 RWDI's Global Head Office in Guelph, Canada | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering and construction consulting, environmental consulting, professional services, urban planning |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Headquarters | 600 Southgate Drive Guelph, Ontario N1G 4P6 |
Key people | Michael Soligo, President |
Number of employees | ~800 (2023) |
| Subsidiaries | Motioneering, Orbital Stack, ParticleOne, RWDI Ventures |
| Website | rwdi |
Established in 1972, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc. (RWDI) is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that specializes in wind engineering and environmental engineering.[1] The RWDI group of companies has offices in Canada, USA, United Kingdom, India, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Australia. The company's headquarters is based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.[2]
RWDI has featured on numerous television documentaries involving wind engineering and related services for the world's tallest skyscrapers and landmark structures.[3] The firm's facilities include five boundary-layer wind tunnels, an open channel water flume, MM5 computer models for simulating atmospheric weather conditions, and advanced computer modelling capabilities, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD).[3] The company created a software-as-a-service, web-based platform called Orbital Stack, a flow visualization model simulator that allows designers and engineers to rapidly iterate on their designs while seeing the microclimate impact on a 3D viewer.[4]
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.[5] The firm has conducted wind engineering on projects including the London Millennium Bridge, International Commerce Centre 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.[1] The company conducts climate and performance engineering in many areas, including environmental noise and air quality modeling, building science and enclosures, acoustics, geoscience, sustainability and energy modeling, as well as weather forecasting and meteorology services.[3]
RWDI currently has Platinum Club status as part of Canada's Best Managed Companies.[6]
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- ^ "Platinum Club members | Canada's Best Managed Companies". Deloitte Canada. Retrieved 2023-08-30.