State of the Art Review of Commercial Wind Engineering

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The primary intent of this invited presentation at the Tenth Americas Conference on Wind Engineering is to discuss new developments in commercial wind engineering, to pose some questions that may (hopefully) lead to some conversations between attendees, and perhaps to speculate on the future of our peculiar specialty. Many of us gather every four years at the International Conference on Wind Engineering in order to discuss the minutia of wind engineering developments, but what is happening to our field in a holistic sense? What could we do to make our work more useful to the public or our clients? Some items presented herein are minor and can easily be dismissed as just my idiosyncratic view of consulting, engineering and ethics. However, some issues are definitely more serious and need to be tackled by consulting wind engineers, and to some extent researchers, in the near future. Whilst attempting to develop some points of consequence, nay controversy, perhaps we can have some fun too.

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