Cladding Loads
Wind-induced cladding failures can have significant consequences—impacting budgets, reputations, and even safety. We work with you to minimize these risks or address existing challenges with innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions.
Our Service
We analyze how the exterior skin of your structure, including cladding, components, and secondary systems, interacts with the wind conditions at your site. This includes residential and commercial developments of all scales, such as high-rise buildings, airports, stadiums, convention centers, sculptures, solar installations, and other specialized structures.
Understanding cladding pressures is a vital part of modern design, especially for structures with complex geometries. Accurate analysis goes beyond standard building codes, often leading to more efficient and cost-effective designs. For the most precise results, we conduct wind tunnel tests using scaled physical models of the building and its surroundings. These models are equipped with high-speed pressure taps to measure wind forces across hundreds of points simultaneously for a full range of wind directions.
Our process is tailored to the stage of your project. During early design phases, our experienced team identifies potential wind-related challenges and proposes solutions. As the design progresses, we refine our approach with detailed investigations, whether through wind tunnel testing, computational analysis, or expert assessments. The data we collect helps predict wind-induced responses, including cladding pressures, roofing forces, and green roof performance under local wind conditions.
Backed by decades of experience on global projects, we ensure our work is responsive to regional variations in design, culture, climate, and risk. Our results are delivered in clear, actionable formats that make even complex issues easy to understand. If challenges arise, we go beyond reporting problems, working closely with you to develop creative and practical solutions that meet your design and performance goals.
