RWDI

Infobox Company
company_name = RWDI
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1972
location = Guelph, Ontario
key_people = Michael Soligo, President
industry = engineering consulting
num_employees = "ca." 350
homepage = [http://www.rwdi.com www.rwdi.com] Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a specialty consulting engineering firm. The RWDI group of companies has over 350 employees with offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India and the Middle East.

RWDI is a wind and environmental engineering consulting firm and has featured on numerous television documentaries. The firm's facilities include four boundary layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, MM5 computer models for simulationing atmospheric weather conditions and advanced computer modeling capabilities including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). RWDI also has in-house model shops at each of its wind tunnel facilities that use stereolithography technology, integrated data acquisition, storage and processing systems, computer-aided drafting, and a broad base of specialized instrumentation. The firm has worked on projects including the London Millennium Bridge, International Commerce Centre (Mega) Tower in Hong Kong, Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Freedom Tower on the WTC Site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Taipei 101 Tower - which is currently the world's tallest building - and the proposed mega-skyscraper Burj Dubai.

External links

* [http://www.rwdi.com/ RWDI's official website]
* [http://www.rwdi.com/florida_office RWDI new wind tunnel test facility in Florida, USA]
* [http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=4/22/2004 Discovery Channel Documentary]
* [http://www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/ceonline01/0112feat.html ASCE Paper about RWDI and Motioneering's role in the design of Taipei 101 and other projects]
* [http://www.structuremag.org/archives/2006/June-2006/F-Taipei-101-June-06.pdf Engineering Taipei 101]
* [http://enr.construction.com/projects/international/archives/031124a.asp Giant Damper Doubles as Building’s Interior Adornment]
* [http://www.structuremag.org/archives/2006/June-2006/SF-Wind-Engineering-Burj-Dubai-Tower-June-06.pdf The Burj Dubai Tower - Wind Engineering]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2006/id20060609_507158.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_great+spaces Canadian wind engineering specialists contribute to winning design for new Singapore casino]
* [http://www.aawe.org/aawe-grap/newsletters/Sept2002news/aawenews_sep02.pdf Wind Engineering for Milwaukee Art Museum]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2006-04-18-comforts-of-home_x.htm USAToday Article "All the comforts of home — or not"]
* [http://football.ballparks.com/NFL/HoustonTexans/index.htm Reference to RWDI's contribution to the design of the Reliant Stadium]
* [http://www.ballparkwatch.com/stadiums/new/philadelphia.htm Reference to RWDI's contribution to the design of the Citizens Bank Park Stadium, home of the Philadelphia Phillies]
* [http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-2index.htm NIST Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster - RWDI's contribution]
* [http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/highlights/2003/0306tacoma_e.html RWDI tests Tacoma Narrows Bridge models in NRC wind tunnel]
* [http://www.technopark.org/campusnote.htm RWDI open's its Asia Pacific research and development centre]
* [http://wgntv.trb.com/news/wgntv-news-050404windy,0,1035811.story Chicago's Windiest Corner]
* [http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_163170749.html CBS TV News interview with RWDI's Florida facility]
* [http://www.motioneering.ca/User/Doc/pp_comcast_center.pdf World's Largest TLCD in Philadelphia]