What We Do

Wind Loads & Effects

We design buildings & structures to anticipate and stand up to the effects of wind. By knowing how wind and buildings interact, your design team can increase the efficient use of materials, reduce unnecessary costs and risks, and ensure a reliable design that is comfortable for occupants.

Wind on Solar Arrays

The continued development of technologies makes solar energy an increasingly attractive sustainable energy solution; however, wind effects have a surprisingly complex role on solar infrastructure. We help with ground-mounted solar power plants, tracking systems, site specific studies, solar monitoring, and more.

Air Quality

When it comes to air quality, we know that clean, balanced, and temperate air is important to all of us. Our experts apply decades of knowledge and expertise to protect indoor and outdoor environments from building exhaust, industrial facility emissions, dust, particulates, and thermal pollution.

Choosing to create and sustain positive air quality within and produced by your building can expand your design options and increase efficiency, health, comfort, and sustainability while reducing initial costs, maintenance costs, ongoing energy costs, and liability.

Outdoor Environment

A building creates an indoor environment for residents, employees, and those enjoying their leisure time. It also creates an outdoor environment that can affect a person’s outdoor comfort just as much as the indoor environment—on either side of the building’s walls. The unanticipated effects of wind, sun, and snow can simultaneously affect individuals on the sidewalk and at their desk in different ways. We can help you understand these issues and identify solutions before they become problems.

Data Centers

When your building houses a data center, having the ability to control the thermal environment is a top priority. Heat is a major concern when designing a data center. There are many heat sources that can affect data center performance, but exhaust is a source that is often overlooked. Heated exhaust can negatively affect emergency generators, cooling towers, and air handler units. Avoiding unwanted thermal effects requires knowledge on how the various hot exhaust sources located throughout the facility will behave. We have the expertise to help.

Snow and Ice

In locations that regularly receive winter weather, snow loading and drifting can cause serious problems for buildings and structures. Building codes address snow in a generic fashion, but unique local wind patterns often encourage snow to accumulate in ways that a code simply cannot address. Fortunately, with our modern snow modeling and simulation services, you can rest assured that your project will survive the storm.

Aeroelastic Studies

Single-axis trackers are susceptible to an aeroelastic torsional instability for wind speeds above a critical threshold. Two instability mechanisms (cyclical torsional divergence and vortex lock-in) can potentially contribute depending on the stow tilt, damping and stiffness. Instability is of great concern for trackers as the critical wind speed for onset can be low enough to occur annually or multiple times per year in many parts of the world.

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

CPP creates fully three-dimensional, full-scale CFD models of structures. We offer industrial-level multiple-CPU computer cluster for CFD, mesoscale, and other computer simulations. This computing resource provides faster, more highly resolved solutions.

Special Projects

Our most valuable asset is the remarkably talented group of people who solve complex problems every day. We thrive on challenge and apply intellectual curiosity to all the work we do. This culture has created a proud history of tackling and solving unusual problems.

Forensics & Litigation

Determining the cause of damage or harm can require specific expertise. In situations where wind may be a factor in building or structural failure, odor, emissions, human health or injury, or other events that result in forensic investigation or legal action, our engineers provide services as expert analysts.