SEAoNY: Structural Engineers Association of New York

09.21.10: SEAoNY Annual Meeting honors Richard Tomasetti, P.E.
Come join SEAoNY as we present this year's 2010 SEAoNY Honorary Member Award to Richard Tomasetti. SEAoNY will also have a message from the incoming and outgoing presidents as the Board of Directors changes hands, and of course, the annual SEAoNY Raffle - always stocked with great prizes.

Richard L. Tomasetti, P.E., Hon. AIA
Founding Principal, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
Chairman, Thornton Tomasetti Foundation

Richard Tomasetti’s 45 years of experience as a structural engineer includes numerous major projects from the design of the World Financial Center and Times Square Tower in New York to Plaza 66 in Shanghai, the tallest allconcrete building in China. His firm is the consulting structural engineer for some of the world’s tallest buildings, Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Taipei 101 in Taiwan; and currently under construction, Shanghai Tower in China and Incheon 151 Tower in South Korea. Recent projects in the New York City area include the New York Times Building, Yankee Stadium, and Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

Mr. Tomasetti received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and an honorary doctorate from Manhattan College and his master’s degree in civil engineering from New York University. He is a director of New York City’s Urban Assembly Schools and is a member of advisory boards to Manhattan College, Columbia University, Cooper Union, the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and the NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Active in the development of industry standards, Mr. Tomasetti has been a chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ committee on tall buildings; a member of New York City’s first Seismic Code advisory board; and a coauthor of Chapter 16 of the ASCE manual, “Quality in the Constructed Project,” which defined the responsibilities between the engineer of record and contractor’s engineer for development and review of shop drawings. He is currently a director of the New York Building Congress, a past chairman of the New York Building Foundation, and a member of SEAoNY.

Mr. Tomasetti was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 and was the first engineer to receive the AIA New York Chapter award in 2006. Other honors and awards include the New York Association of Consulting Engineers 2002 “Engineer of the Year Award,” Engineering News-Records citation “Those Who Made Marks” for developing the “stressed’ skin” tube structure for high-rise buildings, the Concrete Industry Board’s “Leader of Industry Award” in 1999 and Eugene M. Smith Technical Writing Award for “Novel Advantages of Composite Concrete” in 2006.

He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and an active author and lecturer. He has co-authored the book, “Exposed Structures in Building Design,” McGraw Hill, 1993 and Chapter 22: Protective Design of Structures in Building Security in the Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design, McGraw Hill, 2004. Mr. Tomasetti was the Fazlur Kahn Lecture Series speaker, “Engineering of Major Architecture, Then and Now” in 2008 at Lehigh University.

Registration is free for all SEAoNY members who have renewed for 2010-2011.

Please renew online by logging into your member profile at the upper right-hand side of this page after September 1st.Membership dues will be collected for all Non-Member registrants. Renewing before the event will help expedite check-in - thank you!

Registration: 6:00pm

The event will take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.

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