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@rasmis2 ай бұрын
Looking at the Etihad Stadium, and it's airplane-like features, I was thinking: Imagine a relatively heavy roof, shaped like a sail, connected to its building with a rack and pinion-system. When the wind picks up the roof, the pininons harvest energy. The roof then spills the wind, like a sail, and gravity returns it to its original position. The pinions harvesting energy again. Has something like that ever been tested?
@fredashay2 ай бұрын
Glad you dropped Master Scams as your sponsor and got Brilliant! That's brilliant! 🙂
@MrLense2 ай бұрын
I'm in for Fred's Tom Scott arc, visiting interesting labs that test engineering things.
@TheOpacue2 ай бұрын
Yeeees!!
@lonestarr14902 ай бұрын
Are you suggesting he will eventually fly off attached to a helicopter?
@MangoJim2 ай бұрын
There’s a little Tom Scott in all of us!
@GeekyMedia2 ай бұрын
That’s actually such a good way to describe it 😂
@grahamcollins68102 ай бұрын
Milton Keynes: "Somewhere a little less exotic" - perfect description!
@lonestarr14902 ай бұрын
They should put that on their "Welcome to Milton Keynes" road signs.
@Craigels2 ай бұрын
@@lonestarr1490 as someone that lives here... I can 100% agree and support this idea!
@djpalmer312 ай бұрын
As a Milton Keynes resident I never knew this place was on my doorstep, until now. Great video....and you can never have too many roundabouts 😉
@GamingGrenade12 ай бұрын
"This place will seriously blow you away" I see what you did there
@samfrain66232 ай бұрын
I quite liked the "uplifting career" pun. Very subtle!
@ibrahim-sj2cr2 ай бұрын
@@samfrain6623 5:48 i searched the comments as soon as i heard "uplifting career"
@piraterubberduck60562 ай бұрын
When you put all these different shaped buildings together, you can get some hard to predict behaviour of the wind. This can include wind being directed up or down as well as creating high and low speed and pressure areas around buildings. Trying to predict this with computer simulations is challenging as there is just so much physics going on, so wind tunnel testing is essential. Very interesting stuff.
@hateclub2 ай бұрын
A good example of unintended wind effects is the Bridgwater Place building in Leeds, which caused wind to funnel past one specific section of road and ultimately one person died when a lorry blew over. Now they have wind deflectors in place by the road.
@GeekyMedia2 ай бұрын
Now you say it, I actually remember this happening. Shocking stuff
@morganspencer-churchill21362 ай бұрын
I would watch an hour long video of Fred attempting to eat different breads and pastries in a wind tunnel.
@TheB1M2 ай бұрын
We're on it.
@tyler5914Ай бұрын
❤
@davidkoenig85922 ай бұрын
I love architectural models as much as the real buildings themselves, so this brief look into how they react to wind was excellent. Thank you Fred and B1M!
@ryanwood932 ай бұрын
You finally found your biggest fan
@ivansanchez1432 ай бұрын
"So by now ,you may be thinking that a carrer in wind engineering sounds pretty uplifting" 😂
@DoweyMITMАй бұрын
Bet he said that with a straight face. 🤣🤣🤣
@srdjanavram95042 ай бұрын
Nice look under the hood of one of RWDI's facilities. Thanks B1M team.
@pacldawson2 ай бұрын
What a fascinating facility, providing a much-needed service.
@jamiemc24562 ай бұрын
The amount of wind puns you made there in that brilliant segment actually made me laugh 😂 🌬️
@MaxPospelkov2 ай бұрын
"Rave test" sounds awesome!!! I'd like to be a rave test specialist)))
@Hasmo_2 ай бұрын
As an F1 fan, hearing Milton Keynes is huge.
@D3Vlicious2 ай бұрын
I wonder if anyone has ever thought of popping over next door to Red Bull to ask Adrian Newey to make their building more aerodynamic.
@yousorooo2 ай бұрын
The amount of puns in the video really blew me away.
@dcallan8122 ай бұрын
I was blown away. 🤣🤣👍👍Gustave Eiffel built his own wind tunnel under the Eiffel tower
@LSmallCatL2 ай бұрын
I'd be surprised if anyone in the construction industry wouldn't be familiar with RWDI. There aren't many options for wind tunnel testing around the world considering the required facility and associated costs. Smaller projects often go to Computational Fluid Dynamic software tools which are much cheaper and faster however lack the applied testing which you get from a wind tunnel test. Every project however has to consider wind loads in their structural calculation. One caveat however is to be considered. Different regions/ countries have different standards/ requirements which usually is based on the worst condition experienced since windspeeds were measured. Therefore, higher wind loads due to climate changes will fall into the applied safety factors which have to be rather higher than lower to avoid a sudden collapse of any structural if unprecedented conditions apply.
