Neptune Yu

Associate

East Asia Wind Consulting Leader

Dr Neptune Yu is our East Asia Wind engineering design leader. His expertise focuses on wind design of super tall-buildings and large roofs, wind induced vibration mitigations, airport airflow studies, typhoon modelling and risk assessment, offshore wind energy, resilience wind design, and climate impact on extreme winds.

Neptune has provided wind consultancy to over 100 projects across the region, including working as wind discipline leader in a few landmark projects. His project portfolio includes around ten 400m + super tall buildings and five long roofs exceeding 500m.

Neptune is the main contact in Arup (leading consultant) for drafting the 2019 HK Wind Code, the main drafter of the HK Wind Loading Handbook, a code drafting member of the Chinese Wind Loading Code for Roof Structures (JGJ/T481-2019) and the Guangdong Provincial Test and Evaluation Standard for Building Wind Environment (DBJ/T15 – 154-2019). He is the Chairman of Hong Kong Wind Engineering Society, an invited lecture of HKU and PolyU, and a Co-Principle Investigator of the 48.3M HKD Research Grant Council TRS project, INTACT: Intelligent tropical-storm-resilient system for coastal cities.