Why Roof Figures Do Not Transfer: Where to Start

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Why Roof Figures Do Not Transfer: Where to Start

Ask anybody who have priced roof decking for many years and then are asked to price a platform for the very first time, and the loading figures catch a good many of them out.

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Loading Differences

The explanation is the gap separating roof loading and floor loads: a mezzanine floor carries live loading a multiple times those a roof deck is designed for, and that figure rise further when the mezzanine is going to support storage racking or handling equipment rather than staff and light stock. All of which makes one shortcut positively unsafe: taking across the specification and gauge combination that has worked across a roof deck and assuming it will carry over to a mezzanine deck. All of which leaves one clear practice for this work: the design loading come out of the engineer that designs the structure, and the decking is specified to meet the engineer's figures and not against precedent from unrelated work.

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