Qualifications
M.Eng (University of Sydney), B.E. B.Sc. C.P.Eng, NPER

Professional Membership
Corporate Member, Engineers Australia (MIEAust)
Member, Australasian Wind Engineering Society (AWES)
Member of the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

Tony Rofail is a director of WINDTECH Consultants and has been with the company since 1991. Since that time he has been WINDTECH Consultants’ principal engineer. Tony has undertaken and supervised over 1000 wind tunnel investigations for various Masterplans, high-rise buildings, large roof and stadium building projects throughout Australia and in New Zealand, China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. These include numerous landmark developments.  Over the past few years, Tony has developed innovative techniques in the study of the following aspects:

• Modelling and criteria for Natural ventilation in buildings.
• Pedestrian wind environment comfort criteria and treatments
• design pressures for operable facades and inter-tenancy walls
• structural loads for high-rise buildings that exhibit complex modal behaviour

With regards to the modelling of wind environment effects, Tony has emphasised the need to provide innovative solutions to potential problems to ensure that the architects’ design intent is achieved.

Tony is on the Wind Loading sub-committee of the Australian and New Zealand Standards and was on the executive committee of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society (AWES) between 1998 and 2006. While on the AWES committee in 1998-1999, Tony was responsible for the preparation of the draft AWES Quality Assurance Manual for wind tunnel studies of dynamic overall wind loads on structures.  Tony is a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.

In addition to conducting commercial projects during his employment at Windtech, he is and has been involved in a number of ongoing joint research programs.

Publications by Tony Rofails »

Dr John Howell is WINDTECH Consultant associate in Melbourne. He has 20 years' experience in the various facets of wind engineering. He completed his post-graduate studies in Wind Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1973. Since that time, and until 1989 he has practiced as a wind engineer in both academic and consulting capacities.

His academic experience includes three years as Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. In 1981 he was responsible for the establishment of the first commercial boundary layer wind tunnel in Australia.

Dr John Howell has carried out wind tunnel studies for major projects throughout Australia and in North America, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines and Thailand. His consulting experience includes studies of the wind environment around tall buildings, strategic planning studies for wind environment (including the 1988 Strategy for Sydney City Council) and atmospheric pollution dispersion, natural ventilation studies, mock-up facade testing, wind tunnel testing of cladding pressures and dynamic loads on tall buildings as well as the study of the dynamic loads on long-span bridges.

He is a member of the Australian Wind Engineering Society, a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, a past Chairman of the Structural Branch of IEAust. and a member of the Membrane Structures Association.