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Application of snow drift loads on multi-stepped buldings

Thread starter csd72
Start date Apr 13, 2007

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Apr 13, 2007

csd72

Structural

I have a question on the use of the snow load provisions of ASCE7-05.

We have a mid height canopy to a low rise theatre with a higher building adjacent to this. Which length do I take for snow drift, the theatre roof only or the theatre roof plus the higher building?