Dr
J.D.Holmes
Codes
and Standards
International involvement
Awards
Professional Membership
Involvement
with major structures
Publications
>DR. J.D. HOLMES
Dr. John Holmes is Director, JDH Consulting.
He was previously at James Cook University, Townsville for seven years,
and CSIRO, Divisions of Building Research, and Building, Construction
and Engineering for fourteen years, reaching the level of Chief Research
Scientist. He was also a
Principal Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
He has been engaged in research, testing
and consulting in wind loads and wind effects since 1969. He was actively
involved in the writing of Australian Standards AS1170.2 (Wind loads)
and AS3995 (Design of steel lattice towers and masts), and is the author
of a book on wind loading of structures.
He is an adviser to ESDU International PLC of
London, publishers of comprehensive engineering design guides, and to
the Technical Committee on Wind Loading of Malaysia. He is the convenor
of an international working group on codification formed by the International
Association of Wind Engineering (IAWE). and editor of the international
journal 'wind and structures'.
Dr. Holmes was awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship,
for research at Texas Tech University in 1989, the Warren Medal by the
Institution of Engineers in 1990, a Research Fellowship by the Japan
Society for Promotion of Science, for research at Kyoto University in
1996, and the John P. Laborde Visiting Chair at Louisiana State University
in 2003.
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He is a Fellow and Chartered Professional
Engineer of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He is a life member
of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society(AWES), and was the founding
Chairman of the AWES from 1984 to 1987.
>Involvement
with Major structures
Dr.
Holmes has advised on wind loads or conducted wind-tunnel tests for
many major structures during the last thirty years.
>Some
of these are :
West
Gate Bridge (Melbourne)
CityCorp
Building (New York)
Australia
Stadium (Sydney)
Victoria
Stadium (Docklands, Melbourne)
Penang
Stadium (Malaysia)
My Thuan Bridge (Vietnam)
Baram Bridge (Malaysia)
Macau Tower (China)
Jade stadium Christchurch (New Zealand)
Chevron
site redevelopment,
Gold Coast (Australia)
Wembley Stadium redevelopment, London (UK)
Pluto LNG plant, Burrup Peninusla (Western Australia)
>Publications:
>2
books and 2 chapters in books.
"Wind Loading on Structures" by J.D.
Holmes
was published by SponPress, London, U.K. in June 2001 ( Second edition
in 2007)
>50
refereed journal publications
>125
refereed conference papers
>100
unpublished workshop and seminar publications
>150
internal and consulting reports
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