Terrace Live Load

[frankettina]

Hello everyone.
I have a doubt about the imposed load on a terrace.

Eurocode imposes a load between 2.5 and 4 kN/m². Should I consider the terrace as a balcony? Or I have to consider it as a outside normal floor?

Thanks in advance for clarify my doubt.

 

[Enable]

If it can be used as a place of refuge in the event of a fire I would design it as such. In Ontario, that would be 4.8 kPa for LL which would be identical to considering it as a balcony (ditto for being a place where people can gather for a view).

 

[MIStructE_IRE]

I always take 4kPa for these things. Wait til you see the size of the planter boxes the client brings in!

 

[Manitou90]

If accessible to public or more than one apartment our office treat it as cat.C5 area with 5kN/m2 and not a balcony in cat.A as you have implied.