*** PROBABLY SPAM *** Re: [Strawbale]green roof on a straw bale loading walls

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Hello Joyce, have you mistaken me for René because of our shared dutch
accent? ;-) 

Bye the way, we will be publishing René's and Bruce's articles in a few
days (hopefully). I'll get someone to sent you an article in return.

Wishing you all the best,
André

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:29:46 -0600, Joyce Coppinger <jc10508 at alltel...>
wrote:
> Hello Rene,
> 
> I'm working on an issue of TLS today and thought this project might fit
in
> well. Would you be willing to contribute an article about this project
> including the detail about sizing the roof?
> 
> I apologize for not sending you payment for your guest editing. I was
> hospitalized twice in 2007 and had to find a new printing company at the
> same time. I'm back working full time now, have a new printing company on
> board, and trying to get caught up on TLS publishing. I should be able to
> pay you some time this spring.
> 
> I also read with great interest your posting about the 5-story building
> you
> constructed. I would like very much to publish an article from you about
> this building as I know of no other buildings of its height - and it's a
> groundbreaking step for strawbale in commercial and housing construction.
> Would this be a possibility?
> 
> Hope all is going well for you and for your business. Hope to hear from
> you
> soon.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Joyce
> --
> Joyce Coppinger
> Managing Editor/The Last Straw Journal
> PO Box 22706, Lincoln NE 68542-2706
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
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> 
> on 5/30/05 7:51 AM, Rene Dalmeijer at rene.dalmeijer at hetnet... wrote:
> 
>> Valentina,
>>
>> I recently built a small Load bearing SB building with a green roof.
>> This building has been built according to Dutch building regulations
>> which are quite strict. There are no specific SB codes here so I had to
>> give extra information to support the building permit. All in all
>> though I had no trouble and the building functions very well partly due
>> to the green roof.
>>
>> Depending on the size of the building a green roof might be too much
>> for a purely LB SB wall although it does mean the house is quite big. A
>> rough approach is to find out how much roof is area supported per ft/m
>> SB wall. Based on the most conservative code for loading of a SB wall,
>> the maximum allowable combined load is 10kN/m (giving a 2.81 safety
>> factor) This means if you have a total roof span of 10m the maximum
>> allowable weight of of the roof structure and loads is 2kN/m^2
>> (10/(10/2) This is because the wall only has to bear the half span.
>>
>> The green roof system applied in the small building accounted for a
>> dead load of 0.8 kN/m^2
>>
>> On May 27, 2005, at 07:36, strawbale-request at amper....muni.cz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>> i guess that there are some "nebraska" houses with green=20
>>> roof....built....
>>> i'm planning one....i have to pass all law certification process...i=20
>>> found and look at some test of loads that straw bale can
>>> carry....and=20
>>> it's seems that is not a good idea to have a green roof....
>>> anybody had already experience with it?
>>> thank you to all....a great list..
>>> all the best, valentina
>>>
>> Rene
>>
>>
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