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2025 ULI Fall Meeting 2025 ULI Fall Meeting
, November 04 – 06, 2025
Panelist

Ms. Kelly Roberts

Managing Director / Principal 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.

Speaking at

Wed Oct 30 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Blossom ABC

Office Conversions and Building Systems: Value Add or Money Pit?

Understanding the value of an asset's building systems is critical for financiers and developers in managing project risks and setting expectations for conversion projects. With an increase in 'quick' assessment tools that qualify buildings at a high level (floor plates, amenities, aesthetics, etc.), owners don't really get the full picture unless they analyze the building systems that could comprise a significant percentage of the cost of the project. The panel will highlight experts in structural and MEP engineering to discuss unforeseen conditions hidden within existing building systems that limit the opportunity for conversion, or far worse – becoming money pits. Panelist will discuss the advantages of using building information models to help develop potential costs of building maintenance and future retrofits as well as carbon tracking. The team of experts will share past project information and how initial assessments of building systems would have aided in the success of recent conversions projects.