Director of Sustainable Design, Walter P Moore
Dirk Kestner provides overall guidance and resourcing to the entire firm, ensuring that all designs incorporate industry-leading expertise in sustainable strategies. His project work, teaching, and coaching throughout the firm and broad-reaching influence in the industry help maintain Walter P Moore’s status as a national leader in sustainable approaches and outcomes. Trained and experienced as a structural engineer, He applies his immense passion for environmental accountability in design to elevate the knowledge and expertise of all those around him, creating better results for clients and projects.
He was the founding chair of the Sustainability Committee of the ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute(SEI) and is widely acknowledged as a national thought leader in the advancement of sustainable structural solutions. He is a professional engineer in Texas and Georgia and is a LEED Accredited Professional/Building Design + Construction. Dirk holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
