Dr Roy Denoon

Born on 26th April 1969, in Kelso Cottage Hospital, Roy came to the village in October of that year. Growing up in the village, he attended St Boswells Primary School and Kelso High School. An interest in music and the opportunity to learn to play piano and recorder at school led to him joining St Boswells Concert Band. The Bandmaster was Alec Robertson, who was also a keen cyclist. Roy's interest and eventual great success in cycling all stemmed from there. He joined the Northumberland Tent Camping Association and with Alec and the rest of the group camped and cycled in the area. With touring limited to holidays and weekends, he joined Gala Cycling Club and began to race on Wednesday nights and trained with members of the club at other times. He enjoyed the racing and soon began to win.

On going to Edinburgh University, he joined the Cycling Club and represented them winning Bronze, Silver and Gold medals for the Team Time Trial in both the British Students and the British University Championships. He was awarded a Half Blue in 1989 and a Full Blue the following year. He was selected for the Edinburgh University Sports Development Group for 1990-91. In 1990 he was East of Scotland Road Race Champion, and won the East Open 100 mile Championship. Keeping up his membership of the Gala Cycling Club, he was Club Champion on three occasions - in 1989, 1990 and 1997.

Roy started his wind engineering career at the University of Edinburgh before proceeding to graduate studies in Australia. During that time, Roy conducted commercial wind tunnel studies for numerous buildings around the Australasian region including many of the stadiums and arenas used for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Roy served as a wind engineering consultant to the organizers of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and conducted on-site monitoring of wind conditions, most notably during the opening and closing ceremonies.

Following this, Roy re-located to Hong Kong where he was responsible for the wind engineering of such significant structures as the 480 metre-high Union Square tower in Hong Kong, the Rem Koolhaas-designed CCTV headquarters in Beijing, and Herzog de Meuron's Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. Roy has ongoing research interests in tall building design and optimization and has conducted extensive fieldwork to monitor occupant response to building motion.

Roy is the Secretary of the Australasian Wind Engineering Society, Co-Chairman of the 12th International Conference on Wind Engineering to be held in 2007, and a member of several ASCE committees. He edited the AWES Manual for Wind Tunnel Testing of Buildings and has been an active participant on wind loading code committees.

In 2004, Roy moved to Fort Collins in Colorado to join CPP Wind Engineering as Principal with a special focus on overseas projects.

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