James A. D’Aloisio, P.E., SECB, LEED AP, BD&C, is a Principal with Klepper, Hahn & Hyatt, a 30-person structural engineering, landscape architecture, and building envelope service firm based in East Syracuse, New York. He is a 1982 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council’s New York Upstate Chapter, Chair of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Thermal Steel Bridging Task Committee, and on the Steering Committee of the SEI Sustainability Committee, where he heads the Thermal Bridging Working Group. His areas of expertise include structural condition reviews, failure analysis, infrared building inspections, and sustainable design. He has written dozens of papers, and presented over 100 times, on the relationship between building structures and sustainability.