The Bahrain World Trade Center is located in Manama, Bahrain. It took four years to construct, and was completed by the Atkins architectural firm in 2008. The building consists of two sail-shaped towers, connected by three separate "sky bridges". On each sky bridge is a wind turbine which, together, generate 11-15% of the building's power. Each tower is aerodynamically shaped to accelerate and funnel wind into the space between the two towers, maximizing the amount of power that can be generated by the three turbines. The shape of each tower also ensures that, regardless of wind direction, a wind stream is created that is perpendicular to the turbines' blades, also maximizing their efficiency.
That's an impressive building, I read a little bit about it a couple months back when Brandon was trying to recreate it in Autocad. Anyways while I was reading around about the building, I stumbled across a website about building aerodynamics you may find interesting.
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Nice work Sam!
Thanks Darren! Guess I need to start leaving comments on your blog too, huh? I'm 0 for 2.
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