Collaborations focus on, but are not limited to insurance, wind and solar energy, electric transmission/distribution, and construction materials industries.

Mounted on the peripheral walls and at the top of the dome, an array of specialized fans will be activated using a sophisticated control strategy to provide time-varying and spatially-varying flow fields in the test section.

Therefore, a large variety of wind fields such as boundary layers, portions of hurricanes, tornados, downbursts, low level currents or gust fronts will be physically simulated.

An active topographic capability will generate a wide diversity of surface topographies at unprecedented scales allowing wind simulations over areas of the order of 10 km2 .

It is expected that for the first time laboratory tornado-like flows as large as 6 meter in diameter will simulate the equivalent of F3 Fujita Scale intensity winds.