What Fong & Chan Architect does

Fong & Chan Architect (FCA) is a privately held architecture and planning firm founded in 1982 in San Francisco by David Fong and Chiu Lin Tse-Chan. The firm delivers a full range of professional services — architecture, interior design, planning, specialty consultation (building code, life safety, accessibility, seismic), sustainability, and construction management — across six primary verticals: healthcare, senior living, cultural/institutional, laboratories/research, education, and workplace/commercial. Its underlying technology stack centers on Building Information Modeling (BIM) augmented by specialized expertise in base-isolated foundation systems for seismic safety and LEED-certified sustainable design. Notable deliveries include the $889 million, LEED Gold-certified Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center, the M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, and the 1.5 million GSF First People's Hospital Shanghai.

FCA operates as a project-based professional services firm, generating revenue through design and planning fees quoted on the scope, complexity, and scale of each commission. The firm employs 11–50 staff and targets institutional and government clients (hospital systems, universities, cultural institutions, federal agencies) in the San Francisco Bay Area, with historical international engagement in Shanghai. Go-to-market is primarily enterprise field sales: competitive bidding, direct engagement with institutional decision-makers, and reputation-based referrals. The firm also pursues signature commissions through collaborative partnerships with world-class firms such as Herzog & de Meuron, where FCA often serves as prime architect. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; each project is custom-negotiated based on scope. The firm is privately held with no disclosed parent company, institutional investors, or equity events.

Name

Fong & Chan Architect

Legal name

Fong & Chan Architects

Website

https://fca-arch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fong & Chan Architect is a San Francisco-based architecture firm founded in 1982, delivering design, interior, planning, and sustainability services across healthcare, senior living, cultural, laboratory, education, and workplace sectors for institutional and government clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Healthcare facility design
• Interior design services
• Master planning services
• Construction management services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture Services: Full-range professional services in architecture, interior design, and planning for projects spanning healthcare, senior living, cultural, laboratory, education, and workplace sectors. Revenue is generated through project-based fees for design, master planning, and construction management services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fong & Chan Architects (FCA) is an international architecture and planning firm providing a full range of professional services in architecture, interior design, planning, specialty consultation, sustainability, and construction management for institutional clients. Projects span healthcare facilities, senior living communities, cultural institutions, research laboratories, education buildings, and commercial workplaces, with capabilities including Building Information Modeling (BIM) and base-isolated foundation design for seismic safety.

Product overview

Fong & Chan Architects is an architecture firm established in 1982 offering a unified portfolio of architectural services rather than a modular software platform. The firm provides five core service lines—Architecture, Interior Design, Planning, Specialty Consultation, and Sustainability Services—that collectively deliver projects across six major sectors: Healthcare (including the LEED Gold Zuckerberg SFGH Trauma Center), Senior Living, Cultural/Museums (including de Young Museum), Laboratories (including Stanford Medical Center), Education, and Workplace/Office. Services are delivered through collaborative design processes using Building Information Modeling (BIM), with projects ranging from $150 million first commissions to large-scale 1.5 million+ square foot international hospital campuses. The firm also provides Construction Management and Master Planning as integrated service offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• LEED Gold certification achieved for Zuckerberg SFGH - city's first seismically-isolated hospital
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NBBJ: NBBJ is a major architecture firm with significant healthcare and academic medical practice, designing hospitals and research facilities—directly comparable to FCA in healthcare project type, though at materially larger scale.
• HOK: HOK operates one of the largest healthcare architecture practices globally, designing acute care hospitals and medical campuses—directly comparable to FCA's healthcare practice on scale and complexity, including LEED-certified hospital delivery.
• Perkins&Will: Perkins&Will is a global architecture firm with a leading healthcare practice designing hospitals, trauma centers, and academic medical centers—directly comparable in client type, project scope, and regulatory/sustainability framing to FCA's marquee work.
• EwingCole: EwingCole is an architecture, engineering, and planning firm with a strong national healthcare, research, and higher-education practice—directly comparable to FCA's institutional mix and acute-care hospital project portfolio.
• CO Architects: CO Architects is a California-based architecture firm that has been one of the leading designers of academic medical centers and ambulatory care facilities on the West Coast—directly comparable in geography, healthcare specialization, and academic hospital client base to FCA.
• SmithGroup: SmithGroup is one of the largest US healthcare and institutional architecture practices, with deep expertise in academic medical centers, research facilities, and civic projects—directly comparable to FCA's healthcare and lab portfolio including seismic-ready hospital design.
• HDR Architecture: HDR's architecture practice focuses on healthcare, research, and institutional clients and is one of the leading US acute-care hospital designers—directly comparable in client base (hospital systems, VA, university medical centers) and project type to FCA.
• CannonDesign: CannonDesign is a national healthcare, science, and education architecture firm with major academic medical center and research lab credentials—directly comparable to FCA's healthcare-and-lab focus and California institutional client base.
• ZGF Architects: ZGF Architects is a national design firm specializing in healthcare, research, and civic architecture with deep expertise in academic medical centers and complex institutional projects—directly comparable to FCA's institutional and healthcare design focus.

Broad incumbents

• Stantec (Architecture): Stantec is a large global professional services firm with an architecture practice (which includes the legacy Anshen + Allen healthcare practice)—overlaps with FCA's healthcare and institutional design work as part of a much broader portfolio of services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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