Tony Rofail

Expert Peer Review Committee Member

Windtech Consultants, Principal | Sydney, Australia

About

Tony Rofail is a director at Windtech Consultants and has 30years’ of research and consultancy experience in wind engineering, his interest beginning during his undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney where he also completed a sponsored Masters of Engineering degree by research in 1991 on the subject of reliability of wind tunnel testing.

Tony assisted in the establishment of Windtech Consultants in 1991 and has since either undertook or supervised more than 2,500 wind engineering related studies for various types of projects around the world. These projects include super tall building structures as well as stadiums, long-span bridges and special structures. During that time, Tony has also assisted in the development of wind tunnel testing and analysis techniques for tall buildings with complex behaviour such as tall buildings with highly coupled modes and the effect of load transfer…

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Tony Rofail

CTBUH Designated Expert

CTBUH Roles

Expert Peer Review Committee, Member (2018 – Present)

Annual Conference, Presenter (Middle East 2018)

Working Group: Building Damping Technologies (2015 – 2018)

Videos

11 October 2011

Designing for Natural Ventilation in Tall Residential Buildings

This presentation presents the natural ventilation principles that are applicable to tall buildings as well as a number of case studies. These include strategic design...

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Research

16 September 2014

Innovative Designs for Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Buildings

Kevin Peddie & Tony Rofail, Windtech Consultants

Consideration of energy efficient design strategies has become one of the primary considerations by leading architectural firms during the conceptual design phases and is an...

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Research

10 October 2011

Designing for Natural Ventilation in Tall Residential Buildings

Kevin Peddie & Antonios Rofail, WINDTECH Consultants Pty Ltd

Natural Ventilation is an important part of achieving energy efficient design in many climate zones. This issue has surfaced recently with the increased awareness in...

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11 October 2011

Designing for Natural Ventilation in Tall Residential Buildings

This presentation presents the natural ventilation principles that are applicable to tall buildings as well as a number of case studies. These include strategic design...

16 September 2014

Innovative Designs for Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Buildings

Kevin Peddie & Tony Rofail, Windtech Consultants

Consideration of energy efficient design strategies has become one of the primary considerations by leading architectural firms during the conceptual design phases and is an...

10 October 2011

Designing for Natural Ventilation in Tall Residential Buildings

Kevin Peddie & Antonios Rofail, WINDTECH Consultants Pty Ltd

Natural Ventilation is an important part of achieving energy efficient design in many climate zones. This issue has surfaced recently with the increased awareness in...

03 March 2008

Developing Habitable Wind Environments

Tony Rofail, Windtech Consultants Pty Ltd.

This paper first discusses different comfort criteria for the assessment of wind environments and how they relate to field observations. The importance of the inclusion...