Dan Say

A Note From Dan

After 45 years of shaping the Pacific Northwest’s built environment, SSF founding principal Dan Say, PE/SE, is retiring. Read his personal note as he reflects on his career and what comes next.

 

Founding Principal Dan Say Retires

After 45 years of shaping the Pacific Northwest’s built environment, SSF founding principal Dan Say, PE/SE, is retiring. His legacy in historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and structural engineering has left a lasting impact on Seattle and beyond.

 

House Bill 1810

A look back at Puget Sound quakes, plus what makes URM buildings dangerous and how HB 1810 can help fund seismic retrofits across Washington.

 

J&M Hotel Apartments

Swenson Say Faget is providing structural engineering for the seismic upgrade and annex rebuild of the historic J&M Hotel Building in Pioneer Square.

 

SPL English Programs

The Seattle Public Library (SPL) will significantly increase its free English language learning programs over the next two years, thanks to a $450,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded to The Seattle Public Library Foundation. 

 

Seattle building is the first to get new cement-free concrete

The first batch of a new concrete that doesn’t use cement was recently poured as part of a seismic retrofit to a 120-year-old brick building in the Green Lake neighborhood. That two-story building at 7200 Woodlawn Ave. N.E. is owned by Donald Davies and will be the future home to Atlantic Crossing Pub, which is moving from the Roosevelt neighborhood.