In succession to the First Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering at Roorkee/India in 1985, and then, Beijing/China, Hong Kong/China, Gold Coast/Australia, Tokyo/Japan and Seoul/Korea, the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering (APCWE-VII) will be held on November 8-12, 2009 at Taipei, Taiwan, organized and hosted by Chinese Taiwan Association for Wind Engineering and Tamkang University.  The APCWE conference is an international event regularly attended by 250~300 wind engineering researchers and practitioners from around Asia and Pacific regions.  Under the umbrella of International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE), it is routinely convened every four years, in between the International Conferences on Wind Engineering (ICWE).

APCWE-VII aims to provide a knowledge platform for exchanging state-of-the-art research findings or practical applications in view of all needs in wind engineering, and to further enhance international collaborations by all means based on the excellent success of international interaction in the past.

We are very enthusiastic about having the opportunity to host APCWE-VII and a great effort has been taken to ensure its success.  Of course, your participation is essential.  Aside from the technical integrity and abundance in this conference, APCWE-VII also offers you an attractive tourism experience to explore the harmonic mixture of traditional Chinese and contemporary cultures in the international city, Taipei – including the tallest building in the world – Taipei 101 building; authentic Chinese cuisine; finest collections of Chinese historical artifacts; and spectacular natural wonders in the east coast of Taiwan.  The weather of Taipei in November is mostly sunny with temperature around 20-25 degrees Celsius.  Taiwan is a free, safe and tourist-friendly place that cordially welcomes you to come and see.