The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported on Sept. 17 that it has done additional analysis of the wind "loads" that the World Trade Center (WTC) towers were originally ...

Structures in Luzerne County — or most of Pennsylvania, for that matter — cannot be expected to hold up if they are in the direct path of an EF2 tornado like the one that hit Wilkes-Barre Township ...

As temperatures rise and another summer begins, it's important to reflect on the unpredictable weather Mother Nature can deliver at a moment's notice. This message is especially critical for standby ...

Principal at CPP Wind Engineering +++ Dr. David Banks is a globally recognized leader in wind loads on solar tracking systems, having directed hundreds of studies on the subject. These studies have ...

Many transmission structures are tested to failure at full-scale, leading to an improved understanding of capacity compared to most structures. Typically when extreme wind events occur, the maximum ...

A group of researchers from South Africa has conducted a full-scale field measurement of the wind load effects on the mounting rail of a PV single-axis tracker. The data was collected over 109 days in ...