DESIGN ENGINEERS AND PROJECT TEAMS

Design Engineers, who are acting as the coordinators of teams of specialists, including civil, mechanical, structural and environmental engineers, utilize Virtualwind to analyze and visualize:

•   Wind and environmental effects on buildings and people, for the purpose of determining safety, comfort and sustainability.

•   Wind and environmental effects on plants and trees and other vegetation used in landscaping, green roofs, living roofs, etc.

•   Wind effects on the spraying of water and other airborne particulates, including herbicides and pesticides.

•   Micro-climate environments, especially in complex urban locations.

Virtualwind enables design engineers and their teams to:

•   Involve the entire team in an integrated design process (IDP), in which all members of the design team are involved, and can benefit from the information that Virtualwind provides. The informative and flexible visualizations enable effective interaction by all members of the team.

•   Easily, quickly and inexpensively create models of their new structure(s) and incorporate those models into larger models of complex urban or rural environments with existing geometries of buildings and geographical features.

•   Conduct low-cost analyses of localized (micro-climate) wind speed on several early stage design concepts in order to predict impacts on human and structural safety, comfort and risk.

•   Identify and rectify unacceptable wind patterns early in the design phase before incurring expensive and time-consuming later stage design changes.

•   Engage customers earlier, and more often, in the design process. Since simulation models can be created quickly and inexpensively, this enables a seamless continuity of opportunities to engage with customers from conceptual design through final wind-tunnel engineered plans. Each of these engagement events represents opportunities for incremental revenue.

•   Win more competitions and business by compellingly and visually demonstrating to the client that their design incorporates best practices related to wind comfort, safety and risk.

•   Increase their competitive advantage and status by incorporating advanced technology to show their clients that they are versatile and able to consider the microclimate aspects of the design, and to support their sustainable design and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) initiatives For additional details about sustainability, click here.

•   Accelerate the planning approval process by clearly demonstrating to regulators and city planners how their design incorporates pedestrian wind comfort and other environmental design considerations.