Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc. is a leading, award-winning California structural engineering firm that provides design, consulting, project management and construction management services. Biggs Cardosa has been reshaping California highways and skylines for over 35 years through innovative and effective design of bridges, transportation structures, buildings and hydraulic facilities. The firm specializes in the design, seismic retrofit, modification and rehabilitation of these structures.

Biggs Cardosa is known for the quality of its work, active principal involvement, responsiveness to clients’ needs, and innovative solutions to complex project issues. The firm is

staffed with over 115 professional and technical personnel, which includes over 50 registered Civil and Structural engineers.

Biggs Cardosa’s projects include vehicular, rail and pedestrian/bicycle bridges, roadway and highway structures, high-end structural analysis, complex bridges, and all types of building projects. Since 1986, Biggs Cardosa has designed or managed the construction of over 15,000 structures, representing over $30 billion of infrastructure. Every day, over two million people use the bridges and structures that we designed. We have state-of-the-art in-house graphics and rendering capabilities, which prove invaluable to convey complex engineering concepts to the clients and the public during the design process.

Biggs Cardosa has six California offices located in Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno and Orange. While Biggs Cardosa is a California-based firm, we have completed projects in several other US States including Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Hawaii. Our diverse personnel have worked on numerous engineering projects throughout the country as well as internationally.

Our projects have recently received a CMAA National award, an APWA National award, and two ACEC California Golden State Awards in the past two years.

Kent Cordtz, PE, SE is the head of our Sacramento office. Kent brings over 40 years of diverse structural engineering experience on major and complex projects including highways, railroads and pedestrian bridges. He is experienced in traditional project delivery methods as well as design-build and public-private partnerships.

Contact Info:

Kent Cordtz, PE, SE, Associate
Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc.
8880 Cal Center Drive, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA 95826
916.302.9612