On the 'Virtual Organisation'

We are using the term 'virtual organisation' to describe ASEANwind, and some of you might be asking, what is it?  It is actually something that is not new, at least not in wind engineering.  One such concept is the 'engineering virtual organisation' which has been started by the New Frontier of Education and Research in Wind Engineering, the Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program of the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) at the Tokyo Polytechnic University (TPU), lead by Prof. Yukio Tamura.

To learn more, visit http://www.wind.arch.t-kougei.ac.jp/system/eng/contents/code/evo_vortex_winds.

The GCOE Program at TPU is actually in collaboration with the NatHaz Modelling Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, Illinois, USA, headed by Prof. Ahsan Kareem.  Prof. Kareem's NatHaz Lab in collaboration with GCOE-TPU has started the implementation of this virtual organisation with the website called VORTEX-winds.

Is ASEANwind similar to VORTEX-winds?  Yes.  Are they the same?  No.  ASEANwind of course is more specific to Southeast Asian wind engineering activities.  And VORTEX-winds is financially and thus also technologically more advanced than ASEANwind.  ASEANwind as mentioned, currently has the goal of gathering together wind engineering practitioners from or in Southeast Asia to promote this field of study in this part of the world.

The "ASEANwind" website has been created

Since 3 December 2009, the "ASEANwind" website is now online.  The website is built on Google's Blogger platform.  The aim of the website is to have a central location for information and news related to wind engineering in the Southeast Asian region.

Note on the name "ASEANwind"

Please note the name "ASEANwind" is intended as a short form of this website for Wind Engineers and Wind Engineering in Southeast Asia.  This website, its contents, and any contributors to this website are not in anyway directly associated with the Association of South East Asian Nations.  For more information on the ASEAN, please visit their website at http://www.asean.org/.

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