Wind Tunnel Technology in Green Building Environment

摘要

With the rapid increase in China's development, the cities have become immensely more dense putting pressure on design and infrastructure. In the past, most of the China's buildings imitated the foreign architectural styles and had a lack of scientific and meaningful design. These buildings became to be known as the 'the cheap copy buildings'. The primary cause was the shortage of proper technology, such as building wind tunnel test equipment. Therefore, scientific design was not always an option, only reversal or empirical design could be utilized. This meant architects were restricted to construct the same design or imitate foreign buildings. Now that China has access to wind tunnels, building designs can be analysed at a higher level. Forward and scientific designs can be used to improve the buildings' capabilities with low cost.