James Leiper is a project leader and industry-leading advocate for sustainability and innovation.
Achieving Chartered Professional status after only 4 years in the industry, Mr Leiper has gone on to become a GBCA Green Star Accredited Professional, recognised Life Cycle Design Analysis user, Infrastructure Sustainability Council Accredited Professional, and chair of FutureNet WA. He has also been recognised by Engineers Australia as the 2017 WA Young Professional of the Year.
With strong experience in reinforced concrete, steelwork, timber and masonry structures as well as the design of steel and concrete structures under blast loading, he has completed many projects requiring complex design solution for a broad range of structural engineering projects, including large scale industrial, resource and commercial developments.
As a keen advocate for sustainability and innovation in design, Mr Leiper released a paper entitled “Adaptive Re-Use Through Vertical Extension”. This paper was developed in response to recognising the huge environmental and economic value in adaptively re-using existing building stock in Western Australia, rather than demolishing and re-building in its place.
Mr Leiper is an active member of the Suburban Lions Hockey Club and often participates in The UWA Civil Society's events, in addition to having mentored UWA Masters of Engineering students through a weekly tutoring role in the Civil Engineering Design Project unit.
