Ben Moerman

Senior Structural Engineer
StructureCraft

Ben Moerman, P.Eng., M.Eng., PE, PhD, is a Senior Structural Engineer at StructureCraft, where he specializes in long-span timber structures, innovative lateral systems, and mid-rise mass-timber buildings. He currently leads the structural design of Bridge District Parcel 5, a 12-storey mass-timber residential tower in Washington, D.C., and the lateral design of Willow House, a 12-storey all-wood tower for Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver that deploys coupled CLT shear walls with steel energy dissipaters.

Ben earned his PhD in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Canterbury, where he conducted large-scale testing and nonlinear time-history analyses of high-capacity CLT shear walls to advance seismic design methods for mass-timber buildings.

With a focus on the bridging of research and practice, Ben applies performance-based seismic design to create architecturally expressive yet code-compliant timber structures. Architects, contractors, and researchers value his rigorous analysis and clear communication, qualities that drive efficient engineer-build delivery and resilient, low-carbon building solutions.