As a part of weekly live technical discussion series, we had very interactive session for estimation of wind force for low rise structures. In the session of 1-Nov-20, we will focus our discussion on Tall buildings.
Wind forces & associated response of Tall buildings is much important not only for design of building but also from the point of view of acceleration & human comfort, surrounding wind flow pattern changes, glazings & facade design, pedestrian level comfort etc. Dynamic response evaluation is critical & particularly across wind response for tall slender buildings. Interference among buildings when they exist in a cluster are still not fully well understood and documented. Hence, our session on 1st November will be dedicated to Tall buildings.
Er. Dr. Abhay Gupta will join with us in the live stream as a guest expert. He has obtained his BE(Civil) in 1981 & subsequently ME(Structures) from SGSITS Indore; and Ph.D. from University of Roorkee, Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) in the area of “Aerodynamic Interference in Tall Rectangular Buildings: Wind Tunnel Studies” in 1996. He has more than 35 years of experience in the field of Civil Engineering construction and Structural design. Dr. Abhay Gupta is one of the Directors of Skeleton Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Noida. Dr. Gupta has also worked as Principal consultant for establishment of Wind tunnel facility at Guna MP.
TONY ROFAIL – DIRECTOR, WINDTECH
Mr. Tony Rofail will also join the live stream as a guest expert. Tony has been the principal consultant at Windtech since 1991 where he has carried out or supervised wind engineering services for over 2,500 major projects around the world, including numerous landmark projects. This includes the study of structural wind loads and cladding pressures on large structures, wind environment and air quality studies, wind-noise, natural ventilation design and modelling, sustainable design as well as product development for aerodynamic performance.
Facilitator : Bhavin Shah, Founder & CEO – SQVe Consultants
Our all live sessions are streamed at the following link (Every Sunday at 11:00am IST) :
https://youtube.com/c/StructuralEngineering/Live
In the comment box, please share your questions / areas which you would like to get covered in the session pertaining to tall buildings.