Nibbi has been constructing technically complex, iconic structures in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 60 years. We have the knowledge and experience required to deliver the region’s most challenging, logistically difficult and sustainable projects. We base our success on the continued and focused application of three key strategies: The Right Goals The right goals are your goals. At Nibbi, we not only want to earn your business, we want to earn your trust. Our relentless attention to your specific needs—coupled with the experience and skills to meet those needs—has earned us the continued trust of hundreds of satisfied clients. The Right Team We believe that having the right people on board is key to meeting your project needs. Nibbi’s seasoned construction professionals are supported by a young and motivated staff that bring new ideas and skills to the company. The Nibbi team specifically chosen for your project will expertly manage every detail—from estimating through closeout—ensuring that each decision supports the project’s budget, schedule, quality, sustainability and safety objectives. Our years of experience working effectively with our project partners—architects, subcontractors, and state and local agencies—also helps us to expertly navigate your project through each stage of construction. The Right Approach Nibbi has learned from 60 years of experience that the right approach is honest, collaborative and proactive, and supported by advanced technology. An honest, realistic and transparent assessment of costs, for example, gives our clients greater price certainty. Early team collaboration, when teamed with creative, proactive problem solving, can help us maximize quality and avoid significant problems down the road. Additionally, our team’s expert use of advanced technology, including Building Information Modeling, allows us to build your project virtually before we build it in the field, leading to fewer change orders and related budget/schedule impacts.
Our home inspection team includes General Contractors, Architects, Certified Inspectors, Structural Engineers and Home Efficiency Inspectors. Each member of our team has a minimum 10 years of experience. Our ongoing training program – twenty days per year – ensures that our inspectors always use the latest in property inspection tools and technologies. We use state-of-the-art infrared scanners, concrete scanners, leak detection devices, smokers, air testing units, cameras and efficiency software. We can accurately assess your home’s real condition and value within hours.
lowercase is a design firm led by Tae Kim, Alexei (Lyosha) Tcherepanov and Tom Newth. Formed as a design collective in 2008, the San Francisco studio works on projects centered around user driven product innovations and brand design. We specialize in outdoor, action sports, sports medicine and bike related product categories. Recent design collaborations and brand introductions include: Alite Designs, Boreas Gear, Chums of Japan, Eddie Bauer First Ascent, Jones Snowboards, K2 Sports and Timbuk2.
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Martha Rodriguez is a self taught, Chicana artist. Originally from San Jose, she has been a resident of San Francisco for many years. Martha has a degree in Social Welfare from U.C. Berkeley and worked in the field of Public Health at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s. She helped with researching the causes and effects of HIV during that time. When her son and daughter were born, she began to volunteer in their schools creating Chicano culture related art curriculum to share with the students. It was then that she began to explore her own art form making jewelry, crafts and painting. Always intrigued by color, cultures, creativity and lifestyles, Martha continues to create one of a kind jewelry with an emphasis on bright colors, beadwork and Dia de los Muertos / Frida Kahlo iconography. Her home accessories also highlight Latino icons with an assortment of crowns, crosses framed in shadow boxes. Martha’s paintings, also rich in color carry on the thread of Chicano themes and also explore the beauty of women’s powerful bodies as a more natural alternative to the gaunt images seen in fashion magazines. In life, Martha was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2010. As a cancer survivor, she lives each day enriched by the challenges she faces, every smile she receives and laugh she can share. She sees life as a myriad of bright colors she hopes to express in the artwork she creates.