CURRICULUM VITAE OF PETER A. IRWIN Citizenship and Personal Details Canadian and British. Married with two grown up children and four grand children. Residence 18 Karen Avenue, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2N9 Home telephone: 519 836 6523 Business telephone: 519 823 1311 e-mail: [email protected] Academic Qualifications:- Bachelor of Science (Aeronautical Engineering), University of Southampton, UK, 1967 Master of Science (Aeronautical Engineering), University of Southampton, UK, 1970 Doctorate (Mechanical Engineering), McGill University, Canada, 1974 Summary of career:- 1969 – 1971 Research Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, UK. Undertook research into the aerodynamics of high lift devices on aircraft. 1971 – 1974 Doctoral studies at McGill University Montreal, Canada into prediction and control of turbulent boundary layer flows over high lift devices on aircraft. 1974 – 1980 Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa. Undertook research and consultation assignments on wind effects on large structures (tall towers, long span bridges, stadia). In this period Dr. Irwin published a number of important papers on instrumentation for wind tunnel tests, and the response of long span bridges and stadium roofs to wind. In this period he also invented the Irwin Sensor, a device for rapidly measuring wind speeds around scale models of buildings and other structures that is now widely used at wind tunnel laboratories around the world. 1980 – 2012 Progressed through a variety of roles at Rowan Williams Davies and Irwin Inc. (and its predecessor companies), a leading private wind tunnel testing and wind consulting firm based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Irwin was the Principal Engineer responsible for the company’s work on many major projects, examples of which are listed below. He was also the 1 firm’s Director of Technical Services, leading its development of wind tunnels and a number of special techniques for predicting wind and snow loads on structures. In 1999 he became President and CEO, a role in which he served until 2008. While he was CEO he expanded the firm’s international presence, opening offices across Canada, in the UK, in the USA and India. The firm’s volume of business tripled under his leadership and it became the largest private wind engineering firm in the world. In 2008 he stepped down as President and CEO and served as Chairman of the Board until 2012. Currently he is a Senior Executive Consultant, providing technical advice on projects and technical development, assisting with business development, and providing management advice to the firm’s current executive team. Selected Examples of Wind Consulting Projects Burj Khalifai, Dubai, UAE (current world’s tallest building) Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan (previous world’s tallest building) Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (previous world’s tallest building) New York Times Building, New York, USA Freedom Tower, New York, New York, USA Trump Tower, Chicago, Illinois Songdo City Towers, Inchon, Korea New Parallel Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Tacoma, Washington, USA Cooper River Bridge, Charleston, South Carolina, USA Swiss Re Tower, London, UK Reliant Stadium, Houston, USA Seoul World Cup Stadium, Korea Pearson Airport Terminal 1, Toronto, Canada Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport, London, UK Fraser River Bridge (Annacis Island), Vancouver, Canada Rogers Centre Retractable Roof Stadium, Toronto, Canada Shanghai Center Tower, China Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver, Canada Trump World Tower at UN Plaza, New York Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt, Germany Skarnsund Bridge, Trondheim, Norway Second Severn Bridge, UK Professional Registrations Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia Registered Consulting Engineer (Ontario) 2 Fellowships Fellow of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering Awards Sir Robert Blackburn Memorial Scholarship, Aeronautical Engineering, 1971, UK Gzowski Medal for Civil Engineering – 1995, Canada Coopers Hill Medal for Civil Engineering, British Institute of Civil Engineering, 2003, UK Jack E. Cermak Medal for Wind Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007, USA Committees and Boards Standing Committee on Structural Design, Canadian National Building Code Chair of Task Group on Climatic Loads for the Canadian National Building Code American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE 7 Standard, Task Committee on Wind Loads American Society of Civil Engineers Executive Committee of Technical Council on Wind Engineering Board Member, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, based in Chicago ISO Committee on Snow Loads Standard Chair