Kevin Donahue, SE - Founder and Senior Consulting Engineer

Kevin Donahue has been practicing structural engineering for over 25 years. Kevin earned a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Brown University in 1980 and proceeded to branch out into architecture, teaching, and music, performing in many well-known Bay Area music venues. He was a visiting lecturer at Cornell University in 1986. In 1989, he earned dual Master’s degrees in Architecture and in Structural Engineering and Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley. Kevin began his structural engineering career with Toft & de Nevers (later Toft, de Nevers & Lee), where he also obtained his Civil and Structural Engineer licenses. Since opening his own office in 2003, he has endeavored to marry the technical with the expressive in his engineering practice, from an interest in working with alternative and low-carbon building materials to a collaborative approach to problem-solving while working with his architectural and building clients.

Kevin is a contributing author to the book Design of Straw Bale Buildings by Bruce King et. al. (Green Building Press, 2006), and formerly served on a task force of structural engineers and architects to create the straw bale appendix in the International Building Code. He currently resides happily in Berkeley with his wife and their daughter’s cat.