Active damping future
Steady growth of high-rise building construction for hotels, apartments, offices, and other uses, could bring unpleasantries for more occupants because of sway from wind or quake. Such sway can sometimes even interfere with normal services and communications in the buildings. MHI sees a market here for its tuned active damper, building on experience in bridges, stacks, and towers. A recent installation is in the control tower at the Kansai New-International Airport. Reliance Electric, supplier of the servomotors and vector drives, also sees such servo-based stabilization systems continuing to grow.