James A. (Jim) D’Aloisio is a practicing structural engineer with over 25 years’ experience in building design, rehabilitation, condition reviews, failure investigations, and analysis. He is a Principal and Secretary-Treasurer with Klepper, Hahn and Hyatt, a 39-person structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building science firm located in East Syracuse, NY. A 1982 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. D’Aloisio is a Registered Professional Engineer, Certified by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB), a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP), and a Dynamic Governance facilitator.
Jim is on the National Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council, representing the Upper Northeast Regional Council. Active in the New York Upstate Chapter of the USGBC since its inception, he is currently on the Chapter’s Advisory Board and its Program Committee. Jim is also a member of the Sustainability Committee of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute. He has presented on sustainability topics dozens of times to building design professionals and to a variety of other groups. Publications include “Ten Tenets of Structural Sustainability” published in Structural Engineer magazine in 2007.
Jim’s professional passion is advancing sustainable structural concepts, such as the use of Structural Insulated Panels, Insulated Concrete Forms, frost-protected shallow foundations, material use efficiency, reduction of Portland cement in concrete, and the coordination of building structures with insulation and air barrier systems in building envelopes. He has been involved in several LEED Registered and LEED Certified projects, including facilitation of LEED charrettes.
