Eric J. Samaniego, PE

Associate

Eric Samaniego started with Severud Associates in 2013 and progressed to senior engineer four years later. In 2021, he advanced to associate. In more than a decade with the firm, Eric has acquired proficiency with many contemporary as well as historical structural systems, which he has used effectively on challenging renovation projects involving column removals and overbuilds. Eric has also engineered several high-end retail interiors and has extensive experience in the field.

Eric’s recently completed projects include The Commons at Tulane University in New Orleans, NYU Langone Health’s Science Building in Manhattan, and the Nike flagship store on Fifth Avenue, also in New York City. Other notable projects in his portfolio are offices and a parking garage for Verizon in Brooklyn, residential buildings in Manhattan, and the Rego Park branch of Queens Public Library.

Eric contributes to his colleagues, the structural engineering profession, and others as captain of the firm’s CANstruction charity competition and JPMorganChase Corporate Challenge teams.

Eric is licensed as a professional engineer in New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University at Albany, State University of New York and a Master of Science in civil engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in Brooklyn.