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Case study: Icing forecasts for the Queensferry Crossing bridge in Scotland
Kjeller Vindteknikk develops and delivers ice warning forecasts for several different industrial applications for wind energy and wind engineering sectors. In our latest wind engineering customer project, we were chosen to provide ice fall forecasts for the bridge...
IceForecast webinar, Wednesday 12th October at 1.30-2.15 pm (CET)
If you are interested in learning more about icing forecasts and why they are important for the wind industry, this webinar is for you. We will be going through challenges related to forecasting production loss due to icing, what are strengths and weaknesses of icing...
Offshore lidar measurements for Korsnäs wind farm in Finland have started
Finnish state-owned enterprise Metsähallitus has chosen Kjeller Vindteknikk as their preferred partner based on a tendering process for measuring the wind conditions at the planned Korsnäs offshore wind farm in Finland. One important goal for Metsähallitus is to be...
Case study: Increasing safety and reducing construction costs with wind measurements and forecasting at the construction of 245 m high Karlatornet tower, Gothenburg
The skyline of Gothenburg is changing. Construction company Serneke is responsible for the construction of Karlatornet and will once fully constructed, be the tallest building in the Nordic countries and have a height of 245m distributed on 73 levels. Kjeller...
New colleague in Finland!
We are very pleased to introduce you to our new colleague Pyry Pentikäinen who joined the Kjeller Vindteknikk team this June! Pyry has a MSc in Meteorology from the University of Helsinki and is currently on the latter stages of getting a PhD in Atmospheric sciences....
Kjeller well present with 4 presentations at international icing conference IWAIS
On June 20th starts the bi-annual, world-leading international science conference "IWAIS - International Workshop on Atmospheric Icing of Structures". Kjeller Vindteknikk has 4 presentations, and for each presentation, a peer-reviewed article is published. Sigbjørn...
Urban planning – Wind Comfort Analysis
Buildings may have a large impact on the local wind in urban areas and the way it is experienced by people. Facades can lead wind from up high down to street level as well as accelerate it around building corners, causing high wind speeds and undesired turbulence....
New colleague in Norway!
We are very pleased to introduce you to our new colleague Sigurd Yngvar Ekern who joined the Kjeller Vindteknikk team this spring! Sigurd has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics, with additional courses in programming. He will mainly be working with our...
Winterwind 2022
Today (20.04), the international conference Winterwind kicks off, and Kjeller Vindteknikk has no less than 5 presentaions! Today: Mona Kurppa: "Validation of icing loss forecasts with SCADA data" Sigbjørn Grini: "Calibration icing forecasts using realtime SCADA data"...