Recent researches in Wind Engineering at CRIACIV, Inter-University Research Center on Building Aerodynamics and Wind Engineering

The paper briefly summarizes some of the researches which have been running at CRIACIV in the last years, in order to give to the International Community a glimpse on the activities performed in the Wind Engineering Laboratory. CRIACIV is an Inter-University Research Center focused on the field of Wind Engineering and Building Aerodynamics, grouping eight different Italian Universities. The Wind Engineering Laboratory is located in Prato, close to Florence, and it is equipped with a Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel. The Wind Tunnel test section is 2.42 x 1.60 m (width x height), and a flow speed of up to 30 m/s can be reached with a longitudinal free stream turbulence level of less than 0.7%. Among several different activities and ongoing researches at CRIACIV, some of them have been selected and reported in the paper. Those can be considered as the most interesting ones and those on which a cooperative research at an International level could be forecasted.