Bruce Taylor
Engineers Australia - Queensland Division Past President 1994
TAYLOR, Bruce
EDUCATION and Awards
BE(Civil) Hons, Monash University, Melbourne, 1972
CAREER
Bruce was born in Melbourne, and graduated B.E.(Hons) as a Civil Engineer from Monash University, Melbourne, 1972. From 1972 – 1979. Structural Engineer with Cameron McNamara & Partners Pty Ltd based in their Brisbane Office working primarily as part of the design team on the design of the Merivale Cross-River Rail Bridge approach viaducts; then as a site engineer during construction.
In 1979 he joined with Ian Edmiston to create the partnership Edmiston & Taylor which provides civil and structural consulting engineering services primarily within Queensland with its head office in Brisbane. After Ian’s retirement in 1989 Bruce and wife Noeleen continued Edmiston & Taylor as a family-owned business; which it remains at the time of writing. Edmiston & Taylor has had offices at various times in Maryborough, Samford and Cairns. Projects include port and harbour works, industrial and commercial low-rise buildings, remote community infrastructure improvements, residential and rural subdivisions, residential buildings, dams and pipeline designs.
Over that period the firm has been awarded for Engineering Excellence by Queensland Division and by the then ACEA. Bruce continues to work as sole Director of Edmiston & Taylor. He was a Queensland Division Committee member prior to his Queensland Division Presidency in 1994.
Presidents Highlights 1994
Through the period of his presidency and either side of that time, the existing engineering registration system in Queensland was under direct challenge from some within the Queensland Government and was not widely accepted interstate. A lot of effort over many years and by a lot of people, was put into demonstrating the benefits of the registration system in Queensland and at the same time promoting the adoption of similar systems in other states and the possible involvement of the Institution of Engineers, Australia on a national basis.
Bruce finds it very pleasing to look back on the advances that have been made in acceptance of the benefits of engineering registration in Queensland and other states and in particular the creation of the National Engineers Register.
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Biography supplied by Bruce Taylor 2025
