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Julian Parsley

Partner, Buro Happold
Julian Parsley is a Partner in Buro Happold’s West Coast business, where he leads teams of consultants and engineers to deliver sustainability and decarbonization across buildings and portfolios. A licensed mechanical engineer with 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. His recent work includes 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. Other notable projects include the Anaheim ARTIC Terminal which uses ETFE to reduce embodied carbon and energy consumption; campus sustainable design guidelines for the University of Southern California; energy lead on the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Resilience framework; Energy consulting and EV Charger deployment for the City of Long Beach; and consultation with the City of Los Angeles on their building performance standards and embodied carbon policy development.