Bruce Harper Email & Phone Number

Bruce HarperBE (Hons) (James Cook University), PhD (James Cook University), FIEAust, CPEng, RPEQDr Bruce Harper is a specialist civil engineer with over 40 years experience in coastal, ocean and wind engineering, specialising in numerical and statistical modelling and natural hazards risk assessment. He has worked for University, State Government agencies, private consultants and was Chief Ocean Engineer for Woodside Energy during the late 1980s before forming his own company Systems Engineering Australia Pty Ltd (SEA) in 1996. He is a past Chairman of the Engineers Australia National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering and authored the Committee’s 2004 and 2012 Coastal Engineering Climate Change Guidelines document. He has also been a long standing member of the Standards Australia BD6 Wind Actions Sub-committee that oversees design wind speeds and wind loads on structures and has also been a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Bruce is an active member of the international tropical cyclone research community, respected for his work in better quantifying tropical cyclone risks and impacts. In Feb 2010 he joined GHD Pty Ltd in Brisbane as Principal Professional Environment and Risk and was appointed the global Service Line Leader for Climate Change in 2011. He returned to SEA in Feb 2014 to pursue his passion for the uptake of simulation approaches in science, engineering design and risk assessment. His plans include further development of the specialist storm tide prediction software SEAtide and other numerical and statistical modelling approaches to quantifying natural systems, including insurance-related risk assessment.

Listed skills include Numerical Analysis, Risk Assessment, Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, and 1 others.