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The world’s 100 tallest buildings: Which wind consultants have worked on the most?

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The world’s 100 tallest buildings: Which wind consultants have worked on the most?

The top firm has worked on almost half of the world’s 100 tallest buildings.


By CTBUH and BD+C Staff | November 1, 2016

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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently released 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings, a book detailing the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the projects found within the book's pages.

As part of its company rankings, the top wind consultants were listed and ranked according to the number of buildings within the world’s 100 tallest they have completed work on. RWDI took the top spot on the list working on 43 of the world’s top 100 tallest buildings.

The next company on the list, BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd., worked on 30 fewer buildings than RWDI.

You can view CTBUH’s top wind consultants list below or by clicking here.

 

Rank Company # of Buildings
1 RWDI 43
2 BMT Fluid Mechanics Ltd. 13
3 Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory 12
4 China Academy of Building Research 5
5 Cermak Peterka Petersen (CPP), Inc. 1
5 Wacker Ingenieure 1
5 altPOWER, Inc. 1

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