Light Weight Roof Structure

This special lightweight structure for flat roofs transforms your grey roof with a pitch of 0 to 15 degrees into a sustainable green roof almost instantly.

Light weight roof structure.

Slate2 results in a 40 reduction in the overall weight of a similar traditional slate roof easily meeting the standard structural roof specification of less than six pounds per square foot. The typical roof structure now consists of steel i beam rafters placed approximately 10 feet this varies depending on purlin size and other variables apart with either 4 6 8 or 10 lightweight steel purlins installed horizontally across the rafters. This modern system designed for light weight bearing construction has been tested over several decades and provides the same durability to a traditional 100 year slate roof. In recent decades an expanding range of construction methods and building products particularly wooden truss roofing systems and wood i joists that together are often termed lightweight construction have been widely embraced by residential builders for their ability to deliver economy and functionality.