Bramlette McClelland

Bramlette McClelland (born December 16, 1920 in Newnan , Georgia , † April 14, 2010 in Houston , Texas ) was an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).

McClelland grew up in Fayetteville ( Arkansas ) and studied civil engineering at the University of Arkansas ( Bachelor 1940) and at Purdue University ( Master’s degree 1942). He then went to Houston to work on the San Jacinto River Project. In 1946 he founded his own company, Greer and McClelland , which in 1955 became McClelland Engineers . The company had over 800 employees and branches in London , Singapore , Dubai , Jakarta and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s and specialized in particular in offshore foundations (drilling rigs), but was also very active in the Houston area, where many of them founded high-rise buildings were supervised, including the establishment of the Texas Commerce Tower ( JP Morgan Chase Tower). In 1991 he retired and lived on his ranch near New Waverly , Texas , in addition to Houston .

In 1972 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture ( Design of Deep Penetration Piles for Ocean Structures ). He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 1959 he received the James Laurie Prize from ASCE and in 1971 the State of the Art Award from ASCE. In 1986 and 1994 he received the Offshore Conference Distinguished Achievement Award . He was an honorary doctorate from Purdue University.

He was married and had five children.

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