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AAWE Objectives

• Stimulate research efforts in wind engineering to build a knowledge base for wind hazard mitigation
• Promote the exchange of information among researchers and practitioners
• Assess and prioritize leading-edge research in wind engineering
• Provide advice to governmental agencies and other interested parties on wind research efforts and needs
• Maintain communication with similar organizations in other countries and international organizations
• Develop and execute plans for learning from future windstorms and hurricanes by gathering post-disaster data and analyzing and disseminating information

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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.

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