RWDI
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Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is an internationally recognized specialty consulting engineering firm. The RWDI group of companies has over 350 employees with offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India and the Middle East.
RWDI is one of the world's leading wind engineering consulting firms and has featured on numerous television documentaries. The firm's facilities include three boundary layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, 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 is best known for its work on high profile 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 Dubai.
Its sister company, Motioneering Inc., develops conceptual designs and undertakes the detailed design of special damping devices to suppress wind-induced vibrations. Its highest profile project to date is probably the 660 metric tons tuned mass damper located on the 88th floor of the Taipei 101 Tower.
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- RWDI's official website
- Motioneering's official website
- 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
