Recent Promotions at Severud

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Jack Gainey has been elevated to Senior Associate; Andrew J.  Aumiller, William Cheng, and Timothy N. Culligan have advanced to Associate; and Carlos E. Abreu, Edward E. DePaola, and Anastasia Shekhter have progressed to Senior Engineer. All of them have demonstrated a deep commitment to their profession and the firm.

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Steve Reichwein – Associate Principal

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Stephen Reichwein has been promoted to Associate Principal. Steve has demonstrated a deep commitment to his profession and the firm.

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Fortunato Orlando – Senior Associate Principal

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Fortunato Orlando has been promoted to Senior Associate Principal. Fortunato has demonstrated a deep commitment to his profession and the firm.

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Severud Promotions – February 2025

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Andrew Moss and Grace Yau have been elevated to Senior Associate and Alfredo Peña has progressed to Senior Engineer. All of them have demonstrated a deep commitment to their profession and the firm.

 

Senior Associate

Andrew Moss joined Severud Associates in 2012. His recent projects include the redevelopment of the 245 Park Avenue and One Madison Avenue office buildings and the 278 Eighth Avenue residential building, all in New York City. Andrew has extensive field experience, including on-site construction review of NYC’s One Vanderbilt Avenue, which he also helped design, and Local Law 126 parking garage inspections; he is also team leader for PANYNJ inspections at Newark Liberty International Airport. Andrew’s many other challenging projects include an addition to the P.S. 170 Ralph A. Fabrizio School in Brooklyn and redevelopment of Terminals C and D at LaGuardia Airport in Queens.

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Brian A. Falconer, PE Honored – September 13, 2023

When Brian Falconer first moved to New York City in 1990, he was full of dreams, ambition, and confidence. Having successfully completed his college education—first earning a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering from the University of Kansas in Lawrence and then a Master of Science in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin—Brian enthusiastically aspired to obtain every commission, design every building, and draw every detail. He set out to become the favorite engineer of every architect, owner, and professional and trade organization and to achieve, in short, every recognition possible.

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Edward M. DePaola, PE, M.ASCE, F.SEI Honored – June 9, 2023

Most people who have worked with Ed DePaola know that he has an affinity for structural engineering. It first manifested in grade school, with his fascination with buildings and bridges, and developed in college, along with his recognition of how critical computers could be. That led him in 1981 to the structural consulting firm now known as Severud Associates, where he rapidly progressed from junior engineer to President and CEO.

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John A. Paulson Center

March Madness is underway as people carefully update their brackets. And while most are focused on the NCAA Division I basketball games—the Big Dance—tournaments are almost complete in Divisions II and III. It was a good year for the New York University men’s team, who made it to the first round for the first time in seven years. The season was even better for the women’s squad; the Violets advanced as far as the Elite Eight.

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Severud Associates Promotions

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Gerry Lourentzatos, Rebecca Milano, and Daniel M. Presburger have been named Associate. All three have demonstrated a deep commitment to their profession and the firm.

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Severud Associates Promotions

The experienced and expert engineering staff at Severud Associates is our most important asset. Therefore, we are proud to announce that Matthew Peitz and Daniel Surrett have been named Associate Principal. Both have demonstrated a deep commitment to their profession and the firm.

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Severud’s Sustainable Concrete Design

More than a fifth of the way into the 21st century, it is hard to imagine a time when smart phones were not ubiquitous.  But in the late 1990s, these now-indispensable devices and their precursors, personal digital assistants, were relatively rare, in use mainly by early adopters and other technophiles.  For professionals in the building industry, it might also be difficult to recall that sustainable design and construction was once a new concept.  In 1998, the U.S. Green Building Council began evaluating 19 pilot projects in their nascent Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.  And yet today, LEED has reached its fourth iteration, with more than 100,000 certified buildings.  Severud Associates has contributed to the trend towards green building practices with almost 25 years of developing sustainable concrete design.

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