Stephen Reichwein, PE

Associate Principal

Steve Reichwein joined Severud Associates in 2009 as an engineer after interning with the firm the summer before. He progressed to senior engineer in 2013, advanced to associate shortly thereafter, and was elevated to senior associate in 2020. Steve was promoted to associate principal in 2024. Steve’s background in architectural engineering along with his design experience has enabled him to engineer his clients’ visions effectively, regardless of their complexity. Steve is a leader of the firm’s parametric and algorithmic design team, a group whose analyses inform critical engineering decisions for major projects. These include the immersive entertainment venue Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 20 Times Square and Madison Square Garden V–The Transformation, both in New York, to which Steve made significant contributions. His other challenging projects include the TSX Broadway and Palace Theater redevelopment, the high-rise office building One Vanderbilt Avenue, and the new East 97th Street campus of the Marymount School of New York, all in Manhattan.

Steve represents the structural engineering profession within the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) as Treasurer and a past member of the Board of Directors, past co-chair of the Programs Committee, and past member of the Codes and Standards Committee. Steve also serves the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as a member of the Optimal Structural Design and Flood Resistant Design and Construction Committees; he is a past member of the ASCE 7-22 Wind Loads Subcommittee. Steve is a past member of the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB) Credentialing Committee. In 2024, Steve was named one of the year’s “40 Under 40” by Building Design+Construction.

Steve is co-author of “Steel Sphere,” which appeared in Modern Steel Construction in September 2023; “Evolutionary Optimization,” which appeared in Modern Steel Construction in December 2021, and “Computational Embrace,” which appeared in Structure in October 2021, both about parametric and algorithmic design. He also co-authored “Times Square’s New Addition,” about his work on the 20 Times Square development in Manhattan, which appeared in Structure in March 2018, and “Growing the Garden,” which detailed the Madison Square Garden renovation project and appeared in Modern Steel Construction in July 2015.

Steve is licensed as a structural engineer in Nevada and as a professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Missouri, and the District of Columbia. He was certified by SECB until the program’s sunset in 2022. He earned a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering and a Master of Architectural Engineering, both from Pennsylvania State University.