Concrete placement at a downtown San Francisco high-rise — an SME inspection project

◆ Class A Inspector of Record · HCAI (formerly OSHPD) · California

The inspector hospitals trust.

SME Consulting is an independent inspection, project management, and construction consulting practice built on long partnerships with the owners it serves — not one-off engagements. Led by Shane G. Curran, one of California's senior Inspectors of Record, protecting the owner's interest from planning and design through commissioning and closeout.

Email about a project → See the project record License A20701 · 26 years in the field

A20701

Lead IOR · Class A License

1 of 324

Licensed IORs in California

26 yrs

In the field · 22 licensed

5,000+

CA facilities under HCAI

324^only

An Inspector of Record is not a formality. It is a life-safety signature.

California licenses roughly 324 Inspectors of Record to oversee its most regulated construction — the hospitals, laboratories, and public facilities where the inspection record is a legal document, not a checkbox. Shane Curran has held that license for 22 years.

The job is not to slow a project down. It is to keep it compliant, on schedule, and moving — a trusted advisor between owners, design teams, contractors, and regulators. Part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Depth in healthcare. Range across the built environment.

HCAI hospital compliance is the flagship credential — the same rigor carries across every highly-regulated sector SME works in.

01 · Flagship discipline

Healthcare & HCAI

Class A Inspector of Record for acute-care hospitals and HCAI (formerly OSHPD) facilities — where the inspection record is a legal, life-safety document, not a checkbox.

5,000+CA facilities under HCAI

22 yrsLicensed Class A

Life Sciences

Cleanroom, laboratory & pharmaceutical-grade construction.

Public Infrastructure

Bridges, civic works & essential-services facilities.

Education

DSA & campus facilities held to public standards.

Commercial

High-rise, tech campus & complex core-and-shell.

The project record.

Recognizable Bay Area builds Shane has personally inspected or led. The credibility is in the roster — not the brochure copy.

Currently serving as Lead IOR on an occupied acute-care campus.

181 Fremont, San Francisco — a project inspected by SME Consulting — **On the roster** 181 Fremont · San Francisco · High-rise tech campus

Marin Health Medical Center

Occupied acute-care campus · HCAI

Lead IOR
Active 2026

UCSF Medical Center

Academic acute-care campus

Healthcare · HCAI

Stanford / Lucile Packard Children's

Children's hospital expansion

Healthcare · HCAI

Genentech

Life-science / laboratory construction

Life Sciences

Facebook · 181 Fremont & Park Tower

High-rise tech campus, San Francisco

Commercial

San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge

Public infrastructure

Infrastructure

Providence Health

Healthcare facilities

Healthcare · HCAI

Private Estate · Atherton

$20M ground-up residence

Consulting · New 2026

Rooftop mechanical equipment inspection on a California healthcare project — Field inspection Rooftop mechanical equipment · California healthcare project

"An Inspector of Record should be more than a code expert. They should be a trusted advisor — someone who identifies solutions and keeps quality moving."

— Shane G. Curran · Lead IOR, SME Consulting

What SME provides.

Independent oversight and practical guidance — scoped to keep regulated projects compliant and on schedule.

HCAI Project Inspection

Class A Inspector of Record

Continuous inspection for HCAI (formerly OSHPD) healthcare construction — TIO / ACD / NMA documentation and the compliance record every phase of a hospital build requires.

Project & Construction Management

Owner-side representation

From schematic design through certificate of occupancy — constructability review, RFI management, and contractor coordination on mission-critical builds.

Factory Acceptance Testing

Witnessed verification

Testing and sign-off of critical equipment and assemblies before they reach the site — catching problems where they are cheapest to fix.

Consulting & Expert Witness

Legal & advisory

Retained as a technical expert in construction disputes, code-compliance matters, and depositions requiring senior IOR authority in California.

HCAI reference desk.

A working library for owners and teams navigating California healthcare-construction compliance. Useful, not promotional.

Field references, kept current

For owners · design teams · GCs

Reference

CODE References

Current California building and healthcare-facility code, indexed for quick field reference.

Open library →

Guidance

PINs & CANs

Program Instruction Notices and Code Application Notices — how access and interpretation actually get applied on HCAI projects.

Browse notices →

Standards

NFPA Access

Fire and life-safety standards relevant to occupied healthcare construction and phased renovation.

View standards →

Next step

Start a conversation about your project.

SME works by relationship and reputation. The fastest way in is a direct note about the project — Shane reads them himself.

Email about a project → or call 415 · 706 · 9655

Emailoshpdshane1@outlook.com

Direct415 · 706 · 9655

BasedSan Anselmo, CA

ServingSan Francisco Bay Area

LicenseA20701 · Class A IOR