Kelly Roberts

Kelly Roberts, PE, SE, LEED AP BD+C

Principal
Structures

Kelly is a Principal and the Managing Director of the Atlanta Structures group at Walter P Moore. She has 17 years of structural design experience ranging from educational, hospitality, and healthcare facilities to high-rise office and mixed-use towers. Kelly leads WPM’s Sustainable Design Community of Practice for the structures group; specializing in Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment and the use of sustainable and salvaged materials. She is a founding board member of the non-profit material reuse center, the Lifecycle Building Center of Greater Atlanta, where she currently serves as an Advisory Board member. 

Kelly is a Market Leadership Advisory Board member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Georgia and currently serves on the national USGBC Material and Resources Technical Advisory Group. She is a co-chair for the Atlanta Carbon Leadership Forum HUB, a past President of ACI Georgia, a Steering Committee member for the AIA Atlanta Committee on the Environment (COTE), and a member of the ACI 318 N Sustainability Committee. She is also the founding chair of the National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA) Sustainability Committee and an Advisory Council member of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Sustainability Committee’s SE 2050 task force. Kelly is a 2021 Building Design + Construction 40 under 40 winner and the 2022 Auburn University Outstanding Young Engineer. She was also named one of the 100 Most Influential Women by Engineering Georgia, a 2017 Design Futures Council (DFC) Emerging Leader, and a 2018 Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top Young Professional. 

Education 

B.S., Civil Engineering, Auburn University
M.S., Civil Engineering, Auburn University

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Why did you choose Walter P Moore?
I chose Walter P Moore because of the training, the people, and the projects. I felt and still feel that we have the best combination of all three.
If you weren't an engineer, what would you be?
I loved rocks growing up so maybe a geologist.
What inspired you to choose your current career path?
My father and his family are originally from Cuba where my grandfather was an architect. My grandfather had a huge passion for buildings and taught me a great appreciation for them at an early age.