Chris Cerino
STV/NCSEA
Christopher Cerino, P.E., F.SEI, is a vice president and the national technical director of structural engineering, urbanism + planning for STV’s Buildings Group. Chris has almost 30 years of experience, overseeing the design of large-scale, complex projects for transportation, educational, healthcare, commercial, and infrastructure sectors. He has managed the structural design of many major capital programs in the New York metropolitan area, including the new Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport. He has deep expertise in the design of high-performance flood-resisting structures to mitigate long-term damage and improve community resilience, and he has led flood mitigation efforts at major facilities including the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission in Newark and the Coney Island Yard rail complex in Brooklyn.
Following the events of Superstorm Sandy, Chris emerged as a leader in the performance design of urban infrastructure for enhanced community resilience. He is a contributing author for the American Society of Civil Engineer’s (ASCE) Manual of Practice 140, “Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management” and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Report GCR 23-037 “Resilience for Critical Facilities” and an advising practitioner on the Applied Technology Council (ATC) 149 “Coastal Inundation in Developed Regions.”
Chris is the President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), a past president of the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY), a Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE/SEI), former chair of the SEAoNY resilience committee, and a voting member of the ASCE 24-24 and ASCE 7-28 Flood Load Technical Committees.
Following the events of Superstorm Sandy, Chris emerged as a leader in the performance design of urban infrastructure for enhanced community resilience. He is a contributing author for the American Society of Civil Engineer’s (ASCE) Manual of Practice 140, “Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management” and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Report GCR 23-037 “Resilience for Critical Facilities” and an advising practitioner on the Applied Technology Council (ATC) 149 “Coastal Inundation in Developed Regions.”
Chris is the President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), a past president of the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY), a Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE/SEI), former chair of the SEAoNY resilience committee, and a voting member of the ASCE 24-24 and ASCE 7-28 Flood Load Technical Committees.