Considerations for Rooftop Glass Railings & Windscreens
Our clients are going Higher and higher with rooftop glass railings & windscreens that require engineering early to avoid mistakes.
For example, Stewart Jeske, P.E. wrote in USGlass Magazine in May, 2022, Stewart Jeske, P.E. discusses the issues to help glazing contractors and glass & glazing industry professionals understand the topic more fully.
Still, the issue continues to build momentum as building rise taller and glass become more prevalent in comercial construction. The beauty and ascetics of glass are obvious in every futurist rendition of the coming years.
Even so, It’s not a new obstacle. In 2018, Modern Structure publishes and article entitled, Wind Loads on Non-Building Structures. It states, “ASCE 7-05 provided an equation to generate a horizontal Main Wind Force Resisting System (MWFRS) wind load on rooftop equipment. While the commentary alluded to a high uplift component of wind loads that should be considered in the design of rooftop structures, ASCE 7-05 provisions did not provide a method for calculating this uplift.”
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Download Modern Structure, “Wind Load on Non-Building Structures“
Download “Requetnly Asked Wind Questions” by Emily Guglielmo, S.E., P.E, F.SEI