@Aeiroq2 ай бұрын
Fred’ videos are of unparalleled quality
@daveymaggee98632 ай бұрын
This was fascinating. They really think of everything. Thanks Fred.
@donmyers9452 ай бұрын
Finally Fred grows into his role as the world's most gorgeous explainer. W/a tight shirt to boot!
@nickmhc2 ай бұрын
Idk how an Optimum Tech + B1M crossover would happen but they’re both on the same level
@rollinwithunclepete8242 ай бұрын
Thanks, Fred. A very interesting insider's view of a very cool subject! Glad you survived the Wind Tunnel
@stevenlee32782 ай бұрын
Really enjoy watching your passion for engineering and building and human ingenuity!
@Amm17ar2 ай бұрын
As a great F1 driver once said. Simply Lovely.
@nickholland242 ай бұрын
Milton Keynes! Omg real civil engineer wasn't lying!
@aracelyd.64552 ай бұрын
The engineering is impressive and super advanced, amazing video.🧚🏻♀️
@muadddib2 ай бұрын
If a couple roundabouts are already too many, youll have a field day in the Netherlands haha
@karengerhardt60082 ай бұрын
Fred looked like a kid in a candy shop. 😂 That was so awesome! I live in an area where they did not do this, and some days I literally can't walk between my building (22 stories) and the adjacent one (18 stories). We have our own wind tunnel, lol.
@Digitalsurfer2652 ай бұрын
Getting to work there would be a designer’s dream job! And you get to play with fancy mediums and tools all day!
@_Breakdown2 ай бұрын
twin towers were 1st skyscrapers to be tested in a wind tunnel - but - they only tested 1 tower alone (they didn’t test both towers side-by-side); there was also a notoriously harsh wind that went through that plaza between those towers. Also, they built 2 moving rooms that simulated how the wind would be experienced by the occupants when the buildings swayed; For both tests many people found the simulated motion disturbing. The engineers came up with motion dampers to absorb the sway; the 1st time any such dampening device was used in a building. (No conclusive evidence that the dampers worked). Great video - thanks for sharing! 🙂👍🏼👍🏼
@CanMav2 ай бұрын
I'm so sure they had to try very hard to convince you Fred, you looked like you had a blast 😉
@SaintsAwayOllie2 ай бұрын
11:06 good to see Haland getting involved with the Etihad stadium expansion!
@Merennulli2 ай бұрын
Looks like the production team had fun. 😂
@heidelbergaren50542 ай бұрын
I’m a really big fan of these types of videos
@TheB1M2 ай бұрын
Haha, nice!
@MelancholieT2 ай бұрын
Shame that RWDI didn't test Bridgewater Place in Leeds. A video on that, and the measures that were put in place to try and counter the deadly wind effects of the building, would be very interesting.
@jimhearsonwriter2 ай бұрын
I used to live in Leeds (including when the poor person died as a result of the wind tunnel it created), and this was my first thought.
@Aussie_Engineer2 ай бұрын
Great video, thanks for sharing mate.
@jamesslate66642 ай бұрын
I'm currently living in Chicago, where one of the city's newest supertall buildings is the St Regis Chicago. This mixed-use tower was designed by Studio Gang. Late in the construction phase, it was determined that it would be necessary to leave floors 83 and 84 unfinished, creating a blow-through in order to stabilize the top floors above. While this did solve the issue of building sway at the top, reducing it by 20%, it looks like a flaw in the design. I wonder if this advanced wind tunnel modeling could have been used to solve the problem while the architects were still at the design stage. I can think of another example, the Shanghai Financial Centre, designed by Kohn Peterson Fox, which has a hole at the top as part of the overall design.
@difrancogavin7172 ай бұрын
the segways into the sponsor are just too smooth
@CarstenSvendsen2 ай бұрын
How often do you see a jacked as dude as a news reporter? That's so cool, actually improves the quality of the already high production value!
@waynelander90542 ай бұрын
10:53 THATS MY UNCLE 🤩
@harrydooley73702 ай бұрын
Aye up Lad hope you enjoyed the video!
@omarhernandez65182 ай бұрын
We need more Chicago’s skyline when it comes to these videos, The Home of the Skyscraper needs to be respected.
@gabriel.hongkong2 ай бұрын
This place is super cool. I envy their jobs. Its basically a giant science project for adults.
