It houses three wind tunnels. Two boundary layer wind tunnels are used extensively for research and testing. Investigations in the wind tunnels include ground level environmental wind conditions around buildings, wind loads on buildings and wind-induced response of tall buildings, wind pressures on building facades and dispersion of airborne pollutants. The Snowdrift Wind Tunnel is used to study snowdrift formation around alpine and Antarctic buildings. The Fluids Laboratory's pumped circulating system has flumes for wave and open channel experiments.
Space is available for medium size hydraulic testing.
The Surveying Laboratory contains a wide range of precise instruments and includes auto collimators, real time digital photogrammetric equipment, total station technology, digital levels and a range of CAD software. The CA Hawkins Computing Laboratory houses a variety of computing equipment. Most machines are connected to a local area network and a separate file server, as well as to the Faculty network. Access is possible via the network to many other computer systems. This provides a large, varied and powerful computing network for teaching and research.