Rutherford & Chekene is a structural and geotechnical engineering

Geotechnical engineering

Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. Geotechnical engineering is important in civil engineering, but is also used by military, mining, petroleum, or any other engineering concerned with construction on or in the ground...

 firm in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 specializing in new design and retrofit of structures for clients in healthcare, higher education, research and development, art and education, and technology.

Rutherford & Chekene began implementing 3-D modeling to produce building information models (BIM)

Building Information Modeling

Building information modeling is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle.BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented , that carry their geometry, relations and attributes...

 in 2005. Because of the remarkable results of this technology, R&C has now developed more than $3 billion in construction using BIM created with Revit

Revit

Autodesk Revit Architecture often referred to as simply Revit is a Building Information Modeling software developed by Autodesk. It allows the user to design with both parametric 3D modeling and 2D drafting elements...

 and other software.

Notable projects

• UC Merced Science and Engineering Building 2, Merced
• New Exploratorium, San Francisco
• Designing for Wind Loads on Solar Arrays, California
• De Young Museum
  M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
  The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, commonly called simply the de Young Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H...
  
  , San Francisco
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
  Monterey Bay Aquarium
  The Monterey Bay Aquarium is located on the former site of a sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey, California. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 separate named species on display...
  
  , Monterey
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is a not-for-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was founded in 1987 by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard fame...
  
  , Moss Landing
• Renovation and expansion of the UC Santa Cruz McHenry Library
  McHenry Library
  The McHenry Library is the arts, humanities, and social sciences library of the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was named after the founding chancellor of the university, Dean E. McHenry...
  
  , Santa Cruz
• Genentech Hall, QB3, and hospital at the UCSF Mission Bay
  Mission Bay, San Francisco, California
  Mission Bay is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.-Location:Mission Bay is roughly bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate 280 on the west.-History:It was created in 1998 by the...
  
  campus
• Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville