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Re: PENNIEStoSTACKS post# 39220

Friday, 03/01/2019 2:31:44 AM

Friday, March 01, 2019 2:31:44 AM

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That is a great picture and you illustrates the point perfectly. There is a tremendous amount of work to do to put something like a greenhouse on an existing roof. Number one , planning commissions will never go for a greenhouse on top the exterior wall because it would look terrible - and there is no way to service it from the outside when it’s over an exterior wall, it’s dangerous, how do people access the greenhouses for loading and unloading - ladders? New elevators? After all that you are building a whole other floor system to isolate it from the roof of the main building and to keep from adding load. But then bearing long spans somehow on existing interior open web steel trusses that were never designed for additional loads(especially a whole other floor system). You would have to do some major roof member strengthening in that Costco.

I am just saying the ramifications are very real and very complicated with this lofty idea and would vary greatly with each different building - but maybe they have it all figured out - but that would be very difficult since virtually every building is a different framing system

Yes I am sure they are qualified architects but the issues are still the issues and up front costs don’t magically disappear just because the idea sounds good

Anyways - hope they have it figured out since they put out some pretty significant press info about their plans

GLTA