J. Benjamin Alper, PE

Associate Principal

Ben Alper joined Severud Associates in 2005 as an engineer. As he gained experience and technical expertise, he steadily progressed upward through the ranks and, in 2020, was promoted to associate principal. Throughout his career, Ben has taken on increasingly challenging projects and expanded his knowledge of structural systems, including the use of specialized materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers. Ben has played an important role on many noteworthy projects such as the TSX Broadway and Palace Theater redevelopment in Manhattan, the Terminal 6 redevelopment at JFK International Airport in Queens, and the education and cultural arts building for the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. His other notable projects include the Beacon Theater restoration in New York City, renovation of the LA Forum in Inglewood, California, and the Gateway Transit Village mixed-use development in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Outside of the office, Ben serves the structural engineering community as a voting member of the American Society of Civil Engineering committee ASCE 7-22 Minimum Design Loads and an associate member of its Seismic Loads subcommittee. He is also a member of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Publications Committee and the NYC Buildings Structural Technical Committee and is active with the Structural Engineers Association of New York, where he is a past director.

Ben is co-author of several magazine articles, including “TSX: Magic on Broadway in Times Square,” which appeared in Structure in February 2023, “Cold and Hot Weather Concrete,” which appeared in Structure in September 2017 and “Power of the Ring,” about the renovation of the LA Forum, which appeared in Structure in March 2015.

Ben is licensed as a structural engineer in California and Nevada and as a professional engineer in New York and five other states. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Engineering in civil engineering from The Cooper Union.