@bbkandsons2 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed this one!
@Norfolk2502 ай бұрын
I recall learning about the facilities back ... oh, a bit ago, on Discovery Channel 'Canada' ... and we (local Guelphites - headquarter office) were left apologizing to the world at large for having tested the Orange Curtains display that went into Central Park.
@GeekyMedia2 ай бұрын
I hope this works for Los Angeles. Long-term, I could see this part of the world suffering with a lot of natural disaster issues, sadly.
@bobbyconrad75002 ай бұрын
As a civil engineer myself and living in New Jersey (one of the few US states that uses roundabouts regularly) I find it kind of disappointing but also hilarious that the only reason I know about Milton Keynes and their abundance of roundabouts is from @RealCivilEngineeringGaming and his city skylines jokes about the city 😅😂
@bobbyconrad75002 ай бұрын
Welp, after some quick research once I finished the video I’m sad to find out that NJ actually does not fall in the top states for roundabouts 🙈 in fact out of the 110 found on Wikipedia, about ~45 are now defunct smh. But To be fair my hometown of ~2 sq. Miles contains 2 itself plus another ~15 in nearby towns I regularly work in or drive through which is about 25% of them in the state!
@DSemedoVideo8 күн бұрын
This might be my favourite channel at the moment and I'm an avid youtube watcher!
@journeysoul2 ай бұрын
Isn't there more then just one direction the wind can come from? how do they simulate turbulence and is it enough to build models out of plastic of foam to get significant data about the behavoir of the structure and its parts?
@DouglasJWalker2 ай бұрын
I didnot know of the scale of the wind tunnel. Very fascinating.
@Billybobble12 ай бұрын
This is the kind of content I love on this channel, so interesting to learn what seem like finer points but are major parts to large construction. I recently left a job at the £1.3 billion AstraZeneca Discovery Centre in Cambridge UK and from my short time at that facility, I cannot believe this type of research was employed in it's construction. The wind would funnel and increase in the open spaces surrounding the building. Maybe the long term plan with the new train station would negate this effect, I do not know, that's Fred's job to tell me otherwise. Regardless, for £1.3 billion, it felt like shortcuts had been made.
@kathrynlegear28652 ай бұрын
Great ! Thank You !!
@sledgehammer-productions2 ай бұрын
What does B1M stand for? I couldn't find it in the FAQ on the website, so I'm thinking that maybe it's a well known acronym in the construction world (which I'm not part of, so I wouldn't know).
@d.b.cooper12 ай бұрын
Did they work on that skyscraper at Birdgewater Place in Leeds??
@Zyzzyx422 ай бұрын
Curious wind tunnel layout. I thought most pulled the air past the measuring area (fan behind it) instead of pushing it (fan in front).
@pmufc72 ай бұрын
The wind around the Deansgate Square towers make it a very inhospitable place, grim
@NorthPoleSun14 күн бұрын
I wonder how they use different materials in the models to correlate with the different materials used in the actual structure.
@user-ek1to4gq3h2 ай бұрын
No wonder RB are so fast, Adrian visit this place a lot is my guess and his a genius
@TheVesko952 ай бұрын
Amazing to see Manchester on the skyscraper map
@HyperionStudiosDEАй бұрын
I wonder how they translate the data they collected on the model to useful data for the actual building. Or is it more about finding qualitative data about how the building will affect and be affected by the air stream?
@musecreator48682 ай бұрын
Oh lordy Fred, how many puns? LOL. Loved the video as always and I can’t wait to listen to the poddy on this one!
@missionman50002 ай бұрын
This wasn't around building the Empire State Building. Technology has come a long way.
@WhoIsOlton2 ай бұрын
i like this "new" B1M, also beautifully shot.
@markarmstrong25922 ай бұрын
Another great video again
@TheB1M2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@remkoburger65952 ай бұрын
Very impressive Fred. How did you get wind of it?
@userbosco2 ай бұрын
On first watch, I thought you called the model building @3:25 the "shart"... LOL
@philjones352 ай бұрын
Damn they even modeled in the supporters at the Etihad
@jaz4992 ай бұрын
I ❤ that you used a clip from the movie “a fantastic woman”
@punkgift2 ай бұрын
If Bridgewater Place in Leeds was tested then the testing didn't work. It was notorious for the strong winds that whipped up around it, which resulted in the death of a pedestrian when a van was blown on to him. It now has giant baffles in the street to break up the wind flow
@JackReacheround2 ай бұрын
Yall are going wild with the thumbnails
@mrbbqcraig2 ай бұрын
Most definitely very interesting and informative... cheers Fred 🤟✨
@sterlingnerdling2 ай бұрын
Really interesting stuff. I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get to see a test being done or have any of the rave test explained, but I imagine they probably don't want to share their secrets or something. Still, pretty cool.
