RWDI's Peter Irwin awarded the Jack E. Cermak Medal!

We are very pleased to announce that Peter Irwin has been awarded the Jack E. Cermak Medal by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This prestigious medal is awarded to an individual in recognition of his or her lifetime achievement in the wind-engineering field and for their outstanding contributions to research and/or practice in wind engineering. Previous winners were:

• Ahsan Kareem of the USA in 2002
• Alan Davenport of Canada in 2003
• Yukio Tamura of Japan in 2004
• Giovanni Solari of Italy in 2006

During the year following receipt of the Medal, Peter will be invited to deliver the Cermak Lecture on a topic within the designated subject area of the award, to be presented at one of the ASCE national meetings, conferences, congresses or conventions.

Peter’s award citation will read: “For his contributions to wind engineering through consulting, research and development on wind load effects on structures, including contributions to ASCE 7 and supervision of wind engineering studies of many landmark structures.” One of the requirements of this award is the enthusiastic endorsement from key engineers with whom Peter has worked. Not surprising, Peter got this endorsement from all the major and very famous structural engineers who were asked to comment and who have had a long working relationship with Peter, those being:

• Charles Thornton (Thornton Tomasetti)
• Lawrence Griffis (Walter P. Moore)
• Jacob Grossman (Rosenwasser/Grossman)
• Ron Klemencic (Magnusson Klemencic Associates)
• Raymond McCabe (HNTB)
• Peter Taylor (Buckland & Taylor)
• Ahmad Rahimian (WSP Cantor Seinuk)
• William Baker (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

Congratulations Peter!