JEA, Inc.

A civil engineer drew our mark. His son pours the concrete.

Jess Esparza was an engineer, a planner and a surveyor. He drew the glyph that has been on this company’s letterhead ever since. Leo Esparza runs the construction company today.

Why the licence matters

Class A is not a credential. It is the scope.

A Class B general building contractor frames the house, and does it well. Placing a twelve-foot cantilevered retaining wall on a forty per cent slope, drilling caissons to bedrock, or underpinning a neighbour’s footing is general engineering work — a different licence, a different set of crews and a different kind of exposure.

That is the licence we have held since 1989, and it is the part of your job we take off your hands. On a Los Angeles hillside lot it is usually the part that decides whether the project pencils at all.

Los Angeles County’s expedited self-certification programme for fire rebuilds excludes hillside and liquefaction zones. Those lots stay on full review — which is where engineering fluency stops being a nicety.

Who you will be dealing with

Leo Esparza estimates the job, walks the site and runs the crews. When you call the number on this site you are talking to the person who will be standing on your dirt, not to an account manager.

JEA, Inc. · 6145 Mesa Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90042 · CSLB #568906, Class A General Engineering · continuously licensed since 1989 · open shop.

Send us the drawings.

Foundation plan, structural sheets and the geotechnical report. We answer the same day.