At the time he won the Bulla competition he was working as part of 'Robertson and Climie, Architects and Civil Engineers', at 13 Bourke Street West.
[7] while other Tasmanian projects included the Table Cape lighthouse[8] and the survey for the tramway from Strahan, Macquarie Harbour, to the Tin Mines at Mount Heemskirk.
[9] He also advertised for tenders for construction of several buildings, including a parsonage in Tasmania, and in 1870 (soon after the completion of the Bulla bridge), for a hotel and store at Sunbury for William Winter.
His brother Daniel Climie, also an engineer, arrived in Melbourne as the Agent for Fairlie Locomotives, and lobbied and pamphleted for narrow gauge railways.
Daniel moved to New Zealand, where he was received with some suspicion, perhaps because he took a high-level position as city engineer for the town of Wellington from a local candidate.