Julie Pietrzak

Julie Pietrzak, the Sustainability & Resilience practice leader at Thornton Tomasetti, heads a diverse team of architects, engineers, scientists, and advocates dedicated to integrating sustainability and resilience into the built environment. The team addresses key areas such as energy efficiency and decarbonization, water conservation and management, circular economy and healthy materials, as well as climate adaptation. Their work spans all scales of climate action, from policy guidance, to community-wide master planning, to the design and construction of individual buildings and critical infrastructure.

As a licensed civil engineer, Julie brings expertise in climate risk and resilience assessments and large-scale stormwater management. She focuses on identifying vulnerabilities to climate hazards throughout a project’s lifespan and collaborates with clients to develop sustainable, resilient strategies that ensure business continuity after hazardous events. Julie has contributed to the design of multiple large-scale water resource and land development projects and has consulted on flood resilience strategies for building owners and transportation agencies, including New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston.