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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: B.L. Engineering, Inc. archive
Creator:
B.L. Engineering, Inc
Identifier/Call Number: 0504
Physical Description:
39.25 Linear Feet
42 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1969-1998
Abstract: The B.L. Engineering Inc. archive contains the papers of the civil engineering firm B.L. Engineering, Inc., including contracts,
project files, financial records, plans and drawings. The firm, founded in 1969 and owned by the Cuban American Carlos Sebastian
Lorente, worked on projects throughout Los Angeles and the region.
Language of Material:
English.
B.L. Engineering, Inc., was founded in 1969 by Carlos Sebastian Lorente (owner), and partners Thomas Buenafe and Walter Gregory.
The firm was a civil engineering consulting firm that did work for a number of architectural firms, engineers and government
agencies. In the 1970s, the firm did a significant amount of work for the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) of the City
of Los Angeles. Many of their projects were for educational institutions, but they also consulted on the construction of
churches, bus maintenance facilities, and civic centers. The firm was dissolved after the death of Lorente in 1993.
Collection contains the archives of the civil engineering firm B.L. Engineering, Inc. These files include project files,
project specifications and standards, financial records, correspondence, bills, and contracts. Also included in this collection
are 32 boxes with oversized technical drawings and plans of many of the firm's projects.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Donated to the Boeckmann Center by USC alumna Yolanda Lorente between 1995 and 2011.
[Box/folder# or item name], B.L. Engineering Inc. collection, Collection no. 0504, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin
American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
The files in this collection retain their original titles but have been rehoused and rearranged.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Civil engineering -- California -- Archival resources
Cuban American business enterprises -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Industrial management -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources
Minority-owned engineering firms -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Regional planning -- California, Southern -- Archival resources
B.L. Engineering, Inc -- Archives
Lorente, Carlos S. (Carlos Sebastian)
Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles