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Two Opening Positions in Wind Engineering at AIR Worldwide, Boston Office

AIR Worldwide (AIR), a Verisk business, provides risk modeling solutions that make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to extreme events. In 1987, AIR Worldwide founded the catastrophe modeling industry and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber attacks, globally. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate, and government clients rely on … Continued

Opportunity For Assistant / Associate Professor In The Area Of Wind Engineering

Applications are invited for an exceptional candidate in the area of WindEngineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. The appointment is expected to be effective January 1, 2022or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful applicant will receive a Probationary (tenure-track) appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor … Continued

President’s Corner: Upcoming Wind-Related Workshops and Seminars For Early 2021

Dear AAWE Community: There are several interesting online wind-related workshops and seminars in the near future. Roundtable on 2020 Midwest Derecho Organized by THWARTS and AAWE Thursday April 29th from 11-12:30PM Eastern Time The topic of the discussion is the 2020 Midwest Derecho with an emphasis on the vulnerability of metal grain bins. The moderator … Continued

May 2021 Workshop With University of Florida NSF NHERI

Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Simulation of Transient and Non‐synoptic Wind Events This one-day user workshop will first present the transient and non-synoptic flow simulation capabilities of the boundary layer wind tunnel at the University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility, enabled by the new Flow Field Modulator (FFM). University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility … Continued

Online event in memory of Prof. Giovanni Solari

The Research Group in Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics of the University of Genoa, is organizing an online event in memory of our Dear Professor Giovanni Solari on April 19, 2021, at 2 pm (Italian time), (8AM EDT) 5 months after his death. The meeting is not of a scientific nature and will only include personal … Continued

AAWE Awards for 2020-2021

The American Association for Wind Engineering is pleased to announce the following awards that will be presented at the AAWE Workshop 2021. These awards are typically given at the America’s Conference, which has been delayed until 2022. Richard Marshall Award Description The Richard Marshall Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering from a distinguished AAWE … Continued

Final 2020/21 International Wind Engineering Seminars

Don’t miss the final two seminars in a series announced by Chris Baker of the University of Birmingham. Purpose Because of the Covid19 pandemic, opportunities for the international wind engineering community to meet physically have been very much restricted and are likely to remain so for at least the next year. To enable the community … Continued

6th AAWE Workshop & Call for Abstracts

The 6th AAWE Workshop is May 12-14 2021, hosted online by Clemson University, and focused on providing graduate students and early career engineers with an opportunity to present their work in progress and discuss it with the wind engineering community. 6th AAWE Workshop May 7: Final day for registration April 16: Full program published May … Continued

University of Birmingham / IAWE seminar: Wind loading code developments

The fifth in the series of international seminars organised by the University of Birmingham and sponsored by the IAWE, will take place on Thursday 11th February at 12.00 noon UK time. The seminar is entitled “Wind loading code developments”. The programme will be as follows. Main Speaker Svend Ole Hansen, Svend Ole Hansen ApS, Eurocode … Continued

University of Birmingham / IAWE seminar: Developments in Bridge Aerodynamics

The fourth in the series of international seminars organized by the University of Birmingham and sponsored by the IAWE, will take place on Thursday 7th January at 12.00 noon UK time. The seminar is entitled “Developments in Bridge Aerodynamics”. The programme will be as follows.   Main Speaker Prof John Owen, School of Engineering, University … Continued