Grant: Alliance Grants

With the rapid growth of urbanization, there is a significant demand for constructing taller buildings. The growing urbanization, which will continue to rise in the upcoming years, signals the importance of developing new design methods for more sustainable and economical high-rise buildings. The current state of practice in wind design of high-rise buildings is based on a prescriptive design, and it requires the designer to select, proportion and detail structural members and components to satisfy prescriptive design criteria. This design method, however, has limitations, and it does not result in economical solutions. To address this need, researchers explore new performance-based wind design methods. In collaboration with the industry partner, Entuitive, this research will investigate the performance-based wind design and optimization of tall building structures. This will lead to more economical and resilient structures with substantial savings for the construction industry in Ontario and Canada. The outcome of this collaboration will support the industry in adopting performance-based wind design, which will generate a new revenue stream by offering the design as an additional service. Innovative systems could be developed to improve the resilience of future communities and more economical buildings that can perform under catastrophic wind events.