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Richard Keating, Founder, Keating Khang / Jacobs, Pasadena
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Sustainable Strategies for High-Rise Buildings
Russell Gilchrist, Practice Leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago |
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High rise buildings present opportunities for passive and active sustainable strategies that are not so readily available to their less tall counterparts. This presentation demonstrates through Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s current project work how such strategies can be integrated into buildings to offset energy demand from the grid and promote high quality work and living environments. Projects discussed include Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China and Digital Media City in Seoul, South Korea.
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New CTBUH Guidelines for Wind Tunnel Testing of Tall Buildings
Peter Irwin, Chairman, RWDI, Canada
Graeme Wood, Director, CPP, Australia |
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Wind tunnel testing is a critical part of the design of tall buildings. This situation has highlighted the need for a guideline that helps the non-specialist to gain an understanding of the impacts of wind on tall buildings, the methods used in wind tunnel testing, and the methods used to make full scale predictions based on the wind tunnel data and historical meteorological data. The guideline also needs to lay out standard common formats for data presentation to ease comparisons between results from different wind tunnel testing institutions. The first draft of this new CTBUH guideline was described.
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Aerodynamic Fundamentals of Large Scale Building-integrated Wind Turbines
Volker Buttgereit, Managing Director, BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd, London |
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This presentation gives an introduction to the rather complex aerodynamic interaction between wind turbines and building external envelope and presents the analysis techniques necessary to robustly and comprehensively assess the aerodynamic performance of building-integrated wind turbines (BIWTs). It discusses the merits of commercially available wind turbine technology and explores innovative strategies for integrating large-scale wind turbines into the building envelope. In particular, this technical paper reviews possible innovative approaches in which engineering benefit can be derived beyond basic wind yield returns of these devices.
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