The retailer is installing a total 18 new HVAC units on the roof of this upstate New York location. "The amount of the roof reinforcement was rather extensive at this particular location," said Tim McCarthy P.E. "It is a somewhat older structure with a steel joist configuration that hasn't been used for quite some time in the US." Mr. McCarthy went on to explain that the top and bottom chords were a "hat shaped bent steel configuration" and the webs were a "split half pipe". The project, completed the night of October 14, took all five days as scheduled.
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Roof Strengthening and Roof Reinforcement methods are explored in this site. The most economically successful roof structures have utilized truss shapes. During the course of the last century, eonmies of scale and mass production have been brought to this naturally economical structural shape. As the engineering process has been increasingly performed by manufacturers, private engineering firms are often unsure how to design reinforcements for the structures for their Client's when needed.
