William (Bill) Bruin is a 1993 UCSD graduate from Warren College. He is a registered Professional Engineer in six states and an ACOPNE Diplomate of Port Engineering with more than twenty-seven years of risk consulting, marine civil and structural engineering, as well as project management experience applied over a variety of industrial and waterfront projects. Mr. Bruin’s career has focused on condition assessment, response evaluation, risk identification, hazard mitigation, due-diligence assessment, asset management, as well as design for both new and existing structures. His responsibilities have included on-site reviews, condition assessments, analytical evaluations, risk and loss estimations, conceptual upgrade and mitigation designs, rehabilitation, construction document development, permitting support, as well as on-site supervision of design installations for a wide variety of onshore, near-shore, and offshore structures and facilities.
Mr. Bruin was selected to serve on two earthquake reconnaissance teams, travelling to disaster locations in Haiti (2010) with EERI and Japan (2011) with ASCE-COPRI to investigate the performance of marine and waterfront facilities. He also visited marine oil terminal sites impacted by tsunami and earthquake in Chile (2010).
Mr. Bruin is also an active member of the ASCE-COPRI Ports and Harbors Committee, the ASCE 61 Standards Committee (Seismic Design of Piers and Wharves), and the new ASCE Standards Committee for new pier and wharf design. He is a contributing author for the recently published ASCE-COPRI Manual of Practice for Waterfront Facility Inspection and Assessment (MOP 130). He also sits on a subcommittee developing the new ASCE-COPRI Manual of Practice for the Rehabilitation of Waterfront and Marine Structures. Bill also currently served as Planning Committee Chair for the ASCE-COPRI PORTS 2022 conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Located in harsh marine environments, coastal and waterfront developments require special considerations to ensure resilience over the project’s design life. Material selection, siting considerations, protective coatings, waterproofing detailing, and proper load understanding are all important considerations that require special attention by the design team for these unique projects. Near shore and waterfront structures are exposed to unique load conditions like wave, current, and tsunami. Operational loads are also different than those considered for traditional building structures, where vessel mooring and berthing, large gravity loads of transfer equipment or stacked containers, as well as large kinematic seismic loads often govern structural design and require special consideration by the engineer of record. With proper design, planning, and coordination, developments like ferry terminals, pier buildings, container wharves, and other near shore structures can create successful designs that incorporate innovative feature for success. This presentation will explore these best practices of increasing the resilience of waterfront structures through design.