consulting founded 1960 by john rutherford and constantine chekene headquarters san francisco website www.ruthchek.com rutherford chekene is a structural and geotechnical engineering firm in california specializing in new design and retrofit of structures for clients in sectors that include healthcare higher education corporate research and development art and education and technology . rutherford chekene began implementing 3 d modeling to produce building information models bim in 2005 . r c has developed more than 3 billion in construction using bim created with revit tekla and other software . notable projects edit structural engineer of record for the new jan shrem and maria manetti shrem museum of art at uc davis seismic consulting for bridging documents and structural and geotechnical peer review of the san francisco international airport air traffic control tower ucsf smith cardiovascular research building at mission bay uc merced science and engineering building 2 merced new exploratorium san francisco uc berkeley boalt hall law library berkeley uc davis gallagher hall and conference center for the uc davis graduate school of management davis designing for wind loads on solar arrays california de young museum san francisco monterey bay aquarium monterey monterey bay aquarium research institute moss landing renovation and expansion of the uc santa cruz mchenry library santa cruz genentech hall qb3 and hospital at the ucsf mission bay campus pixar animation studios emeryville california strong motion instrumentation program csmip study geotechnical engineer of record for the california academy of sciences in golden gate park seismic consulting after the 2011 christchurch earthquake new zealand awards edit structural engineering association of northern california 2013 excellence in structural engineering award of excellence in retrofit alternation exploratorium aia california council urban design award 2011 mcgraw hill construction best of 2010 2010 silicon valley san jose business journal structures award for community impact seaonc excellence in structural engineering award of excellence new construction 2010 california preservation foundation award 2009 society of college and university planners merit award for excellence in architecture for restoration preservation 2009 references edit king john . davis design chosen for shrem art museum san francisco chronicle may 2013 . young eric . rehab renovation the exploratorium at pier 15 san francisco business times march 2013 . rauber chris . finalist best health mills peninsula medical center san francisco business times march 2012 . gonchar joann . one project but many seismic solutions architectural record . talarico wendy . seismic systems that stand up to nature architectural record february 2000 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rutherford % 2b chekene & oldid 743699857 categories engineering companies of the united statesbusiness services companies of the united statescompanies based in san franciscodesign companies established in 19601960 establishments in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view