SEAoNY Honors Donald Friedman with Honorary Membership

We1 are pleased to announce that the Structural Engineers Association of New York has made it official: Donald Friedman is now an Honorary Member. The award comes as SEAoNY celebrates its 30th anniversary—which is particularly appropriate since Don was one of the organization’s founding board members. In announcing the award, SEAoNY highlighted Don’s longstanding devotion to structural engineering and to SEAoNY, as well as his extensive research and writing on the structural engineering of existing and historic buildings. His books and articles have become essential resources for understanding New York’s existing building stock and the often-hidden structures behind it. For someone who was born in New York and has spent most of his career working on New York’s buildings, recognition from his fellow New York structural engineers is particularly meaningful. Don is already a Fellow of both the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) and the American Society of Civil Engineers…