Living Roof 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.

Living roof loads.

This downward imposed load on the home is also known as the snow load. The north zone middle zone and the south zone are identified on the roof load zone map above. Determine the transient load of the roof. 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.

Where snow isn t a problem the. 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. The second trussed roof is designed for a dead load of 160kg m 2 and a live load of 40kg m 2. Loads include those from human occupants furnishings nonfixed equipment storage and construction and maintenance activities.

Table 3 4 provides recommended design live loads for residential buildings. Load limits on the roof of a building dead loads. The dead load on a roof is the weight of the roof structure itself along with any permanently attached. 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.

Make a normal flat or sloped roof into a beautiful living garden. Photo by andrew wutke. Loads used in design load equations are given letters by type. Roof loads are a downward vertical force on the home.

The venny green roof melbourne. 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. This is all of the natural stresses imposed upon a roof such as snow loads rain loads and wind loads. Roof load live load design is affected by the shape of the roof whether it is flat curved or pitched.

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. I liked the idea of having a bit more greenery in the property we live in central london 2. We wanted somewhere for some wildlife to have bees etc 3. 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.

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