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Renee Needleman, P.E. is an experienced design engineer currently employed at DES Architects + Engineers since February 2019 and has been with FBA, Inc. Structural Engineers since March 2012. Prior experience includes a consulting role at Sentient Designs from January 2005 to March 2012 and a position as Technical Support Manager at Adapt Corporation from 1999 to 2008. Renee Needleman holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California State University-Sacramento, earned between 1999 and 2001, and a Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature from San Francisco State University, completed from 1996 to 1999.
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Born and bred in the Bay Area, DES shares the trailblazing spirit of Silicon Valley. As an integrated design firm, we collaborate between disciplines, from architecture and interior design to planning and engineering. We are here to cross boundaries. The clients we attract span technology, education, life science, healthcare, and real estate development. We cross-pollinate insights, designing solutions special to each project and informed by the full breadth of our experience. Research centers can inspire startup facilities. Social spaces can shape wellness clinics. Tech campuses can transform the urban places of tomorrow. It all starts with the partnership, a give-and-take of ideas. Bring us your site, budget, and brief. Bring on the unexpected, the unexplored, the uncertain. Where others see limitations, we see possibilities. We believe a process that’s agile and flexible produces a place that is the same. A place that’s designed for working and playing, healing and learning, dreaming and doing. A place that inspires people to make it their own.