The ground snow load in our area is 20psf, with a roof snow load of 12.6 for exposure B.
I guess what I was really asking for was an opinion regarding the example for an an existing pre-engineered building already designed and constructed for DL, LLr, and SL, would any further calculations be...
Refer back to old thread179-260442. If large area of existing engineered building roof is being covered with light weight solar collector panesl (@ 4 psf) is is reasonable to perform calculations with using roof live load of zero for this area and replace it with additional dead load from solar...
