Pedestrian Level Winds

• City Planning and Analysis

• Assessment of future development
• Mitigation of existing problems

• Wind Environment of High Rise Buildings

• Pedestrian comfort analysis
• Effectiveness of mitigations

• Sports Stadium/Complex Evaluation

• 3Com Stadium
• Proposed San Francisco 49er's complex
• San Francisco Giant's downtown PacBell Park

• Site Specific Wind Environment Analysis

• Small shopping mall wind environment
• Mitigation of wind caused problems
• Assessment of door locations

Wind power

• Siting Wind Turbines for Wind Farms

• Measurement of mean and turbulence quantities in site simulations
• Estimates of annual energy output from integration of wind tunnel results with full scale meteorological data

Other Industrial and Commercial Applications

• Analysis of Natural Ventilation

• Buildings and building complexes
• Parking garage structures
• Cooling tower recirculation
• Odor analysis

• Snow/Sand Loading and Cumulation

• Minimizing snow/sand depositions
• Roofing loadings of snow/sand

Aerodynamics of Flexible Structures

• Thin Membrane Roof / Canvas Covering

• Pressure loading measurements
• Rain penetration analysis

• High Rise Buildings
• Low Rise Buildings

Wind Loads on Structures

• High Rise Buildings

• Cladding force loads
• Window force loads

• Low Rise Buildings

• Pressure distributions

• Flexible Structures

• Suspension bridges
• Long span bridges
• Fabric roots