Flower - the sweet aroma of excellence

I Offer a Unique Service

I am a civil engineer registered in the State of California. My focus is on structural engineering of residential construction, practicing in this field for over 20 years. I am familiar with all disiplines of the building trade, along with all the products and services listed on this site.




I offer to you a unique service: a care for quality that is above the norm in residential construction. I approach each project with the care and meticulous scrutiny I believe my clients deserve. I actually enjoy the type of project that is a brain-teaser! I believe it is best for my clients that I do it right the first time.




For $1.50 per square foot, I will provide you with project support from initiation of the design phase to completion of construction. I will also draft the complete structural drawing set on AutoCAD Lt 2008. I am located in the Los Angeles area. If you are in need of a reliable engineer, feel free to send me e-mail:




RLFlower@worldnet.att.net




Or, feel free to call me on my cell phone:
818-201-7702







Thank you for your consideration.

Organizations:

Programming and Software:

• composite beam programs
• Enercalc Fastframe programing
• Engineering Software.com
• Natural Resource Software Surveying, mapping and engineering software for the natural resouce industries
• RAM International
• Research Engineers, Inc.
• RockWare Earth Science Software
• Tucows Free software
• Woodworks Software for wood design

Products and Services - General:

Engineered Wood Products:

Publishers/ Journals:

• CRC Press, LLC
• Journal of Light Construction

Government Resources:

• California Division of Mines and Geology

  Strong Motion Data Center

• California Division of the State Architect
• California Geological Survey

  Seismic Hazard Mapping Program

• Cal OSHA
• California, State of
• City of Carpinteria, CA
• City of Hermosa Beach, CA
• City of Los Angeles, CA Department of Building and Safety
• City of Oxnard, CA
• City of Santa Clarita, CA
• County of Santa Barbara, CA
• County of Ventura, CA Building and Safety
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Local Building Codes in Los Angeles Basin
• National Science Foundation
• U. S. Department of Labor - OSHA
• U. S. Department of Transportation

  Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

• USGS

  	Coastal and Marine Geology - Western Region
  	Index Map of Recent Earthquakes in California (updated hourly!)
  	National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project

• U. S. Office of Technology Assessment
• West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

Resource Guides:

• The Architects Catalog
• The Blue Book of Building Construction
• Building On Line
• Building Trades Directory
• Cal Tech - Earthquake Info
• Construction WebLinks
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library a vast resource!
• Engineering Rescource Center (ERC)
• Environmental Organization Web Directory
• HUD USER - Policy Development and Research's Information Service
• IRIS The net's forest product resource
• The Linda Hall Library Science, Engineering and Technology
• Lumber Web
• NAHB Research Center
• National Geophysical Data Center
• Scientific Terms and Acronyms
• Southern California Earthquake Center
• Southern California Fault Map
• The Spec Site A comprehensive resource with detailed product information, specifications, and contact data.
• The Spec Site - Links
• Structuralist
• Sweets on Construction.com: The Construction Marketplace
• TriNet The Seismic System For Southern California

Academics:

• Cal Poly SLO
• Cornell University Engineering Library
• Georgia Tech School of Environmental Eng.
• Los Angeles Pierce College
• Northwestern University Infrastructure Technology Institute
• Virginia Tech

Adhesives:

Wood Adhesives

• 3M water dispersed adhesives
• Advanced Adhesive Technologies, Inc. Engineering Library
• Epoxyworks
• N-Bond Co.
• Via Chem, Inc.

Anchorage Systems:

Concrete and Masonry

• Anchor Wall Systems
• Covert Operations
• HILTI
• ITW Ramset Readhead
• Powers Fasteners (was Rawlplug)

Misc.

• Halfen
• Hohmann & Barnard, Inc."We anchor the world"