2026-2027
SEAoNY Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 17, 2026
5:30 - 8:00 PM
Scandinavia House
Volvo Hall
58 Park Ave
New York, NY 10016
Join us as we kick off the 2026-2027 Membership year
and begin our 30th Anniversary Celebration!
This is a members only event. Registration is free for all SEAoNY members who have renewed for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. As a reminder, all SEAoNY memberships expire annually on August 31st.
SEAoNY will welcome the incoming Board of Directors, honor scholarship winners, and have a message from our 2026-2027 Honorary Member, Donald Friedman.
SEAoNY Annual Meeting Agenda
5:30 - 5:55 PM Registration and Social Reception
5:55 PM Opening Remarks – Anthony Piderit, P.E., S.E.
6:00 PM Committee Reports
7:25 PM Honorary Member - Donald Friedman
7:35 PM Scholarship Awards
7:40 PM Incoming President Closing Remarks – Andrea Shear, P.E.
7:45 PM Raffle Drawing & Giveaway
All members who register for the Annual Meeting before September 1st will be automatically entered to win a free registration to the SEAoNY Annual Conference in February!
Donald Friedman is president of Old Structures Engineering, PC, a structural engineering consulting firm for historic and old buildings, working for owners, preservation consultants, architects, contrac tors, and other engineers. A professional engineer with over 35 years experience in the investigation, analysis, and restoration of landmark buildings, Mr. Friedman holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.A. in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research, and is a licensed engineer in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Tech nology and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Mr. Friedman’s design experience includes the integration of modern construction into existing buildings with archaic and obsolete structural systems; repair and restoration of steel, masonry, iron, wood, and concrete structures; and the investigation of historic buildings to determine structural type and condition. Representative projects include investigation and repair design at Castle Clinton, the National Monument 1810 fort in New York; investigation and design of repairs to Belvedere Castle in Central Park; design of structural alterations and facade repairs at two 1920s factories in Brooklyn for conversion to Class A office space; facade analysis and design of repairs for the 1902 St Urban Apartments in New York; and frame analysis and repair design at the modern landmark First Presby terian Church of Stamford, Connecticut.
In addition to Mr. Friedman’s project work, he has taught engineering of historic buildings in the building conservation programs at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachu setts at Amherst, and Columbia University; he has spoken at numerous conferences on such topics as the structural analysis of masonry facades, and the failure of obsolete structural forms; he is the author of The Structure of Skyscrapers in America, 1871-1900, After 9-11: An Engineer’s Work at the World Trade Center, Historical Building Construction, and The Investigation of Buildings, and the co author of Building the Empire State and The Design of Renovations. Refereed papers include “Method ology of Conservation Engineering,” “Cast-Iron Columns in Renovation Design,” “Hidden Intricacies: The Development of Modern Building Skeletons,” and “Ambiguity in Building Investigation.”
If you have not yet renewed for 2026-2027, please renew your membership online by logging into your member profile. Membership dues will be collected on premises for all non-Member registrants. Renewing before the event will greatly help expedite check-in. Thank you!
Online registration will close at noon the day before (9/16).
By registering for this SEAoNY event, I give consent for my photograph to be taken or presence recorded and possibly used on the organization’s intranet, internet, newsletters, board reports, and other organizational materials as needed. I understand that I am not eligible for compensation for use of my photo and I may not be informed in advance of the specific use of those images.
