SAM COOPER, P.E., CPEng., MIPENZ

Vice President

Sam Cooper is the Property Loss Consulting practice leader for the firm’s East U.S. region. With more than thirteen years in the design and construction industry, he has extensive experience in structural design, evaluation, risk assessment, forensic investigation, advanced analytics and remedial design for a variety of building types. Sam’s expertise has been put to use in several emergency response assignments: he has directed field operations for the firm’s responses to building collapses, earthquakes and hurricanes in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Rim. He has also conducted pre-loss analysis to help clients evaluate risk, mitigation and levels of insurance coverage.

Sam is a licensed professional engineer in New York and New Hampshire and a chartered professional engineer in New Zealand. He holds a bachelor’s degree with first class honours in civil engineering from the University of Auckland. He is an adjunct professor of engineering at the Institute of Design and Construction in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he teaches graduate courses in structural systems, structural technology and lateral loads.