My team's main research objective focuses on enhancing performance of new and existing buildings for environmental loads such as hurricanes under the constraints of sustainability. Working towards better understanding of complex wind/built-environment interactions to develop practical hurricane damage mitigation solutions through a combination of experimental, Wall of Wind ---WoW--(full-scale) and boundary layer wind tunnel (model-scale), as well as computational researches. Other areas of interest include application of wind engineering and building science principles towards achieving sustainable built environment goals.

 

• Water intrusion research - Discovery Channel (Canada) – featuring Drs Girma Bitsuamlak and Hugh Willoughby, and WoW research team.

• Worlds Ahead – Dr. Girma Bitsuamlak, Wind Engineering Professor

• Building the future

• Wall of Wind contest - 2010: Local students devise novel roofing solutions in first FIU hurricane mitigation challenge

• CEE newsletter

• Wall of Wind test example: Photovoltaic Glass Stands Up To 'Wall of Wind'

• 13th International Conference in Wind Engineering (ICWE13)

• CWE2010 - The fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• International Conference on Building Envelope Systems and Technologies -- ICBEST2010

• Two FIU professors win prestigious national science foundation career awards http://academic.fiu.edu/newsletter/march_2009.htm

• CEE/IHRC distingushed structural/wind engineering lecture series

• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr.Horia Hangan
• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr.Rajnish N. Sharma
• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr J.D. Holmes
• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr Arif Masud
• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr Tsdeusz Chmielewski
• Structural/Wind Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series with Dr Peter Irwin