of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Task Group on Wind Tunnel Testing Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee writing a Monograph on Building Motions Keynote and Plenary Addresses - 5th International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, 2004, “ Bluff Body Aerodynamics in Wind Engineering ” - Biennial Scruton Lecture delivered by invitation of the UK Wind Engineering Society at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London UK, November, 2005, “ Developing Wind Engineering Techniques to Optimize Design and Reduce Risk “. - 12 th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Cairns, Australia, 2007, “ Wind Engineering of the New Generation of Super-tall Buildings ” - 6th International Colloquium on Bluff Body Aerodynamics and Applications, Milan, Italy, 2008, “ Application of Aerodynamic Principles in the Design of Tall Buildings ”. 3 - 26 th International Modal Analysis Conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Orlando, FL, 2008, “ Vibration Control of Tall Buildings ”. - 11 th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, Puerto Rico, 2009, “ Wind Engineering Research Needs, Building Codes and Project Specific Studies ”. Selected Publications Dr. Irwin has published over 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Below is a representative selection. Irwin, P.A., 1973, Measurements in a Self-Preserving Plane Wall Jet in a Positive Pressure Gradient @, J. Fluid Mechanics , 61, p. 33. Irwin, P.A., and Smith, P.A., 1975, Prediction of the Effect of Streamline Curvature on Turbulence. Physics of Fluids , 18, p. 624. Irwin, P.A., and Schuyler, G.D., 1978, An investigation of the Effect of Wind Turbulence on Bridge Flutter Using a Full Aeroelastic Bridge Model. Proceedings of the ASCE Spring Convention , Pittsburg, PA, Paper No. 3268, April. Wardlaw, R.L., Cooper, K.R., and Irwin, P.A., 1978. Vibration Absorbers for Bridge Truss Members. Proceedings of the Third U.S. National Conference on Wind Engineering , Gainsville, Florida, February. Irwin, P.A., and Cooper, K.R., 1979 Correction of Distortion Effects Caused by Tubing Systems in Measurements of Fluctuating Pressures. J. Industrial Aerodynamics , Vol. 5, pp. 93 - 107. Irwin, P.A. 1981. The design of spires for wind simulation. J. Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 7, pp. 361-366. Irwin, P.A.., 1981. A Simple Omnidirectional Sensor for Wind Tunnel Studies of Pedestrian Level Winds, J. Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , Volume 7, pp. 219-239. [The device published in this paper became known as the Irwin Wind Sensor]. Lepage, M.F., and Irwin, P.A., 1985. A Technique for Combining Historical Wind Data with Wind Tunnel Tests to Predict Extreme Wind Loads", Proceedings of the 5 th U.S. National Conference on Wind Engineering , Lubbock, Nov. 6-8. Irwin, P.A., 1988, Pressure Model Techniques for Cladding Loads, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , Vol 29, pp. 69-78. 4 Irwin, P.A., 1992, Full Aeroelastic Model Tests, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Aerodynamics of Large Bridges , Copenhagen, Denmark February 19 - 21, pp. 125 - 135, publ. A.A. Balkema. Irwin, P.A., Gamble, S.L., and Taylor, D.A. (1995) "Effects of Roof Size and Heat Transfer on Snow Load: Studies for the 1995 NBC", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering , August, 1995. [ Awarded the Gzowski Medal by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineers for 1995] Irwin, P.A., 1998, The Role of Wind Tunnel Modelling in the Prediction of Wind Effects on Bridges. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Bridge Aerodynamics , Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-13 May, pp. 99-117. Irwin, P.A., Cicci, M.D., and Lankin, J.B. 1998, Variability of Cladding Pressures Caused by Adjacent Buildings. J. Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 77&78, pp. 147 -156. Irwin, P.A., and Sifton, V.L., 1998 Risk Considerations for Internal Pressures. J. Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , 77&78, pp. 715 - 723. MacDonald, J.G.H.., Irwin, P.A., and Fletcher, M.S., 2002, Vortex Induced Vibrations of the Second Severn Crossing Cable-Stayed Bridge - Full-scale and Wind Tunnel Measurements, Institute of Civil Engineers, J. Structures and Buildings, 152 , May, Issue 2 , pp. 123 - 134. [Awarded the Coopers Hill Memorial Medal by the Institute of Civil Engineers] Irwin, P.A., 2004, Editor, Outdoor Human Comfort and Its Assessment. ASCE State of the Art Report , prepared by a task group of the Aerodynamics Committee (chaired by Irwin) and published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Irwin, P.A., Garber, J.J., and Ho, E., 2005, Integration of Wind Tunnel Data with Full Scale Wind Climate, Proceedings of the 10 th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering , Baton Rouge, Louisiana,