Chris Huxley

Chris is a Senior Principal Engineer for BMT (the developers of TUFLOW) with over 20 years’ experience in the field of flood and stormwater modelling and floodplain management. He is currently part of the leadership team for TUFLOW hydraulic modelling software. Chris has lectured in hydraulic modelling at Central Queensland University (2018–2022) and served as Chair of the Hydraulics Scientific Committee for Engineers Australia’s Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium in 2022.

Before joining TUFLOW, Chris led numerous flood risk and stormwater management studies across Queensland, New South Wales, and California. His consulting work spanned infrastructure design, flood mitigation, land-use planning, and emergency response, helping communities and governments make informed decisions about resilience and safety.

Involved in:

• Flood Simulation Optimisation and Cloud Computing (December 2025)
• Whole of system simulation of catchment water quality treatment devices (April 2025)
• Applications of groundwater modelling in TUFLOW (December 2024)
• Improving SWMM Modelling with GIS Tools (August 2024)
• How to benchmark your hydraulic solver (March 2024)
• TUFLOW: Flood modelling 101
• Real-time flood forecasting (November 2023)
• Integrated catchment and receiving water modelling (October 2023)
• Flood modelling quality control (October 2022)
• Urban pipe network modelling (February 2022)
• Maximising the Accuracy of Hydraulic Models (June 2021)
• Hydraulic model calibration to historical events (April 2021)