industry engineering consulting founded 1972 headquarters guelph ontario key people michael soligo president number of employees 400 2014 website www.rwdi.com established in 1972 rowan williams davies & irwin inc. rwdi is a specialty consulting engineering firm . the rwdi group of companies has offices in canada usa united kingdom india china singapore and hong kong . rwdi is a wind engineering and environmental engineering consulting firm and has featured on numerous television documentaries involving wind engineering and related services for the worlds tallest skyscrapers and landmark structures . 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 . external links edit rwdi s official website rwdi new wind tunnel test facility in florida usa discovery channel documentary asce paper about rwdi and motioneering s role in the design of taipei 101 and other projects engineering taipei 101 giant damper doubles as building s interior adornment the burj dubai tower wind engineering canadian wind engineering specialists contribute to winning design for new singapore casino wind engineering for milwaukee art museum usatoday article all the comforts of home or not reference to rwdi s contribution to the design of the reliant stadium reference to rwdi s contribution to the design of the citizens bank park stadium home of the philadelphia phillies nist investigation of the world trade center disaster rwdi s contribution rwdi tests tacoma narrows bridge models in nrc wind tunnel rwdi open s its asia pacific research and development centre chicago s windiest corner cbs tv news interview with rwdi s florida facility world s largest tlcd in philadelphia guelph hq moving retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rwdi & oldid 727155886 categories engineering companies of canada navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 june 2016 at 02 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view