| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | engineering consulting |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Guelph, Ontario |
| Key people | Michael Soligo, President |
| Employees | ca. 275 |
| Website | www.rwdi.com |
Wind Engineering Firm Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a specialty consulting engineering firm. The RWDI group of companies has over 275 employees with offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India and the Middle East.
RWDI is a wind engineering and environmental engineering consulting firm and has featured on numerous television documentaries involving wind engineering for the worlds tallest buildings and skyscrapers. The firm's facilities include four boundary layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, MM5 computer models for simulationing atmospheric weather conditions and advanced computer modeling capabilities including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). RWDI also has in-house model shops at each of its wind tunnel facilities that use stereolithography technology, integrated data acquisition, storage and processing systems, computer-aided drafting, and a broad base of specialized instrumentation. The firm has conducted wind engineering on projects including the London Millennium Bridge, International Commerce Centre (Mega) Tower in Hong Kong, Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Freedom Tower on the WTC Site, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Taipei 101 Tower, and the mega-skyscraper Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest building.