Principal - Director of Sustainable Design
Walter P Moore
Dirk Kestner is a Principal and the corporate Director of Sustainable Design for Walter P Moore, a 700+person structural and enclosure engineering firm. Dirk is a licensed Professional and Structural Engineer and is a LEED APBD+C. Dirk is a current board member of The Carbon Leadership Forum and a meber of SEI's SE 2050 leadership group. He was the founding chairman of the Sustainability Committee for The Structural Engineering Institute and served as an editor and coordinator of the committee’s book Sustainability Guidelines for the Structural Engineer. He was previously Chair of the LEED MR-TAG and served as a subject matter expert during the revisions to the WBLCA credit for LEED v4.1. He frequently speaks on the application of lower embodied carbon concrete mix designs and the use of WBLCA to optimize design. He holds degrees from Cornell University and The University of Texas at Austin where his graduate research studied the use of recycled aggregates in concrete mixes.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM