Code and Roof Design
Code and Roof Design
Division E - General Information
Roof Design: From Code to specifciations
This is the third part of a multi-part series on the Building Code and roofing:
- Part 1: Understanding the BC Building Code
- Part 2: The Building Code and wind
- Part 3: Design Responsibility: from Code to Specification
You can find these articles in both the printed and digital editions of Roofing BC, the trade magazine published by the RCABC. You can also watch the video presentation, “Blown Away: Code Requirements for Membrane Roofs”, that addresses several articles in this series.
The content on this page has been adapted from the original published article in Roofing BC (Fall 2021).
In the second article of this series on the British Columbia Building Code, we examined why wind matters, located Code requirements for membrane roofs and discovered that roof design is as much about structural design as it is about the building enclosure. In this third article, we address the fundamental question of design responsibility.
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