Our Mission
Allana Buick & Bers (ABBAE) assists building owners, architects, contractors, and the construction industry with making buildings perform better. ABBAE has a holistic approach to building performance by improving building longevity, mitigating risk of defects, and lowering operational expenses with sound building sciences. Our world-class professional staff specializes in building envelope systems, roofing, waterproofing, building forensics, mechanical systems, and testing.
Allana Buick & Bers’ core values are:
We work in accordance with:
Executive Leadership
Karim Allana, PE, RWC, RRC
Chief Executive Officer, Senior Principal
Eugene Buick, PE
Chief Operations Officer, Senior Principal
Gerson Bers, LEED AP
Vice President, Senior Principal
Leadership
Petersen Lambert, PE
Seattle Division Head, Principal
Joseph Higgins, PE
Hawaii Operations Manager, Principal
Jerome Jeffers II, RBEC, CCS, CCCA
Design Services Manager, Principal
John Kelleher
Chief Financial Officer, Principal
John Williams
North Carolina Division Manager, Principal
Grant Henry
Portland Division Manager
National Director of Testing Services
James Engler, CSI, AIA, SCIP, BESI
Senior Consultant, Associate Principal
Michael Johns
Senior Consultant, Associate Principal
Matt Dutrow
Senior Consultant, Associate Principal
Barbara Wong
Human Resources Director
Khatidja Khalfan, CPSM
Marketing Director
| 2018: | SWEIG – Best Firm to Work For Largest Minority-Owned Businesses, #10 |
| 2017: | Zweig Group Fast Growth Award ZweigWhite – Best Firm to Work For (#27) |
| 2016: | Silicon Valley Business Journal – 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies ZweigWhite – Best Firm to Work For (#25 in Multi-Discipline) |
| 2015: | Statewide Educational Wrap-Up Program Joint Powers Authority – Safety Recognition Award ZweigWhite – Best Firm to Work For ZweigWhite – Marketing Excellence |
| 2014: | Architectural Record Top 300 ENR California – Top Design Firm Pacific Business News – Hawaii’s Top Engineer Firm ZweigWhite – Best Firm to Work For |
| 2013: | CE News – Best Firm to Work For ENR Top 500 Design Firm Pacific Business News- Top Engineering Firm Silicon Valley Business Journal – Top Minority Owned Business Silicon Valley Business Journal – Top Engineering Firm |
| 2012: | Hawaii Best Places to Work Inc 5000 – Fastest Growing Firms |
| 2011: | Hawaii Best Places to Work Inc 5000 – Fastest Growing Firms |
| 2010: | CE News – Best Firm to Work For Hawaii Best Places to Work Hawaii Fastest 50 Firms Inc 5000 – Fastest Growing Firms RCI – Document Awards 1st Place ZweigWhite HotFirm – Fastest Growing |
| 2009: | CE News – Best Firm to Work For Hawaii Best Places to Work Hawaii Fastest 50 Firms RCI – Document Awards 3rd Place ZweigWhite Hot Firm – Fastest Growing |
| 2008: | CE News – Best Firm to Work For Hawaii Best Places to Work ZweigWhite Hot Firm – Fastest Growing |
| 2017: | Allana Buick & Bers opens twelfth office in Portland, Oregon. |
| 2017: | Allana Buick & Bers celebrates its 30 year anniversary. ABBAE is awarded “Best Firm to Work For” for the 9th year in a row. ABBAE achieves over 20% growth over the past 3 years. |
| 2016: | Allana Buick & Bers opens its eleventh office in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
| 2015: | Allana Buick & Bers opens its tenth office in Oakland, CA. The office is located in the heart of up-and-coming downtown Oakland and brings ABBAE closer to East Bay clients and job sites. |
| 2013: | Allana Buick & Bers promotes two of its employees to Associate Principal: Petersen Lambert of the Seattle office and Joseph Higgins in the Hawaii office. In addition, Allana Buick & Bers launches a new Construction Management division to complement its existing portfolio of construction services including: Construction Documents, Construction Administration, and Construction Monitoring. |
| 2012: | Allana Buick & Bers celebrates its 25th anniversary. A new branch office opens in Irvine, California. |
| 2009: | The firm continues to expand past one hundred (100) employees. A new branch office opens in Seattle, Washington. Additionally, the firm launches a new Energy and Solar Division in an effort to provide clients with energy efficiency and renewable/alternative energy consulting services. Jerome Jeffers is also promoted to the position of Associate Principal. |
| 2007: | The firm continues to expand past ninety (90) Employees. New office openings include a satellite branch on the Island of Maui, as well as Sacramento, California. |
| 2006: | The firm continues to see growth in staff expertise and client base in all offices. The firm moves its headquarters to a newly renovated 20,000 square foot office at 990 Commercial Street in Palo Alto, California. The new headquarters building was renovated specifically to accommodate our range of services. The new headquarters building has a large training facility and dedicated areas for accounting, IT facilities, and corporate marketing. The consulting staff is housed in an open studio with collaborative spaces and large personal work areas. |
| 2005: | Several milestones reached, including the firm doubling in size to more than forty employees and changing the name to Allana Buick & Bers, Inc. Our expertise expanded to include structural engineering and large-scale construction management. Additionally, ABBAE opens a third branch office in Los Angeles, California and a fourth branch office in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 2003: | Hawaii is the second branch office to open, and provides roof design and construction management services for a substantial hotel renovation in Waikiki. |
| 2002: | The firm’s expertise greatly expands, with Gerson Bers and Eugene Buick joining the firm as partners. The firm has approximately fourteen full-time employees and adds a new mechanical engineering consulting specialty. |
| 2001: | Our first branch office opens in San Diego. The San Diego staff provide consulting services to Southern California ABBAE clients. |
| 1994: | The firm changes its name from Roofing Services and Consultants to Allana-Lippert, Inc. in recognition of the comprehensive list of architectural engineering services offered to its clients. Demand for the firm’s expertise grew rapidly during the early “internet bubble”. |
| 1992: | Steve Lippert, our first chief architect, joins the firm and adds expertise in building code compliance, steel fabrication, and construction. |
| 1991: | The firm moves to a larger facility in San Jose, California to accommodate the rapidly growing staff. |
| 1989: | Gerson Bers joins the firm. The firm grew to a staff of six employees and offers expertise in building facility assessments and consultation for multiple building envelope systems. |
| 1987: | Allana Buick & Bers’ predecessor firm (Roofing Services and Consultants) was founded in Sunnyvale, California by Karim Allana. The firm provides roofing design services, quality control services, and roofing repair services. |
California
General Building Contractor (GBC): 1002553
Professional Engineer (PE): C 41693
Registered Architect (RA): C 12273
Nevada
General Building Contractor (GBC): 77289
Professional Engineer (PE): 15686
Registered Architect (RA): 6593
Hawaii
General Building Contractor (GBC): -32103
Professional Engineer (PE): – 11655
Registered Architect (RA): – 10853
Washington
Professional Engineer (PE): 47311
Registered Architect (RA): 8834
ABBAE offers seminars and training classes. All of these courses provide AIA Continuing Education Learning Units.