Julian Parsley
Julian Parsley is a Partner in Buro Happold’s West Coast business, where he leads teams of consultants and engineers to deliver sustainability and climate action across buildings, masterplans and portfolios. A licensed mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience, Julian has delivered complex projects with ambitious goals across a range of sectors and scales. This work spans from individual high-performance buildings to sustainable master planning and strategic consultancy in portfolio climate action planning and decarbonization.
Energy & resilience work includes roles as the energy lead on the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Resilience work; leading an energy resilience program assessment for Palo Alto Utility; advising on energy and carbon related matters for the OurCounty Sustainability Plan; and energy lead for physical master planning efforts for the LA County General Hospital. Other notable strategy and planning projects include campus sustainable design guidelines for the University of Southern California; policy development with the City of Los Angeles on their Building Performance Standard; and leadership of our Circular Economy Study and Economic Development Analysis for the County of San Diego.
Other notable engineering projects include the Anaheim ARTIC Terminal which uses ETFE to reduce embodied carbon and energy consumption; the groundbreaking net zero energy Santa Monica City Hall East project – a $60M all-electric net zero public building that has achieved the Living Building Challenge Ready certification; and LACMA’s recently opened David Geffen Galleries.
Energy & resilience work includes roles as the energy lead on the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Resilience work; leading an energy resilience program assessment for Palo Alto Utility; advising on energy and carbon related matters for the OurCounty Sustainability Plan; and energy lead for physical master planning efforts for the LA County General Hospital. Other notable strategy and planning projects include campus sustainable design guidelines for the University of Southern California; policy development with the City of Los Angeles on their Building Performance Standard; and leadership of our Circular Economy Study and Economic Development Analysis for the County of San Diego.
Other notable engineering projects include the Anaheim ARTIC Terminal which uses ETFE to reduce embodied carbon and energy consumption; the groundbreaking net zero energy Santa Monica City Hall East project – a $60M all-electric net zero public building that has achieved the Living Building Challenge Ready certification; and LACMA’s recently opened David Geffen Galleries.