Lea & Braze Engineering

A confused, irresponsible and deceitful surveyors. Must have made a dozen mistakes in my survey and then charged me for fixing their own issues. Told me that the architect had asked them for things, but there was no architect on our project. If I could give them –1 I would not hesitate. Use others, on the peninsula rather than this team.

Lea & Braze came highly recommended to us by another engineering firm — always a good place to start.
We needed their expertise for a topographic survey and other related items for a mutual water company water tank replacement. So, not your run-​of-​the-​mill project.
They completed the surveys — all within schedule, interfaced with other specialty engineers and (most important to my blood pressure) assisted us with navigating the daunting County permit approval process.
I found their work to be top quality, their people extremely responsive and their fees reasonable. In particular, I really appreciated how helpful Peter Carlino was. Here is a person who will go above and beyond for the client and this client certainly appreciates it.

Not sure why we originally chose this company to help us out with a large home addition, but once we got started with them, we were kind of stuck. We have been extremely unsatisfied with the lack of responsiveness of several of their top-​level engineers, who have refused to answer both e-​mails and phone calls, but are very quick to send us over-​inflated bills for work that they refuse to itemize. Most recently, they dragged their feet on a city-​required analysis that would allow us to obtain our landscape permit. One engineer had previously approved the work, but a 2^nd engineer in the same company then changed his mind and said additional work needed to be done. Even so, the additional evaluation and approval should have taken no more than a few billable hours to complete, yet they managed to soak us for thousands more, and greatly delayed our ability to move into the house. Since then, we have learned that there are much more responsive, reasonable engineers in this area, so think twice before considering using Lea & Braze for your project.