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 ...

The wind-induced response of structures has been a significant subject of engineering research over the past 40 years. Tall, slender buildings, chimneys, antenna towers, high-mast light standards, ...

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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gazelle Wind Power (Gazelle), the developer of a hybrid modular floating offshore wind platform, has received the results of its basin model tests at the Environmental ...

Norwegian start-up World Wide Wind's innovative design, which features two 'contra-rotating' rotors on a slimline tower-spar structure, is foreseen pushing the emerging technology's levelised cost of ...

Off the top of your head, how big do you think the biggest wind turbines are? A few dozen feet or meters? A hundred meters?

Most of the world's greatest wind power resources are offshore – often a long way offshore, where the water's so deep that it's impractical to build typical fan-on-a-stick wind turbines with bases ...