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ICCWE 2026 – Conference Programme
DAY ONE — Wednesday, 28 October 2026 Full Day | 08:30 – 18:00
TIME SESSION FORMAT
08:30 – 09:15
Registration
Delegate check-in, badge collection, networking
 Break
09:15 – 09:45
Opening Ceremony (Convener: Hassan Hemida)
Eng Hussien Massoud (Former Minister of Civil Aviation)
IAWE Board (President: Claudio Borri)
Working Group (Chair: Teng Wu)
Organising Committee (Co-Chairs: Hassan Hemida & Hossam Elnazer)
Plenary
09:45 – 10:30
Opening Keynote — Prof. Frank Kemper (Convener: Cornelia Kalender)
LES-Informed Stochastic Hurricane Wind-Field Generation for Climate-Resilient Assessment of Critical Infrastructure
 Keynote
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break & Networking
Break
11:00 – 12:00
Technical Session A (Chair: Yaojun Ge)
  • Experimental and Numerical Study of an Evaporative Cooling Integrated Flap Fin Louver Windcatcher for Passive Cooling in Hot Arid Climates (Jiaxiang Li)
  • Development of an Empirical Energy-Based Damage Function for Tree-Induced Damage to Low-Rise Buildings (Amal Elawady)
  • Impact of Climate Change on the Wind Speed at the Coastal Regions of India (Suresh Kumar, Abhijith VJ)
  • On technology enablers for a thriving wind energy sector in Egypt (Amr Elbanhawy)
 Technical
12:00 – 13:00
Technical Session B (Chair: Amr Elbanhawy)
  • Evolution of Urban Wind Climate in Vietnam: Historical Changes and Future Projections of Extreme Winds and Wind Loads (Cung Nguyen)
  • Large Eddy Simulation of Downburst-Induced Building Aerodynamics Using the WindEEE Dome: A Parametric Study (Ahmed Mahmoud)
  • Evaluating WRF-Simulated Winds Against Full-Scale Measurements in Derechos (Wesam Mohamed)
  • Advances in Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine Technology: A Review (Ahmed M. R. Elbaz)
 Technical
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch & Networking
Break
14:15 – 15:00
Keynote — Dr. Suresh Kumar (Convener: Ruediger Hoeffer)
Prediction of Extreme Wind Climate for Structural Design: Incorporating Measurements, Simulations, and Climate Change
 Keynote
15:00 – 16:20
Technical Session C (Chair: Frank Kemper)
  • Toward CFD-ready tree reconstruction for urban flow simulations (Themistoklis Vargiemezis)
  • Upscaling Onshore Wind Turbines Under Changing Wind Climates: A Resilience Framework (Nafsika Stavridou)
  • Projected changes in near-surface and hub-height wind speed over land and sea from south-eastern Europe to the Middle East: a CMIP6-driven WRF ensemble (Berkin Gümüş)
 Technical
16:20 – 16:50
Coffee Break
Refreshments and networking
 Break
16:50 – 17:50
Establishing New Wind Engineering Society in Egypt
TBD
 Panel
17:50 – 18:20
IAWE Climate Change Working Group / Sponsors Session
 TBD
DAY TWO — Thursday, 29 October 2026 Half Day | 09:00 – 14:30   •   Gala Dinner 19:30
TIME SESSION FORMAT
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome & Networking
Break
09:30 – 10:15
Keynote — Prof. Yaojun Ge (Convener: Claudio Borri)
Rethinking Aerodynamic Design of Suspension Bridges in a Warming World
 Keynote
10:15 – 11:15
Technical Session D (Chair: Teng Wu)
  • From Climate Risk to Urban Resilience: A Five-Step Framework for Designing Climate-Ready Cities (Jan Carmeliet)
  • LES-Informed Stochastic Hurricane Wind-Field Generation for Climate-Resilient Assessment of Critical Infrastructure in Europe (Frank Kemper)
  • Designing with Wind: Unlocking Wind-Driven Heat Mitigation in Cities (Dominique Derome)
  • Analysis of Ageing Wind Turbine Maintenance records using Nonhomogeneous Poisson process to support End-of-life decision-making (Amr Usama Gouda Elsahhar)
 Technical
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
 Break
11:45 – 12:45
Technical Session E (Chair: Amal Elawady)
  • The effect of axis ratios in elliptical plan layouts on the wind aerodynamics of twin urban high-rise vertical farms (Simeng Xie)
  • Low-altitude wind engineering: new frontiers and opportunities (Yutong Li)
  • Integrating Long-Term Wind Resource Assessment and Aeroelastic Modeling for Energy and Fatigue Evaluation of Small Wind Turbines in Egypt (Ahmed Abdelkader Abdou Ahmed)
 Technical
12:45 – 13:00
AWE Best Paper Award
Announcement of outstanding achievements and presentation of awards
 Plenary
13:00 – 13:30
Closing Ceremony & Way Forward (Convener: Teng Wu)
Colloquium conclusions, IAWE Working Group next steps, and closing remarks
 Plenary
13:30 – 14:30
Farewell Lunch
Final networking opportunity
 Break
19:30 – 22:30
GALA DINNER
Celebratory dinner for all registered delegates
 Social