Haselton Baker Risk Group, Creators of SP3
Civil EngineeringCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
Haselton Baker Risk Group, based in Chico, California, was founded by Jack Baker and Curt Haselton after more than a decade of collaboration on research to advance structural engineering. The firm focuses on enabling engineers to rapidly integrate advanced design and assessment methods into practice, with the aim of improving the resilience of buildings and the communities they serve. Its flagship offering, the Seismic Performance Prediction Platform, implements established performance-based design and risk assessment approaches to support both new design work and detailed building-specific evaluations. Servicing professionals in civil engineering, the company positions itself within the structural engineering sector as a provider of practical tools that translate research into usable in-office workflows. The organization is relatively small in size and operates from Chico, California, reflecting its niche focus on specialized engineering analysis and design methods. A notable development is its release of SP3 in December 2014, which encapsulates years of research into a user-friendly platform for performance-based design.