James A. D’Aloisio is a Principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt, a structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building envelope services firm in East Syracuse, New York. Jim is chair of the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Climate Action Team, a former member and chair of the SEI's Sustainability Committee, and is on the steering committee of the SEI Thermal Bridging Task Committee. Jim' is a principal investigator for the Pankow Foundation-sponsored research project Thermal Break Strategies for Cladding Systems in Building Structures . He is a former Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's New York Upstate Chapter, a former USGBC National Board Member (2009), and is a trained member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
Jim is an Urban Green Council trained presenter on the New York State Energy Conservation Code, has written over 20 articles on the relationship between building structures and sustainability, and has presented over 200 times, including day-long seminars on structural building forensics, special inspections, and sustainability in the built environment. A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. D'Aloisio is a Registered Professional Engineer (New York and Massachusetts), Certified by the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB), and a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP).