ONE stormy night in Boston in 1973, the windows of the John Hancock Tower began dropping onto the pavement. Alan Davenport was called in to help. Five years later, when structural engineers discovered that the newly completed 59-story Citicorp Center in New York was at risk of collapse, Davenport’s phone was soon ringing again.
In Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts reveals Davenport as one of the unsung heroes of the construction industry. In the early 1960s, he established a wind tunnel lab at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where he simulated the effects of wild, tumbling air…
