Resilience to Wind Storms

Tools & Knowledge to Improve New Zealand’s Long Term Resilience to Wind Storms

Project leader: Peter Cenek (Opus Research), in collaboration with University of Auckland, GNS Science and NIWA.

This programme will combine several strands of research to improve the resilience and robustness of New Zealand’s infrastructure for the effects of wind storms. The research will be used to focus efforts to inform and improve:

  • Mitigation measures such as retrofitting, land-use planning and building code enforcement
  • Current procedures for determining design wind speeds
  • Our understanding of how climate change will affect the nation’s wind vulnerability so that appropriate actions can be taken to reduce the impact

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Last updated 12 Jan 2018