Resumen
A new approach for investigating snowdrifts around buildings and snow loads on building roofs based on a new facility named the ?snow?wind combined experimental facility? is proposed in this paper. First, the method proposed in this paper is convenient and economical, and also the experimental results prove that the method is feasible and reliable. In this paper, only experiments on snowdrift around a cube were chosen for the verification for the sake of generality, but this method could also be adopted for the prediction of snowdrift around complex building environments and snow loads on various shapes of building roofs.