With its striking orange hue and majestic pillars standing tall, the Golden Gate Bridge is a sight to behold. The bridge is an iconic landmark in San Francisco and it will continue to remain so, thanks to Jax Kneppers Associates (JKA). Its involvement in the Golden Gate Bridge's seismic retrofitting project has been instrumental in helping safeguard the bridge against earthquakes. JKA's distinct strength as a construction consultancy firm stems from its experience and involvement in challenging projects in its California home base - a region prone to soil erosion and seismic activity. New constructions and forensic engineering are JKA's main businesses. Under the first segment, JKA works with developers in carrying out end-to-end architectural and engineering services. The second segment focuses on evaluating construction failures to provide clients with detailed analysis on what went wrong with a particular project. "Our two main businesses are synergistic," JKA and Imfuna president Jax Kneppers says. "We've investigated thousands of buildings in the course of our 30-year history. Our extensive experience has provided great insights when it comes to constructing new buildings. We learn from the past to give way to better innovations." JKA's commitment to innovation has led Kneppers to establish another company anchored on using the latest technology. The company, Imfuna, specialises in streamlining workflow and increasing productivity for the building and real estate industries through mobile-to-web applications. Imfuna clients claim that Let, one of the applications on Imfuna's platform, saves them 75 to 95 per cent of the time it takes to collect and manage data with the previous method of using digital cameras and word processor. Imfuna has launched its services in the United States, Britain and South Africa and has identified Hong Kong as its launching pad in Asia. "Hong Kong is a great entry point to test the ground, and if it works from that centre, we can expand geographically in Asia," Kneppers says. Jax Kneppers Associates and Imfuna www.jaxkneppers.com and www.imfuna.com