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Structural Engineers Association of New York

THE HONORARY MEMBER

The Honorary Member is a distinction given by the SEAoNY Board of Directors to individuals deemed to have contributed outstanding service to the profession of Structural Engineering and to the SEAoNY organization.

2024 - 2025 HONORARY MEMBER


Robert K. Otani, PE LEED AP  is Chief Technology Officer at Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., a 1700+ person multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm, and founded the CORE studio, an applications development, advanced computational modeling, and R&D group at his firm. Robert serves as the Advisory Committee for Thornton Tomasetti’s firm wide Research and Development program. He has extensive structural design and project management experience involving commercial, infrastructure, institutional, cultural and residential structures. Over his 25-year career, he has worked on a wide variety of complex projects, including high rise buildings, long-span roof structures, sports arenas, airport terminals, major building structural renovations, complex art projects totaling over $2 billion USD of construction. He has served as President of the Structural Engineers Association of New York in 2007 and has been a professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture from 2008-2018 and Columbia GSAPP from 2009-2015.     

PAST DISTINGUISHED HONOREES

2023 - 2024 Brian Falconer Severud

2022 - 2023 Tim Lynch Thornton Tomasetti

2021- 2022 Thomas Z. Scarangello Thornton Tomasetti

2020- 2021 Robert Murray, PE Murray Engineering 

2019-2020  Vicki Arbitrio, PE Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP

2018-2019  Guy Nordenson, PE Guy Nordenson and Associates

2017-2018    Joe Tortorella, PE Silman

2016-2017    William S. Phelan, PE Euclid Chemical Company

2014-2015    Ahmad Rahimian, PhD, PE, SE, F.ASCE WSP

2013-2014    Aine Brazil, PE Thornton Tomasetti

2012-2013    Ramon Gilsanz. PE Gilsanz Murray Steficek, LLP

2011-2012      Robert LiMandri, PE Vidras

2010-2011      Richard Tomasetti, PE Thornton Tomasetti

2009-2010      Ed DePaola, PE Severud Associates Consulting Engineers, PC

2008-2009      Charles Thornton, PE Charles H. Thornton & Company, LLC

2007-2008      Vincent J. DeSimone, PE DeSimone Consulting Engineers

2006-2007      Robert Silman, PE Silman

2005-2006      Jacob Grossman, PE Rosenwasser / Grossman Consulting Engineers, PC

2003-2004      Matthys Levy, PE Weidlinger Associates 

2002-2003      Dan Eschenasy, PE New York City Department of Buildings

2001-2002      Irwin Cantor, PEIrwin G. Cantor PE

2000 -2001    Robert Rosenwasser, PE Rossenwasser / Grossman Consulting Engineers, PC

1999-2000      Leslie Robertson, PhD, PE, CE, SE, D.Sc, D.Eng, NAE, Dist. M.ASCE, AIJ, JSCA, AGIR Leslie E. Robertson and Associates


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