We started with a single truck, a set of Shelby tubes and a conviction that Southern California deserved a geotechnical firm that returned phone calls. That conviction still runs the practice.
Sable Canyon Geotechnical was founded in 2011 by Robert Ryan, a California-licensed Geotechnical Engineer with two decades of consulting on hillside and industrial projects across the Inland Empire. What began as a specialist practice serving a handful of custom-home builders has grown into a full-service firm supporting municipal, education and private-sector clients from Palm Desert to Long Beach.
We have kept the practice deliberately small. Every project is touched by a senior engineer, every field crew is trained in-house, and every deliverable is peer-reviewed before it leaves the building on Fincham Road.
Field data honestly collected, correctly reduced, and clearly explained. No shortcuts, no template-swaps, no ghost authors.
If your site has a problem, you will hear it plainly — with a path forward you can price and schedule.
The engineer who wrote your report is the engineer who returns your call three years later. That is rare, and it is deliberate.
Robert Ryan opens the practice with one drilling rig and three founding clients.
End-to-end control of sampling, testing and reporting cuts turnaround times in half.
Cone-penetration capability opens the door to liquefaction and deep-foundation studies.
Milestone report signed for a K–12 modernization program in San Bernardino County.
Six full-time field technicians now support continuous grading and pier observation contracts.
Founder & Principal Engineer
California GE #3184. Twenty-five years of hillside, industrial and public-works geotechnical practice across the Inland Empire.
Senior Project Engineer
Leads foundation and pavement design. Former Caltrans reviewer with 12 years in transportation geotechnics.
Field Operations Manager
Runs the drilling, CPT and observation crews. Author of our internal QC playbook.
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