J. Benjamin Alper, PE, SE (CA, NV)

Managing Principal

Ben Alper joined Severud Associates in 2005 as an engineer, steadily progressed upward through the ranks, and in 2026 became a principal of the firm. Throughout his career, Ben has excelled with increasingly challenging projects and has expanded his structural knowledge with specialized systems such as fiber-reinforced polymers and multi-strand post-tensioning. Ben played an important role on many noteworthy projects such as the TSX Broadway and Palace Theater redevelopment in Manhattan, the Terminal 6 redevelopment at JFK International Airport in Queens, and the education and cultural arts building for the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. His other notable projects include the Beacon Theater restoration in New York City, renovation of the LA Forum in Inglewood, California, and the Gateway Transit Village mixed-use development in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Outside of the office, Ben serves the structural engineering community as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering committee ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads main committee and its seismic loads subcommittee. He is also a member of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Publications Committee and the NYC Buildings Structural Technical Committee and is active with the Structural Engineers Association of New York, where he is a past director.

Ben regularly presents topics of structural engineering interest at conferences and seminars in New York City, across the country, and international locations, as well as online via webinars and podcasts. He is also author or co-author of several magazine articles.

Ben is licensed as a structural engineer in California and Nevada and as a professional engineer in New York and nine other states. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Engineering in civil engineering from The Cooper Union.

Principal Thoughts

“TSX Broadway:  Structural Engineers Transform Times Square,” October 30, 2024.

Selected Webinars and Podcasts

“TSX Broadway: Raising History in Times Square,” STO Building Group, February 15, 2023.

“Transforming Times Square” (TSX Broadway), The Zweig Letter, July 20, 2023.

“Building Lifting | TSX Broadway in Times Square,” ARCAT (also YouTube), November 10, 2023.

“EA542: Bill Mandara, Joseph Levi and Ben Alper – How to relocate an iconic 100 year old theatre to the third floor (TSX Broadway),” EntreArchitect, December 2023.

“Forensic / Renovation / Retrofit / Rehabilitation Structures > $20 Million: TSX Broadway and Palace Theater Redevelopment,” NCSEA Structural Engineering Excellence Awards (SEE) Webinar Series, May 2024, with Cawsie Jijina.

Selected Magazine Articles

“TSX:  Magic on Broadway in Times Square” (TSX Broadway), Structure, February 2023, with Cawsie Jijina.

“Cold and Hot Weather Concrete” (ACI Standards), Structure, September 2017, with Cawsie Jijina.

“Power of the Ring” (LA Forum) Structure, March 2015, with Cawsie Jijina.