Roof Wind Designer is a Web-based application intended to provide roofing professionals with an easy way to determine roof systems' design wind loads for many commonly encountered building types subject to building code compliance
ROSEMONT, Ill. - The National Roofing Contractors
Association (NRCA) has updated its online wind-load calculator, Roof Wind
Designer. Available at www.roofwinddesigner.com, Roof Wind Designer is a
Web-based application intended to provide roofing professionals with an easy way
to determine roof systems' design wind loads for many commonly encountered
building types subject to building code compliance.
Roof Wind Designer is based
on ASCE 7-05, "Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures," a
widely recognized consensus standard method for determining design wind loads on
buildings and other structures.
Roof Wind Designer previously was limited to
low-slope roof systems with slopes equal to or less than 1 1/2:12; the
application has been updated to include buildings' roofs with slopes up to 12:12
and hip roofs with slopes up to 6:12. In addition, safety factors addressing
steel or aluminum metal panel roof systems have been incorporated.
For more
information about Roof Wind Designer, contact Joan P. Crowe, AIA, NRCA's
director of technical services, at 800-323-9545, ext. 7576 or visit www.nrca.net.