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Wind Engineering
Firm Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a specialty consulting engineering firm. The RWDI group of companies has over 275 employees with offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India and the Middle East.
RWDI is a wind engineering
and environmental engineering
consulting firm and has featured on numerous television documentaries involving wind engineering for the worlds tallest buildings and skyscrapers. The firm's facilities include four boundary layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, MM5 computer models for simulationing atmospheric weather conditions and advanced computer modeling capabilities including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). RWDI also has in-house model shops at each of its wind tunnel
facilities that use stereolithography technology, integrated data acquisition, storage and processing systems, computer-aided drafting, and a broad base of specialized instrumentation. The firm has conducted wind engineering
on projects including the London Millennium Bridge, International Commerce Centre
(Mega) Tower in Hong Kong, Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Freedom Tower
on the WTC Site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
, Taipei 101
Tower - which is currently the world's tallest building - and the proposed mega-skyscraper Burj Khalifa.
Wind engineering
Wind engineering analyzes effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind. In the field of structural engineering it includes strong winds, which may cause discomfort, as well as extreme winds, such as in...
Firm Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a specialty consulting engineering firm. The RWDI group of companies has over 275 employees with offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India and the Middle East.
RWDI is a wind engineering
Wind engineering
Wind engineering analyzes effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind. In the field of structural engineering it includes strong winds, which may cause discomfort, as well as extreme winds, such as in...
and environmental engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
consulting firm and has featured on numerous television documentaries involving wind engineering for the worlds tallest buildings and skyscrapers. The firm's facilities include four boundary layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, MM5 computer models for simulationing atmospheric weather conditions and advanced computer modeling capabilities including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). RWDI also has in-house model shops at each of its wind tunnel
Wind tunnel
A wind tunnel is a research tool used in aerodynamic research to study the effects of air moving past solid objects.-Theory of operation:Wind tunnels were first proposed as a means of studying vehicles in free flight...
facilities that use stereolithography technology, integrated data acquisition, storage and processing systems, computer-aided drafting, and a broad base of specialized instrumentation. The firm has conducted wind engineering
Wind engineering
Wind engineering analyzes effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits which may result from wind. In the field of structural engineering it includes strong winds, which may cause discomfort, as well as extreme winds, such as in...
on projects including the London Millennium Bridge, International Commerce Centre
International Commerce Centre
The International Commerce Centre is a 108 floor, skyscraper completed in 2010 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is a part of the Union Square project built on top of Kowloon Station. The development is owned and jointly developed by MTR Corporation Limited and Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong...
(Mega) Tower in Hong Kong, Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower
One World Trade Center , more simply known as 1 WTC and formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City...
on the WTC Site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges in the U.S. state of Washington, which carry State Route 16 across the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula...
, Taipei 101
Taipei 101
Taipei 101 , formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010...
Tower - which is currently the world's tallest building - and the proposed mega-skyscraper Burj Khalifa.
External links
- RWDI's official website
- RWDI new wind tunnel test facility in Florida, USA
- Discovery Channel Documentary
- ASCE Paper about RWDI and Motioneering's role in the design of Taipei 101 and other projects
- Engineering Taipei 101
- Giant Damper Doubles as Building’s Interior Adornment
- The Burj Dubai Tower - Wind Engineering
- Canadian wind engineering specialists contribute to winning design for new Singapore casino
- Wind Engineering for Milwaukee Art Museum
- USAToday Article "All the comforts of home — or not"
- Reference to RWDI's contribution to the design of the Reliant Stadium
- Reference to RWDI's contribution to the design of the Citizens Bank Park Stadium, home of the Philadelphia Phillies
- NIST Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster - RWDI's contribution
- RWDI tests Tacoma Narrows Bridge models in NRC wind tunnel
- RWDI open's its Asia Pacific research and development centre
- Chicago's Windiest Corner
- CBS TV News interview with RWDI's Florida facility
- World's Largest TLCD in Philadelphia