Principal Thoughts

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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Sphere

Sphere, the next-generation entertainment venue located on Sands Avenue east of the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, officially opened at the end of September.  A 516-ft-diameter semi-spherical building rising 366 ft above ground, Sphere encloses a bowl-shaped theater for 17,600 guests, seated beneath a domed roof and suspended media plane.  Severud Associates has been involved as the structural engineer of Sphere—since the project’s inception—and the venue is now the largest spherical structure in the world.

 

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Brian A. Falconer, PE

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

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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Sustainable Concrete

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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