Salerno/Livingston Architects in downtown San Diego's Bankers Hill district brings mid-rise and high-rise residential expertise to Fifth Avenue, combining new-construction architectural design with structural restoration services and forensic investigation for multistory buildings. The firm's forensic-architecture practice — providing expert-witness testimony and court-appointed neutral analysis on construction-defect cases — shares the Bankers Hill institutional corridor with Augustine Design Group, both serving clients who require detailed envelope-failure assessment and code-compliance documentation. Restoration services address concrete spalling, waterproofing-membrane failure, and seismic-retrofit requirements on mid-rise residential towers, producing construction documents that specify repair sequencing to minimize tenant displacement during occupied-building rehabilitation. General-contractor coordination for high-rise restoration scopes connects Salerno/Livingston's structural assessment reports to builders such as HESD Contractors San Diego, where phased construction access plans govern swing-stage and scaffolding logistics on occupied facades. The firm's most technically demanding engagements involve full-envelope forensic investigations on aging high-rise residential towers, integrating destructive and non-destructive testing, moisture-intrusion mapping, and structural-capacity analysis into litigation-ready documentation packages.