Advanced and Robust Analysis of Wind Effects
Advanced and Robust Analysis of Wind Effects
Windtech Consultants were featured in a recent article by www.sourceable.net on the role of wind tunnel testing for pedestrian comfort.
The full article can be found in the following link:
https://sourceable.net/wind-tunnels-can-help-ensure-pedestrian-comfort/
The article features a recent project undertaken by Windtech for a tower development in Melbourne.
The project The Sovereign Square Project at 545 Station Street is located on a small hill in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburb of Box Hill.
Windtech Consultants worked closely with the Buchan Group in Melbourne to virtually reshape the podium of this significant and exposed tower development to ameliorate its impact at street level, without significantly impacting the architecture.
We are pleased to announce that Windtech’s Head office in Sydney was selected this month among 4 finalists for the NSW Export Awards. At about the same time, Windtech Consultants was also selected as a finalist for the Master Builders Association Export Awards. These awards are a testament to Windtech’s enviable reputation around the world, which was built on decades of research and development to enable us to deliver the most advanced instrumentation and analysis techniques for the study of wind effects on large structures. This combined with our high level of service makes us an obvious choice when there is a need to carry out a wind tunnel study to measure the wind effects on tall buildings and large structures.
Over the past couple of years the number of skyscrapers being built in Australia and New Zealand have comfortably doubled. Today’s most ambitious designs are bigger, taller and because of that they need to deal with the wind environment a mile or so above ground. The latest building designs also seem to be thinner in an effort to save space but the thinner the building is the more efficiently it has to deal with strong gusts of wind without affecting the people inside. This is why it becomes important for designs or concepts to be put through a thorough wind tunnel test to test every aspect of its durability.
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At Wind Tech we use the load response correlation which was originally devised by Dr Michael Kasperski and Dr John Holmes to study wind loads on today’s long span roof structures. This is a state of the art approach used to study the overall effect that wind has on structures like these. Projects like the Nanjing Stadium which was the center of attraction at the China Games of 2005 was investigated by Wind Tech to ensure that it could bear the required wind loads. For more dynamic structures, Windtech can also determine the effect of the resonant response.
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Skyscrapers have become the most common structures in big cities like Melbourne and Sydney. Some of the largest skyscrapers work as landmarks with larger ones being planned over the next few years. However, cities like Sydney are known to be windy even at particularly calm days down below. High rise constriction workers will tell you that the wind above even during summer can be chilly and very powerful, so it’s obvious that the wind effects the building too. However, as engineers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible the effect of wind on a structure becomes more important which is why wind tunnel testing is so crucial.
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