Wind pressure load on an industrial building

Abstract Deflector shield panels in front of the top-lit-louver were designed for the roof of a low-rise industrial building to improve natural ventilation. Both wind pressure loads acting on the deflector shields for structural calculations, and pressure data in the vicinity of the window rows for ventilation calculations were needed. A wind tunnel test, modelling suburbian surroundings by turbulent boundary layer flow and simulating several wind directions and building group configurations, was carried out on models of the buildings scaled at 1:200. Mean, RMS and peak pressure coefficients were determined and presented for the structural and ventilation design.