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KPFF Consulting Engineers

Overview
Buildings

About

Member Since: 2026

Member Offices: Los Angeles

KPFF was founded in 1960 by Al Kelly in Seattle, Washington. Since that time, the firm has grown in both size and stature. Their unique history has led them to establish a culture that focuses their energy and passion on their clients, projects, and staff. Today, KPFF Consulting Engineers provides a wide variety of engineering services to the design and construction industry. Services which are provided include structural engineering, civil engineering, construction management, project management, surveying and a variety of specialty engineering services. Their engineers work on all types of building and non-building projects, in many geographic locations throughout the United States and overseas. Their significant broad-based experience provides them with the ability to solve the most difficult and challenging problems.

Fields of Expertise

Engineering - Other; Project Management; Site Design; Structural Design; Urban Planning

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK	Name	City	Completion	Height	Floors	Function
1	1201 Third Avenue Tower	Seattle	1988	235 m / 772 ft	55	Office
2	Wells Fargo Center	Seattle	1983	175 m / 574 ft	47	Office
3	Park Avenue West	Portland	2016	164 m / 537 ft	30	Residential / Office
4	1000 Second Avenue	Seattle	1986	150 m / 493 ft	40	Office
5	7th & Market	San Diego	-	144 m / 473 ft	39	Hotel / Residential / Office / Retail
6	Nexus	Seattle	2020	135 m / 442 ft	41	Residential
7	The 8 Tower	Seattle	2023	132 m / 434 ft	42	Residential
8	500 West Jefferson	Louisville	1971	128 m / 420 ft	30	Office
9	One Lincoln Park	Denver	2009	114 m / 374 ft	32	Residential
10	Fox Tower	Portland	2000	113 m / 372 ft	27	Office

RANK	Name	City	Completion	Height	Floors	Function
1	1201 Third Avenue Tower	Seattle	1988	235 m / 772 ft	55	Office
2	Wells Fargo Center	Seattle	1983	175 m / 574 ft	47	Office
3	Park Avenue West	Portland	2016	164 m / 537 ft	30	Residential / Office
4	1000 Second Avenue	Seattle	1986	150 m / 493 ft	40	Office
5	7th & Market	San Diego	-	144 m / 473 ft	39	Hotel / Residential / Office / Retail
6	Nexus	Seattle	2020	135 m / 442 ft	41	Residential
7	The 8 Tower	Seattle	2023	132 m / 434 ft	42	Residential
8	500 West Jefferson	Louisville	1971	128 m / 420 ft	30	Office
9	One Lincoln Park	Denver	2009	114 m / 374 ft	32	Residential
10	Fox Tower	Portland	2000	113 m / 372 ft	27	Office
11	Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building	Portland	2013	110 m / 361 ft	18	Office
12	Kaye	Seattle	2025	106 m / 348 ft Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 31 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 9,870 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.	31	Residential
13	Fourth & Blanchard Building	Seattle	1979	105 m / 344 ft	25	Office
14	Skyglass	Seattle	2023	104 m / 342 ft	32	Residential
15	Kaleidoscope Tower	Abu Dhabi	2014	104 m / 341 ft	24	Residential / Retail
16	The John Ross Tower	Portland	2007	99 m / 325 ft	32	Residential
17	Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse	Portland	1997	97 m / 318 ft	16	Government
18	Second & Seneca Building	Seattle	1991	96 m / 315 ft	22	Office
19	8th and Main Tower	Boise	2014	96 m / 315 ft	18	Office
20	Tower at OPOP	St. Louis	2010	95 m / 312 ft	25	Residential
21	OneU	Seattle	-	89 m / 291 ft	26	Residential
22	Metropolitan Park East	Seattle	1988	85 m / 279 ft	20	Office
23	Twelve West	Portland	2009	83 m / 273 ft	17	Residential / Office
24	Metropolitan Park West	Seattle	1980	79 m / 259 ft	18	Office
25	Aster Tower	Portland	2015	76 m / 250 ft	21	Residential
26	King Street Station Tower	Seattle	1906	75 m / 247 ft	N/A	Belltower
27	400 Westlake	Seattle	2023	67 m / 220 ft	16	Office
28	5 MLK	Portland	2020	65 m / 213 ft	17	Residential / Office
29	Federal Reserve Building	Seattle	2020	54 m / 177 ft	11	Office
30	PPA 30 Parcel 2.05 Office Tower	Riyadh	2022	48 m / 157 ft	9	Office / Retail
31	Framework	Portland	-	45 m / 148 ft	12	Residential / Office
32	Julia West House	Portland	2025	45 m / 146 ft	12	Residential
33	PPA 30 Parcel 2.05 Residential Tower	Riyadh	2022	40 m / 131 ft	8	Residential / Retail
34	Carbon12	Portland	2018	29 m / 95 ft	8	Residential
35	PAE Living Building	Portland	-	23 m / 75 ft	5	Office / Retail

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