Light Weight Roof Structure

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.

Light weight roof structure.

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. Read more about the specifications of this lightweight solution here. Lightweight sometimes a flat roof support structure requires a lightweight green roof. 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.