@mrnnhnz2 ай бұрын
I wish you would've showed the meaningfulness of the wind-test in action. Show footage from a slo-mo camera deforming the little models while the experts describe that the model is performing within desired tolerances - or not. Even just animated models with data from real life showing little stress points in blue, green, orange and red... That's what I want from this sort of video. And when you talk about scaling, how do they scale accurately, so the model - which is not built of steel and concrete - accurately reflects how a steel and concrete structure will behave? Again, that's the sort of thing I want from a video like this...
@jamesgilbart26722 ай бұрын
Fascinating video! What are those small blocks on the floor of the wind tunnel for?
@duckydude202 ай бұрын
the world runs on unsung heroes...
@erasmus_locke2 ай бұрын
Milton Keynes has got to be the epicenter of wind tunnels on earth. This and just about every F1 team do their aerodynamic testing there
@nobodyinteresting99672 ай бұрын
Why are ther so many little squares at the bottom of the wind tunnel?
@D3Vlicious2 ай бұрын
And that's not even the most high-tech place doing stuff with wind tunnels in Milton Keynes, considering Red Bull Racing is based there as well.
@urbanstrencan2 ай бұрын
Interesting to see use of automotive technology
@NikCan662 ай бұрын
This is excellent
@trudy__taylorandjorjamummy2 ай бұрын
Last time I was this early, Fred was blown away! ❤❤
@rocko444444442 ай бұрын
"Milton Keynes has many roundabouts." :D
@arabicriflegaming88712 ай бұрын
i really want to be a structural engineer when i grow up but i have a 1.3 gpa and failing basic trigonometry
@silkmaze2 ай бұрын
Another great video, but why are the videos so short. These subjects really need longer videos.
@edyee16472 ай бұрын
They do occasionally make longer videos that come out monthly.
@_max_-qg3je2 ай бұрын
Genuine question, how come this company didn’t transition to a wind simulator type of program. As a company, it makes it way more scalable. Is it just too challenging for now? Cause Nvidia with nvidia making earth 2, it seems possible
@tonypapas98542 ай бұрын
1:04 I didn't know Sauron had them help with a mockup of Barad-Dur 😉 🤣 💀
@Jamon19162 ай бұрын
I see that they test buildings in their final form, but do they test it through out the process of construction? For example: Skyscraper is 30-60% complete and a powerful hurricane/typhoon hits, what effect does the wind have on the incomplete structure?
@WardyHoot2 ай бұрын
Part of the construction design process
@johnawalker92612 ай бұрын
Most major car manufacturers have wind tunnels, not just things that are very fast.
@MrOvimik2 ай бұрын
You sure have some big fans! :)
@MakeMeThinkAgain2 ай бұрын
Now if they could just retrofit older buildings that cause problems at ground level. I know of two intersections in San Francisco where you can be blown off your feet.
@s1r0lf642 ай бұрын
How come they don't have a need to match the reynolds number to the real situation? since they don't seem to control temperature and such.
@waffle_gamer26382 ай бұрын
are you gonna make a video about the gordie howe bridge big milestone?
@davidcarlstrom38632 ай бұрын
Not mentioned was that the headquarters of RWDI is in Guelph Ontario Canada.
@Norfolk2502 ай бұрын
(GASP!!) ¿fellow Guelphite?
@davidcarlstrom38632 ай бұрын
@@Norfolk250 No.
@herbtarlic8922 ай бұрын
Hooray for Guelph!
@herbtarlic8922 ай бұрын
@@Norfolk250 For several years, yes!
@rapidthrash19642 ай бұрын
What is the maximum speed of the wind simulations?
@janicesparks17432 ай бұрын
Hi from Houston TX
@ohasis83312 ай бұрын
I'd heard that if a 30 or more storied building can handle the wind loads, it should be able to handle most earthquakes thrown at it.
@richardfoster2021Ай бұрын
Good show,,
@larrybanta88582 ай бұрын
Wow that's awesome and crazy and scary
@noone-qg1od2 ай бұрын
So they've got a big fan.
@alexalekos2 ай бұрын
it's interesting how they still haven't managed to simulate this process on a computer
@garywalker84932 ай бұрын
They do simulations too. But fluid mechanical equations are notoriously difficult and tunnel testing isalso needed. Fluid mechanics was one of my favorite courses in school, but it was also one of the more difficult classes.