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Background

We were founded in June of 2002 by Ralph and Silvana Tavares, providing Design Services, Structural Design, Consulting and Project Management. Although our clients are from all facets of the Construction Industry, our interest and extensive experience working for and with several Modular Manufacturing Facilities throughout the United States has allowed our clientele in the Pre-Fab / Modular Industry continue to grow. We hold Professional Engineering Licenses in 43 States, Architectural Licensure in NY, and are currently doing most of our work designing and engineering Pre-fabricated buildings.

We firmly believe that the construction industry in the USA has grown stagnant, using the same construction techniques for the last 100 years. We as a Country can do much better by adopting the technology of Pre-engineered manufacturing construction and alternative, more sustainable construction systems. These type of methods are being utilized very efficiently within the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany and Japan.

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1590 W. Bernardo Court
Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92127

Contact any of us at our 
first name@rstavares.com
858 444 3344

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Ralph M. Tavares, PE
Principal 

Mariana Cardoso
Financial Controller

Manny Frisch, SE
Senior Associate

Anthony Gude
Staff Engineer

​Allen Ramirez, PE
Staff Engineer

Bestun Rashid
Staff Engineer

Macy La, PE
Staff Engineer

Jennifer Chung
Staff Engineer

Rizky Haim
Staff Engineer
Silvana Tavares, AIA
Principal

Pedro Tavares,
​Assoc. AIA
Project Manager

Richard M. Chiavetta, Assoc. AIA
Director of Design

Sarah Coletta
Designer

Cesar Garcia
Designer
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Mariana Marques
Designer

Roberta Antunes
Designer
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Chad Conrad, AIA
Senior Associatec

Press

  • Ralph Tavares awarded MBI's 2012 Outstanding Achievement
    MBI's Outstanding Achievement Award< is given each year to one individual in honor of his or her exemplary contribution and service to the commercial modular buildings industry. We are honored to have been presented this prestigious award.Read the announcement here (HTML)
  • R&S Tavares: Pushing the Envelope on Design
    Construction Leaders Today decided to do a piece on some of our experiences. Read it Here (HTML)
  • RST Engineered Floating Structure
    Kama-EEBS panels were chosen for the world's first Floating Building, engineered by us. Read the press release here: Here (PDF)
  • Naval Reactor Case Study
    Read our case study on the Naval Reactor facility project we did in conjuction with Modtech and Satellite Shelters. Here (PDF)
  • WIRED Livinghome in WIRED Magazine
    R&S Tavares engineered WIRED Livinghome by Livinghomes and WIRED Magazine. Here (HTML)
  • Marmol-Radziner Desert House in DWELL Magazine
    Article on RST-Engineered prototype pre-fab house for Marmol Radziner Designers. Here (HTML)
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