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Legal Status of AAWE

The American Association for Wind Engineering is a corporation and is incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado. Because it is required that the corporation have an address in the State of Colorado, the firm of Cermak, Peterka and Petersen located at 1415 Blue Spruce Drive, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524 have kindly served as the address of record and registered agent for the Corporation.

A copy of the Colorado Certificate of Incorporation can be viewed by clicking the underlined CERTIFICATE below:

CERTIFICATE

AAWE is also a non-profit corporation but this designation is assigned by the Internal Revenue Service. The non-profit designation has recently been updated and the official name on record changed from the Wind Engineering Research Council to the American Association for Wind Engineering. A copy of the letter can be viewed by clicking on the word LETTER below:

LETTER

 

Current News

The 15th AWES Workshop will be in Sydney next year. A wind load handbook and seminar will be part of the event.

The ASCE Technical Council on Wind Engineering has generated this brief White Paper on future wind-engineering research needs.

Call for papers. In the 20th anniversary year (2012) of Hurricane Andrew ATC and ASCE will host this event in Miami.

The Cyclone Testing Station at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, has issued this report on a major cyclone in early 2011.