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David leads CPP's services for green building design and natural ventilation.
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Dr. David Banks, Senior Associate
Dr. David Banks is an Senior Associate at CPP and has been with the company since 2000.
David worked briefly in wind engineering after receiving a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto. Before returning to wind engineering in 1995, he completed an MS in trace gas analysis using quadru-pole mass spectroscopy, also at the University or Toronto, and worked as a computer code reviewer for Canada’s nuclear reactor regulatory agency.
David completed his PhD in Wind Engineering at Colorado State University in 2000. His dissertation was awarded the Robert H. Scanlan Outstanding PhD Award at the 2001 Americas Conference in Wind Engineering.
David has been instrumental in developing CPP’s CFD modeling capabilities. He has performed CFD studies of smoke control for atrium fires, buoyancy and wind driven natural ventilation in office buildings, and general internal circulation flow patterns for laboratories. He has also provided numerical analyses for unusual projects ranging from wind turbine efficiency to hurricane movement to dust dispersion following building implosions. David has conducted wind tunnel studies for laboratory exhaust design, pedestrian comfort, wind loads, and door operability.
David's current interests are in the combination of CFD and wind tunnel modeling to improve natural ventilation design and in the use of wind engineering to improve the design of green buildings.
