Living Roof Loads

Load limits on the roof of a building dead loads.

Living roof loads.

Photo by andrew wutke. Where snow isn t a problem the. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live in central london 2. The live load on a roof is the weight of any temporary objects on the roof.

While redeveloping our house we decided to install a living roof on our kitchen roof why you ask. Roof load live load design is affected by the shape of the roof whether it is flat curved or pitched. Table 3 4 provides recommended design live loads for residential buildings. This downward imposed load on the home is also known as the snow load.

Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden. The venny green roof has shallow substrates on two types of roof the first roof is on shipping containers and is designed for a dead load of 250kg m 2 and live load of 100kg m 2. 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. 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.

This is all of the natural stresses imposed upon a roof such as snow loads rain loads and wind loads. We wanted somewhere for some wildlife to have bees etc 3. The venny green roof melbourne. 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.

Loads used in design load equations are given letters by type. 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. Determine the transient load of the roof. The second trussed roof is designed for a dead load of 160kg m 2 and a live load of 40kg m 2.

In my region on cape cod we have a ground snow load design of 25 psf which is a greater design load than the live load 12 psf to 20 psf over an entire roof system. D dead load l live load l. The north zone middle zone and the south zone are identified on the roof load zone map above. Roof loads are a downward vertical force on the home.

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