Living Roof Loads

Roof loads are a downward vertical force on the home.

Living roof loads.

Photo by andrew wutke. Loads include those from human occupants furnishings nonfixed equipment storage and construction and maintenance activities. The north zone middle zone and the south zone are identified on the roof load zone map above. The second trussed roof is designed for a dead load of 160kg m 2 and a live load of 40kg m 2.

D dead load l live load l. Roof load live load design is affected by the shape of the roof whether it is flat curved or pitched. The dead load on a roof is the weight of the roof structure itself along with any permanently attached. In other words on a steep roof less material would be stacked in a concentrated area at one time to avoid having it slide off.

Load limits on the roof of a building dead loads. This online guide is designed to meet the needs of diy enthusiasts looking to put a green roof on a shed or outhouse builders and landscaper contractors who want to build green roofs. This downward imposed load on the home is also known as the snow load. While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask.

This is highly regional as weights of snow for example range from 10 to 300 pounds per square foot based on moisture and volume of the snow. Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden. The live load on a roof is the weight of any temporary objects on the roof. Where snow isn t a problem the.

The venny green roof melbourne. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live in central london 2. Loads used in design load equations are given letters by type. Table 3 4 provides recommended design live loads for residential buildings.

This is all of the natural stresses imposed upon a roof such as snow loads rain loads and wind loads. This website based guide builds on the material and information in our original pdf the diy guide to green living roofs which we published in 2008. Live roof load w wind load s snow load e earthquake load r rainwater load or ice water load t effect of material temperature h hydraulic loads from soil f hydraulic loads from fluids. We wanted somewhere for some wildlife to have bees etc 3.

Live loads are produced by the use and occupancy of a building.