Sir Alan James Harris CBE[1] (8 July 1916 – 26 December 2000) was a British civil and structural engineer.
[3] From 1940 to 1946 Harris served with the Royal Engineers as an officer in a Port Construction and Repair Company, landing at Port-en-Bessin in Normandy on D-Day + 1.
[4][3][5] He was officer in command of diving on Mulberry B at Arromanches, working from a small fleet of French fishing boats, as a result of which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.
Later, they expanded their work to infrastructure projects and had branches in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Harris & Sutherland was acquired by Babtie, Shaw and Morton in 1997,[6] and since 2004 has been part of Jacobs Engineering.