Sixth European and African Conference on Wind Engineering Robinson Cambridge, th July 13 th July Final report

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1 Sixth European and African Conference on Wind Engineering Robinson Cambridge, th July 13 th July Final report 1. Introduction This report relates to the sixth European and African conference on Wind Engineering (EACWE). The conferences are held on a four year cycle under the auspices of the Internal Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE). The first EACWE was held in Guernsey in 1993 and was followed by conferences in Genoa (1997), Eindhoven (2001), Prague (2005) and Florence (2009). The sixth EACWE was organized jointly by the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham and was held in Robison College, Cambridge. The timing of the conference coincided with the 50 th anniversary of the Wind Effects on Buildings and Structures conference, organised by the National Physical Laboratory in The latter was held in Teddington, UK and was possibly the birth of Wind Engineering as a discipline. The Teddington conference has led to a highly successful series of International and Regional conferences run under the umbrella of the IAWE. In order to celebrate the 50 th anniversary, a special day of prestigious lectures tracing the development of the core aspects of Wind Engineering since 1963 was held on the 8 th July The topics covered during this day were: The Wind That Shakes the Buildings: Wind Engineering from a Boundary Layer Meteorology Perspective. J F Barlow. Wind Loading Design Codes. S. O. Hansen. Urbanization and Wind Effects on Buildings. C. W. Letchford and D Menicovich. The Long Way from Teddington (1963) to Cambridge (2013) Through 50 Years of Bridge Aerodynamics. C. Borri, G. Bartoli and C. Mannini. Wind Tunnel Testing Developments in the last 50 years. G. Diana, M. Belloli, S. Giappino, A. Manenti, L. Mazzola, S. Muggiasca and A. Zuin. 50 Years of Computational Wind Engineering: Past, Present and Future. B. Blocken. These lectures formed a book (Owen et al., 2013) that was presented to each of the conference delegates. Each of the above presentations defined a series of themes that ran through the whole conference. The conference programme was: Sunday 7 th July. Conference registration and reception. Monday 8 th July. Wind Engineering at 50. A special one day event including a retrospective on Wind Engineering (delivered by Prof Chris Baker) and the above prestigious lectures. Tuesday 9 th July. Three parallel sessions. o Wind Effects on Bridges; Boundary Layer Meteorology; Wind Tunnel Testing 1. o Computational Wind Engineering 1; Tall Buildings 1; Wind Loading Design Codes 1. o Atmospheric Boundary Layer; Wind Effects on Buildings 1; Pollution Dispersion 1. 1

2 o Pedestrian Level Wind Environment; Wind Tunnel Testing 2; Wind Structure Interaction 1. Wednesday 10 th July. Three parallel sessions. o Computational Wind Engineering 2; Pollution Dispersion 2; Wind Energy 1; Sport and the Wind. o Wind Tunnel Testing 3; Computational Wind Engineering 3; Wind Structure Interaction 2. o Wind Effects on Bridges 2; Vehicle Aerodynamics; Wind Effects on Buildings 2. o Wind Energy 2; Wind Effects on Bridges 3; Wind Loading Design Codes 2. Thursday 11 th July. Three parallel sessions. o Wind Effects on Bridges 4; Tall Buildings 2; Computational Wind Engineering 4. o Rapporteurs. 2. Abstract submission, evaluation and participation The first announcement was prepared by the Organizing Committee and disseminated at the International Conference on Wind Engineering in July 2011 (Figure 1). The initial deadline for the four page abstract was 31 st July 2012 and was subsequently extended until 31 st October Figure 1. First Announcement for the Sixth EACWE. In total, 164 abstracts were received and reviewed by 38 people. The abstracts were rated on a scale of 1 to 6 by two reviewers. Over 50% of the papers scored an average of 5 or more and no paper was accepted without one reviewer rating it 4 or better. 22 papers were withdrawn from the programme for various reasons, the main one being the inability to attend the conference by one or more authors. 160 delegates and 143 papers from 24 different countries were involved in the final conference. 2

3 Figure 2. The conference delegates. A full range of additional photographs illustrating various aspects of the conference are available at 3

4 3. Committees Tables 1 and 2 show the membership of the organizing and scientific committees respectively. Table 1. Organising Committee Members Prof. Chris Baker Dr Hassan Hemida Dr John Owen (Co chair) Dr David Hargreaves Dr Andrew Quinn Prof Mark Sterling (Co chair) Table 2. Scientific committee members Dr John Macdonald UK Dr Andrew Quinn UK (Chairman) (Secretary) Prof. Giuliano Italy Dr Janet Barlow UK Augusti Prof. Jasna Norway Prof. Claudio Borri Italy Bogunovic Jakobsen Prof. Andrjez Flaga Poland Dr Olivier Flamand France Dr Christos Denmark Dr Chris Geurts Netherlands Georgakis Dr Adam Goliger South Africa Dr Gerard Grillaud France Prof. Ruediger Germany Dr John Holmes Australia Hoeffer Prof. Ahsan Kareem USA Prof. Kenny Kwok Australia Prof. Chris USA Prof. Jiri Naprstek Czech Replublic Letchford Prof. Hans Juergen Germany Prof. Nicholas P. USA Niemann Jones Dr Alessandro UK Prof. Udo Peil Germany Palmeri Dr Stanislav Pospisil Czech Republic Prof. Peter Richards New Zealand Prof. Giovanni Italy Prof. Ted Canada Solari Stathopoulos Prof. Yukio Tamura Japan Dr Ian Taylor UK Dr Nicholas UK Dr Zheng Tong Xie UK Waterson Prof. Alberto Zasso Italy 4

5 4. Finances The total income generated by the conference was 80,517 (table 3) and the total expenditure was 68,012 (table 4). The committee worked hard to try and increase attendance from the African region but unfortunately was not successful. A limited number of applications were received which were either, inappropriate in terms of background (i.e., no evidence of wind engineering activity/interest in the subject), or personal circumstances prevent the candidates from attending. The contribution to the IAWE is typically 5% of the total income, i.e., 4,026, however, the committee have agreed to increase this to 5,000. Finally, although it appears as if a surplus of 12,505 has been made there a number of costs associated with the organization that have yet to be invoiced, and it is expected that this surplus will tend to zero once these costs have been realized. Table 3. Income Number Income ( ) Full delegate 59 32,443 Early bird 40 18,974 Student 37 11,084 Day delegate 21 4,200 Others 4 1,628 Keynotes 6 0 Sponsors 5 0 Accompanying persons Banquet tickets 17 1,700 Car parking Sponsorship 5,000 IAWE contribution 4,624 Total 80,517 Table 4. Expenditure Expenditure ( ) Venue 36,917 Delegate packs 4,064 Book 3,299 Keynote expenses 4,407 Entertainment 1,025 Publicity 654 Accompanying persons 528 General expenditure 3,092 Conference office 10,000 IAWE payment (5% of Income) 4,026 Total 68,012 5

6 5. Reference Owen, J., Sterling, M., Hargreaves, D and Baker (2013). Fifty years of Wind Engineering. Prestigious lectures fro the Sixth European and African Conference on Wind Engineering. ISBN 13: