Rainier Square Tower, under construction in Seattle, is one of the buildings considered for the development of a performance-based wind design manual for tall buildings. Photo Courtesy of ...

Washington, D.C.—The American Wood Council recently introduced four new standards, which are referenced in the 2015 International Building Code (IBC). This includes the 2015 National Design ...

In a long-awaited, historic step toward “real" not cookbook wind engineering, the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently issued a recommended alternative ...

Norwegian industrial giant Hydro and compatriot next-generation offshore wind technology developer World Wide Wind (WWW) plan to explore using recycled aluminium to build a potentially revolutionary ...

Join our pv magazine webinar, in partnership with Soltec, for solutions to prepare against extreme wind loads, through an exploration of the aeroelastic effects in tracker design analysis, including ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. This antennae-looking turbine ...

Buildings with integrated wind turbines could generate at least 20 percent of their own energy needs, and perhaps all. They would be more power efficient than ordinary wind farms or solar powered ...

Many designers of utility scale wind turbines dismiss the idea of using turbines to capture energy from light breezes and in areas where there isn't a lot of wind. Their argument comes from Betz's law ...

• Gearboxes with high step-up ratios tend to give horizontal wind turbines poor efficiency when wind speeds are low. • One way to eliminate wind-turbine bird kills: Locate turbines far out at sea.

Renzo Piano’s Dragonfly Wind Turbine, with two blades, in partnership with ENEL Green Power, marries clean design to nature’s efficiencies. In Pisa, it also has been put to the proof to prove to all ...