own firm.\u201d He left the merged outfit to re-launch\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian<\/span>\u00a0as an independent company in 1989 with partner Kevin Menninger. The rebooted firm grew steadily in the past 30 years.\u00a0<\/span>F<\/span>our offices\u00a0<\/span>were established\u00a0<\/span>within the\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0fold:\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian Menninger<\/span>\u00a0in San Francisco with Vice President Kevin Menninger;\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian Dean<\/span>\u00a0in Portland, Oregon which was founded in 1999 with Vice President Edwin Dean;\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian Monks<\/span>\u00a0in Bozeman, Montana which was founded in 2002 with Vice President Ty Monks; and\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian Chamberlain<\/span>\u00a0in Los Angeles which was founded in 2007 with Vice President Craig Chamberlain.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From humble beginnings as a small consulting practice in San Francisco, the\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0firm\u2019s century-long legacy spans across three generations of\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0men who built the company into the great American engineering success story it is today. One would be hard-pressed to walk through the streets of San Francisco, commute to Silicon Valley, or travel through the Pacific Northwest, the Rockies and beyond without having benefited from the work of\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0engineers, a powerhouse team in the world of structural engineering. A great deal has changed over the course of the company\u2019s 100 years in business, but one thing has remained the same throughout the decades \u2014 the\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0firm\u2019s commitment to building excellence.<\/p>\n

Since 1919, we\u2019ve built a stellar reputation for excellence in the provision of our services, coupled with the highest level of integrity and objectivity and an unsurpassed commitment to our clients\u2019 success. We are thrilled to say many of our senior staff have over 25 years\u2019 experience in practice and with the\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0team, providing invaluable knowledge and expertise to clients.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have been able to achieve this success without the support, devotion and loyalty of our team past and present,\u201d says President\u00a0Levon\u00a0Nishkian. \u201cThe entire\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0firm is proud that we\u2019ve held our founding principles true to this day \u2013 exceptional engineering service, personalized cost-effective solutions, and expansive community involvement. Our success depends on the success of the communities we live, work and play in. We\u2019d like to express our gratitude and big thanks to all our clients, business partners, and employees. In 2019 and beyond the\u00a0Nishkian\u00a0firm will continue to provide the quality of services our clients have come to expect, and we look forward to collaborating with many more clients and partners, both new and existing.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our second century of engineering brings our merger IMEG Corp., which also has a longstanding history of more than 60 years. Throughout 2019, the\u00a0<\/span>Nishkian<\/span>\u00a0firm will celebrate its remarkable and proud history<\/span>\u00a0as we integrate with IMEG<\/span>. A special reception\u00a0<\/span>will<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>be\u00a0<\/span>held in San Francisco to celebrate the firm\u2019s 100th\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>nniversary and mark a century\u2019s worth of accomplishments and impact in the AEC industry.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3856,"template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCelebrating 100 years of structural engineering - IMEG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/news_events\/celebrating-100-years-of-structural-engineering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating 100 years of structural engineering - IMEG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nishkian & Associates\u00a0now IMEG\u00a0is\u00a0100 years old! 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