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Brad is CPP's leader in wind energy services, including turbine prototype testing and wind farm siting.
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Brad Cochran, Senior Associate
Brad Cochran, a CPP Senior Associate, has over 15 years of experience conducting wind-tunnel and numerical modeling studies related to laboratory exhaust design.
Brad has managed projects for Northwestern University, UCLA, the National Institutes of Health, University of Texas Medical Center, Loyola University, Bayer, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and many others.
While employed at CPP, he has been instrumental in the development, and EPA’s subsequent approval, of the Equivalent Building Dimension concept. This concept provides greater accuracy in estimating concentrations due to building downwash using EPA’s ISC model.
He has conducted numerous wind-tunnel dispersion studies of Good Engineering Practice stack height, building ventilation, and site-specific evaluations of environmental impact. Brad has helped develop a new algorithm to describe plume trajectories under sea breeze conditions. He designed and supervised the construction of an automated house structure for the full-scale study of the pressure distributions over roof shingles and conducted wind-tunnel and on-site performance evaluations of wind turbines to define probable full-scale power efficiencies.
Before arriving at CPP, Brad was involved in pollution diffusion studies for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, erosion and threshold velocity studies under reduced pressure conditions at the NASA Ames Research Facility, and was involved in various pedestrian-level wind studies for an environmental group in San Francisco, California while obtaining a MS Degree in Aeronautical Sciences at the University of California at Davis.
Brad has both a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Regis University.
