Kelly Roberts, P.E., S.E.


Principal and Managing Director, Walter P Moore

Kelly Roberts, P.E., S.E., LEED AP BD+C is a Principal and Managing Director of the Atlanta Structures Group at Walter P Moore. She has 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; specializing in Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment.  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 currently serves on the national USGBC Materials & Resources Technical Advisory Group.  She is the founding chair of the NCSEA Sustainability Committee and an Advisory Council member of the SEI Sustainability Committee’s SE 2050 task force.  She is a co-chair for the Atlanta Carbon Leadership Forum HUB, a Past-President of ACI Georgia, a Steering Committee member for AIA Atlanta COTE, and a member of the ACI 318 N Sustainability Committee.  Kelly is a 2021 Building Design + Construction 40 under 40 winner and the 2022 Auburn University Outstanding Young Engineer.  She was also named as one of the 100 Most Influential Women by Engineering Georgia Magazine, a 2017 Design Futures Council Emerging Leader and an ENR Magazine Top Young Professional.