Who Are We?
True North Compliance Services, Inc. is a full-service provider of Building, Fire, and Engineering services for public agencies. As a boutique firm with 70+ professionals across three offices, we combine personalized support with deep expertise.
Our team includes licensed Structural, Civil, MEP, and Fire Protection Engineers, along with ICC-certified Plan Reviewers, Inspectors, and Permit Technicians. We handle everything from plan reviews and inspections to permit processing—for projects ranging from single family homes to high-rises buildings and everything in between.
We focus on clear communication, practical solutions, and efficient service to help agencies minimize delays and maximize value. Our goal is to build lasting partnerships based on trust and responsiveness.
Isam Hasenin, MSCE, PE, CBO, founder and president of True North Compliance Services, Inc., brings over 30 years of experience as a customer-focused public agency administrator, licensed Civil Engineer, and Chief Building Official. With a strong background in both the public and private sectors, he previously served as Chief Building Official for the City of San Diego and the City and County of San Francisco. Isam has also held leadership roles on several boards and technical committees, including Vice Chair of the California Building Standards Commission and the International Accreditation Service (IAS), a subsidiary of the ICC.
True North is guided by its core values of professionalism, honesty, highest ethical standards, transparency, collaboration, communications, empathy and excellence in customer service delivery.
At True North, our philosophy is deeply rooted in a set of core values that guide every aspect of our work. We are committed to:
True North is committed to building long-term successful partnerships with our clients by taking the time to listen to our clients and coming up with the right solutions to meet their needs and expectations.
True North is a boutique firm focused on personal attentive service and excellence in the delivery of municipal services.
Personal, attentive service and excellence in the delivery of municpal services.
True North is a boutique firm focused on client needs rather than continued company growth and expansion. Focusing our team and resources on our clients and not.
Create a long term successful partnership with our clients through providing high quality service focused on the individual needs of each of our clients.
Our singular focus on our motto “personal attentive service and excellence in the delivery of our services” allowed us to become the go-to provider for most of our clients. The common denominator for our success serving our clients is the absolute focus on delivering high quality, responsive and timely services. We will partner with city staff, applicants and designers to come up with practical common-sense solutions to difficult code compliance challenges. Our team is available to handle questions and issues raised by City staff and/or the applicants throughout the day. Our managers are available around the clock to handle whatever needs our clients might have. We keep an open line of communications with staff and applicants to streamline and expedite the review and approval of projects being reviewed.
Our philosophy, guiding principles and commitment are centered around creating long-term successful partnerships with local municipalities and public agencies to serve their citizens and clients with the highest level of service.
Our motto is excellence in the delivery of municipal services. We take the time to listen to our client needs and challenges and then come up with creative, cost-effective solutions. We keep an on-going, open line of communications with agency staff and managers.
We fully understand and appreciate the fact that time is money for developers and owners and every day of delay means added costs of construction and potential loss of tax revenues for the city or costly delays in the delivery of capital improvement projects.
And finally, we are very mindful of the financial constraints and challenges on local municipalities and public agencies and the need to be cost-conscious.
ISAM HASENIN, MSCE, PE, CBO
The founder and president of True North Compliance Services, Inc., Isam Hasenin, has developed an impeccable reputation, over his 30 year career, as a forward-thinking customer services-centric public agency administrator, licensed Civil Engineer, Building Official and technical manager providing high quality responsive service to public agencies.
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Please contact us via form or phone numbers below. Thank you.
3355 E Spring Street # 302 Long Beach, CA 90806
8369 Vickers Street, Suite 207, San Diego, CA 92111
1336 N. Carolan Avenue, Suite 106 Burlingame, CA 94010
(562) 733-8030
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